The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
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After struggling to establish himself, author Emile Zola (Paul Muni) wins success writing about the...
Arsene Lupin vs Sherlock Holmes
Thomas Muller, Maurice Leblanc and David Carter
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This volume contains two adventures which pit the gentleman thief Arsene Lupin against Sherlock...
The Finkler Question
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WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio...
The Tragedy of Mariam
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The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry is a Jacobean closet drama by Elizabeth Tanfield...
The Land Agent
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"A genuine tour-de-force" - Lesley McDowell on 'An Exquisite Sense of What Is Beautiful'. Palestine,...
Jakob the Liar (1999)
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In 1944, Jewish shop owner Jakob (Robin Williams) overhears a radio broadcast on the movements of...
According to Wikipedia:
"A golem is an animated anthropomorphic being in Jewish folklore that is created entirely from inanimate matter (usually clay or mud) ... The most famous golem narrative involves Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the late-16th-century rabbi of Prague"
Modern readers might be more familiar with them from their inclusion in the later entries in Terry Pratchett's superlative Discworld series.
In this one, a Golem has been created and is terrorizing select parts of New York, with Montague and Strong called in to deal - reluctantly - with the threat it represents.
Portnoy's Complaint
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'The most outrageously funny book about sex written' Guardian Portnoy's Complaint n. [after...
Motherland: Growing Up with the Holocaust
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The author writes: "I am the child of a woman who survived the Holocaust not by the skin of her...