Giuseppe Genna – Italy De Profundis (Italia De Profundis)

  In a book more autobiographical than usual, Giuseppe Genna scrutinizes himself to investigate Italy. He writes a "de profundis" dug into his own flesh,...

VVAA – Living Labor

  Choosing  to tell the world of labor, the real one, live, experienced day after day by people who do or suffer it- in ten...

George Orwell – Nineteen Eighty-Four

  Nineteen Eighty-Four tells of a future world in which the earth is divided into similar Hyperstates in perpetual war with each other. The protagonist Winston...

Grace Nichols – Passport to Here and There

RECLAIMING HER STORY THROUGH MEMORY Chandramohan Sathyanathan engaging with the poetry of Grace Nichols Grace Nichols is a major female voice and a widely read Anglophone...

Katie Griffiths – The Attitudes

Katie Griffiths is a poet who grew up in Ottawa, Canada  and now lives in the south of England; she is also singer-songwriter in...

José Saramago – Blindness

  Suddenly, in a city with no name - which, just for this reason, may represent any place - a man goes blind. This first,...

Aldous Huxley – The Genius and the Goddess

"The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense”. With this incipit Aldous Huxley immediately offers the readers...

Jonathan Coe – The Rotters’ Club

Read this book and finally find out what Bovril meat extracts and Dairy Milk chocolate bars are. Read it and once for all measure...

Baret Magarian – The Fabrications

Taking tea with the gods: Baret Magarian’s binary realities London has always been the smoky city of doppelgängers and pacts made with the devil. Marlowe...

Patrick Süskind – Perfume

Paris, 1738: the fish market. Here, in the smelliest place of the smelliest city in the world, was born Jean-Baptiste Grenuille, the perfume genius. From...

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