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Hi De Hi!: Series 3 and 4 (DVD): Simon Cadell, Paul Shane, Ruth Madoc, Jeffrey Holland, Leslie Dwyer, Felix Bowness, Diane... Hi De Hi!: Series 3 and 4 (DVD)
Simon Cadell, Paul Shane, Ruth Madoc, Jeffrey Holland, Leslie Dwyer, …
R81 Discovery Miles 810 Ships in 10 - 20 working days

Seasons 3 and 4 of the perennially popular British sitcom set in a holiday camp in the late 50s/early 60s. In 'Nice People with Nice Manners', Yvonne and Barry hold a party in their chalet for the staff they consider to be 'socially acceptable'. But when Peggy mixes up the invitations, they get a few unexpected guests. In 'Carnival Time', Joe enlists Ted's help in organising a float for the town carnival. 'A Matter of Conscience' sees the staff at Maplin's attempting to thwart the local council's plans to build a new hospital right next to the camp by making as much noise as they can. In 'The Pay-Off', the council is still determined to go ahead with its plans to build the hospital, so Joe resorts to bribing the local councillors. In 'Trouble and Strife', Ted's ex-wife is demanding that he pay up his maintenance arrears. Ted has to act quickly - and cunningly - to raise the cash in time. 'Stripes' sees Joe promoting Gladys to Head Yellowcoat after a secret visit to the camp. In 'Co-Respondent's Course', Jeffrey's wife sends her new boyfriend to ask Jeffrey for a divorce. When Jeffrey is reluctant to give grounds, her boyfriend decides to try to unearth some evidence himself. 'It's a Blue World' sees Ted arranging a special late-night showing of an adult film for the male campers. In 'Eruptions', Ted retaliates after having his act rudely interrupted by a volcano in the ballroom. In 'The Society Entertainer', Spike is a changed man after falling head over heels for one of the female campers - much to the detriment of his act. Meanwhile, Jeffrey has decided that Radio Maplin would benefit from having a new voice on the airwaves. In 'Sing You Sinners', Jeffrey finds himself standing in for the local chaplain to conduct the Sunday Half Hour - with unnerving results. 'Maplin Intercontinental' sees the troupe competing for a very special prize in this year's Best Yellowcoat Competition: a transer to the new Maplin's Holiday Camp in the Bahamas. In 'All Change', Joe appoints a new supervisor for the Yellowcoats, but is less than delighted when he discovers that she insists on having a chalet all to herself at the peak of the season when the camp is filled to capacity.

The Wind That Lays Waste (Paperback): Selva Almada The Wind That Lays Waste (Paperback)
Selva Almada; Translated by Chris Andrews
R295 R279 Discovery Miles 2 790 Save R16 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Leni crossed her arms, said nothing, and watched the fight unfold. She was like a bored onlooker at a boxing trial, wasting no energy on the undercard, saving her passion for the moment when the real champions would step into the ring. And yet, at some point, she began to cry. Just tears, without any sound. Water falling from her eyes as water was falling from the sky. Rain disappearing into rain._The Wind That Lays Waste _begins in the great pause before a storm. Reverend Pearson is an evangelist preaching the word of God across northern Argentina with Leni, his teenage daughter, in tow. When their car breaks down, fate leads them to the workshop of an ageing mechanic, Gringo Brauer, and his assistant, a boy called Tapioca. Over the course of a long day, curiosity and a sense of new opportunities develop into an unexpected intimacy. Yet this encounter between a man convinced of his righteousness and one mired in cynicism and apathy will become a battle for the very souls of the young pair: the quietly earnest and idealistic mechanic's assistant, and the restless, sceptical preacher's daughter. As tensions among the four ebb and flow, beliefs are questioned and allegiances tested, until finally the growing storm breaks over the plains.Selva Almada's exquisitely crafted debut, with its limpid and confident prose, is profound and poetic, a near-tangible experience of the landscape amid the hot winds, wrecked cars, sweat-stained shirts and damaged lives, told with the cinematic precision of a static road movie, like a _Paris, Texas _of the south. With echoes of Carson McCullers, The Wind That Lays Waste is a contemplative and powerfully distinctive novel that marks the arrival in English of an author whose talent and poise are undeniable.

