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One of three books to be inducted into the Dedalus Hall of Fame to mark 30 years of Dedalus Publishing. A cult classic, this won "Gay Times" book of the year, and also featured in "The Guardian's" '1, 000 Novels To Read Before You Die'. 'Grotesque, fruity and filthy' "Sunday Times

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A wonderfully diverting and stimulating entertainment. Cunningly structured and as satisfying as an intricate piece of clockwork, it plays with narrative, revels in ideas and succeeds in being both fey and sharp, detached and compassionate. At a time when fiction gives all to the tired virtual realities of sex and violence, internets, Agas and middle-class Angst, it is a brilliant reminder of the power of the imagination to surprise, delight a...

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First published in 1880, same year as Edgar Degas' "The Dancing Lesson and Edouard Manet's solo show, these "Parisian Sketches share the Impressionist fascination with the contemporary life of Paris, the exuberant Paris of the Opera Garnier and the Folies-Bergers. Like the striking images of the early Impressionists, "Parisian Sketches is an assault on the visual senses. Composed of a series of intense, meticulously observed literary impressio...

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First novel from Robert Irwin, who has established a world-wide reputation for his books on Arab Culture. Set in 1461 and in one of the bloodiest battle fought on English soil, between the houses of York and Lancaster.

Hans Christian Andersen had every right to think of his life as a fairy tale. He came from the lowest strata of society in the then little provincial town of Odense, went to Copenhagen at the age of 14, made his own way there and rose to the highest levels of European society as the friend of kings and princes. In his autobiography, the story of his "fairy-tale life", he gives a vivid account of the Danish provincial life he knew as a child, o...