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In defence of letters [microform]

by Georges Duhamel
Translated by E.F. Bozman

The Wondrous Physician

by Jorge de Sena
Translated by M. Fitton
Original title: O Físico prodigioso

Ballad of Dogs’ Beach [Buy Direct]

by José Cardoso Pires
Translated by Mary Fitton
Original title: Ballada da Praia dos Cães

Ballad of Dog’s Beach won the 1982 Grand Prize for Fiction of the Portuguese Writers’ Association, when Cardoso Pires, already the celebrated author of a dozen books was fifty–seven. Why should a mere thriller gain such recognition? This mere thriller is a fine novel, (more...)

The Maias [Buy Direct]

by Eça de Queirós
Translated by Ann Stevens
Original title: Os Maias

Eça de Queirós was one of the leading intellectuals of the ‘Generation of 1870’, highly concerned with the future of his country in the aftermath of the civil war of 1828-1834. Portugal had emerged from this internal struggle as a constitutional monarchy, (more...)

Weights and Measures [Buy Direct]

by Joseph Roth
Translated by D Le Vay
Original title: Das falsche Gewicht

‘Written with the melancholy wit and grace of Gogol, with passages of electrifying beauty. (more...)

Flight without End [Buy Direct]

by Joseph Roth
Translated by D Le Vay
Original title: Die Flucht ohne Ende

‘Almost perfect. (more...)

Stories and Episodes

by Thomas Mann

Marbot a Biography [Buy Direct]

by Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Translated by P Crampton
Original title: Marbot, eine Biographie

Concrete [Buy Direct]

by Thomas Bernhard
Translated by D Mclintock
Original title: Beton

Thomas Bernhard’s work has been labelled ‘gloomy’ or ‘bilious’ or ‘pessimistic’ and not out of keeping with a tradition of what the Germans call Weltschmerz or ‘world despair’, (more...)

Parrot’s Perch [Buy Direct]

by Michel Rio
Translated by L Hafrey
Original title: Le Perchoir du perroquet

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