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William S. Burroughs
Queer. 25th Anniversary Edition

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Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and …

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E. L. Doctorow
Ragtime

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Welcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat. In this chronicle, real-life characters intermingle with three families, one black, one Jewish, and one …

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Azar Nafisi
Reading Lolita in Tehran

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Azar Nafisi is a visiting professor and the director of the Dialogue Project at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University. She has taught Western literature at the University of Tehran, the…

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Henry Miller
Sexus

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Sexus is the first volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life workHenry Miller called the end of his life in America and the start of a new, bohemian existence in 193…

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Brigitte Reimann,
Siblings

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'Spare, chilling, with wild flashes of vivid colour and the tempo of a thriller, Siblings jolts us into the beating heart of a family and post-war East Germany, conjuring the political dreams and division…

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John le Carré
Smiley's People

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John le Carr/b>was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For more than fifty years he has live…

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Seicho Matsumoto,
Suspicion

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'A master class in motive and character' Alafair BurkeA taut psychological novel about trial by public opinion and how we shape the truth -- now available in English for the first timeIs she a victim or a…

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Yukio Mishima,
The Adventures of Natsuko

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Natsuko Matsuura is headstrong, beautiful and determined to live a life beyond the ordinary. Disappointed again and again by the drearily conventional men on the Tokyo dating scene, she decides to renounc…

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C. L. R. James
The Black Jacobins

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'James is a titan of twentieth-century politics and culture' Sunday Times'The Black Jacobins is not only a groundbreaking historical work; it is a masterpiece in storytelling and analysis' Gary Younge The…

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Georges Simenon,
The Cat

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'Remarkable' New York Times ' No one is better than Simenon at showing how banal domestic conflict can lead to murderous catastrophe' Financial TimesAn acerbic tale of marital warfare and emotional estran…

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Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
The Dead Mountaineer's Inn

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Inspector Peter Glebsky goes away to an isolated ski chalet for a much-needed break, but strange, ghostly things start happening to him and an eclectic group of holidaymakers. Shortly after an avalanche b…

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Karl Polanyi
The Great Transformation

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'One of the most powerful books in the social sciences ever written ' Thomas Piketty 'The twentieth century's most prophetic critic of capitalism' Prospect 'Polanyi's revolutionary work is a must-read' Ma…

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Georges Simenon,
The Green Shutters

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Sin and green shutters: both entailed lots of unexpected consequences that weren't easy to see at first glance . . .In the autumn years of his illustrious career, 'The Great' Emile Maugin, a celebrated ac…

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Carson McCullers
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

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"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" was Carson McCullers' first novel, written in 1940. Set in a small town in the American South, it is the story of a group of people who have little in common except that the…

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Len Deighton
The IPCRESS File

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'A stone-cold Cold War classic' Toby Litt, GuardianA high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the …

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Czeslaw Milosz,
The Issa Valley

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'An idyll of immense charm ... a masterpiece' John Bayley,The New York Review of Books'Thomas was born in the village of Gine at that time of year when a ripe apple thumps to the ground during an afternoo…

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Albert Cossery
The Lazy Ones

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'Cossery elevated idleness to an art form' The TimesThree brothers live with their father, uncle and maid in a dilapidated Cairo suburb, spending as much time as they possibly can doing nothing whatsoever…

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Romain Gary
The Life Before Us

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Momo has lived at Madame Rosa's Paris boarding house ever since he can remember, one of an ever-changing band of prostitutes' children. But when money becomes tight, and Madame Rosa gets too ill to climb …

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Dubravka Ugresic,
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender

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'A writer to cherish' Susan Sontag'The story of a shattered life can only be told in bits and pieces'A pink cigarette lighter, lollipop sticks, a beer-bottle opener: these are some of the contents of Rola…

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Ágota Kristóf,
The Notebook Trilogy

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Sent to a remote village to live with their grandmother, twins Claus and Lucas devise physical and mental exercises to render themselves invulnerable to the ongoing horrors of war and living under a total…

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