Women Travelers on the Nile: An Anthology
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Women travelers in Egypt in the nineteenth century saw aspects of the country unseen by their male...
The Quintessential Grooming Guide for the Modern Gentleman
Peabody Fawcett, Richard Finney and Iain Crockart
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The Quintessential Grooming Guide for the Modern Gentleman is a practical treatise for chaps who...
Straight
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Based on the motion picture Humpday (written & directed in 2009 by Lynn Shelton), Straight is a...
The Light and the Dark
Andrew Bromfield and Mikhail Shishkin
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Fate sends two star-crossed lovers, Sasha and Volodenka, on two separate journeys across space and...
The Man of Feeling
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The Man of Feeling is a story of love and memory by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new...
Fink Angel: Legacy
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The Angel gang are the meanest, most deranged villains ever to come out of the Cursed Earth. An...
Freezing: Vol. 7-8
Dall-Young Lim, Jason DeAngelis and Kwang-Hyun Kim
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Extraterrestrial beings have invaded our garden world, hell bent on wiping humanity off the face of...
The State as Master: Gender, State Formation and Commercialisation in Urban Sweden, 1650-1780
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We tend to think of state service as the typical male form of work. However, this notion does not do...
Melanie Caldicott (6 KP) rated The Lamplighters in Books
Apr 29, 2021
This atmospheric mystery is beautifully written incorporating evocative imagery, quiet menacing tension and spare poetic prose.
The novel examines themes of isolation, male mental health, identity and truth with a profundity that stay with you long after you have finished reading.
The imagery of the sea representing the men's emotions contrasting with the domestic metaphors of the women effectively contrast the two different worlds they occupy and how divided their relationships became.
The mystery outcome of this book was satisfying for any lover of thrillers but the real beauty of this book comes from the poetry, the emotion and the tragedy of life lived with regret.