A Bookshop in Algiers (Paperback, Main): Kaouther Adimi A Bookshop in Algiers (Paperback, Main)
Kaouther Adimi; Translated by Chris Andrews
R212 Discovery Miles 2 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'A beautiful little novel about books, history, ambition and the importance of literature.' Nick Hornby 'Truly potent ... Adimi confronts us with episodes that are simply never spoken of in France' The New York Times Book Review In 1936, a young dreamer named Edmond Charlot opened a modest bookshop in Algiers. Once the heart of Algerian cultural life, where Camus launched his first book and the Free French printed propaganda during the war, Charlot's beloved bookshop has been closed for decades, living on as a government lending library. Now it is to be shuttered forever. But as a young man named Ryad empties it of its books, he begins to understand that a bookshop can be much more than just a shop that sells books. A Bookshop in Algiers charts the changing fortunes of Charlot's bookshop through the political drama of Algeria's turbulent twentieth century of war, revolution and independence. It is a moving celebration of books, bookshops and of those who dare to dream.

Moonlit Genesis (Hardcover): Chris Andrews Moonlit Genesis (Hardcover)
Chris Andrews
R700 Discovery Miles 7 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Mastodons, Mammoths And Other Pleistocene Mammals Of New York State - Being A Descriptive Record Of All Known Occurrences:... The Mastodons, Mammoths And Other Pleistocene Mammals Of New York State - Being A Descriptive Record Of All Known Occurrences
Chris Andrew Hartnagel; Created by New York State Museum, New York State Museum of Natural Histor
R791 Discovery Miles 7 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Divorce (Paperback): Cesar Aira The Divorce (Paperback)
Cesar Aira; Translated by Chris Andrews; Introduction by Patti Smith
R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Translation Prize Shortlisted for the Premio Valle-Inclan prize for its translation A recently divorced man trying to enjoy himself in one of the trendier districts of Buenos Aires finds himself at the centre a series of strange coincidences. These blips in causality are at first easily rationalised, but soon escalate from the merely implausible to the impossible to the cataclysmic. More, each accident of fate, piling one atop the other, drags a new, rambling tale in its wake, until the very ground beneath the man's feet seems likely to buckle beneath the weight of so many shaggy dogs. And yet, with master storyteller Cesar Aira holding their leashes, what better vacation from reality could any reader-or divorce-desire?

Character and Structure - An Unholy Alliance (Hardcover): Chris Andrews Character and Structure - An Unholy Alliance (Hardcover)
Chris Andrews
R588 Discovery Miles 5 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Cotswolds Mini Desktop Calendar - 2024: Chris Andrews Cotswolds Mini Desktop Calendar - 2024
Chris Andrews; Photographs by Chris Andrews; Designed by Annabel Matthews
R107 Discovery Miles 1 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A mini desktop calendar, housed in a CD case which will sit on your desk. Showing 12 images of the Cotswolds - villages and landscapes Size: 98mm x 98mm

Divine Prey (Hardcover, Hardback ed.): Chris Andrews Divine Prey (Hardcover, Hardback ed.)
Chris Andrews
R845 Discovery Miles 8 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Alderney A4 Calendar - 2024: Chris Andrews Alderney A4 Calendar - 2024
Chris Andrews; Chris Andrews
R188 Discovery Miles 1 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Photographic wall calendar showing 12 views of the Island of Alderney - seascape and landscapes. Calendar opens up to show a picture at the top and large date boxes for writing in. Closed size: 298 x 210mm Open size: 298 x 420mm

