Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 46 No. 10
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A ground-breaking exploration of how British empire has shaped the world we live in today from the Sunday Times bestselling author of EmpirelandTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIn his ground-breaking new book,…
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Translated by Natasha WimmerFrom the visionary author of Sudden Death, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story set in sixteenth-century Mexico'An Aztec West Wing' GUARDIAN'A triumph' FINANCIAL…
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'ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING, ORIGINAL INTELLECTUALS OF HIS GENERATION', Stuart Hall, author of The Hard Road to RenewalThe work of the pioneering historian Raphael Samuel opened up new vistas of historical enquiry. He was committed to the…
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An authoritative survey of British buildings between the wars by the late Gavin Stamp - one of Britain's best-known architecture criticsBritish architecture between the wars is most famous for the rise of modernism - the flat roofs, clean…
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J. G. Ballard's collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation.J. G. Ballard was a colossal figure in English literature and…
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The Powerful Reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the Booker Prize-Shortlisted Author of The Trees'Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and JAMES is a canon-shatteringly great book' – Hernan…