Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 46 No. 23
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In Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson picks out from the highly charged historiography on the First World War one leading historian from each of the major powers that survived the conflagration: Fritz Fischer, famous historian of German war…
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The final instalment of N.A.M. Rodger's definitive, authoritative trilogy on Britain's naval historyAt the end of the French and Napoleonic wars, British sea-power was at its apogee. But by 1840, as one contemporary commentator put it, the…
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The first UK publication of Lore Segal's Pulitzer-finalist novel, following on from her acclaimed Ladies' LunchIlka Weisz is in need not just of friends but 'elective cousins'. She has left her home in New York to accept a junior…
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Five close friends in their 90s meet - as they have for decades - for their monthly 'ladies lunch', to puzzle, and laugh at, the enigmas and affronts of ageing. When one of their number is placed unhappily in a home the others conspire to…
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An essential examination of how emigration and resettlement defined modernismIn the fraught years leading up to World War II, many modern artists and architects emigrated from continental Europe to the United States and Britain. The…
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Translated by John Berger and Anna Bostock'The undisputed masterpiece of négritude and a poetic milestone of anti-colonialism' Guardian'We shall speak. We shall sing. We shall shout.'This blazing autobiographical poem by the…
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Translated by Alex GilForward by Brent Hayes EdwardsThis bilingual English and French edition of Aimé Césaire’s three act drama .....And the Dogs Were Silent—written in 1943 and lost until…
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Translated by Raymond N. MacKenzieA fresh and vivid translation of Flaubert’s influential bildungsromanGustave Flaubert conceived Sentimental Education, his final complete novel, as the history of his own generation, one…
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The page-turning story of the life of Henry VIII's forgotten elder sister, brought to vivid colour in this stunning new biography.Margaret Tudor, the elder sister of her more famous brother Henry VIII, is the single most important Tudor…
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Translated from the French by Shaun WhitesideA number one bestseller in France, Germany and Italy, the masterpiece from the acclaimed author of Atomised and Submission.'An extended meditation on human frailty and the lack of…
Recommended by Victoria
‘Mammoth is the third novel(la) in Eva Baltasar’s loosely connected triptych – Permafrost and Boulder are the other two. Reading those first is not a prerequisite for enjoying Mammoth: the books primarily share Baltasar’s style – distinguished by acerbic wit, dotted with punches of insight – and the fact of a lesbian character – albeit a different one in each book. In Mammoth, the unnamed first-person narrator is young and desperate to get pregnant but also tired of cosmopolitan life in Barcelona. She seeks a simpler life on an abandoned farm in the Catalan hills, but of course life has a knack of never being really simple.’
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