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Pub Date:

12/2012

ISBN:

9780857420763

Format:

Hbk 440 pages

A benign old monk listens to a prospective novice’s tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family...

Prose

Pub Date:

07/2010

ISBN:

9781906497569

Format:

Hbk 162 pages

The Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931–89) is acknowledged as among the major writers of our time....

Idea of Communism

Pub Date:

11/2009

ISBN:

9781906497262

Format:

Hbk 96 pages

November 9, 2009 will mark 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the monumental event that signaled the beginning of the...

Book of Liszts: Variations on the Theme of Franz Liszt

Pub Date:

05/2011

ISBN:

9781906497941

Format:

Hbk 460 pages

The extraordinary career of Franz Liszt (1811–86) as a composer, conductor, and virtuoso pianist - whose incomparable skill and...

Conversations with Edward Said

Pub Date:

11/2005

ISBN:

9781905422043

Format:

Hbk 128 pages

In his last years, looking back over questions of life, history, exile, identity and Palestine, Edward Said brings his considerable...

All the Roads are Open: The Afghan Journey

Pub Date:

10/2011

ISBN:

9780857420152

Format:

Hbk 124 pages

In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The...

Incidents

Pub Date:

08/2010

ISBN:

9781906497590

Format:

Hbk 184 pages

French philosopher and literary theorist Roland Barthes was one of the leading influences on the post-structuralist movement in...

Whose Liberty is it Anyway? Europe at the Crossroads

Pub Date:

05/2012

ISBN:

9780857420404

Format:

Pbk 120 pages

Europe's turn of fortune is humbling, humiliating and, perhaps, irreversible. What went wrong, and when? Europe's most audacious...

Change

Pub Date:

11/2012

ISBN:

9780857421609

Format:

Pb+ 117 pages

In Change, Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, personalizes the political and social changes in his country over the...

Change

Pub Date:

04/2010

ISBN:

9781906497484

Format:

Hb+ 108 pages

Typhus

Pub Date:

07/2010

ISBN:

9781906497422

Format:

Hbk 212 pages

Set in Malaya during the British protectorate, Sartre’s Typhus centres on the improbable couple formed by the disgraced former...

Conversations with Jean-Paul Sartre

Pub Date:

11/2005

ISBN:

9781905422012

Format:

Hbk 128 pages

Jean-Paul Sartre was undoubtedly one of the greatest and most popular philosophers of the 20th Century. Also a prominent novelist,...

Leopard and the Fox: A Pakistani Tragedy

Pub Date:

10/2006

ISBN:

9781905422296

Format:

Hbk 224 pages

The BBC commissioned Tariq Ali to write a three-part TV series on the circumstances leading to the overthrow, trial and execution...

Who Sings the Nation-State?: Language, Politics, Belonging

Pub Date:

03/2011

ISBN:

9781906497835

Format:

Pb+ 128 pages

This spirited and engaging conversation between two of America’s foremost and influential cultural critics and international theorists...

Fear of Mirrors

Pub Date:

07/2010

ISBN:

9781906497156

Format:

Hbk 332 pages

In this novel from esteemed political writer Tariq Ali, a father, Vlady, loses his job when he refuses to renounce socialist beliefs...