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The Hermitage

by Quentin S Crisp, Nina Power ...

From the delightfully idiosyncratic imagination of Quentin S. Crisp comes an exquisite post-pastoral novella about an encounter with mystery. The Hermitage is the story of a secret half-revealed, an epiphany half-realized. Join the narrator as he pursues a chimera from the green heart of England to the grey modernity of urban sprawl.A young man's solitary pilgrimage to a tiny West Country church, ... Read more

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From the delightfully idiosyncratic imagination of Quentin S. Crisp comes an exquisite post-pastoral novella about an encounter with mystery. The Hermitage is the story of a secret half-revealed, an epiphany half-realized. Join the narrator as he pursues a chimera from the green heart of England to the grey modernity of urban sprawl.A young man's solitary pilgrimage to a tiny West Country church,
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A young man’s solitary pilgrimage to a tiny West Country church, a journey ostensibly inspired by the literary figure Sabine Baring-Gould, eccentric librettist of Onward Christian Soldiers, turns into a semi-mystical experience when the pilgrim, responding to some obscure prompting of the soul, stops at the old sacristy, now known as the Hermitage.Here he learns something of the long history of ... Read more

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A young man’s solitary pilgrimage to a tiny West Country church, a journey ostensibly inspired by the literary figure Sabine Baring-Gould, eccentric librettist of Onward Christian Soldiers, turns into a semi-mystical experience when the pilgrim, responding to some obscure prompting of the soul, stops at the old sacristy, now known as the Hermitage.Here he learns something of the long history of
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Enchantment

Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER“When I tell you that I dogeared almost every page in this book, I'm telling God's honest truth. I didn't know how much I needed someone else to validate what I was going through. The sense that I had lost my curiosity, my imagination, my ability to make meaning.” – NPR Morning Edition host Rachel Martin"Such a teacher for every single person who is trying to live closer to ... Read more

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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER“When I tell you that I dogeared almost every page in this book, I'm telling God's honest truth. I didn't know how much I needed someone else to validate what I was going through. The sense that I had lost my curiosity, my imagination, my ability to make meaning.” – NPR Morning Edition host Rachel Martin"Such a teacher for every single person who is trying to live closer to
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Pond

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**“A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut … Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. … [It]reminds us that small things have great depths.”–New York Times Book Review"Dazzling…exquisitely written and daring ." –O, the Oprah Magazine**Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the ... Read more

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**“A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut … Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. … [It]reminds us that small things have great depths.”–New York Times Book Review"Dazzling…exquisitely written and daring ." –O, the Oprah Magazine**Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the
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The Shapeless Unease

A Year of Not Sleeping

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The Booker Prize–winning author of Orbital delivers a "raw and unsettling account of 12 months of inexplicable insomnia" ( The Sunday Times, UK).In 2016, Samantha Harvey began to lose sleep. She tried everything to appease her wakefulness: from medication to therapy, changes in her diet to changes in her living arrangements. Nothing seemed to help.The Shapeless Unease is Harvey's darkly funny and ... Read more

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The Booker Prize–winning author of Orbital delivers a "raw and unsettling account of 12 months of inexplicable insomnia" ( The Sunday Times, UK).In 2016, Samantha Harvey began to lose sleep. She tried everything to appease her wakefulness: from medication to therapy, changes in her diet to changes in her living arrangements. Nothing seemed to help.The Shapeless Unease is Harvey's darkly funny and
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The Hunting Gun

by Yasushi Inoue ...

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Series series Pushkin Collection
A tragedy in three letters: THE masterpiece of one of Japan's greatest writersThe Hunting Gun follows the consequences of a tragic love affair. Told from the viewpoints of three different women, this is a story of the psychological impact of illicit love. First viewed through the eyes of Shoko, who learns of the affair through reading her mother's diary, then through the eyes of Midori, who had ... Read more

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A tragedy in three letters: THE masterpiece of one of Japan's greatest writersThe Hunting Gun follows the consequences of a tragic love affair. Told from the viewpoints of three different women, this is a story of the psychological impact of illicit love. First viewed through the eyes of Shoko, who learns of the affair through reading her mother's diary, then through the eyes of Midori, who had
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What Days Are For