Post-Conflict Literature - Human Rights, Peace, Justice (Paperback): Chris Andrews, Matt McGuire Post-Conflict Literature - Human Rights, Peace, Justice (Paperback)
Chris Andrews, Matt McGuire
R1,218 Discovery Miles 12 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book brings together a variety of perspectives to explore the role of literature in the aftermath of political conflict, studying the ways in which writers approach violent conflict and the equally important subject of peace. Essays put insights from Peace and Conflict Studies into dialog with the unique ways in which literature attempts to understand the past, and to reimagine both the present and the future, exploring concepts like truth and reconciliation, post-traumatic memory, historical reckoning, therapeutic storytelling, transitional justice, archival memory, and questions about victimhood and reparation. Drawing on a range of literary texts and addressing a variety of post-conflict societies, this volume charts and explores the ways in which literature attempts to depict and make sense of this new philosophical terrain. As such, it aims to offer a self-conscious examination of literature, and the discipline of literary studies, considering the ability of both to interrogate and explore the legacies of political and civil conflict around the world. The book focuses on the experience of post-Apartheid South Africa, post-Troubles Northern Ireland, and post-dictatorship Latin America. The recent history of these regions, and in particular their acute experience of ethno-religious and civil conflict, make them highly productive contexts in which to begin examining the role of literature in the aftermath of social trauma. Rather than a definitive account of the subject, the collection defines a new field for literary studies, and opens it up to scholars working in other regional and national contexts. To this end, the book includes essays on post-1989 Germany, post-9/11 United States, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Sierra Leone, and narratives of asylum seeker/refugee communities. This volume's comparative frame draws on well-established precedents for thinking about the cultural politics of these regions, making it a valuable resource for scholars of

Amulet (Paperback): Roberto Bolano Amulet (Paperback)
Roberto Bolano; Translated by Chris Andrews
R416 R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 Save R67 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A tour de force, Amulet is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America. It is September 1968 and the Mexican student movement is about to run head-on into the repressive right-wing government of Mexico: hundreds of young people will soon die. When the army invades the university, one woman hides in a fourth-floor ladies' room and for twelve days she is the only person left on campus. Staring at the floor, she recounts her bohemian life among the young poets of Mexico City-- inventing and reinventing freely-- and along the way she creates a cosmology of literature. She is Auxilio Lacouture, the Mother of Mexican Poetry. Auxilio speaks of her passionate attachment to young poets as well as to two beloved aged poets, to a woman who once slept with Che Guevera, and to the painter Remedios Varo, recalling visits which never occured. And as they grow ever more hallucinatory, her memories become mythologies before completely transforming into riveting dark prophecies. Hair-raising and enthralling, Amuletis a heart-breaking novel and another brilliant example of the art of Roberto Bolan o, the most admired novelist, as Susan Sontag noted, in the Spanish-speaking world.

Distant Star: Roberto Bolaño Distant Star
Roberto Bolaño; Translated by Chris Andrews
R298 R243 Discovery Miles 2 430 Save R55 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
You Glow in the Dark: Liliana Colanzi You Glow in the Dark
Liliana Colanzi; Translated by Chris Andrews
R366 R298 Discovery Miles 2 980 Save R68 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Post-Conflict Literature - Human Rights, Peace, Justice (Hardcover): Chris Andrews, Matt McGuire Post-Conflict Literature - Human Rights, Peace, Justice (Hardcover)
Chris Andrews, Matt McGuire
R4,172 Discovery Miles 41 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book brings together a variety of perspectives to explore the role of literature in the aftermath of political conflict, studying the ways in which writers approach violent conflict and the equally important subject of peace. Essays put insights from Peace and Conflict Studies into dialog with the unique ways in which literature attempts to understand the past, and to reimagine both the present and the future, exploring concepts like truth and reconciliation, post-traumatic memory, historical reckoning, therapeutic storytelling, transitional justice, archival memory, and questions about victimhood and reparation. Drawing on a range of literary texts and addressing a variety of post-conflict societies, this volume charts and explores the ways in which literature attempts to depict and make sense of this new philosophical terrain. As such, it aims to offer a self-conscious examination of literature, and the discipline of literary studies, considering the ability of both to interrogate and explore the legacies of political and civil conflict around the world. The book focuses on the experience of post-Apartheid South Africa, post-Troubles Northern Ireland, and post-dictatorship Latin America. The recent history of these regions, and in particular their acute experience of ethno-religious and civil conflict, make them highly productive contexts in which to begin examining the role of literature in the aftermath of social trauma. Rather than a definitive account of the subject, the collection defines a new field for literary studies, and opens it up to scholars working in other regional and national contexts. To this end, the book includes essays on post-1989 Germany, post-9/11 United States, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Sierra Leone, and narratives of asylum seeker/refugee communities. This volume's comparative frame draws on well-established precedents for thinking about the cultural politics of these regions, making it a valuable resource for scholars of Comparative Literature, Peace and Conflicts Studies, Human Rights, Transitional Justice, and the Politics of Literature.

