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Book Cover for: Harlem Shuffle, Colson Whitehead

Harlem Shuffle

Colson Whitehead
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★★★★ #ColsonWhitehead HARLEM SHUFFLE - A period piece that speaks to the present: the #UndergroundRailroad novelist lets his hair down with a hardboiled crime piece devoted to 60s #Harlem - review @_danieljlewis @HachetteUK https://theartsdesk.com/books/colson-whitehead-harlem-shuffle-review-period-piece-speaks-present https://t.co/9ZnKlDKzYS

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Cinema: The Archaeology of Film and the Memory of a Century, Jean-Luc Godard

Cinema: The Archaeology of Film and the Memory of a Century

Jean-Luc Godard
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‘Paris, 16 March 1960 - and cinema ruptured. The first public screening of #JeanLucGodard’s #ABoutdeSouffle, announced a new world of possibility’ Remembering #cinema's eternal, loving #revolutionary JEAN-LUC GODARD (1930-2022) https://t.co/EVgZ4gvNhM https://t.co/Snf2ZLfHjz

Hardcover, 2000

$150.00$125.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: Is Socialism Possible in Britain?: Reflections on the Corbyn Years, Andrew Murray

Is Socialism Possible in Britain?: Reflections on the Corbyn Years

Andrew Murray
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What went wrong and why #Corbynism failed ★★★★ Andrew Murray: IS SOCIALISM POSSIBLE IN BRITAIN? - An inside take on the most radical period in #Labour's history is more a memoir than a work of analysis, says Hugh Barnes @VersoBooks https://t.co/OLNkqwHFUX https://t.co/XwJGLXRBDs

Paperback, 2022

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Book Cover for: How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Andreas Malm

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Andreas Malm
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★★★ Can eco-terrorism be justified?: Andreas Malm's book becomes a provocative and timely thriller #HowToBlowUpAPipeline reviewed by @SweetingAdam https://t.co/t73O8BAaEy https://t.co/Rb9Z2CGeEt

Paperback, 2021

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Book Cover for: Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex, Sophia Giovannitti

Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex

Sophia Giovannitti
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★★★★ Sophia Giovannitti @sophiaexalted WORKING GIRL - On Selling Art and Selling Sex - Portrait of the artist as sex worker: athoughtful debut treatise that finds intimacies in surprising places @VersoBooks https://t.co/tZMdDf1Xix https://t.co/2xw2VY16pJ

Hardcover, 2023

$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Wilf, James Ley

Wilf

James Ley
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Two plays by Scottish writer James Ley shock, provoke – and provide belly laughs too: #OdetoJoy and its darker cousin #Wilf @edfringe reviewed by @DavidKettle1 https://t.co/GAuwleVAPz https://t.co/8e23aq3UOp

Paperback, 2022

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Book Cover for: Hakawatis: Women of the Arabian Nights, Hannah Khalil

Hakawatis: Women of the Arabian Nights

Hannah Khalil
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★★★★ HAKAWATIS: WOMEN OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS @The_Globe - Telling magical stories by candlelight, #HannahKhalil's playful retelling of the #1001Nights puts women centre stage - review @lisle_laura https://t.co/97ONk1pqMU https://t.co/Gefm57FQxr

Paperback, 2023

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Book Cover for: The Book of Goose, Yiyun Li

The Book of Goose

Yiyun Li
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★★★★ Fame, reality and two teenage French girls: Yiyun Li's compelling fifth novel marks a new departure. Markie Robson_scott reviews #TheBookofGoose @4thEstateBooks https://t.co/vppP2T2kjN https://t.co/KDG0nOcGG2

Paperback, 2023

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Book Cover for: Sounds of the Underground: A Cultural, Political and Aesthetic Mapping of Underground and Fringe Music, Stephen Graham

Sounds of the Underground: A Cultural, Political and Aesthetic Mapping of Underground and Fringe Music

Stephen Graham
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‘Loud and triumphantly proud’ ★★★★ SOUND OF THE UNDERGROUND #SoundoftheUndergroundRC @Royal Court review - @TravisAlabanza & @debbiehannan’s new play about the #queer club scene is a fabulous extravaganza, says @AleksSierz https://t.co/9LQvwsWOAK https://t.co/FjpeGljwvO

Hardcover, 2016

$54.95$29.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: The Disappearance of Josef Mengele, Olivier Guez

The Disappearance of Josef Mengele

Olivier Guez
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★★★★ Inside the mind of the Nazi who was never found: fiction and fact mingle in Olivier Guez's The Disappearance of Josef Mengele @VersoBooks reviewed by @IndiaLHL https://t.co/sWtS9cgktK https://t.co/hS0o0N1opX

Paperback, 2022

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