Sandalwood Death (Mo Yan)(Paperback)

Sandalwood Death (Mo Yan)(Paperback)

This powerful novel by Mo Yan--one of contemporary China's most famous and prolific writers--is both a stirring love story and an unsparing critique of political corruption during the final years of the Qing Dynasty, China's last imperial epoch.Sandalwood Death is set during the Boxer Rebellion

Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh (Yan Mo)(Paperback)

Mo Yan, China's most critically acclaimed author, has changed the face of his country's contemporary literature with such daring and masterly novels as Red Sorghum, The Garlic Ballads, and The Republic of Wine. In this collection of eight astonishing stories--the title story of which has been

Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (Yan Mo)(Paperback)

Today's most revered, feared, and controversial Chinese novelist offers a tour de force in which the real, the absurd, the comical, and the tragic are blended into a fascinating read. The hero--or antihero--of Mo Yan's new novel is Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his benevolence to his peasants

Pow! (Yan Mo)(Paperback)

In this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Mo Yan, a benign old monk listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama--in which nearly everyone dies--unfurls. But in this tale of sharp hatchets, bad water, and a

Frog (Yan Mo)(Paperback / softback)

Gugu is beautiful, charismatic and of an unimpeachable political background. A respected midwife, she combines modern medical knowledge with a healer's touch to save the lives of village women and their

Garlic Ballads (Yan Mo)(Paperback / softback)

An epic tale of love and loyalty, beauty and brutality by China's greatest living

Red Sorghum (Yan Mo)(Paperback / softback)

Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty as the Chinese battle both the Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. As the novel opens, a group of

Death Stranding - Death Stranding: The Official Novelization - Volume 2 (Yano Kenji)(Paperback)

The second volume of the official novelization of the best-selling and award-winning videogame Death Stranding, created by legendary game-creator Hideo Kojima. Mysterious explosions have rocked the planet, setting off a series of supernatural phenomena known as the Death Stranding. Spectral

Understanding How We Learn: A Visual Guide (Weinstein Yana)(Paperback)

Educational practice does not, for the most part, rely on research findings. Instead, there's a preference for relying on our intuitions about what's best for learning. But relying on intuition may be a bad idea for teachers and learners alike. This accessible guide helps teachers to integrate

Germanicus: The Magnificent Life and Mysterious Death of Rome's Most Popular General (Powell Lindsay)(Paperback)

Photography and Death (Linkman Audrey)(Paperback)

The idea of photographing the dead is as old as photography itself. For the most part, early death photographs were commissioned or taken by relatives of the deceased and preserved in the home as part of the family collection. Once thought inappropriate and macabre, today these photographs are

The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback)

Tolstoy's most famous novella is an intense and moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption, here in a powerful translation by the award-winning Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Ivan Ilyich is a middle-aged man who has spent his life focused on his career as a bureaucrat

The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret (Derrida Jacques)(Paperback)

Good Grief (Mayer Catherine)(Paperback)

'The most life-affirming book ever written about death.' Sandi Toksvig'One of the most powerful and helpful books about grief that you will ever read.' Anita Anand'Grief is more than the price of love. It is love. We must learn not just to live with it, but to make it

Day the Sun Died (Lianke Yan)(Paperback / softback)

Strange Beasts of China (Yan Ge)(Paperback / softback)

Death on the Nile (Christie Agatha)(Paperback / softback)

Agatha Christie's most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book

Death in Her Hands (Moshfegh Ottessa)(Paperback)

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by: The Washington Post, Vogue, Marie Claire, Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, New York Magazine, Paste Magazine, LitHub, E! News Online, and many more From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense

Death at Breakfast (Rhode John)(Paperback / softback)

A classic winter's crime novel by one of the most highly regarded exponents of the

Inkdeath (2020 reissue) (Funke Cornelia)(Paperback / softback)

Mo and Meggie are trapped inside a story. If they make a nightmare deal with death, will they finally

Pragmatics (Huang Yan)(Paperback)

Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics - the study of language in use - has been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on reference, a major topic in both linguistics and the philosophy of language. Chapters have also been updated to include

Artaud the Mmo (Artaud Antonin)(Paperback)

Artaud the M mo is Antonin Artaud's most extraordinary poetic work from the brief final phase of his life, from his return to Paris in 1946 after nine years of incarceration in French psychiatric institutions to his death in 1948. This work is an unprecedented anatomical excavation carried through

Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs (Willems Mo)(Paperback / softback)

A hugely entertaining and riotous re-telling of a classic fairy tale from one of the most original and funny voices in children's books

Promises and Pomegranates (Miller Sav R.)(Paperback)

ElenaTo most, Kal Anderson is a villain.Harbinger of death, keeper of souls, frequenter of nightmares.Doctor Death. Hades incarnate.They say he stole me.Usurped my fiancé and filled the cracks in my heart with empty promises.Imprinted his crimson fingerprints on my psyche and tried to set me