Birthday (Paperback): Cesar Aira Birthday (Paperback)
Cesar Aira; Translated by Chris Andrews 1
R273 R187 Discovery Miles 1 870 Save R86 (32%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

`Suddenly it hits you: you're not twenty; you're not young any more . . . and in the meantime, while you were thinking about something else, the world has changed.'Birthday begins with a fiftieth birthday. It comes and goes without fanfare, but just a few months later, an apparently banal comment that reveals a gap in the author's knowledge of the world prompts him to sit down in a cafe and write. As he sifts through anecdotes and weaves memories together, Aira reflects on the origin of his beliefs and his incapacity to live, on literature understood from the author's and the reader's point of view, on death and the Last Judgement.

The Famous Magician (Hardcover): Cesar Aira The Famous Magician (Hardcover)
Cesar Aira; Translated by Chris Andrews
R402 R319 Discovery Miles 3 190 Save R83 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A certain writer ("past sixty, enjoying 'a certain renown'") strolls through the old book market in a Buenos Aires park: "My Sunday walk through the market, repeated over so many years, was part of my general fantasizing about books." Unfortunately, he is suffering from writer's block. However, that proves to be the least of our hero's problems. In the market, he fails to avoid the insufferable boor Ovando-"a complete loser" but a "man supremely full of himself: Conceit was never less justified." And yet, is Ovando a master magician? Can he turn sugar cubes into pure gold? And can our protagonist decline the offer Ovando proposes granting him absolute power if the writer never in his life reads another book? And is his publisher also a great magician? And the writer's wife? Only Cesar Aira could have cooked up this witch's potion (and only he would plop in phantom Mont Blanc pens as well as fearsome crocodiles from the banks of the Nile)-a brew bubbling over with the question: where does literature end and magic begin?

Cotswold Scene - A View of the Hills and Surrounding Areas, Including Bath and Stratford Upon Avon (Paperback, 3rd Revised... Cotswold Scene - A View of the Hills and Surrounding Areas, Including Bath and Stratford Upon Avon (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
Chris Andrews, Fiona Danks; Photographs by Chris Andrews
R470 R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Save R81 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This is a landscape format, paperback book, showing the charm of the Cotswold Villages. It contains 160 pages consisting mainly of colour photographs with 'single line' text descriptions. It also includes text and colour photographs of Bath in the South and Stratford upon Avon in the North.

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (Paperback): Cesar Aira An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (Paperback)
Cesar Aira; Translated by Chris Andrews; Preface by Roberto Bolano
R302 R242 Discovery Miles 2 420 Save R60 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von Humboldt to travel West from Europe to record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. Rugendas did in fact become one of the best of the nineteenth-century European painters to venture into Latin America. However this is not a biography of Rugendas. This work of fiction weaves an almost surreal history around the secret objective behind Rugendas' trips to America: to visit Argentina in order to achieve in art the "physiognomic totality" of von Humboldt's scientific vision of the whole. Rugendas is convinced that only in the mysterious vastness of the immense plains will he find true inspiration. A brief and dramatic visit to Mendosa gives him the chance to fulfill his dream. From there he travels straight out onto the pampas, praying for that impossible moment, which would come only at an immense pricean almost monstrously exorbitant price that would ultimately challenge his drawing and force him to create a new way of making art. A strange episode that he could not avoid absorbing savagely into his own body interrupts the trip and irreversibly and explosively marks him for life.

