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 criticsA FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A Country Life 'Architecture Book to Read in…
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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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An immensely powerful and bitingly satirical retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Huck’s friend, the enslaved Jim.'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of…