Linda Grant
The Clothes On Their Backs
$33.00 (Trade paperback / Virago )
In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in ... More »
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Still Here
$22.99 (Paperback book / Little Brown )
Two middle aged people meet in Liverpool, a dying port, once the embarkation point for nine million future Americans. Alix has returned to her birthplace for her mother's death and to receive her dying wish. Josephan Ame... More »
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People On The Street: A Writers View Of Israel
$29.99 (Trade paperback / Virago )
The further away anyone was from that block of Ben Yehuda street, the easier it seemed to find a solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, that stubborn mess in the centre of the Middle East and the mor... More »
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When I Lived In Modern Times
$21.95 (Paperback book / Granta )
This is my story. Scratch a Jew and you've got a story. If you don't like elaborate picaresques full of unlikely events and tortuous explanations, steer clear of the Jews. If you want things to be straight forward, find ... More »
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