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This study endeavours to understand the construction and perception of minority languages in India from the colonial era to the contemporary period. Through illustrative examples, it seeks to delineate the evolution of orality and writing, the concept of vernacular, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-01-23
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"A modern classic" Observer"Astonishing and compelling . . . Impossible to put down" Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow KingEthiopia, 1982: After a decade of conflict, the government is determined to quash the Eritrean insurgency once and for all. As head of...
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Maclehose Press
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2025-01-16
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To the world, they were a scandal.To each other, an obsession.‘Perfect if you’re a fan of Daisy Jones and the Six’ Cosmopolitan‘Brilliant… will keep you guessing until its very last page’ Jodi Picoult'A delight - I was completely hooked' Sophie Cousens***** READERS ARE...
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Vintage Digital
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2025-01-16
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‘A cult classic … A high and a comedown at once – a paroxysm of sex and booze and, above all, colour … wryly funny … it is also devastating’ The New YorkerAn unforgettable portrait of a smart, sensitive, yet deeply troubled young woman fighting to live on her own...
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Penguin
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2025-01-02
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'Thrilling and propulsive, glorious and terrifying. Julia Phillips is a brilliant writer' Ann PatchettThey were sisters and they would last past the end of time.Sam and Elena dream of another life. On the island off the coast of Washington where they were born and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2024-11-14
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'Anyone who wants to understand contemporary Germany must read The Granddaughter now' Le Monde 'The great novel of German reunification' Le Figaro 'A masterpiece' Maurice SzafranMay, 1964. At a youth festival in East Berlin, an unlikely young couple fall in love. In the...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2024-10-24
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New parts for thirty of Shakespeare's women, letting them speak their minds, written by famed stage and screen actress, Dame Harriet Walter DBE'It is STUNNING and I simply sat and read it right through, and shall start again at once. I had no idea that she is such a...
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Virago
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2024-10-17
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This study endeavours to understand the construction and perception of minority languages in India from the colonial era to the contemporary period. Through illustrative examples, it seeks to delineate the evolution of orality and writing, the concept of vernacular, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-10-08
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Paris, 1938. The Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo lies in hospital, hiccupping himself to death.When the doctors struggle to offer a diagnosis, his wife calls on an acquaintance of her friend Madame Reynaud, the mesmerist and reclusive bachelor Pierre Pain. Pain, in love and...
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Vintage Digital
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2024-10-03
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROMTHE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHORSHORTLISTED FORTHE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2025'Stunning, deeply felt and profoundly intelligent' Guardian It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has...
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Penguin
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2024-09-10
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"Utterly charming . . . I would read a hundred of these stories" Shelby Van Pelt, bestselling author of Remarkably Bright CreaturesIs three days with a cat enough to change your life?The troubled and anxious of Tokyo are desperate to find out. They all have their...
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Maclehose Press
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2024-09-05
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The perfect gift for cat-lovers!! For fans of THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES, discover the award-winning heartwarming sensation.____________A cat a day keeps the doctor away ...On the top floor of an old building at the end of a cobbled alley in Kyoto lies the Kokoro...
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Transworld Digital
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2024-09-05
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War-games champion Udo Berger is finally on holiday.Travelling to the Costa Brava with his long-ignored girlfriend, Ingeborg, there they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, and a band of shady locals. They have fun, see the sights, relax. Then,...
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Vintage Digital
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2024-09-05
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Desperate for survival in the rude city, Rita is fortunate to get hired as a household help by a retired diplomat. At that moment, Arijit Basu does not know that she is an undocumented migrant. Convulsed by a marauding tide of events, the two are reduced to wrecks....
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Hachette India
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2024-09-05
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When Oscar Amalfitano begins an affair with one of his students, he has no idea where it will lead.More than his turbulent revolutionary past, or the death of his beautiful wife, the scandalous exposure of this relationship will change him for ever. Forced to flee...
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Vintage Digital
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2024-09-05
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THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE NEW JACKSON BRODIE NOVEL, FROMTHE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SHRINES OF GAIETY'How delicious to have Jackson Brodie back, this time in a story that starts off in Agatha Christie's world but soon becomes a landscape that could only have been...
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Transworld Digital
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2024-08-22
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'Has a queasily compelling power' The Times'Haunting and visceral as a fairytale' Lilly Dancyger'Brims with sex and violence and threat, and moves to a crescendo of strange and magical beauty' Rebecca StottSissy is used to being on the outside. The new girl in her West...
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Virago
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2024-08-08
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From 'one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page' (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightly wound, consuming tale about a 1950s American housewife, for fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen and Taffy Brodesser-AknerLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2024A...
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Transworld Digital
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2024-08-01
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'Built on simmering tensions at the precipice of boiling over . . . vivid storytelling' VOGUE'An intimate, pitch-perfect fable of the time' YRSA DALEY-WARD'Sensual, detail-rich, utterly immersive . . . So propulsive and atmospheric' JENNY MUSTARD***BEHIND THIS GLASS,...
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Penguin
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2024-07-11
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