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Ararat Associations
Dick Tahta
RRP £13.95
Paperback
ISBN 1900 355 48 5 |
Dick
Tahta was born in Manchester, of parents who had survived the events
of 1915. As a second-generation immigrant, he was interested in
the nature of identity
Using Atom Egoyan’s film, Arara,
as a launching pad, Tahta offers some fascinating interpretations of Armenian
history, religion, language and literature. His digressions into youthful memories,
family history and his own travels through Eastern Anatolia, give this book a
warm and personal feel. |
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Burning
Orchards
Gurgen Mahari
RRP £13.95
Paperback
ISBN 9781900355575 |
Gurgen
Marhari’s controversial novel,
Burning Orchards, is set in the Ottoman city of Van, Eastern Anatolia,
during the period leading up to the Armenian rebellion of 1915 and
relates the epic story of the events which culminated in the catastrophe
of the following years, wonderfully told by onof the great writers
emerging from Soviet Armenia. |
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Children of the Ghetto
Israel Zangwill
RRP £13.95
Paperback
ISBN 1900 355 30 2 |
Children of the Ghetto, Zangwill's best-known
book, was first published in 1892. It documents the lives of immigrant
Jews who lived and worked in the Yiddish-speaking streets and densely
packed alleys emptying into Petticoat Lane, the East End bazaar
that was both marketplace and communal watering hole. His portrayal
of the uncertain situation of 'his people,' which all too often
had been painted in dreadfully sombre tones by earnest social reformers
and drum-beating evangelists, is insightfully told with affectionate
honesty and wryness of humour. |
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The
Client Dies Thrice
Jean Tardieu
RRP £10.00
Paperback
ISBN 1900 355 21 3 |
Jean Tardieu wrote for French radio, television
as well as publishing volumes of prose, theatre, poetry and texts
on music and the visual arts. His name is linked with Beckett, Ionesco
and the Theatre of the Absurd
Newly translated by David Kelley, Britain's foremost Baudelairean
scholar, these three plays - The Keyhole, The Ticket Office and The
Contraption - are classics in modern French theatre. |
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Cultural
(dis)Connections
Renee Hubert
RRP £12.00
Paperback
ISBN 1900 355 46 9 |
The
daughter of German Jewish parents, both of them prominent physicians
defending liberal causes, Renée Riese Hubert was bundled out
of Nazi Germany as a young girl to be educated in Paris. She
obtained her PhD degree at Columbia University and, while adapting
to her new life in America, taught literature in various parts
of the country. In addition to 6 books of French poetry
and some 175 articles, she published Surrealism and the Book,
Magnifying Mirrors: Women Surrealism and Partnership, and
in collaboration with Judd D. Hubert, The Cutting Edge of
Reading: Artists' Books. |
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The Dialogue between Painting and Poetry
Edited by Jean Khalfa
RRP £15.99
Paperback
ISBN 1900 355 25 6 |
This
exploration takes as its starting point Edouard Manet’s collaboration
with Stéphane Mallarmé, Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Cros in the
1870s and charts the movement through Dada and Surrealism to
the end of the 20th century. It includes the collaborative works
of André Gide/Maurice Denis; Guillaume Apollinaire/André Derain;
Max Jacob/Pablo Picasso; Blaise
Cendrars/Sonia Delaunay; Tristan Tzara/Hans Arp; André Malraux/Fernand
Léger and Michel Leiris/Alberto Giacometti and continues on to
show how the movement evolved in the second half of the twentieth
century in the works of Henri Michaux, Francis Ponge, Yves Bonnefoy,
Robert Desnos, André du Bouchet and Jacques Dupin. |
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In Darkest London
Margaret Harkness
RRP £12.00
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ISBN 1900 355 28 0 |
A
Social Documentary of London's East End originally
published in 1889, as Captain Lobe: A
Story of the Salvation Army by John Law. Margaret Harkness, who wrote
under the pen name of John Law, is considered
one
of the important expounders of ‘social realism’ in late 19th century
England. Her passionate sense of justice and determined desire for
social reform are paramount in all her writings; and her description of the impoverishment
in the East End of London, where she lived for several years gathering first
hand material about the lives and labour of the people there, is keenly observed. |
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The Fifteen Schoolgirls
Dick Tahta
RRP £11.95
Paperback
ISBN 1900 355 5 |
A
famous problem found in books on mathematical
recreations was first proposed in an annual in1850 by a vicar and amateur mathematician,
Thomas Kirkman. Fifteen schoolgirls walk out three abreast for seven days. It
was required to arrange each day’s walk so that any pair of girls were
only once in the same row during the week. This boo presents a brief account
of the original problem and some of the ways it
has been generalised and eventually solved. It also surveys in a not too technical
way, some of the other work of a remarkable nineteenth-century polymath. |
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Lire
c’est voir/Reading is seeing
David Kelley
RRP £10.00
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ISBN 1900 355 20 5 |
Lire
c’est voir/Reading is seeing is
a marvellous contemporary example of the dialogue between
painting and poetry. The
images are wonderfully constructed and the poetry, in both
French and English, is a delight. The two together magically combine to give a special insight
into the mind of the artist and the writer.
David Kelley (1941-1999) taught art history at Warwick University and at
Trinity College, Cambridge where he was a Fellow in French Literature. He
has written extensively on French poetry and, in 1994, was made an Officer des
Arts et des Lettres for his services to French culture. |
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The Mariner's Chronicle
Edited by Archibald Duncan
RRP £19.95
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ISBN 1900 355 29 9
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Originally
published two hundred years ago, The Mariner's Chronicle was the
first comprehensive collection of disasters at sea in the English
Language and was an immediate best seller. Now made newly available,
these stories of suffering and survival will have lost none of
their resonance for all those interested in maritime history.
With an introduction and notes by Nigel Pickford, author of The Atlas of Shipwreck
and Treasure.
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Romance of a Shop
Amy Levy
RRP £12.00
Paperback
ISBN 1900 355 32 9 |
Romance
of A Shop, Amy Levy’s first
novel, was published in 1888. Praised by Oscar Wilde who thought
it ‘admirably done … clever
and full of quick observation,’ it's the story of four
young ladies who, after the death of their father, decide to open
a photographic
studio in the heart of London’s bohemia (to the dismay of their
more priggish relatives) the book, like much of Levy’s work,
is concerned with the contradictions besetting the ‘new’ Victorian
woman who, in her quest for independence finds herself constrained
by anachronistic social mores and conflicting values. |
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Uneasy Listening
Matthew Lasar
RRP £14.99
Paperback
ISBN 1900 355 45 0 |
Uneasy
Listening tells
the story of the epic battle over five listener supported radio
stations that rocked the American Left and raised difficult questions
about public broadcasting in the United States that have yet
to be answered. |
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Universe for Breakfast
Joy Magezis
RRP £11.00
Paperback
ISBN 9781900355551 |
The
Universe for Breakfast chronicles a journey of transformation
in verse. Joy Magezis has been ordained as a member of the Core
Community of the Order of Interbeing, established by Zen Master
Thich
Nhat Hanh. She was part of his
official delegation to Vietnam, when Thich Nhat Hanh returned after 39 years
of exile. A series of poems about the trip appear in this collection, as well
as poems about her experiences practicing with the Sangha community in Britain
and in Plum Village, France.. |
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