John Sears

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The White Cities: Reports from France 1925-39 by Joseph Roth

[16.Nov.04] :. If France is the dead, Germany is the stillborn future, and Roth's exile's life the displaced, unliveable present.

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The School of Night by Anne Rouse

[3.Nov.04] :. Each poem is located within a wider structure that organises the collection as a whole, which offers a nocturnal sequence of instruction stretching from dusk till dawn, a poetic long night's journey into day.

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Mischief Night - New & Selected Poems by Roddy Lumsden

[10.Aug.04] :. His poems are costly, hard-worked monuments to his own internal struggle, jagged, often irregular chunks of language.

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W. G. Sebald - A Critical Companion by J. J. Long and Anne Whitehead

[20.Jul.04] :. Sebald's writings address memory as a structure of experience, and as a series of metaphors through which he tries to understand history and the responsibilities with which it burdens the present.

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The Hollywood Dodo by Geoff Nicholson

[22.Jun.04] :. The Hollywood Dodo itself is a film script, a mechanical reproduction of the extinct bird, a few corpses, fragments of a novel -- in fact a multitude of interlinked things.

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Books   Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia by John Gilmore

Books   The Language of Sharks by Pat MacEnulty

Books   The Night of Akhenaton: Selected Poems by Ágnes Nemes Nagy

Books   Demonized by Christopher Fowler

Books   Oracle Night by Paul Auster

Books   Forced March by Miklós Radnóti, translated by George Gömöri and Clive Wilmer

Books   The Book of Repulsive Women and Other Poems by Djuna Barnes

Books   Mailman by J. Robert Lennon

Books   Collected Poems 3: Poems 1997-2003 by Peter Reading

Books   Eagles and Angels by Juli Zeh

Books   Scenes From a Long Sleep: New & Collected Poems by Peter Didsbury

Books   Who Sleeps with Katz by Todd McEwen

Books   Wolf Tongue: Selected Poems 1965-2000 by Barry MacSweeney

Books   The Wave and Other Stories by Caren Gussoff

Books   Stasiland: True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder

Books   Fields Away by Sarah Wardle

Books   In Defence of Adultery by Julia Copus

Books   All Day Permanent Red - War Music Continued by Christopher Logue

Books   Things You Should Know by A. M. Homes

Books   Glory Goes and Gets Some by Emily Carter

Books   About Schmidt by Louis Begley

Books   Pandora's Handbag: Adventures in the Book World by Elizabeth Young

Books   The Honey Gatherers: A Book of Love Poems by Maura Dooley

Books   Hex by Carol Rumens

Books   Prince of Lost Places by Kathy Hepinstall

Books   Flame Tree - Selected Poems by Kevin Hart

Books   Lighter than Air -- Moral Poems by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, translated by David Constantine

Books   Aftershocks - The End of Style Culture by Steve Beard

Books   In the Metro by Marc Augé

Books   Pleased to See Me: 69 Very Sexy Poems by Neil Astley (ed.)

Books   Portrait of My Lover as a Horse by Selima Hill

Books   Shed: Poems 1980-2001 by Ken Smith

Books   Alan Ayckbourn: Grinning at the Edge by Paul Allen

Books   Staying Alive: real poems for unreal times by Neil Astley (editor)

Books   Faunal by Peter Reading

Books   Something for the Ghosts by David Constantine

Books   The Heavy-Petting Zoo by Clare Pollard

Books   Ordnung & Eccentricity by Thomas Manss

Books   The White Family by Maggie Gee

Books   A Cormac McCarthy Companion: The Border Trilogy by Edwin T. Arnold & Dianne C. Luce, eds.

 
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