Author of the Month: Yoko Tawada
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Book of the Week
Silent Catastrophes
W.G. Sebald
£25.00
A profoundly affirming book about the potential for literature . . . Since his death in 2001 it has become increasingly clear that WG Sebald is not just a very good writer, but quite simply one of the few essential writers of this generation . . . Nobody captures the epitaph quality of pastoral as well as he did - The Scotsman
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