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The Dedalus Book of Spanish Fantasy is an ambitious and wide-ranging collection of texts from the middle of the 19th century to the present day, by authors writing in Castilian, Basque, Catalan and Gallego. Only two of the stories have appeared in translation before and while some authors (Goytisolo, Atxaga, Mendoza and Javias Maria) might be known to an English-reading public, most authors have never previously been translated into English.Th...

When tragedy strikes and Theodore Lebon is robbed of his adored wife, or rather, his wife's head, for it is only her headless body that returns home after a riding accident, we are once again in that strange world that Sylvie Germain has made her own. It is a world where certainties dissolve and the confines of reality shift to embrace the unexpected and the improbable, the absurd, the grotesque, even the miraculous. Nothing is too weird or wo...

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Marie Grubbe is loosely based on the true story of a Danish noble woman of the same name. A wealthy heiress she married the illegitimate son of Frederik The Third of Denmark and Norway. The relationship was unhappy and violent, and, after she had had several affairs, her husband divorced her allowing her to keep her substantial dowry. For the next two years, Marie Grubbe travelled around Europe with her brother-in-law and lover spending the fo...

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Paperback edition of the highly acclaimed social history of gin, from the author of "The Sick Rose". 'Having awakened our thirst, Barnett reminds us after five centuries now is the best time to enjoy gin.' "The Scotsman

Describes over a century of Italian history and an extended matriarchal family, as told by Margherita Giacobino.

From the Italian-born author, now a Paris resident, an unappetizing little tale about a young woman, this is Jabes' first book to be published in the U.S.When Alice saunters through the streets of Rome, old men and boys on scooters stop to stare. When another woman compliments her on her extravagant high heels, Alice offers shy, but pleased, thanks. When she looks in the mirror, Alice loves what she sees - until her father tells her, "If you'r...

An historical novel with a mystical/occult strand about how Renaissance scholarship leads to the discovery of the New World. Paperback original.

Here is the first English bio of the cult author of The Golem, written by a prize-winning scholar. The remarkable life and the fantastic legend that was Meyrink, allowing him and those who knew him to speak in their own words wherever possible. The illegitimate son of an aristocratic politician and an actress, Meyrink established himself as a banker in Prague, while achieving notoriety as a dandy and rake, while also being a successful sportsm...

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First English translation of a 1952 Spanish masterpiece by an award-winning translator, this Spanish classic evokes the childhood transition to adolescence. ., ."Aunt Josefina's fat white legs under the water, a child standing on a grown-up's shoulders and plunging into the waves, eating lunch on the beach, the food gritty with sand, a late afternoon swim in the delicious water, getting changed behind the rocks, shivering in the suddenly cold ...

A grotesque, absurd satire which is also extremely funny. Kranich is a newly-qualified teacher about to take up his first job. After he arrives at the school, he is plunged into a Kafkaesque environment which has all the worst features of a totalitarian state. The four pillars of the school system, as the headmaster explains on Kranichs very first day there, are: "fear, misery, pretense and lies." Very soon he finds himself caught between the ...

Glyn Joness translation captures the enthusiasm, charm and humour of a great writers first novel. Windswept Dawn is a Faeroese Under the Milk Wood revealing the whole personality of a small closely knit community. William Heinesen brings to life a whole host of vivid, larger than life character from the sectarian preacher, Reinhold Vaag, the drunken, philosophising solicitor Morberg, the well-meaning voyeur Vitus, to the firebrand shopkeeper L...

Translated by Christine Donougher. A novel about Charles Dickens, which has won 3 literary prizes in the author's native France. Francois Daumal is obsessed with all things Dickens, and when the equally obsessed Michel Mangematin appears, a deadly rivalry begins.

Magnus is a deeply moving and enigmatic novel about the Holocaust. Magnus is a man searching for his own identity, attempting to piece together the complex puzzle of his life. But his true story turns out to be closer to a painting by Edward Munch than the romantic tale of family heroism and self-sacrifice on which he was nurtured by the woman he believed was his mother. In Magnus, Sylvie Germain uses imagination and intuition to unlock the en...

A novel about fame and celebrity culture from the author of )A Bit Of A Marriage(.