Canongate
The Wettest County in the World
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During the Prohibition era, moonshine flowed freely through the mountains of Franklin County, Virginia, and few bootleggers were more productive, violent, and notable ...Read Review
The Siege
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The Ottoman Empire during the 15th century lays siege to a Christian fortress on a plain surrounded by the mountains of Albania. The ...Read Review
Agamemnon’s Daughter
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Tyranny is the theme of this absorbing novella and two short stories. Written by Albania’s best known novelist, who experienced totalitarianism firsthand, ...Read Review
The Gargoyle
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If the first scene of this debut novel doesn’t grab you by the throat, then no opening scene ever will. In The ...Read Review
The Last Station
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This ambitious book sets out to give an account of Tolstoy’s final year (1910) that blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction. ...Read Review
Light
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Off the Isle of Man lies the tiny island of Ellan Bride, an outpost of fabulous isolation, often veiled from the outside world ...Read Review
The Angel of History
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Walter Benjamin leaves Berlin to escape Nazi persecution and begins a new life in Paris. Ignoring the impending signs of war and invasion, ...Read Review
The Tartar Steppe
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The classic novel The Tartar Steppe was first published in 1938, just before the outbreak of the Second World War. It tells the story ...Read Review
The Blackest Bird
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On a July Sunday morning in 1841, Mary Cecilia Rogers left her mother’s house on Nassau Street in New York City and was ...Read Review
Cold Skin
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Just after the Great War, a man arrives at a remote, sub-Antarctic island where he is to be a weather observer. He finds ...Read Review
