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        A Vision of Battlements
        Fiction
        September 2017

        A Vision of Battlements

        by Anthony Burgess

        by Andrew Biswell, Paul Wake

        A Vision of Battlements is the first novel by the writer and composer Anthony Burgess, who was born in Manchester in 1917. Set in Gibraltar during the Second World War, the book follows the fortunes of Richard Ennis, an army sergeant and incipient composer who dreams of composing great music and building a new cultural world after the end of the war. Following the example of his literary hero, James Joyce, Burgess takes the structure of his book from Virgil's Aeneid. The result is, like Joyce's Ulysses, a comic rewriting of a classical epic, whose critique of the Army and the postwar settlement is sharp and assured. The Irwell Edition is the first publication of Burgess's forgotten masterpiece since 1965. This new edition includes an introduction and notes by Andrew Biswell, author of a prize-winning biography of Anthony Burgess.

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        Imago
        Fiction
        March 2020

        Imago

        Gedichte

        by Kolbe, Uwe

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        Mozart and the Wolf Gang
        Fiction
        May 2019

        Mozart and the Wolf Gang

        By Anthony Burgess

        by Alan Shockley

        Written in 1991 to commemorate the bicentennial of Mozart's death, Burgess's novella-length piece is a compendium of themes, genres and even art-forms revolving around the one central preoccupation of the entire Burgess oeuvre: the reconcilability of life and art. This is a kaleidoscope of a book, which stretches even the bounds of even Anthony Burgess's fiction in an attempt to understand Mozart through celestial dialogue, an opera libretto, and fragments of a film script. As gracefully witty as it is daringly experimental, Mozart and the Wolf Gang is one of Burgess's late, great works, often overlooked due to its experimental form, which nevertheless remains accessible, entertaining and yet refreshingly original to this day. This new critical edition with analysis from noted musicologist and a first-class literary critic Alan Shockley enables this work's significance within the fields of literary modernism, fictional biography, and fiction about music, to be assessed by a new generation of readers and scholars.

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        Beard's Roman Women
        Fiction
        November 2018

        Beard's Roman Women

        By Anthony Burgess

        by Graham Foster

        Anthony Burgess draws upon an autobiographical episode to create Beard's Roman Women, the story of a man haunted by his first wife, presumed dead. But is she? A marvellously economical book, full-flavoured, funny, and heartfelt, showing its author at the height of his powers. This new edition is the first to be published with David Robinson's photographs for over 40 years. The text of the novel has been restored using the original typescripts, and Graham Foster's new introduction provides valuable insight into the fictional and biographical contexts of the novel. The text is fully annotated with a detailed set of notes and this edition includes the previously unpublished script for Burgess's television film By the Waters of Leman: Byron and Shelley at Geneva, and a rare piece of Burgess's writing about Rome.

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        Puma
        Fiction
        September 2018

        Puma

        By Anthony Burgess

        by Paul Wake, Andrew Biswell

        Puma - disentangled from the three-part structure of The End of the World News and published here for the first time in its intended format - is Anthony Burgess's lost science fiction novel. Set some way into the future, the story details the crushing of the planet Earth by a heavyweight intruder from a distant galaxy - the dreaded Puma. It is a visceral book about the end of history as man has known it. Despite its apocalyptic theme, its earthquakes and tidal waves, murder and madness, Puma is a gloriously-comic novel, steeped in the rich literary heritage of a world soon to be extinguished and celebrating humanity in all its squalid glory. In Burgess's hands this meditation on destruction, mitigated by the hope of salvation for a select few, becomes powerful exploration of friendship, violence, literature and science at the end of the world.

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        ABBA ABBA: By Anthony Burgess
        Literature & Literary Studies
        February 2019

        ABBA ABBA: By Anthony Burgess

        by Paul Howard, Andrew Biswell

        ABBA ABBA is one of Anthony Burgess's most original works, combining fiction, poetry and translation. A product of his time in Italy in the early 1970s, this delightfully unconventional book is part historical novel, part poetry collection, as well as a meditation on translation and the generating of literature by one of Britain's most inventive post-war authors. Set in Papal Rome in the winter of 1820-21, Part One recreates the consumptive John Keats's final months in the Eternal City and imagines his meeting the Roman dialect poet Giuseppe Gioachino Belli. Pitting Anglo-Italian cultures and sensibilities against each other, Burgess creates a context for his highly original versions of 71 sonnets by Belli, which feature in Part Two. This new edition includes extra material by Burgess, along with an introduction and notes by Paul Howard, Fellow in Italian Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge.