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Witty, acerbic, insightful musings from Robert Dessaix, one of Australia's finest writers.One Sunday night in Sydney, Robert Dessaix collapses in a gutter in Darlinghurst, and is helped to his hotel by a kind young man wearing a T-shirt that says FUCK YOU. What follows are weeks in hospital, tubes and cannulae puncturing his body, as he recovers from the heart attack threatening daily to kill him ... Read more

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Witty, acerbic, insightful musings from Robert Dessaix, one of Australia's finest writers.One Sunday night in Sydney, Robert Dessaix collapses in a gutter in Darlinghurst, and is helped to his hotel by a kind young man wearing a T-shirt that says FUCK YOU. What follows are weeks in hospital, tubes and cannulae puncturing his body, as he recovers from the heart attack threatening daily to kill him
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Ape And Essence

by Aldous Huxley ...

Similar in theme to his most well-known work Brave New World, Aldous Huxley’s Ape and Essence is a work of dystopian fiction that looks to critique the rise of global warfare in the modern age. Told in two parts, the novel opens in 1948 with the discovery of a screenplay by two movie industry moguls, who then set out on a journey to find the work’s author, William Tallis. The second half of the ... Read more

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Similar in theme to his most well-known work Brave New World, Aldous Huxley’s Ape and Essence is a work of dystopian fiction that looks to critique the rise of global warfare in the modern age. Told in two parts, the novel opens in 1948 with the discovery of a screenplay by two movie industry moguls, who then set out on a journey to find the work’s author, William Tallis. The second half of the
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A Night of Serious Drinking

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by René Daumal ...

Series series Tusk Ivories
The French poet and author of Mount Analogue shares a satirical allegory of the absurdities of intellectual society.As in Rene Daumal's cult classic Mount Analogue, A Night of Serious Drinking concerns an autobiographical protagonist on a mind-expanding journey. But rather than seeking enlightenment, the anonymous narrator recounts an evening getting drunk with a group of friends. As the party ... Read more

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The French poet and author of Mount Analogue shares a satirical allegory of the absurdities of intellectual society.As in Rene Daumal's cult classic Mount Analogue, A Night of Serious Drinking concerns an autobiographical protagonist on a mind-expanding journey. But rather than seeking enlightenment, the anonymous narrator recounts an evening getting drunk with a group of friends. As the party
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The Long Game

by K. J. Parker ...

The always unpredictable K. J. Parker has written some of the most original and compelling fantasy fiction of recent decades. In his latest novella, The Long Game, Parker has turned once again to the comic side of his multi-faceted talent, and the result is one of the most purely entertaining creations of a distinguished career.The unnamed narrator of The Long Game is an Adept, a member of an ... Read more

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The always unpredictable K. J. Parker has written some of the most original and compelling fantasy fiction of recent decades. In his latest novella, The Long Game, Parker has turned once again to the comic side of his multi-faceted talent, and the result is one of the most purely entertaining creations of a distinguished career.The unnamed narrator of The Long Game is an Adept, a member of an
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The Three Cornered World

by Natsume Soseki ...

The Three Cornered World is the novelistic expression of the contrast between the Western ethical view of reality and the Eastern ethical view by one of Japan's most beloved authors. Natsume Soseki tells of an artist who retreats to a country resort and becomes involved in a series of mysterious encounters with the owner's daughter. Intricately interwoven with the author's reflections on art and ... Read more

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The Three Cornered World is the novelistic expression of the contrast between the Western ethical view of reality and the Eastern ethical view by one of Japan's most beloved authors. Natsume Soseki tells of an artist who retreats to a country resort and becomes involved in a series of mysterious encounters with the owner's daughter. Intricately interwoven with the author's reflections on art and
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Priest's Hole

by K. J. Parker ...

Series Book 2 - Five Stories High
Irongrove Lodge draws the broken and disillusioned, the merely curious, the poor and the wealthy alike. Steeped in a terrible and arcane history, it is a house like no other.And here is a man like no other; for a fee he can change his face. He can be you – providing an alibi, manipulating evidence. When he encounters Irongrove Lodge, it causes him not just to question his own identity, but the ... Read more

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Irongrove Lodge draws the broken and disillusioned, the merely curious, the poor and the wealthy alike. Steeped in a terrible and arcane history, it is a house like no other.And here is a man like no other; for a fee he can change his face. He can be you – providing an alibi, manipulating evidence. When he encounters Irongrove Lodge, it causes him not just to question his own identity, but the
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