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      • The Parisian Agency

        Founded in 2010, the Parisian agency is a literary agency based in Paris. We represent a selected group of international writers of literary fiction such as multi-awarded Icelandic author Gudrun Eva Minervudottir and Hungarian novelist Arpad Kun, winner of the prestigious Aegon Award. We also represent the stunning illustrated books of the British and the Bodleian Library (UK) abroad. Last, we are now open to represent new lists in literary fiction, crime fiction and non fiction. Welcome to the Parisian Agency!

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2026

        Sexual politics in revolutionary England

        by Sam Fullerton

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2005

        Lords of parliament

        Manners, rituals and politics

        by Emma Crewe

        This is the only anthropological book about the British Parliament. It marks the first time a researcher has had almost untrammelled access, and every significant aspect of the Upper Chamber has been inquired into. The result is a unique portrait, packed with the unexpected, of a surprising institution which is becoming increasingly influential. Meticulous scholarship is combined with clarity in explanation to produce a work that helps to bridge the gap between anthropology and political science. Political science scholars and students, and those in related fields, as well as anthropologists, will find it of interest, as will many general readers curious about politics. ;

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        September 2024

        7. Oktober

        Stimmen aus Israel | Der Almanach zum 7. Oktober 2023 – Versuch einer Einordnung

        by Gisela Dachs,

        Der 7. Oktober 2023 stellt für die Israelis eine Zäsur ohnegleichen dar. Von nun an wird es in der Zeitrechnung nur noch ein Davor und ein Danach geben. Das schiere Ausmaß und die ungeheuerliche Brutalität der Angriffe der Hamas, die Geiselnahmen und ein Krieg, so lange wie noch keiner zuvor, haben die Nation traumatisiert. Die Grundfesten, auf denen man sich im eigenen Staat sicher fühlte, wurden zutiefst erschüttert. Wie kann hier ein Neuanfang gelingen?Ein Jahr danach versucht der Jüdische Almanach einen Rückblick und eine Einordnung der Ereignisse. Die hier versammelten Texte, die diesmal alle aus Israel berichten, erzählen ganz persönliche Geschichten, es geht um Ortsbesichtigungen, Momentaufnahmen, Zustandsbeschreibungen, Zukunftsvisionen; es geht um den Zionismus, um Trauerarbeit, Erinnerung und Resilienz, um alte Bruchlinien und neuen möglichen Zusammenhalt.

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        September 2024

        7. Oktober

        Stimmen aus Israel | Der Almanach zum 7. Oktober – Versuch einer Einordnung

        by Gisela Dachs,

        Der 7. Oktober 2023 stellt für die Israelis eine Zäsur ohnegleichen dar. Von nun an wird es in der Zeitrechnung nur noch ein Davor und ein Danach geben. Das schiere Ausmaß und die ungeheuerliche Brutalität der Angriffe der Hamas, die Geiselnahmen und ein Krieg, so lange wie noch keiner zuvor, haben die Nation traumatisiert. Die Grundfesten, auf denen man sich im eigenen Staat sicher fühlte, wurden zutiefst erschüttert. Wie kann hier ein Neuanfang gelingen?Ein Jahr danach versucht der Jüdische Almanach einen Rückblick und eine Einordnung der Ereignisse. Die hier versammelten Texte, die diesmal alle aus Israel berichten, erzählen ganz persönliche Geschichten, es geht um Ortsbesichtigungen, Momentaufnahmen, Zustandsbeschreibungen, Zukunftsvisionen; es geht um den Zionismus, um Trauerarbeit, Erinnerung und Resilienz, um alte Bruchlinien und neuen möglichen Zusammenhalt.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2018

        Order and conflict

        Anthony Ascham and English political thought (1648–50)

        by Peter Lake, Marco Barducci, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda

        This book provides a careful and systematic analysis of Anthony Ascham's career and writings for the first time in English. During the crucial period between the Second Civil War and the establishment of the English Republic, when he served as official pamphleteer of the Parliament and the republican government, Ascham put forward a complex argument in support of Parliament's claims for obedience which drew on the political thought of Grotius, Hobbes, Selden, Filmer and Machiavelli. He combined ideas taken from these authors and turned them into a powerful instrument of propaganda to be deployed in the service of the political agenda of his Independent patrons in Parliament. This investigation of Ascham's works brings together an intellectual analysis of his political thought and an exploration of the interaction between politics, propaganda and political ideas.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2023