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        WHEN LIFE WAS GOOD AGAIN
        Fiction

        WHEN LIFE WAS GOOD AGAIN

        by Kerstin Sgonina

        Hamburg, 1954: Greta Bergström has spent almost her entire life with her grandmother in Stockholm. Now she stands in front of a run-down house in St. Pauli, where her father lives with his new family. He greets his daughter icily, and in buttoned-up Hamburg Greta searches in vain for a job as a beautician. Until she meets Marieke, who does her neighbours' hair in the prefab barracks on the outskirts of the city. Together they decide to tour the city in a mobile beauty shop – with great success.  After the dark years of the war, women want to look pretty again. Marieke does hair, Greta cosmetics, and Trixie, the third in the group, gives fashion advice. Suddenly Greta's life is so brightly eventful, she almost forgets the reason for her return to Hamburg: to find out what had happened to her mother, who had disappeared without a trace during the war.

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        Die Haut
        Fiction

        Die Haut

        by Curzio Malaparte

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        STREETS OF YOUTH
        Fiction

        STREETS OF YOUTH

        by André Kubiczek

        René, the protagonist from Kubiczek’s successful novel A Sketch of Summer, whom we meet again in this story, is sent to a boarding school in Halle an der Saale at the end of summer 1985. The school offers a few select students the opportunity to attend university in Moscow after graduation. Despite the chance to swap the provinces for the sister state, René remains unimpressed: "Who jumps for joy at the chance to study the communist system?" Or perhaps not unimpressed, but captivated by other things, as boarding school means being away from your parents. Having girls close by. Lots of prohibitions. Prohibitions are really fun. And: "280 German marks bursary, just like that, for doing nothing. Whichever way you look at it, it’s a win."

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        THE GERMAN GIRL
        Fiction

        THE GERMAN GIRL

        by Ulrike Sterblich

        New York City in the sixties: the city that never sleeps, because they have plenty of pills for that. And in between, a girl from West Berlin. Mona is young, pretty and recently moved to New York to make a career for herself. The city that never sleeps hasn't been waiting for her. Although she does quickly meet two men: East Coast aristocrat Sidney, and dark-haired bohemian Adam. Torn between the two, Mona drifts through a world that is supplied with "vitamin injections" by Max Jacobson, aka Dr Feelgood, who fled from the Nazis in Berlin. And so a second thread weaves its way into the story: star photographer Mark Shaw, one of Dr Feelgood’s patients, is found dead in his apartment one day. A coroner starts investigating. There is a lot to be examined, and it involves the rich and beautiful and powerful all the way to the White House …

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        BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES
        Literary Fiction

        BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES

        by Botho Strauß

        Whatever this book covers, whatever it is describing, it is always about a new evaluation of the familiar. In literature or in politics: when avant-garde theatre first really began to celebrate itself, Botho Strauss saw it only as boring academism. When Germany’s literary canon finally seemed to have been defined, he immediately demanded a new one that included Rudolf Borchardt and Ernst Jünger. "You can do what you want," he wrote, "at some point all forms shatter, and time runs out …" These are the moments recorded in these essays. From here they look into the coming uncertainty, while also looking back into history. This is how "Anschwellender Bockgesang" came about, often said to be the most momentous and therefore important essay of the last 70 years: but the same can be said of this whole collection of essays.

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        DENSE
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

        DENSE

        by Stefanie Sargnagel

        "Hi everyone! My name is Steffi (Stefanie) and I am starting this book today to speak freely about my life. Here’s a little about me: I live in Vienna, Austria, in a nice little flat in a cosy council estate, which has a lot of Rottweilers who I think are really cute. I went through a lot of stuff between the age of 16 and 20. Once a crazy person tried to kill me – I still have a scar on my hand to prove it.’" Stefanie Sargnagel is an Internet star, an audience magnet and a unique author. This is her first book, pretty much a classic coming-of-age novel.

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        Howard Jacobson
        Literature & Literary Studies
        November 2020

        Howard Jacobson

        by David Brauner, Daniel Lea

        This is a comprehensive and definitive study of the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist, Howard Jacobson. It offers lucid, detailed, and nuanced readings of each of Jacobson's novels, and makes a powerful case for the importance of his work in the landscape of contemporary fiction. Focusing on the themes of comedy, masculinity and Jewishness, the book emphasises the richness and diversity of Jacobson's work. Often described by others as 'the English Philip Roth' and by himself as 'the Jewish Jane Austen', Jacobson emerges here as a complex and often contradictory figure: a fearless novelist; a combative public intellectual; a polemical journalist; an unapologetic elitist and an irreverent outsider; an exuberant iconoclast and a sombre satirist. Never afraid of controversy, Jacobson tends to polarise readers; but love him or hate him, he is difficult to ignore. This book gives him the thorough consideration and the balanced evaluation that he deserves.

