Gift Ideas for Literary Obscurists
Working The Room
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
This collection sees the best of Geoff Dyer’s extensive essays and journalism from the last ten years collected in one volume. It follows Anglo-English Attitudes, the last collected volume of essays from 1999.
Characte... Buy or find out more →
Is That A Fish In Your Ear? Translation And The Meaning Of Everything
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Penguin Group Uk
People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbours' languages... Buy or find out more →
The Hall Of Uselessness: Collected Essays
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Black Inc
An essential collection of essays from an eminent critic.
Simon Leys’ cultural and political commentary has spanned four decades, with no corner of the arts escaping his sharp eye and acerbic wit. The Hall of Uselessness... Buy or find out more →
I Curse The River Of Time
$32.95$9.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill
An enthralling novel of a mother and son's turbulent relationship from the author of Out Stealing Horses.
It is 1989: Communism is crumbling, and Arvid Jansen, thirtyseven, is facing his first divorce. At the same time, ... Buy or find out more →
The Literary Conference
$14.95 – Paperback book / New Directions
Cesar is a translator who's fallen on very hard times due to the global economic downturn; he is also an author, and a mad scientist hell-bent on world domination. On a visit to the beach he intuitively solves an ancient... Buy or find out more →
The Memory Chalet
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
" It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there ... Buy or find out more →
Bartleby & Co.
$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Marcelo, a clerk in a Barcelona office who might himself have emerged from a novel by Kafka, inhabits a world peopled by characters in literature. He once wrote a novel about the impossibility of love, but since then he ... Buy or find out more →