        Civil war London

        Mobilizing for parliament, 1641–5

        by Jordan S. Downs

        This book looks at London's provision of financial and military support for parliament's war against King Charles I. It explores for the first time a series of episodic, circumstantial and unique mobilisations that spanned from late 1641 to early 1645 and which ultimately led to the establishment of the New Model Army. Based on research from two-dozen archives, Civil war London charts the successes and failures of efforts to move London's vast resources and in the process poses a number of challenges to longstanding notions about the capital's 'parliamentarian' makeup. It reveals interactions between London's Corporation, parochial communities and livery companies, between preachers and parishioners and between agitators, propagandists and common people. Within these tangled webs of political engagement reside the untold stories of the movement of money and men, but also of parliament's eventual success in the English Civil War.

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        September 2003

        Sophisticated Ladies

        Junge Frauen über 50

        by Heidkamp, Konrad

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        April 2003

        Ladies Night

        Noch mehr Frauen, die lästern und lachen

        by Manby, Chris; Walker, Fiona; Adams, Jessica

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        May 2016

        A Typical Girl

        Ein Memoir

        by Viv Albertine, Conny Lösch

        London, Mitte der Siebziger. Die Popkultur wird neu erfunden, in der revolutionären Ursuppe des Punk scheint alles möglich. Aber gilt das auch für Frauen? Gibt es außer Groupie, Elfe oder Rockröhre noch andere Rollen? Besteht vielleicht zum ersten Mal die Chance, mit allen Typical-Girl-Klischees aufzuräumen, statt selber eins zu werden? Viv Albertine wurde zum Riot Girl, lange bevor es diesen Ausdruck gab. Bei den legendären Flowers of Romance kreierte sie neben Sid Vicious (später Sex Pistols) und Keith Levene (später PIL) ihren individuellen Gitarrensound. Um dann mit den Slits, der ersten autonomen Frauenpunkband, die Türen aufzustoßen, durch die später Madonna oder Lady Gaga eigene Wege gehen konnten. Wie die Punkszene entstand, wie sie aus weiblicher Sicht erlebt und feministisch neu erfunden wurde und welche Rückschläge es dabei gab – all das wurde noch nie so plastisch und zugleich so reflektiert, so abgeklärt und zugleich so amüsant geschildert wie von Viv Albertine in ihrem umwerfenden Memoir. Shoes off!

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2021

        Dramas at Westminster

        by Marc Geddes, Rod Rhodes

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2025

        Songs of Seven Dials

        An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London

        by Matt Houlbrook

        The untold story of a remarkable neighbourhood and the battle to define modern London. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Seven Dials was one of London's most diverse neighbourhoods, home to migrant and working-class communities, bohemian clubs and cafes. But business leaders and city planners had other ideas. Beginning with a rancorous libel trial of 1927, in which a Sierra Leonean café owner and his wife confronted the racist newspaper that destroyed their business, Matt Houlbrook reveals the surprising history of this remarkable neighbourhood. He traces how tensions that simmered on the streets and finally exploded in court betrayed the politics of urban 'improvement' and the 'colour bar'. Underlying the trial was a series of troubling questions that would define Britain in the twentieth century - about race, class and the boundaries of belonging, gentrification and the kind of city London would become. Imaginative, powerful and deeply moving, Songs of Seven Dials is an important new history of London in the 1920s and 1930s.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2022

        Held in contempt

        by Hannah White

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        Children's & YA

        The Little Lady in the Blue Mountains (5)

        by Stefanie Taschinski/Nina Dullek

        The Blue Mountains are calling! When Lilly’s grandma’s favourite cow falls ill, the Bear family immediately decide to pay them a visit – but without the Little Lady. Mother and Father Bear are worried that her chameleon-like behaviour might upset Grandma Annie. But Lilly, Charley and the Little Lady won’t accept such thinking. With a zip and a zoom the Little Lady opens her umbrella and up and away they go on the greatest mountain “salafari” of all time! But then something weird happens to the Little Lady: first her feet start to tickle, then her fine hiking boots start to pinch, and her jacket seems to be shrinking! She sees with horror that she is starting to grow. What can Lilly, Charley and she do to stop it?

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