Poets, Players, and Preachers: Remembering the Gunpowder Plot in Seventeenth-Century England
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On the night of November 4th 1605, the English authorities uncovered an alleged plot by a group of...
Shalimar the Clown
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Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls is knifed to death on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter...
Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather: Typhoons, Hurricanes, and Cyclones: 2017
Anne Collett, Russell McDougall and Susan Thomas
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This book tracks across history and cultures the ways in which writers have imagined cyclones,...
A Perfect Crime
Anna Holmwood and A. Yi
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On a normal day in provincial China, a teenager goes about his regular business, but he's also...
A Welcome Murder
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After his unspectacular professional baseball career ends with a knee injury in Toledo, Ohio, Johnny...
American Pastoral
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In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all...
Atomised
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Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular...
Reputations
Anne McLean and Juan Gabriel Vasquez
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A taut new novel by the award-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling - 'one of the most...
Ten Days
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It's 4 a.m. and Cathy Mason is watching dawn break over the Lovelace estate. By the end of the day,...
The Blind Roadmaker
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If the starting point for a number of poems in Ian Duhig's richly varied new collection is Sterne's...