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Asmaa Alghoul, S?lim Nassib
"Gaza has always been rebellious... stubborn, addictive. I'm her daughter, and I look like her."
Born in Rafah, raised in Gaza, subjected both to Israeli bombs and to Islamist tyranny…
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Mike Mitchell
In the history of the St. Louis Cardinals, one figure towers above all, despite never pitching an inning or taking an at-bat for the team. For decades, the club was…
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Be inspired to take an active role in citizenship and society by working through the skills-based activities and exam support in this textbook; designed by the market leading Citizenship publisher…
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The death of a salesman in a Swiss forest appears to be an open and shut case, with an obvious suspect and a confession. But nothing is what it seems…
“This is one of the best anthologies I have ever read. It now has 43 tales in it, all of them exciting, all beautifully translated, ranging from the Austro-Hungarian decadence…
The illegitimate son of an aristocratic politician and an actress, Meyrink set up as a banker in Prague. At the same time achieving notoriety as a dandy and rake while…
Gustav Meyrink is one of the most important and interesting authors of early 20th-century German Literature. To establish his reputation in the English-speaking world Dedalus has translated his five novels…
Association for Citizenship Teaching Quality Mark resource. This brand-new, up-to-date textbook, designed by the market leading Citizenship publisher, will help students fulfil their potential in the AQA GCSE (9-1) Citizenship…
Strengthen students’ understanding of key AQA GCSE topics and develop the vital skills required to attain the best results possible in the exams, with this expert-written Student Workbook.
Target exam success with My Revision Notes. Our updated approach to revision will help you learn, practise and apply your skills and understanding. Coverage of key content is combined with…
Harry Caray dominated the airwaves, commanded our attention, sparked interest, and generated controversy. Holy Cow St. Louis! celebrates the early days of radio, chronicles Harry's career, and documents his successes…
The first collection of classic and contemporary German-language science fiction in English
In the business of helping people make better decisions, their comfortable life explodes at home and in a jungle in Southern Mexico. It's like she doesn't know her name. Mama…
Katrin Himmler
Heinrich Himmler’s great-niece offers a unique account of one woman’s attempt to deal with her chilling inheritance
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Arthur Bruhlmeier
The aim of this book is to familiarise English-speaking readers with the thoughts of the Swiss educationalist and philosopher, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746 -1827), who was a major influence on…
Have you ever had the brief fear of being left alone in the middle of nowhere? This young couple never did, until it happened to them. Discovering they are in…
Ralf Rothmann
Fire Doesn’t Burn is a dark recasting of the delicate reunification of East and West as a chronicle of erotic desire and an extraordinary rediscovery of emotion and place
Johann Grimmelshausen
Courage is one of most indomitable women in European literature and a feminist icon for our times.The Life of Courage (first published in 1670), one episode from whose life…
Max Frisch
This highly personal early novel reflects a crisis in Frisch’s own life, and perhaps because of this intimate connection, he refused to allow it to be included in his Collected…
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Erich Hackl
Stirring, poignant stories humanize great historical tragedies with interviews and accounts of individuals affected by European and South American fascism.
Award-winning author Erich Hackl humanizes great historical tragedies with stirring and poignant stories of individuals affected by mid-century Fascism.
Paul Leppin
Fiction. Erotica. The Road to Darkness contains two decadent and highly controversial novels: Daniel Jesus (first published in 1905) and Severin (first published in 1914). I have seldom read a…
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Herbert Rosendorfer
The 10th century Chinese Mandarin Kao-tai builds a time machine in which he hopes to see what his country is like in a thousand years time. Due to a slight…
Hermann Ungar
Josef Blau is a high school teacher who comes from a poor background, poorer than that of most of his pupils. The insecurity this causes him leads to an obsession…
Martin Prinz
A crime novel with a difference. In the 1980s the bankrobber Johann Rettenberger was the most wanted criminal in Austria. Known as Pumpgun Ronnie due to his weapon and the…
When Anton L wakes up one morning and gradually discovers that he is the only person left in the world, he accepts the situation with greater sang-froid than most would…
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Georges Rodenbach
There are three loves in the life of Joris Borluut, the town carillonneur of Bruges. He marries the fiery Barbe, whose dark beauty is a reminder of Belgiums Spanish heritage…
Markus Orths
A grotesque, absurd satire which is also extremely funny. Kranich is a newly-qualified teacher about to take up his first job. After he arrives at the school, he is plunged…
Gustav Meyrink
Translated by Mike Mitchell Mike Mitchell�s translation was awarded The Occult Book of the Year Prize in 1992. A complex and ambitious novel which centers on the life of the…
Sylvie Germain
The Berynes are a middle-class family: Charlam, the grandfather, who wants to take control after the death of his son, Georges, in a road accident; Sabine, his daughter-in-law, who mutely…
Pascal Bruckner
When Leon and Solange entered the church everyone was struck by the difference in height between them. Even though he was wearing heel inserts. However after their first child is…
Stephanie Hochet
An illustrator get his first tattoo but as the ink starts to fade he finds his life changing and taking a sinister turn.
A Dutiful Son reads like a novel, a Bildungsroman charting Pacal Bruckner'sjourney from pious Catholic child to leading philosopher and writer on French culture.
The White Dominican is Meyrink’s most esoteric novel, and draws on the wisdom of a number of mystical traditions, the most important of which is Tao. It describes the spiritual…
‘Meyrink’s short stories epitomised the non-plus-ultra of all modern writing. Their magnificent colour, their spine-chilling and bizarre inventiveness, their aggression, their succinctness of style, their overwhelming originality of ideas, which…
Alfred Kubin
Written in 1908 and hailed by artists such as Kandinsky, ‘The Other Side’ describes a dream kingdom that becomes a nightmare and a journey to Pearl, a mysterious city created…
Almost twenty years after the fall of the wall, the Kreuzberg district of Berlin has become unbearably trendy and deeply unappealing to Alina and Wolf. They move to Muggelsee, at…
Peter Handke
A monologue delivered by the female character in Samuel Beckett’s play Krapp’s Last Tape.
Thomas Lehr
Out of the many tragedies that almost seem to define the first decade of our century, the author has fashioned a richly woven, multilayered tapestry that not only explores the…
Arthur Bruhlmeier,Mike Mitchell (Lecturer in German, University of Stirling)
Freelance Translator Mike Mitchell (Freelance translator)
The Missouri Bootheel, a six-county region tucked away in the southeastern corner of the Show-Me State, boasts a unique and intriguing history involving railroad strikes, mob lynchings, and earthquake scares…
Helmut Krausser
Cora Dulz is a psychiatrist, married and in her mid-thirties, with a husband who seems uninterested in h er. Professionaly, Cora’‘s life reaches a state of crisis, wh en she…
Mercedes Deambrosis
A grotesque dark comedy.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger,Mike Mitchell
A collection of writings based on Enzensberger’s personal experience as a left-wing sympathizer during the 1960s.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, widely regarded as Germany’s greatest living poet, was already well known…
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Mike Mitchell
A unique portrait of a revolutionary movement that is largely unknown outside Spain.
Northern Spain is the only part of Western Europe where anarchism played a significant role in the…
Jean-Pierre Ohl
While draining a pond during work for the construction of the Stockton to Darlington Railway George Stevenson’s workers discover a female corpse with a dagger stuck between her ribs. The…
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
One of Germany’s greatest living writers offers up an analysis (and samples) of his failed projects.
My dear fellow artists, whether writers, actors, painters, film-makers, singers, sculptors, or composers, why…
