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The Dead Yard, A Story of Modern Jamaica

The Dead Yard, A Story of Modern Jamaica


by Ian Thomson

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 384 PAGES

Thomson brings alive Jamaica's racial and ethnic mix, pervasive influence of the USA, ties to Britain and the increasing disillusionment of its people in the workings of its government in this searing report. (CRB270, $16.99)

The Discovery of France

The Discovery of France


by Graham Robb

  • HISTORY
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 480 PAGES

Winner of the 2008 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, Robb's erudite portrait, the result of time both in the library and on his bicycle, marvelously illuminates the rural byways, history and charting of France. (FRN770, $17.95)

The Hare With Amber Eyes

The Hare With Amber Eyes


by Edmund De Waal

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 368 PAGES

Edmund de Waal unfolds the story of his remarkable family, a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who "burned like a comet" in early 20th-century Paris and Vienna. (FRN941, $16.00)

Hearing Birds Fly

Hearing Birds Fly


by Louisa Waugh

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 270 PAGES

A transporting account of the people, landscapes and challenges of life in westernmost Mongolia. The author is attuned to the diverse ethnic mix of the region with its dominant population of Muslim Kazakhs, Mongol Halkhs and Altai Tuvans. (MGL45, $17.95)

In the Country of Men

In the Country of Men


by Hisham Matar

  • LITERATURE
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES

This hauntingly beautiful short novel, set in Tripoli in wake of Khadafy's 1969 revolution, shows the bewilderment and fear of the Libyan people through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy. (NAF53, $15.00)

The People's Act of Love

The People's Act of Love


by James Meek

  • LITERATURE
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 391 PAGES

Meek draws on his experiences as a journalist in Russia to evoke the isolation and changing fate of Siberia in this novel set in an isolated village during the last days of the revolution. (SIB52, $14.95)

The Places in Between

The Places in Between


by Rory Stewart

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 336 PAGES

Rory Stewart illuminates the absurdity, plight and peril of war-ravaged Afghanistan in his thrilling, poignant account of a walk across the country from Herat to Kabul in the dead of winter. (MDE100, $14.95)

 

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