Best Covers 2011

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The Bear: History of a Fallen King

Michel Pastoureau

From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear’s centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages, literatures, and legends. Michel Pastoureau considers how this once venerated creature was…

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Melbourne

Sophie Cunningham

Sophie Cunningham writes a year in the city’s life, a year that takes us from the heatwave that culminated on Black Saturday when temperatures soared to 47 degrees to the…

$65.99

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A Love Letter From A Stray Moon

Jay Griffiths,Jay Griffiths

In this fictional tour de force Jay Griffiths creates a portrait of the artist Frida Kahlo - her devastating accident and her love for Diego Rivera - that is also…

$19.99

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We, The Drowned

Carsten Jensen

In 1848 a motley crew of Danish sailors sets sail from the small island town of Marstal to fight the Germans. Spanning four generations, two world wars and a hundred…

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Amerika: The Missing Person: A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text

Franz Kafka

Harman offers a brilliant new translation of the great writer’s least Kafkaesque novel, based on a German-language text that was produced by a team of international scholars, and that is…

$38.99

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