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Kallocain

by Karin Boye ...

Translated by David McDuff ...

A pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Sweden's most acclaimed writersWritten midway between Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, as the terrible events of the Second World War were unfolding, Kallocain depicts a totalitarian 'World State' which seeks to crush the individual entirely. In this desolate, paranoid landscape of 'police eyes' and 'police ears', the obedient citizen and ... Read more

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A pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Sweden's most acclaimed writersWritten midway between Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, as the terrible events of the Second World War were unfolding, Kallocain depicts a totalitarian 'World State' which seeks to crush the individual entirely. In this desolate, paranoid landscape of 'police eyes' and 'police ears', the obedient citizen and
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Härdarna

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Härdarna är en diktsamling av KARIN BOYE (1900–1941) som för första gången gavs ut 1927.Nu ger vi ut denna fantastiska diktsamling igen. Vår ambition är att sprida klassiska verk med hjälp av dagens digitala distributionsvägar."I mörkret" ur diktsamlingen Härdarna;I mörkret ligger jag och hör,hur klockorna dånar utanförmed långa, tunga, jämna slag,som mörkrets djupa andetag.De dövar allt och söver ... Read more

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Härdarna är en diktsamling av KARIN BOYE (1900–1941) som för första gången gavs ut 1927.Nu ger vi ut denna fantastiska diktsamling igen. Vår ambition är att sprida klassiska verk med hjälp av dagens digitala distributionsvägar."I mörkret" ur diktsamlingen Härdarna;I mörkret ligger jag och hör,hur klockorna dånar utanförmed långa, tunga, jämna slag,som mörkrets djupa andetag.De dövar allt och söver
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Claimed!

by Gertrude Barrows Bennett ...

Series series Weird Fiction
Penguin Weird Fiction: a celebration of the very best of the weird, a store of novels and tales that for generations have delighted and horrified.Woken from his sleep by an urgent request to attend to a new patient, Dr. John Vanaman is soon at the home of Jesse J. Robinson, a wealthy industrialist, struck gravely ill after a struggle with a burglar. The thief was after Robinson’s most prized ... Read more

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Penguin Weird Fiction: a celebration of the very best of the weird, a store of novels and tales that for generations have delighted and horrified.Woken from his sleep by an urgent request to attend to a new patient, Dr. John Vanaman is soon at the home of Jesse J. Robinson, a wealthy industrialist, struck gravely ill after a struggle with a burglar. The thief was after Robinson’s most prized
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Wolf Solent

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'A great literary masterpiece' A. N. Wilson'A genius ... a fearless writer, who writes with reckless passion' Margaret DrabbleJohn Cowper Powys's epic Wolf Solent centres around the story of a young man returning to his roots in the West Country after ten years in London. Complex, romantic and humorous, it is peopled with memorable characters and filled with vivid, primitive descriptions of ... Read more

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'A great literary masterpiece' A. N. Wilson'A genius ... a fearless writer, who writes with reckless passion' Margaret DrabbleJohn Cowper Powys's epic Wolf Solent centres around the story of a young man returning to his roots in the West Country after ten years in London. Complex, romantic and humorous, it is peopled with memorable characters and filled with vivid, primitive descriptions of
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Yesterday Will Make You Cry

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by Chester Himes ...

From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a masterful autobiographical novel about the injustices of the prison system and the humanity that flourishes despite itJimmy Monroe is serving a twenty-year sentence for robbery. Terror and chaos reign in the prison, where corrupt, racist guards mete out capricious punishments like time in “the hole,” where inmates’ sense of reality slips ... Read more

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From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a masterful autobiographical novel about the injustices of the prison system and the humanity that flourishes despite itJimmy Monroe is serving a twenty-year sentence for robbery. Terror and chaos reign in the prison, where corrupt, racist guards mete out capricious punishments like time in “the hole,” where inmates’ sense of reality slips
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There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die

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by Tove Ditlevsen ...

Translated by Sophia Hersi Smith, Jennifer Russell ...

Series series FSG Poetry
By the acclaimed author of The Copenhagen Trilogy, a startling and darkly funny volume of selected poetry, the first to be translated into English.*It was a meaningless daylike what you callloveIt was a ThursdayIn parentheses. The brackets around itHave already fadedLife tastes of ashAnd is bearable.*From one of Denmark’s most celebrated twentieth-century writers, the author of the acclaimed Cop.. ... Read more

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By the acclaimed author of The Copenhagen Trilogy, a startling and darkly funny volume of selected poetry, the first to be translated into English.*It was a meaningless daylike what you callloveIt was a ThursdayIn parentheses. The brackets around itHave already fadedLife tastes of ashAnd is bearable.*From one of Denmark’s most celebrated twentieth-century writers, the author of the acclaimed Cop..
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Lies and Sorcery

by Elsa Morante ...

