Search results for 'John Berger'

The Slave Ship

Marcus Rediker

€15.99

Mindful of the haunting legacies of race, class and slavery, Marcus Rediker offers a vivid and unforgettable portrait of the ghost ship of our modern consciousness. Learn More
Afghanistan: Land of Conflict and Beauty

John C. Griffiths

€11.99

John Griffiths delves into the history, culture, social fabric, internal politics and economy of this intriguing and backward country. He reveals a nation living in the shadow of perpetual conflict: from the early incursions (Persian, Greek, and Hun Mongol) through the Russian invasion and subsequent withdrawal, to the rise of the Taliban and the resulting international crisis which led to the War on Terror and the ongoing Allied occupation of the country. Learn More
Straw Dogs

John Gray

€11.99

John Gray argues that this humanist belief in human difference is an illusion and explores how the world and human life look once humanism has been finally abandoned. Learn More
Boxer Beetle

Ned Beauman

€11.00

Shortlisted for The Guardian First Book Award. Named one of the dozen most promising new writers in Britain by John Mullan. Learn More
One Place After Another: Site-specific Art and Locational Identity

Miwon Kwon

€16.95

One Place after Another offers a critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s and a theoretical framework for examining the rhetoric of aesthetic vanguardism and political progressivism associated with its many permutations. Learn More
The Day of the Triffids

John Wyndham

€10.99

The Day of the Triffids is perhaps the most famous catastrophe novel of the twentieth century and its startling imagery of desolate streets and lurching, lethal plant life retains its power to haunt today. Learn More
My Fathers' Tears & Other Stories

John Updike

€11.99

Again and again in these memorable stories, Updike strikes to the heart, giving words to what is so often left unsaid. He is at once witty, devastatingly observant, touching - and, of course, a consummate storyteller. This is a collection that will be admired and cherished. Learn More
The Atrocity Exhibition

JG Ballard

€11.00

First published in 1970 and widely regarded as a prophetic masterpiece, this is a groundbreaking experimental novel by the acclaimed author of 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes', who has supplied explanatory notes for this new edition. Learn More
The Witches of Eastwick

John Updike

€12.99

The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into the void of Eastwick breezes Darryl Van Horne, a charismatic magus of a man who entrances the trio, luring them to his mansions... Learn More
Wait Until Spring, Bandini

John Fante

€11.00

A powerful, lyrical and touching tale of a turbulent adolescent trying to break out of the suffocating, prison-like confinements of family, poverty and religion in a small town, "Wait Until Spring, Bandini" tells the story of a winter in the childhood of Arturo Bandini, oldest son of Italian immigrants living in Colorado during the Great Depression. Learn More