Ararat Associations Dick Tahta  RRP £13.95 Paperback ISBN 1900 355 48 5

Dick Tahta was born in Manchester, of parents who had survived the events of 1915. As a second-generation immigrant, he was interested in the nature of identity Using Atom Egoyan’s film, Arara, as a launching pad, Tahta offers some fascinating interpretations of Armenian history, religion, language and literature. His digressions into youthful memories, family history and his own travels through Eastern Anatolia, give this book a warm and personal feel.

Ararat Associations

Dick Tahta

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Burning Orchards Gurgen Mahari  RRP £13.95 Paperback ISBN 9781900355575

Gurgen Marhari’s controversial novel, Burning Orchards, is set in the Ottoman city of Van, Eastern Anatolia, during the period leading up to the Armenian rebellion of 1915 and relates the epic story of the events which culminated in the catastrophe of the following years, wonderfully told by onof the great writers emerging from Soviet Armenia.

Burning Orchards

Gurgen Mahri

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Children of the Ghetto Israel Zangwill  RRP £13.95 Paperback ISBN 1900 355 30 2

Children of the Ghetto, Zangwill's best-known book, was first published in 1892. It documents the lives of immigrant Jews who lived and worked in the Yiddish-speaking streets and densely packed alleys emptying into Petticoat Lane, the East End bazaar that was both marketplace and communal watering hole. His portrayal of the uncertain situation of 'his people,' which all too often had been painted in dreadfully sombre tones by earnest social reformers and drum-beating evangelists, is insightfully told with affectionate honesty and wryness of humour.

Children of the Ghetto

  Israel Zangwill

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The Client Dies Thrice Jean Tardieu  RRP £10.00 Paperback ISBN 1900 355 21 3

Jean Tardieu wrote for French radio, television as well as publishing volumes of prose, theatre, poetry and texts on music and the visual arts. His name is linked with Beckett, Ionesco and the Theatre of the Absurd Newly translated by David Kelley, Britain's foremost Baudelairean scholar, these three plays - The Keyhole, The Ticket Office and The Contraption - are classics in modern French theatre.

The Client Dies Thrice

 Jean Tardieu

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Cultural (dis)Connections Renee Hubert  RRP £12.00 Paperback ISBN 1900 355 46 9

The daughter of German Jewish parents, both of them prominent physicians defending liberal causes, Renée Riese Hubert was bundled out of Nazi Germany as a young girl to be educated in Paris.  She obtained her PhD degree at Columbia University and, while adapting to her new life in America, taught literature in various parts of the country. In addition to 6 books of French poetry and some 175 articles, she published Surrealism and the Book, Magnifying Mirrors: Women Surrealism and Partnership, and in collaboration with Judd D. Hubert, The Cutting Edge of Reading: Artists' Books.

Cultural (dis)Connections

Renee Hubert

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The Dialogue between Painting and Poetry Edited by Jean Khalfa  RRP £15.99 Paperback ISBN 1900 355 25 6

This exploration takes as its starting point Edouard Manet’s collaboration with Stéphane Mallarmé, Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Cros in the 1870s and charts the movement through Dada and Surrealism to the end of the 20th century. It includes the collaborative works of André Gide/Maurice Denis; Guillaume Apollinaire/André Derain; Max Jacob/Pablo Picasso;  Blaise Cendrars/Sonia Delaunay; Tristan Tzara/Hans Arp; André Malraux/Fernand Léger and Michel Leiris/Alberto Giacometti and continues on to show how the movement evolved in the second half of the twentieth century in the works of Henri Michaux, Francis Ponge, Yves Bonnefoy, Robert Desnos, André du Bouchet and Jacques Dupin.

Dialogue Between Painting and Poetry

Jean Khalfa

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In Darkest London Margaret Harkness  RRP £12.00 Paperback ISBN 1900 355 28 0

A Social Documentary of London's East End originally published in 1889, as Captain Lobe:  A Story of the Salvation Army by John Law.  Margaret Harkness, who wrote under the pen name of John Law, is considered one of the important expounders of ‘social realism’ in late 19th century England.  Her passionate sense of justice and determined desire for social reform are paramount in all her writings; and her description of the impoverishment in the East End of London, where she lived for several years gathering first hand material about the lives and labour of the people there, is keenly observed.

In Darkest London

Margaret Harkness

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The Fifteen Schoolgirls Dick Tahta RRP £11.95 Paperback ISBN 1900 355 5

A famous problem found in books on mathematical recreations was first proposed in an annual in1850 by a vicar and amateur mathematician, Thomas Kirkman. Fifteen schoolgirls walk out three abreast for seven days. It was required to arrange each day’s walk so that any pair of girls were only once in the same row during the week. This boo presents a brief account of the original problem and some of the ways it has been generalised and eventually solved. It also surveys in a not too technical way, some of the other work of a remarkable nineteenth-century polymath.

The Fifteen Schoolgirls

Dick Tahta

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Lire c’est voir/Reading is seeing David Kelley RRP £10.00 Paperback ISBN 1900 355 20 5

Lire c’est voir/Reading is seeing is a marvellous contemporary example of the dialogue between painting and poetry.  The images are wonderfully constructed and the poetry, in both French and English, is a delight.  The two together magically combine to give a special insight into the mind of the artist and the writer. David Kelley (1941-1999) taught art history at Warwick University and  at Trinity College, Cambridge where he was a Fellow in French Literature.  He has written extensively on French poetry and, in 1994, was made an Officer des Arts et des Lettres for his services to French culture.

Lire c'est voir/ Reading is seeing

David Kelley

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The Mariner's Chronicle Edited by Archibald Duncan RRP £19.95 Paperback ISBN 1900 355 29 9

Originally published two hundred years ago, The Mariner's Chronicle was the first comprehensive collection of disasters at sea in the English Language and was an immediate best seller. Now made newly available, these stories of suffering and survival will have lost none of their resonance for all those interested in maritime history. With an introduction and notes by Nigel Pickford, author of The Atlas of Shipwreck and Treasure.

Mariners Chronicle

  Archibald Duncan

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Romance of a Shop Amy Levy RRP £12.00 Paperback ISBN 1900 355 32 9

Romance of A Shop, Amy Levy’s first novel, was published in 1888. Praised by Oscar Wilde who thought it ‘admirably done … clever and full of quick observation,’ it's the story of four young ladies who, after the death of their father, decide to open a photographic studio in the heart of London’s bohemia (to the dismay of their more priggish relatives) the book, like much of Levy’s work, is concerned with the contradictions besetting the ‘new’ Victorian woman who, in her quest for independence finds herself constrained by anachronistic social mores and conflicting values.

The Romance of a Shop

Amy Levy

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Uneasy Listening Matthew Lasar RRP £14.99 Paperback ISBN 1900 355 45 0

Uneasy Listening tells the story of the epic battle over five listener supported radio stations that rocked the American Left and raised difficult questions about public broadcasting in the United States that have yet to be answered.

Uneasy Listening

 Matthew Lasar

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Universe for Breakfast Joy Magezis RRP £11.00 Paperback ISBN 9781900355551

The Universe for Breakfast chronicles a journey of transformation in verse. Joy Magezis has been ordained as a member of the Core Community of the Order of Interbeing, established by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. She was part of his official delegation to Vietnam, when Thich Nhat Hanh returned after 39 years of exile. A series of poems about the trip appear in this collection, as well as poems about her experiences practicing with the Sangha community in Britain and in Plum Village, France..

The Universe for Breakfast

Joy Magezis

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