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![This Fair land - An Anthology of Maltese Literature]()
With a foreword by Oliver Friggieri
This Fair Land is a comprehensive collection of around 200 texts in Maltese accompanied by new translations into English.
![Bewnans Peran Play]()
Bewnans Peran [The Life of St Piran] celebrates the life and deeds of the patron saint of Cornwall, Saint Piran.
![The Body's Reason – Poems in Catalan]()
FeaturedThe Body’ Reason is the first book by Catalan poet Mari-Mercè Marçal to be translated into English. She is a key figure in Catalan poetry of the post-Franco era, who was actively engaged in the transition to democracy and the emergence of a feminist movement in Spain. Hers is a uniquely challenging voice expressing a distinctive Catalan gendered perspective.
![Fifty love Poems Book Cover]()
FeaturedWith a preface by Helena Buffery
Fifty Love Poems is a collection of fifty poems about love in its various guises, ranging from erotic love and tenderness for missing loved ones to the passion for life and writing.
![Richard G. Jenkin – A Great Son of Cornwall]()
From the 1950s through to the 1990s, Richard Jenkin was at the very centre of Cornish cultural and political life and an important figure in the revival of Cornish consciousness. This book features examples of Jenkin’s writings, both poetry and prose, and reminiscences and tributes from personal friends and colleagues as well as original essays about various aspects of his work for Cornwall and the wider Celtic world.
![Wilkie Collins, The Lighthouse book cover]()
With an introduction by Andrew Gasson and Caroline Radcliffe
Foreword by P.D.James
This is the first printed, English edition of The Lighthouse. The volume transcribes the version licensed for the Olympic Theatre in 1857 which includes the ‘Prologue’ and the ‘Song of the Wreck’ contributed by Dickens.
![Charles Causley Theatre Works Book Cover]()
This collection of plays sheds new light on Charles Causley’ literary work and reveals him to be a fine playwright with an important place in British theatrical history.
![Campaigning for the Vote Book Cover]()
Out of stockCampaigning for the Vote tells, in her own words, the efforts of a working suffragist to convert the men and women of England to the cause of women’s suffrage.
![From Bow to Biennale]()
REVISED WITH NEWLY DISCOVERED MATERIAL
This revised edition includes exciting new material that has emerged since the publication of the first edition, partly due to the East London Group website (www.eastlondongroup.co.uk) and personal contacts.
![Vintage Ghosts – D.M Thomas]()
With six linocut illustrations by Tim Roberts
D.M.Thomas, author of the iconic novel The White Hotel, has turned his creative imagination to a genre that has been curiously neglected for over a hundred years, the verse novel.
![Aurélia Lassaque – Solstice and Other Poems Book Cover]()
FeaturedSolstice and Other Poems is the first major parallel Occitan–English publication of prize-winning Occitan and French poet Aurélia Lassaque.
![Star in a Night Sky Esperanto Book Cover]()
In its 125-year history the international language Esperanto has produced some remarkable writing. Much of this has remained unknown to the English-speaking world: translations were few and to be found, in the main, in Esperanto periodicals. Now, for the first time, in Star in a Night Sky, some of these translations appear in a single volume.
![Yes Papa! Mrs Chapone and The Bluestocking Circle]()
With a preface by Dr Elizabeth Eger of King’ College, London.
Barbara Eaton’s fascinating study is the first full length biography to set Chapone among her contemporaries.
![The Power of the Smile – Book Cover]()
This book explores the complex relationship between the smile and the laugh and traces its historical development in Spanish life and culture. The first chapter examines smiles and laughs as they occur in everyday life, taking Galician irony or retranca, and the sarcasm or guasa of Madrid and Seville, as characteristic forms of the smile and the laugh respectively.
![Henry Richard – Apostle of Peace Book Cover]()
Reprinting: Available April 2019
Henry Richard was the secretary of the Peace Society from 1848 to 1886, an unconditional pacifist when the British Empire was at the height of its aggressive powers.
![Stop the War Book Cover]()
Posters and graphics, cartoons by Steve Bell and Martin Rowson, art works in support of the campaign by Banksy, Jamie Reid, Peter Kennard, Ralph Steadman, David Gentleman and Billy Childish.
