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Ngugi Wa Thiong'O
Devil on the Cross

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The great Kenyan writer's influential novel, written in prison, a cornerstone post-colonial novel offering a powerful critique of the 'Satan of capitalism''The Devil appeared to Jacinta Wariinga one Sunda…

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Michel Foucault,
Discipline and Punish

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'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book ReviewThe grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - b…

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James Joyce
Dubliners

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'Joyce's early short stories remain undimmed in their brilliance' Sunday TimesJames Joyce's earliest major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for the first time. The…

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John Steinbeck
East of Eden

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NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES STARRING FLORENCE PUGHThe magnum opus of a giant of American literature, East of Eden is an epic, unforgettable family saga of blood ties and betrayal'There is only one book to …

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John Steinbeck
East of Eden

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NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES STARRING FLORENCE PUGHThe magnum opus of a giant of American literature, East of Eden is an epic, unforgettable family saga of blood ties and betrayalSet in the rich farmland of…

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Hannah Arendt
Eichmann in Jerusalem

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'Brilliant and disturbing' Stephen Spender, New York Review of BooksThe classic work on 'the banality of evil', and a journalistic masterpieceHannah Arendt's stunning and unnverving report on the trial of…

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Gun-Britt Sundström,
Engagement

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A feminist cult classic about love, independence and what it means to be an individual, translated into English for the first time 'I want to have him, I really do. I just don't want him to have me.'Marti…

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George Orwell
Essays

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Contains essays, reviews and articles which illuminate the life and work of a man who created a literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to an art. The article…

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James Joyce
Exiles

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'The undertow of unspoken feeling is tumultuous, and although hardly anything happens the action amounts to a fearful adventure' New York TimesJames Joyce's play Exiles follows the story of writer Richard…

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James Joyce
Finnegans Wake

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'A great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page' - Anthony BurgessJames Joyce's final work, Finnegans Wake , conjures up the dark underground wor…

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Nuruddin Farah
From a Crooked Rib

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'God created woman from a crooked rib and anyone who trieth to straighten it, breaketh it' Traditional Somali ProverbEbla lives a nomadic life in rural Somalia; an orphaned teenager raised within the stri…

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Len Deighton
Funeral in Berlin

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'The classic and gripping spy novel of Cold War Berlin' Guardian1963 Berlin is dark and dangerous. The anonymous hero of The IPCRESS File has been sent to help arrange the defection - in an elaborate mock…

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James Baldwin
Giovanni's Room

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Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel , which established him as one of the great American writers of his time'Audacious... remarkable... elegant and courageous' Caryl PhillipsDavid, a young American in …

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John Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath

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Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of dust bowl Oklahoma and Californian…

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George Orwell
Homage to Catalonia

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Describes the hopes and cynical betrayals of the author's experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War. 'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or ind…

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J. L. Carr
How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup

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'One of the greatest football novels ever written and a comic masterpiece' DJ Taylor ' DJ Taylor 'But is this story believable? Ah, it all depends upon whether you want it to believe it.' J.L. CarrIn thei…

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Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man

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Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel, winner of the prestigious American National Book Award, tells the extraordinary story of a man who is invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. …

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Göran Rosenberg
Israel

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Close, close beneath the land I had once rooted myself in and loved, lay a land filled with violence, injustice and hatredOn 22 April 1962 what remains of Göran Rosenberg's family embark from his native S…

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William S. Burroughs,
Junky

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Burroughs' first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Thro…

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Angélica Gorodischer,
Kalpa Imperial

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A dazzling tapestry of myth, fantasy and folk tale from Argentina's great writer of speculative fiction, in a translation by Ursula K. Le GuinIn city squares and glittering palaces, a series of storytelle…

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