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Glyph
Glyph’s primary power comes from its commitment to excavating the sediments of language; its etymological resonance and inference . . . Smith’s tonal skill as a writer is also used to great effect when dealing with . . . bureaucratic, authoritarian absurdity . . . It is a bold move to be so morally unflinching, especially in the face of a perceived aesthetic orthodoxy that so often privileges distance and irony, but in Glyph we see a major British writer answering the call of the day when so many others have equivocated or turned away. There is also something about Smith’s relentless focus on language that makes her particularly well suited to the task . . . Smith’s sensibility is fine-tuned to grapple with the avalanche of passive-voice headlines, asymmetric categorisations, outright linguistic inversions and semantic absurdities that have accompanied the increasingly desperate attempts to justify the unjustifiable
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Permanence
Chic, enthralling, utterly plausible, Mackintosh's latest novel is my favourite of the lot... Her writing hums with elegance . . . It's the kind of book that you'll want to read in one long gulp, the literary equivalent of a crisp glass of rosé . . . [It] needs to be savoured
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A Philosophy of Shame
A Revolutionary EmotionAn original reflection on shame as the central feeling of our age - the expression of an anger that is the necessary condition for new struggles
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Go, Went, Gone
From the author of Kairos, winner of the International Booker Prize: one of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue.
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The Lady and the Little Fox Fur
Leduc's short book is magnificently disproportionate to its length. A moving, beautiful and authentic classic. We must be grateful to the Penguin European Writers series, a precious venture in these dark times, for bringing it back to us.
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The End of Days
From the author of Kairos, winner of the International Booker Prize: a story of the twentieth century told through the various lives of one woman - an intoxicating masterpiece of a novel about character, time and history.
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Her Side of the Story
At once a revolutionary thriller, bildungsroman and cry of feminist frustration... What takes Her Side of the Story from feminist tragedy into actual-work-of-genius territory is its strange, almost nauseating moments of menace... I will turn to this shard-in-the-heart book again one day, knowing new treasures await me inside
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On the Calculation of Volume IV
'The greatest literary work of the 21st century' HeraldThe International Booker-shortlisted masterpiece continues - a story about a woman lost in time.
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The Red Book of Farewells
Pirkko Saisio (Author) Pirkko Saisio (born 1949) is one of Finland’s most celebrated writers as well as an actor and theatre director. The author of numerous novels, plays and scripts for film and television, Saisio has been nominated for the Finlandia Prize seven times, winning it in 2003. She has, among other awards, received the Aleksis Kivi Prize and the State Literature Award. Lowest Common Denominator is the first volume in her Helsinki trilogy, followed by Backlight and The Red Book of Farewells.Mia Spangenberg (Translator) Mia Spangenberg translates from Finnish, Swedish and German. She is the winner of the Nadia Christensen Prize for her translation of Lowest Common Denominator.
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There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die
Meet the finest (and darkest) poet you’ve never read … Her poems read, at their best, like illuminations, transfiguring her life again and again
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Shy
Max Porter
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La honte
€ 8,50