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| Title: A Curious Child |
| By (author): Richard Walker |
| ISBN10-13: 191427878X : 9781914278785 |
| With an Introduction by Dr Kit Heyam, author of Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender In a Cairo clinic, Ronny recovers from gender-affirming surgery. Her grandmother, mother and then Ronny herself sift through their pasts in search of what has led to this radical self-transformation. From decades of Home Counties respectability emerge buried family secrets â of hidden love, thwarted hopes and desires, stifled by conformity and the bonds of duty from which Ronny has broken free. First published in 1989, A Curious Child is innovative for being written from the perspective of a transgender person and her family. Amaurea Press is very happy to be bringing this back into print. |
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Pages: 308
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| Published: Amaurea Press - November 2025 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 12.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
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| Title: 1 of: 16 |
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| Title: Anima Fatua |
| By (author): Anna Lidia Vega Serova Translated by: Robin Munby |
| ISBN10-13: 1914278801 : 9781914278808 |
| Winner English PEN Translates Award 2025 ï"¿In Anima Fatua, Anna Lidia Vega Serova draws on her own experiences of growing up in the late Soviet Union to craft a deeply unsettling coming-of-age novel. In the wake of her parentâ s divorce, Alia (the novelâ s beguiling protagonist) is forced to negotiated her linguistic, racial and sexual otherness amid the maelstrom of perestroika. Despite the many horrors to which she is exposed, largely at the hands of the novelâ s grim menagerie of male characters, Alia exerts her own agency at every turn. More antihero than tragic victim, Alia responds in kind to the cruelty around her. She confounds and enthrals as she leads us on a harrowing journey through a country on the brink. Originally published in Spanish to much acclaim in 2008, it has now been translated for the first time into English by Robin Munby â and has been awarded an English PEN Translates award. This is a story full of emotional intensity and dark humour, which in particular will appeal to readers of Margarita GarcÃa Robayo, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya or Sayaka Murata, looking to delve back into world of complex, charismatic women. |
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Pages: 334
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| Published: Amaurea Press - June 2025 |
| Format: Hardback |
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| List Price: 20.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 2 of: 16 |
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| Title: Better Broken Than New |
| Sub-title: A Fragmented Memoir |
| By (author): Lisa St Aubin de Terán |
| ISBN10-13: 1914278127 : 9781914278129 |
| Following a successful career as an award-winning, best- selling novelist, in 2004 Lisa St Aubin de Terán retreated to a remote village in northern Mozambique. There she found her own African roots, founded a charity, and confronted new challenges. Much has been written about her life and escapades with a trio of Venezuelan exiles, life on an Andean hacienda, her return to literary fame, and two decades living in a crumbling Umbrian palace. But despite all the media hype about her, she managed to hide much of her actual life. Now, like the Japanese art of kintsugi, in this new memoir Lisa puts the shattered pieces of her life back together, filling in many of the dramatic, and often scandalous, gaps. While her life has been said to be stranger than fiction, it is fiction that has kept her afloat. This autobiography sets the record straight and shows a writer who for over half a century has enjoyed following her dreams, even when those dreams outdistanced her reach. |
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"A spellbinding storyteller." -- The Listener
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"An extraordinary woman...if you encountered her as a character in a novel, you'd want to read on." - Express
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"Sensual, impressionistic prose that recreates vividly her experiences." -- The Times
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Pages: 326
Size: 234x153xmm
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| Published: Amaurea Press - January 2024 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Memoirs |
| List Price: 19.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
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| Title: 3 of: 16 |
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| Title: Highlife |
| Sub-title: & my Other Lives |
| By (author): Richard Walker |
| ISBN10-13: 1914278763 : 9781914278761 |
| As a boy, Richard went to live in Ghana where he danced with his parents and their friends to Highlife music, the foundation of Afrobeat. This experience set the tone and tenor for the rest of his life. A life in which music, poetry, literature, theatre, art, travel, nature and love entwine. Performing at the Edinburgh Festival, he met Lauren, who became his soulmate. His story weaves their enduring romance through a life that brought them adventures in many parts of the world: Thailand, Nigeria, India, Brazil, Cyprus, Greece. On the Peloponnese coast by a turtle beach, they create the perfect place to live out the rest of their lives together. But their dream is prematurely cut short. Both irreverent and moving, this is a story that will inspire the reader to value each day as a unique adventure and experience. |
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Pages: 290
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| Published: Amaurea Press - May 2025 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Memoirs |
| List Price: 23.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 278 |
| Title: 4 of: 16 |
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| Title: Jazz Habana |
| Sub-title: Siete Miradas/Seven Views. A Photographic celebration of Cuban Jazz |
| By (author): Abel Carmenate, Xavier Carvajal, Maité Fernández, Elio Miniello, Enrique â Kikeâ Smith, Gonzalo Vidal, Jorge Vila |
| ISBN10-13: 1914278704 : 9781914278709 |
| In this photographic collection, seven photographers who have built their artistic reputation documenting Cuban jazz over the years, bring together images celebrating the musicians who have performed at Jazz Plaza â Havanaâ s annual international jazz festival. These photographers present very personal, subjective views on the jazz performances that they document. The images themselves becoming silent participants in the events they show, demonstrating that without photography, jazz would not be the same. |
