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Paladin Grafton

by Christoph Ransmayr
Translated by J Woods
Original title: Schrecken des Eis und der Finsternis

Ransmayr’s novel is based on a real event, the Austro-Hungarian expedition to the North Pole in 1872—74 that charted the land beyond Spitzbergen and Novaya Zemlya, and discovered Franz Joseph Land, naming it after the Austrian emperor. Their ship, the Tegetthoff, (more...)

Last World, the with an Ovidian Repertory [Buy Direct]

by Christoph Ransmayr
Translated by J Woods
Original title: Die letzte Welt

The starting point for Ransmayr’s powerful and poetic novel is the Roman poet Ovid’s exile in distant Tomi on the Black Sea, where he spent the last nine years of his life. When a rumour of Ovid’s death reaches Rome, one of his admirers, Cotta, (more...)

Sleepless Days [Buy Direct]

by Jurek Becker
Translated by L Vennewitz
Original title: Schlaflose Tage

Querelle of Brest

by Jean Genet
Translated by G Sretham

Our Lady of the Flowers [Buy Direct]

by Jean Genet
Translated by B Frechtman
Original title: Notre-Dame des fleurs

My Friends [Buy Direct]

by Emmanuel Bove
Translated by J Louth
Original title: Mes amis

Blue of Noon [Buy Direct]

by Georges Bataille
Translated by H Matthews
Original title: Le Bleu du ciel

Blue of Noon describes a short period in the life of the intelligent, rich and debauched Troppmann, whose Franco-German name means ‘too much a man’. Manic, often suicidal and almost always drunk, (more...)

Moro Affair, the and the Mystery of Majorana [Buy Direct]

by Leonardo Sciascia
Translated by S Rabinovitch
Original title: L’affaire Moro

Written shortly after the events it tells of, this book reconstructs the kidnapping of Aldo Moro, president of the Christian Democratic Party, by the Red Brigades in 1978. (more...)

Day of the Owl [Buy Direct]

by Leonardo Sciascia
Translated by A Oliver
Original title: Il giorno della civetta

Ernesto [Buy Direct]

by Umberto Saba
Translated by Mark Thompson
Original title: Ernesto

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