Translated by Jenny McPhee ...

**An Italian master's magnum opus about three generations of women, now in the first-ever unabridged English translation.Winner of the 2024 Society of Authors John Florio Prize for for the best translation from Italian and the 2024 American Literary Translator Association's Italian Prose in Translation Prize**Elsa Morante is one of the titans of twentieth-century literature—Natalia Ginzburg said ... Read more

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**An Italian master's magnum opus about three generations of women, now in the first-ever unabridged English translation.Winner of the 2024 Society of Authors John Florio Prize for for the best translation from Italian and the 2024 American Literary Translator Association's Italian Prose in Translation Prize**Elsa Morante is one of the titans of twentieth-century literature—Natalia Ginzburg said
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The Garden

by Nick Newman ...

A darkly beautiful, eerie, hypnotic novel about two elderly sisters living alone at the edge of the world.In a place and time unknown, two elderly sisters live in a walled garden, secluded from the outside world. Evelyn and Lily have only ever known each other. What was before the garden, they have forgotten; what lies beyond it, they do not know. Each day is spent in languid service to their home ... Read more

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A darkly beautiful, eerie, hypnotic novel about two elderly sisters living alone at the edge of the world.In a place and time unknown, two elderly sisters live in a walled garden, secluded from the outside world. Evelyn and Lily have only ever known each other. What was before the garden, they have forgotten; what lies beyond it, they do not know. Each day is spent in languid service to their home
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Ice

The hypnotic dystopian cult classic

by Anna Kavan ...

Series series Pushkin Press Classics
**This dystopian science fiction classic details the hallucinatory hunt for a white-haired girl, through a frozen, post-apocalyptic landscape“A haunting story of sexual assault and climate catastrophe, decades ahead of its time” – The New Yorker“A strange and compelling classic of dystopian and climate fiction, one that with foreboding and deep compassion maps the psyche and the terrain of ... Read more

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**This dystopian science fiction classic details the hallucinatory hunt for a white-haired girl, through a frozen, post-apocalyptic landscape“A haunting story of sexual assault and climate catastrophe, decades ahead of its time” – The New Yorker“A strange and compelling classic of dystopian and climate fiction, one that with foreboding and deep compassion maps the psyche and the terrain of
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Life Hacks for a Little Alien

by Alice Franklin ...

This charming, witty, and life-affirming novel follows Little Alien as she discovers an ancient manuscript that changes her life—lightheartedly representing what it feels like to grow up neurodivergent. Perfect for readers of Matt Haig and Shelby Van Pelt.“Climb up here, Little Alien. Sit next to me. I will tell you about life on this planet. I will tell you how it goes.”Before she thinks of ... Read more

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This charming, witty, and life-affirming novel follows Little Alien as she discovers an ancient manuscript that changes her life—lightheartedly representing what it feels like to grow up neurodivergent. Perfect for readers of Matt Haig and Shelby Van Pelt.“Climb up here, Little Alien. Sit next to me. I will tell you about life on this planet. I will tell you how it goes.”Before she thinks of
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Adventures in Democracy

The Turbulent World of People Power

by Erica Benner ...

**'Sparkling . . . a page-turner full of wit, original insight and unassuming erudition' Guardian'Enjoyable vitality' The Times**'Highly stimulating . . . wonderfully readable . . . her analysis of democracy's key strengths and weaknesses is forensic' Literary ReviewDemocracy is a living, breathing thing and Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about the role ordinary citizens play in ... Read more

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**'Sparkling . . . a page-turner full of wit, original insight and unassuming erudition' Guardian'Enjoyable vitality' The Times**'Highly stimulating . . . wonderfully readable . . . her analysis of democracy's key strengths and weaknesses is forensic' Literary ReviewDemocracy is a living, breathing thing and Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about the role ordinary citizens play in
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Ancient Sorceries

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by Algernon Blackwood ...

Series series Weird Fiction
Welcome to the casebook of Dr John Silence, Physician Extraordinary. After a long and severe training – five years he was gone from the face of the earth, travelling who knows where – Silence returned to England as the greatest occult detective of the age. When he takes up an investigation, when he comes to the aid of some poor, frightened soul, you can be sure it will lead to the most strange and ... Read more

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Welcome to the casebook of Dr John Silence, Physician Extraordinary. After a long and severe training – five years he was gone from the face of the earth, travelling who knows where – Silence returned to England as the greatest occult detective of the age. When he takes up an investigation, when he comes to the aid of some poor, frightened soul, you can be sure it will lead to the most strange and
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