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  • In Another Country

    Selected Stories

    by David Constantine ...
    First selected stories and North American fiction debut by the winner of the 2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award (winning over Joyce Carol Oates, Deborah Levy, Peter Stamm, and Tamas Dobozy)Strong bookseller reaction from BEA chapbook: "Unexpectedly teared up at breakfast while reading David Constantine's "In Another Country" from @biblioasis", tweeted Todd Wellman of Boswell Book ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Under the Dam

    by David Constantine ...
    **WINNER of the BBC National Short Story Prize 2010**David Constantine's Under the Dam was chosen as one of their Books of 2005 by both The Independent and The Guardian.In the middle of a speech a businessman realises his soul has just left his body. In an Athens marketplace, a jealous lover finds himself staggering through a vision of hell. High in the Alps, a young woman’s body re-appears in the ... Read more

    $9.20 CAD

  • Collected Poems

    by David Constantine ...
    David Constantine is one the finest poets writing in English. His poetry stands outside the current literary climate, and like the work of the European poets who have nourished him, it is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. Its mood is often one of unease, elegiac or comically edged, barbed with pain or tinged with pleasure. His poems hold a worried and restless balance between ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Life-Writer

    by David Constantine ...
    A New York Times Notable Book 2016An October Indie Next List Great Reads” PickAfter the death of her beloved husband, Katrin, a literary biographer, picks her way through a trove of his letters and postcards, slowly piecing together the entirety of his life. Surprised by an unlikely chapter in his past that was never revealed during their marriage, Katrin sets off on a heartbreaking journey to ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Tea at the Midland

    by David Constantine ...
    **WINNER of the 2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award****WINNER of the BBC National Short Story Prize**To the woman watching they looked like grace itself, the heart and soul of which is freedom. It pleased her particularly that they were attached by invisible strings to colourful curves of rapidly moving air. How clean and clever that was! You throw up something like a handkerchief, ... Read more

    $9.20 CAD

  • The Sorrows of Young Werther

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...
    Translated by David Constantine ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I have so much and my feeling for her devours everything, I have so much and without her everything is nothing.' The Sorrows of Young Werther propelled Goethe to instant fame when it first appeared in 1774. Goethe drew on his own unhappy experiences to tell the story of Werther, a young man tormented by his love for Lotte, a tender-hearted girl who is promised to someone else. Overwhelmed by his ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

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  • Rivers of the Unspoilt World

    by David Constantine ...
    Described as one of the UK's finest short story writers, Constantine intricately interweaves fictional characters and events with the real to create new ways of seeing and connecting our past, present and possible futures.With extraordinary patience and precision, these stories centre on moments, conversations, meetings that feel like small details picked out from a larger tapestry.From the ... Read more

    $9.20 CAD

  • A Bird Called Elaeus

    poems for here and now from The Greek Anthology

    by David Constantine ...
    In A Bird Called Elaeus, poet and translator David Constantine presents a selection of poems from The Greek Anthology, a collection of around 4500 poems composed over more than 1500 years by around 300 authors.The Greek Anthology is a marvellous salvage from the vast shipwreck of the Ancient World, a colossal continuity and variety from pre-classical times through Roman into Byzantine. For A Bird ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Decapolis

    Tales from Ten Cities

    by David Constantine, Empar Moliner, Larissa Boehning, Jacques Reda, Aldo Nove, Emil Hakl, Arnon Grunberg ...
    Larissa Boehning (Berlin), David Constantine (Manchester), Arnon Grunberg (Amsterdam), Emil Hakl (Prague), Amanda Michalopoulou (Athens), Empar Moliner (Barcelona), Aldo Nove (Milan), Jacques Réda (Paris), Dalibor Šimpraga (Zagreb), Ágúst Borgþór Sverrisson (Reykjavik).Decapolis is a book which imagines the city otherwise. Bringing together ten writers from across Europe, it offers snapshots of ... Read more

    $9.20 CAD

  • The Pillars of Hercules

    by David Constantine ...
    Alexander, Prince of Macedon, is the terror of the world. Persia, Egypt, Athens… one after another, mighty nations are falling before the fearsome conqueror. Some say Alexander is actually the son of Zeus, king of the gods, and the living incarnation of Hercules himself. Worse yet, some say Alexander believes this…The ambitious prince is aided in his conquest by unstoppable war-machines based on ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Poetry

    The Literary Agenda

    by David Constantine ...
    Series series Literary Agenda
    The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • Belongings

    by David Constantine ...
    Like the work of the European poets who have nourished him, David Constantine’s poetry is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. The title of his eleventh collection, Belongings, signals that these are poems concerned both with our possessions and with what possesses us. Among much else in the word belongings, the poems draw on a sense of our ‘co-ordinates’ – something like the ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD