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Duck News July 6th Fondly remembering the great Beryl Bainbridge. BBC article June 23rd In case you missed it, here’s a great profile of our chief - Peter Mayer Read more... June 9th Film version of Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity Is Near to be released in 2010. June 2nd Dicken’s Christmas Carol first edition expected to fetch £200,000 at Sotheby’s. But for somethng a little cheaper, the Nonesuch Dickens Christmas Books are still utterly gorgeousRead article May 28th The Edge of Physics: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Cosmology by Anil Ananthaswamy | Book review - World News Read more... May 28th Michael Specter, author of Denialism, explains his point of view Read more... May 27th Teddy Wayne on Kapitoil - a fantastic read! Read more... The Rohan Theatre Band in action. On The Many Deaths of Amanda Palmer is published in August. |
KapitoilThe chronicle of one young Middle Eastern man’s attempt to live the American Dream in New York City without compromising everything he has ever believed in American Anabasis: Xenophon and the Idea of America from the Mexican War to IraqXenophon's Anabasis in American military and political culture from the Mexican War to Iraq. NoirTaking the classic genre of the noir detective story and turning it inside out, Coover is at the top of his form. Noir is a true page-turner - wry, absurd, and desolate Alexandria Lost: From the Advent of Christianity to the Arab ConquestIn the fourth century AD Christian zealots destroyed the Great Library of Alexandria and killed Hypatia, the last director of the Platonic Academy. The Edge of Physics: Dispatches from the Frontiers of CosmologyAn investigation into the most enigmatic aspects of the universe – and the sites at which its most essential conundrums are being unravelled. Between the Sheets: The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th-Century Women WritersAn in-depth look at the notorious love affairs that helped shape nine literary careers |
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