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Author: Amit Chaudhuri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 'A mysterious, subtle, haunting novel.' - Chris Power An unnamed man arrives in Berlin as a visiting professor. It is a...

Author: Amit Chaudhuri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Supple, intricate and uncompromising, full of delicate observation andinsight, Amit Chaudhuri's Finding the Raga immerses us in the rigorousbeauty and cosmology...

Author: Amit Chaudhuri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Delightfully witty . . . Luminously intelligent . . . Odysseus Abroad has placed itself, with erudition and playfulness, on the...

A Strange and Sublime Address , Amit Chaudhuri's first book, features a Bengali boy who spends his school holidays at his uncle's home in Calcutta. Heatwaves, thunderstorms, mealtimes, prayer-sessions, shopping...

Author: Amit Chaudhuri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 In Friend of My Youth, a novelist named Amit Chaudhuri visits his childhood home of Bombay. The city, reeling from the...

Author: Amit Chaudhuri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Khuku, a housewife, is irritated with the Muslims because their call to prayerwakes her up early every morning; her husband, a...

Author: Amit Chaudhuri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 In Friend of My Youth, a novelist named Amit Chaudhuri visits his childhood home of Bombay. The city, reeling from the...

Author: Amit Chaudhuri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A year after his divorce, Jayojit Chatterjee, an economics professor in the American Midwest, travels home to Calcutta with his young...

Set across Bombay and Calcutta, Amit Chaudhuri's stories range from a divorcee about to enter into an arranged marriage to a teengaed poet who develops a relationship with a lonely...

Abhi, a Bengali boy, spends his school holidays at his uncle's home in Calcutta, trying to make sense of the often confusing world of adults around him. Heatwaves, thunderstorms, mealtimes,...

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Author: Amit Chaudhuri Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 An unnamed man arrives in Berlin as a visiting professor. It is a place fused with Western history and cultural fracture...

Hugely acclaimed on hardback publication - this is Chaudhuri's break out book Jayojit, a semi successful writer, now divorced, has finally retrieved his son Bonny for his summer holidays. They...

Khuku, a housewife, is irritated with the Muslims because their call to prayerwakes her up early every morning; her husband, a retired businessman, hasbeen hired to cure a 'sick' sweet...

An unnamed man arrives in Berlin as a visiting professor. It is a place fused with Western history and cultural fracture lines. He moves along its streets and pavements; through...

A beguiling, short and yet sweeping prose-poem, Afternoon Raag is the account of a young Bengali man studying at Oxford University and caught in complicated love triangle. His loneliness and...

A year after his divorce, Jayojit Chatterjee, an economics professor in the American Midwest, travels home to Calcutta with his young son, Bonny, to spend the summer holidays with his...

Introduction by Amit Chaudhuri; translated by J.A. Underwood Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - tears; clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Good. For a Bengali intellectual who had spent his entire...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew subjects in the history of human civilization are as vast, ancient, and misunderstood as Hinduism, and Nirad C. Chaudhuri's landmark study cuts through...

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What is a meaningful life? What does it mean to flourish? Antonia Case, the co-founder of New Philosopher and Womankind magazines, quits her corporate job in the city and, with...

'An icon of New York's downtown music scene is brought vividly to life in this tapestry of archive and oral history' Guardian The music of Arthur Russell defies classification. Across...

"We must be careful with Occam's Razor, lest we cut ourselves on our own blades." In How to Solve True Crime: Occam's Razor and the Limitations of Simplicity in Investigations,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DRAGON AWARDS 2025 FINANCIAL TIMES' BEST SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS OF 2024 Charlie and Parker are punks by night, biohackers by day, living in the stuttering decay of...

Hope in Hell is a rich visual account of one of the oldest and best-preserved examples of colonial Sydney architecture, the Darlinghurst Gaol. A place steeped in Australia's early, brutal...

The definitive biography of Liverpool legend and most famous Egyptian footballer in the history of the sport, Mohamed Salah. Salah's achievements are, in many ways, unparalleled. A Champions League and...

SOMEONE'S ABOUT TO TURN THEIR LAST PAGE... 'One of the most iconic British fictional detectives of the 21st century.' DAILY MAIL 'These are must-read detective novels.' MARK BILLINGHAM 'One of...

'Enlightening' Matthew Syed 'Insightful and transformative' Jos Buttler A New Way of Being podcast host Simon Mundie, interviews the world's sporting legends to redefine how we understand - and pursue...

Popular music history collides with data analytics, charts, and numbers in this insightful and surprising look at the greatest hits and musicians, fads, forgotten artists, and much more. Data analyst...

Revisits Australian rock band silverchair's globally successful debut album Frogstomp (1995) and asserts that the band is not an imitation of American grunge nor an emblem of Gen X angst....

THE WISDEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A forensic tour de force' VIC MARKS 'Engrossing ... Illuminating detective work into the astonishing statistics of English cricket's most enduring record' ANDY ZALTZMAN...

New anthology of stories about the Great War An anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famous and lesser-known authors, men and women, during the war and...

This momentous study of Benjamin's critical practice marks a sea change in Eagleton's thought. Its goal is not merely to contemplate Benjamin's approach to language, history, and art but to...

The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our world A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: NEW SCIENTIST * WATERSTONES * SUNDAY TIMES 'A...

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Anthony Sampson knew his grandfather, John, had been an authority on the gypsies, but very little was told of his private life. Using rhymes, letters, and illustrations, this work follows...

'At once lyrical and exacting, clear-sighted and deeply informed - a beautiful book.' Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction A fascinating natural history for fans of Underland by Robert...

'I certainly am not going to be bullied by fundamentalist Christians' - Archbishop Peter Carnley throughout his career as Archbishop of Perth, Peter Carnley has raised issues that have challenged...

'The Wristwatch Handbook' provides the reader with a comprehensive anatomy of the mechanical wristwatch; every conceivable function and form. It is the foundational text for the novice and the reference...

Sylvia Brooke was the consort of His Highness Sir Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, the last in a bizarre dynasty of English despots who ruled their jungle kingdom on Borneo...