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Acclaimed twentieth century author Vita Sackville-West traces the origins and histories of forty-four breeds of dog. A particularly apt gift for fans of dogs.

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A twist on the story of the Prodigal Son over the course of a short and funny novel in letters for fans of Tessa Hadley.

A moving portrait of love, hardship, and struggle, Ants Among Elephants is a personal history of modern India, told from the bottom up.

From one of contemporary Russia's finest writers, a spellbinding collection of eighteen stories. Tolstaya's ecstatic and witchy imagination is in full force in autobiographical stories of delivering telegrams in Soviet Russia, conducting an affair with a man who may or may not exist and imagining a world without Italy.

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Meeting in secret, Elsa and Tommasino dare to imagine a different kind of future to the one they had previously imagined, defined by their respective family dynamics. When the relationship is exposed, this better future is threatened. Continues the Daunt Books reissue of Ginzburg's work.

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Daunt Books' reissue of the work of Natalia Ginzburg continues. Jewish scientist Guiseppe Levi has a testy but loving and dependent relationship with his wife, and the family home they establish with their five children is an intellectual hotbed which - as the Mussolini years set in - becomes a stronghold against fascism.

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Considering all I've sacrificed, is it too much to ask for one little cat in return?"Shinako has been ousted from her marriage by her husband Shozo and his younger lover Fukuko. She's lost her home, status and respectability, but the only thing she longs for is Lily, the elegant tortoiseshell cat she shared with her husband. As Shinako pleads for Lily's return, Shozo's reluctance to part with the cat reveals his true affections, and the length...

Chizuru Akitani is the twelve-year-old daughter of the famous violinist and Japanese Living National Treasure Hiro Akitani. Overweight and hafu (her mother is white), she is relentlessly tormented at school. When her mother dies suddenly and the cruelty at school only intensifies, Chizuru snaps in a moment of blind rage and fatally stabs a classmate in the neck.After seven years of institutionalization, Chizuru flees Japan for a new life in th...

Simon Loftus traces the story of his family through 350yrs of Ireland's history and legend, from the arrival of Adam Loftus in Dublin in 1560. Full of improbable stories, this is a meditation on the nature of memory, set against the ancient landscape of Ireland. A success in hardback.

A collection of essays from one of Britain's most beloved travel writers, whisking readers up the winding streets of 1953 Switzerland, the immense empty landscapes of Western Spain, and tours the vineyards of Bourdeaux. Classic travel writing at its best.

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