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New edition of the selected poems of Russia's greatest twentieth-century poet, translated by D.M. Thomas.

Horatio Clare is the author of Running for the Hills (nominated for the Guardian First Book Award 2006 and shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award), Sicily through Writers' Eyes and Truant: Notes from the Slippery Slope. The journey for this book was partly financed by a Somerset Maugham Award. He has made radio features in Morocco, written about Ethiopia for the New Statesman, and been commissioned by CondeNast Travell...

Jos¿aramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010.

Jos¿aramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010.

A black satire on the fall of communism in the former Soviet Union, set in Kiev. "A minor tragi-comic masterpiece" "Daily Telegraph".

A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape, from high to low to lower than low, from this rising star on the American literary scene.

Set in eastern Australia, this debut tells the story of the sometimes difficult relationship between fathers and sons. 'In Peter Carey and Tim Winton, Australia has produced two of the finest storytellers working today. On this evidence, Wyld can match them both' "Daily Mail

A powerful book from His Holiness the Dalai Lama advising us to gain familiarity with the process and practices of death so that we can fully live in the moment.

Colin Thubron is an acknowledged master of travel writing, and the winner of many prizes and awards. His first writing was about the Middle East - Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he travelled into the Soviet Union in an ancient Morris Marina, pursued by the KGB, a journey he recorded in Among the Russians. From these early experiences developed his classic travel books: Behind the Wall (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook...

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2017A finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 The brilliant new novel from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. She lives off vegetables and pigeons, burns her furniture and books to stay alive and keeps herself busy by writing her story on the walls of her home.

Welcome to a revolution in the science of human health...This book takes us to the frontier of medical research and reveals stunning recent advances that are changing our understanding of how human body works, how we combat and prevent disease and how we understand what it means to be human.We see how super-resolution nano-scopes are revealing hitherto hidden operations within our cells and opening up new new ways of manipulating the immune sy...

*A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL, DAILY TELEGRAPH, IRISH TIMES CULTURE AND NEW STATESMAN*'We read in order to come to life.'With fierce imagination, a woman revisits the moments that shape her life,

From the early peepshows ("How Bridget Served the Salad Undressed"), through to the video and satellite anomalies of today, this book explores film censorship in Britain, demonstrating, through anecdotes and examples, its absurdities, dangers and occasional virtues.

Carlo Lucarelli was born in 1960 in Modena, Italy.

Account of Anderson's intrepid journey from Azerbaijan to Svaneti during the summer of 1998.

Impassioned, witty and polemical, At Your Own Risk is Derek Jarman's defiant celebration of gay sexuality. This is Jarman at his passionate best, written when he was already ill with HIV and in the midst of the moral panic surrounding the AIDS crisis.

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The story of the psychological duel between an American investigator and Mellie, following the murder of a stranger who had also raped her.

Colette, the creator of Claudine, Cheri and Gigi, and one of France¿s outstanding writers, had a long, varied and active life. She was born in Burgundy on 1873 into a home overflowing with dogs, cats and children, and educated at the local village school. At the age of twenty she moved to Paris with her first husband, the notorious writer and critic Henry Gauthiers-Viller (Willy). By locking her in her room, Willy forced Collette to write her ...

Leela - alluring, taciturn, haunted - is moving back to Delhi after years of exile in New York.