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        Howard Jacobson
        Literature & Literary Studies
        November 2020

        Howard Jacobson

        by David Brauner, Daniel Lea

        This is a comprehensive and definitive study of the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist, Howard Jacobson. It offers lucid, detailed, and nuanced readings of each of Jacobson's novels, and makes a powerful case for the importance of his work in the landscape of contemporary fiction. Focusing on the themes of comedy, masculinity and Jewishness, the book emphasises the richness and diversity of Jacobson's work. Often described by others as 'the English Philip Roth' and by himself as 'the Jewish Jane Austen', Jacobson emerges here as a complex and often contradictory figure: a fearless novelist; a combative public intellectual; a polemical journalist; an unapologetic elitist and an irreverent outsider; an exuberant iconoclast and a sombre satirist. Never afraid of controversy, Jacobson tends to polarise readers; but love him or hate him, he is difficult to ignore. This book gives him the thorough consideration and the balanced evaluation that he deserves.

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        In the company of wolves
        Literature & Literary Studies
        February 2020

        In the company of wolves

        Werewolves, wolves and wild children

        by Sam George, William Hughes

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        In the company of wolves
        Literature & Literary Studies
        February 2020

        In the company of wolves

        Werewolves, wolves and wild children

        by Sam George, William Hughes

        Preface Sir Christopher Frayling Introduction Sam George and Bill Hughes Cultural images of the wolf, the werewolf and the wolf child 1. Wolf: A social and cultural creature Garry Marvin 2. This is what it sounds like when wolves cry: Storytelling, wolf children, and the state of nature Sam George A creative writer on fictional representations of the wolf and feral children Marcus Sedgwick 3. Sound of the cinematic werewolf Stacy Abbott Innocence and Experience: Brute creation, wild beast or child of nature 4. Wild sanctuary: Running into the forest in Russian fairy tales Shannon Scott 5. 'No more than a brute or a wild beast': Wagner the Werewolf, Sweeney Todd, and the limits of human responsibility Joseph Crawford 6. The inner beast: Scientific experimentation in George MacDonald's The History of Photogen and Nycteris Rebecca Langworthy 7. Werewolves and white trash: Brutishness, discrimination and the lower-class wolfman from The Wolf Man to True Blood Victoria Amador Re-inventing the wolf: Intertextual and metafictional manifestations 8. The price of flesh is love': Commodification, corporeality, and paranormal romance in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber. Bill Hughes 9. I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself': The metafictional meanings of lycanthropic transformation in Doctor Who Ivan Phillips 10. Growing pains of the teenage werewolf: YA literature and the metaphorical wolf Kaja Franck Animal selves: Becoming wolf 11. Wearing the wolf: Fur, fashion and species transvestism Catherine Spooner 12. A running wolf and other grey animals: The various shapes of Marcus Coates Sarah Wade 13. 'Stinking of me': Transformations and animal selves in contemporary women's poetry Polly Atkin

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        Deirdre Madden
        Fiction
        May 2022

        Deirdre Madden

        New critical perspectives

        by Anne Fogarty, Marisol Morales-Ladrón, Stefanie Lehner, Elizabeth Chase, Catriona Clutterbuck, Zuzanna Sanches, Jerry White, Brian Cliff, Sylvie Mikowski, Elke D'hoker, Heather Ingman, Hedwig Schwall, Derek Hand, Teresa Casal, Julie Anne Stevens

        The Irish writer, Deirdre Madden, has written key novels about the Northern Irish Troubles and about contemporary Ireland. In these works, she weighs up the aftermath of violence and the impact of the shift to a more open but materialist society in the country overall. Memory, trauma, and the abiding but elusive links between the past and the present are central concerns of her fiction. This pioneering set of essays by leading experts in Irish Studies explores the many dimensions of her novels from a wide variety of perspectives. Madden's skill at interweaving novels of ideas with artist novels that draw out the complex inner predicaments of her characters is highlighted. States of dislocation are concentrated on in her texts, but also the quest for a home in the world and a lasting set of values that allows for personal integrity and authenticity. These multifaceted explorations bear out the compelling and enduring aspects of Madden's highly regarded novels.

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        Deirdre Madden
        Fiction
        May 2022

        Deirdre Madden

        New critical perspectives

        by Anne Fogarty, Marisol Morales-Ladrón, Stefanie Lehner, Elizabeth Chase, Catriona Clutterbuck, Zuzanna Sanches, Jerry White, Brian Cliff, Sylvie Mikowski, Elke D'hoker, Heather Ingman, Hedwig Schwall, Derek Hand, Teresa Casal, Julie Anne Stevens

        The Irish writer, Deirdre Madden, has written key novels about the Northern Irish Troubles and about contemporary Ireland. In these works, she weighs up the aftermath of violence and the impact of the shift to a more open but materialist society in the country overall. Memory, trauma, and the abiding but elusive links between the past and the present are central concerns of her fiction. This pioneering set of essays by leading experts in Irish Studies explores the many dimensions of her novels from a wide variety of perspectives. Madden's skill at interweaving novels of ideas with artist novels that draw out the complex inner predicaments of her characters is highlighted. States of dislocation are concentrated on in her texts, but also the quest for a home in the world and a lasting set of values that allows for personal integrity and authenticity. These multifaceted explorations bear out the compelling and enduring aspects of Madden's highly regarded novels.

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