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Beautiful and deep ... a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The Independent'Food for short story lovers everywhere' Irish Times*A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of the Year*The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery. The second volume takes the reader through the tumultu...

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A clear-sighted, intimate new poetry collection from the prizewinning author of Other People's Countries and Throw me to the WolvesIn Blood Feather, a book of doubling and displacement, we see time in a new way: the past, personal and collective, lingering as an ever-present ghost - while lost beyond recall.The first section, 'Squeeze the Day' - a series of deeply moving poems about the author's mother, displaced between languages - investigat...

This two-volume feast of an anthology celebrates the rich tradition of the French short story. Spanning four centuries, its pages brim with decadent tales, 'bloody tales' and fairy tales, detective stories and war stories, the experimental and the existential. These are tales about the self and the other, the fantastic and the realist, the country and the city, the nation and the colony, told in an eclectic array of voices and styles.The colle...

Ein Mord, ein idealer Täter und ein ungleiches Polizistenduo. Die Leiche einer jungen Frau wird an der Themse gefunden und ein Nachbar, ein pensionierter Lehrer des Chapleton College, verhaftet. Der exzentrische Einzelgänger ist der perfekte Kan- didat für eine Hetzjagd der Medien. In der Untersuchungshaft trifft Michael Wolphram auf zwei Polizisten: den umsichtigen Ander und dessen >Gegenspieler< Gary. Ander ist besonders wachsam, denn der M...

Maurice Maeterlinck has been called the 'prodigal father' of modern theatre. As Rilke put it, he shifted theatre's center of gravity, replacing action with inaction, events with the eventless, and dialogue with an expressive semantics of silence. This study, the first in over a decade, traces the development of Maeterlinck's dramatic vision of extraordinary originality and depth.

Real Oxford shows that there's more than dreaming spires and bicycles to the city. The grand buildings of the university are here, but Patrick McGuinness charts a personal history of the place which radiates into the suburbs and into the everyday of people's lives, past and present. Surprising, quirky, Real Oxford presents the city anew.

Set in 1980s Romania during the Ceaucescu regime and continuing themes from the acclaimed poetry collection "Jilted City".

This anthology showcases sixty poets writing in twenty-five languages from countries across Europe. A feat of European intercultural exchange, it is also a fitting celebration of the Versopolis ethos: an extraordinary variety of themes, styles, and subjects finding common ground in a shared idea of what poetry - and a poetry community - can be.

Ander is always watchful, but particularly now, because the man across the table is his former teacher - Michael Wolphram - whom he hasn't seen in nearly 30 years.Another outsider, another loner in a school system rife with abuse and bullying, Ander has another case to solve: the cold case of his own childhood.

Déjà-vu", l'antologia di uno dei principali poeti britannici di oggi, curata e tradotta da Giorgia Sensi, riunisce il meglio della produzione poetica pubblicata e ancora inedita in Italia. Un vero e proprio viaggio dentro "una poesia che mira a non mostrare le cuciture, a nascondere il più possibile le giunture, che è elusiva e allusiva, e i cui riferimenti sono indiretti, obliqui. È una poesia di affascinante lettura nella sua complessità, ma...

The relationship between the made and the found is one of the most fertile tensions in modern French literature. This collection of critical and creative writing explores how the interplay between the given and the imagined, the real and the virtual, the world as we find it and the world as we make it, functions as a generative matrix for literary experimentation. Each contributor considers the question of attention and explores how attending ...

This second novel from the Booker-longlisted author sees a retired teacher who is also an eccentric loner and fastidious dresser become accused of a young woman's murder, monstered by the media, as one of the detectives contending with the suspect interrogates his own memories as a former pupil with a dark and occluded relationship with recollection.

Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de si¿e France explores the relations between poetry and politics in France in the last decade of the nineteenth century. Beginning with Mallarm¿nd ending with Maurras, it focuses on radical politics of the left and right and 'avant-garde' poetries.

Compulsively readable."-New York Times Book Review"A significant literary achievement that also happens to be a terrific page-turner."- Jonathan Lee"Elegantly written, darkly entertaining."- John Banville"An extraordinary writer of great compassion . . . Stunning."- Denise MinaIn the aftermath of Brexit, the body of a young woman is found by the river Thames, and a neighbor, a retired teacher from Chapleton College, is arrested. An eccentric l...

Born in Tunisia, Patrick McGuinness is the author of The Last Hundred Days, which was longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award and won the 2012 Wales Book of the Year Award and the 2012 Writers¿ Guild Prize for Fiction. His other books include two collections of poems, The Canals of Mars (2004), and Jilted City (2010), He is a Fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford, where he lectures in French.

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The beauty and strangeness of inner landscapes is reflected in these powerful poems. As each poem tends to the intricacies of human experience, their focus on the fractal patterns within familiar structures--the tree within the leaf, the series of recurrences that unfold to create a fugue--add an element of discovery and revelation to the poems, modulating and rendering strange these musings on what is ostensibly human.

A book of short, Proustian pieces on childhood and how the places of our childhood are embedded in us, from the author of the Man Booker-longlisted "The Last Hundred Days". Alert and affectionate, and full of great curiosity and humour.

This is a comparative and interdisciplinary book exploring a variety of perspectives on the artistic culture of France, and its neighbours, in the period 1870-1914. Part One centres on France, and assembles essays on the prose, poetry and painting of Symbolism and Decadence, on avant-garde dance and performance, on women's writing and on early cinema.Part Two explores the relations between France and several cultures in which the debt to Franc...