Alderney - A Little Souvenir (Hardcover): Chris Andrews Alderney - A Little Souvenir (Hardcover)
Chris Andrews
R209 R171 Discovery Miles 1 710 Save R38 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A souvenir picture book which contains over 60 colour photographs of the Channel Island of Alderney

Jersey - A Little Souvenir (Hardcover): Chris Andrews Jersey - A Little Souvenir (Hardcover)
Chris Andrews
R209 R171 Discovery Miles 1 710 Save R38 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A souvenir picture book containing over 60 colour photographs, which shows the charm of the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands.

Nazi Literature in the Americas (Paperback): Roberto Bolano Nazi Literature in the Americas (Paperback)
Roberto Bolano; Translated by Chris Andrews 1
R299 R231 Discovery Miles 2 310 Save R68 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Featuring several mass-murdering authors, two fraternal writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring and a poet who crafts his lines in the air with sky writing, Roberto Bolano's Nazi Literature in the Americas details the lives of a rich cast of characters from one of the most extraordinary imaginations in world literature. Written with sharp wit and virtuosic flair, this encyclopaedic group of fictional pan-American authors is the terrifyingly humorous and remarkably inventive masterpiece which made Bolano famous throughout the Spanish-speaking world.

Cotswolds Diary - 2024: Chris Andrews Cotswolds Diary - 2024
Chris Andrews; Photographs by Chris Andrews
R271 Discovery Miles 2 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Spiral bound, 16 month diary with a week to a page. Interspersed with 31 colour photographs of the Cotswolds - villages and landscapes. Includes 2021 year planner. Lies flat when open

Roberto Bolano's Fiction - An Expanding Universe (Hardcover): Chris Andrews Roberto Bolano's Fiction - An Expanding Universe (Hardcover)
Chris Andrews
R1,901 R1,799 Discovery Miles 17 990 Save R102 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading translator of Bolano's work into English, explores the singular achievements of the author's oeuvre, engaging with its distinct style and key thematic concerns, incorporating his novels and stories into the larger history of Latin American and global literary fiction. Andrews provides new readings and interpretations of Bolano's novels, including 2666, The Savage Detectives, and By Night in Chile, while at the same time examining the ideas and narrative strategies that unify his work. He begins with a consideration of the reception of Bolano's fiction in English translation, examining the reasons behind its popularity. Subsequent chapters explore aspects of Bolano's fictional universe and the political, ethical, and aesthetic values that shape it. Bolano emerges as the inventor of a prodigiously effective "fiction-making system," a subtle handler of suspense, a chronicler of aimlessness, a celebrator of courage, an anatomist of evil, and a proponent of youthful openness. Written in a clear and engaging style, Roberto Bolano's Fiction offers an invaluable understanding of one of the most important authors of the last thirty years.

Jericho Oxford (Paperback): Mark Davies, John Mair Jericho Oxford (Paperback)
Mark Davies, John Mair; Illustrated by Valerie Petts, Chris Andrews, Paul Southouse; Edited by …
R589 R477 Discovery Miles 4 770 Save R112 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book celebrates one of Oxford's most distinctive areas, close to the city centre. Previously a slum of workers' cottages, plenty of pubs, and even some brothels, today it is vibrant and developing. Jericho was Oxford's first planned suburb, given particular distinctiveness by its canalside location, and was thoroughly working class until the latter 20th century. Yet it was also the cradle of the Pre-Raphaelites, source of the very first copies of Alice in Wonderland, the catalyst for Inspector Morse, a nursery of the Oxford music scene, and the literary inspiration for authors such as Thomas Hardy, R. D. Blackmore, John Betjeman, and Sir Philip Pullman. This book is a visual celebration with new pictures, paintings, and illustrations, plus an accessible guide to the history of Greater Jericho and a nod to its bright future as a centre for culture.

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