The World Saved by Kids: And Other Epics
Elsa Morante and Cristina Viti
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First published in Italian in 1968, The World Saved by Kids was written in the aftermath of deep...
The Pearly Prince of St Pancras
Alf Dole and Jeff Hudson
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Pearly Kings and Queens are one of the quintessential icons of 'old London', originally invented to...
Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll
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In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll created fantastic...
Ovid's Erotic Poems: Amores and Ars Amatoria
Publius Ovidius Naso, Len Krisak and Sarah Ruden
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The most sophisticated and daring poetic ironist of the early Roman Empire, Publius Ovidius Naso, is...
Tómas Jónsson, Bestseller
Lytton Smith and Guðbergur Bergsson
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“Guðbergur Bergsson achieved success with his novel Tómas Jónsson, Bestseller, which shocked...
Fiction humour
Dakota and the American Dream
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When ten-year-old Dakota becomes bored sitting next to his mother on a park bench, he drifts off and...
Glop: Non-Toxic, Expensive Ideas That Will Make You Look Ridiculous and Feel Pretentious
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A wickedly funny, full-color, illustrated sendup of the trendy lifestyle publication GOOP. What is...
Ye Berlyn Tapestrie: John Hassall's Satirical First World War Panorama
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The horror of the First World War brought out a characteristic response in a group of English...
Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid
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The late Edward Said remains one of the most influential critics and public intellectuals of our...
The Complete Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino, Tim Parks and Martin McLaughlin
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Italo Calvino's enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are...