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Pages: 96
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| Published: Amaurea Press - November 2024 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Memoirs |
| List Price: 39.95 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 5 of: 16 |
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| Title: Keepers of the House |
| Sub-title: A Fragmented Memoir |
| By (author): Lisa St Aubin de Terán |
| ISBN10-13: 191427816X : 9781914278167 |
| A new edition of the best-selling, award-winning first book. When the Beltrán brothers came to this Andean valley, they found behind barred windows beautiful twin sisters â last in the line of an illustrious conquistador. Through them the Beltrán dynasty was born â a dynasty that ruled the valley for 200 years and was now returning to the dust. Two centuries later, Lydia Sinclair was scarcely out of school when she fell in love with Don Diego Beltrán and left England behind for her husbandâ s Andean estate. Benito, the familyâ s oldest retainer, said that through her the valley would not be forgotten: 'Fate has brought you here to us, to chronicle our decline.' In the night's stillness he told her of romance and battle, drought and pestilence, splendour and suffering. The characters in the valley's tumultuous history rose up before Lydia as if they still roamed the dusty slopes: Admiral Silence who enjoyed no one's company so decided never to speak again; General Mario who prophesied the ruin of their valley as he decayed from leprosy behind a mask; MarÃa Candelaria whose beauty and wildness caused the massacre of nearly half of the Beltráns; La Comadre Matilide, the peasant woman of striking ugliness whom people bribed to stay in their houses because her departure left a sense of ill omen; the aged sisters who sat amidst hoards of china and gambled at cards for their every move. Finally there was Cristóbal Beltrán, who sifted the sand in the hourglass, ageless and all-knowing and indestructable. Out of the upheaval and decay come a narrative and language astonishing in their fertility. This new edition accompanies the publication of Lisaâ s new memoir, Better Broken Than New. |
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"A genuine and haunting and unforgettable work of art. It is this novel's triumph to be consistently exhilarating, never less than a pleasure to read." - Standard
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"Has something of Márquez's power of depicting in microcosm the cruelties and catastrophes, the endemic corruption, and the feudal relationship with death and the supernatural that characterises South American life." -- New Statesman
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"Richly evocative and cunningly crafted." - Observer
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"This is an account - particularly gripping because of the quality of the writing and the esoteric setting - of a strong-willed young woman's education by experience." -- Times Literary Supplement
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Pages: 206
Size: 216x135xmm
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| Published: Amaurea Press - January 2024 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 9.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 445 |
| Title: 6 of: 16 |
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| Title: Kin Kilts & Kolonie |
| Sub-title: Scottish Sojourners in the Dutch Empire in Asia |
| By (author): G. Roger Knight |
| ISBN10-13: 1914278933 : 9781914278938 |
| Scotlandâ s diaspora, reframed through the Dutch East Indies: the intertwined lives of Highland lairds, Islay farmers and metropolitan merchants who built fortunes, and families, on the island of Java. A vivid group portrait of Scots who embedded themselves in the Dutch colonial world. Centering on the Batavia firm of Maclaine Watson & Co., G. Roger Knight draws on letters, newspapers, government and family archives to trace how sugar, trade and marriage created trans-imperial networks from Mull and Islay to Java, Singapore, the Low Countries and Australia. A fresh, unromantic, sharply observed study of Scottish ambition, mobility and identity across imperial bounds in the long-nineteenth century. From masked balls in Batavia to deer-stalking on Mull, Kin, Kilts and Kolonie follows Scots who made their lives and livelihoods within another European empire. At its heart stands Maclaine Watson & Co., a Batavia merchant house linking Highland clans, Scots â glocalisersâ , and trans imperial merchants, in a web of kin, capital and commerce. Through families such as the Maclaines, McNeills, Frasers and McLachlans, Knight charts the fortunes of sojourners â men and women who set out to return home richer, and largely did â leaving descendants and investments across Asia, Europe and the Antipodes. Blending intimate biography with incisive economic history, Knight shows how wealth, power and marriage shaped both the Dutch colony and the Scots who thrived within it. Erudite, humane and unsparing, Knight reveals how Scotlandâ s imperial fortunes were forged far from home â and how their legacies endured long after the ships returned. |
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Pages: 396
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| Published: Amaurea Press - March 2026 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 40.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 75 |
| Title: 7 of: 16 |
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| Title: The Bay of Silence |
| By (author): Lisa St Aubin de Terán |
| ISBN10-13: 1914278259 : 9781914278259 |
| A new edition of the best-selling fourth novel. It all appears innocent enough: a handsome couple in their thirties â she an actress, he a successful graphic designer â revisiting Sestri Levante on the Italian Riviera where they once spent their honeymoon. But it is not at all innocent. The couple have been driven here by paranoia â by a slow dread of what will happen to the two of them and to their daughters if anyone finds out about their baby Amadeo, whose identity, and even whose existence, is at the heart of the schizophrenic illness from which Rosalind has long suffered. Two people hiding the world from each other, Rosalind and William cannot escape the chilling truth that lies at the centre of Lisa St Aubin de Terán's compelling novel. The resort of Sestri Levante has twin, Janus-facing bays: one which Hans Christian Andersen called the Bay of Fairytales and another which the local people have long called the Bay of Silence. It is to the Bay of Silence that Rosalind now retraces her steps â to the spot where she first encountered the exotic golden stranger Angelo who was to play such a seductive and haunting role on her honeymoon and in her marriage. Both she and her husband independently try to make sense of the tragic events which have engulfed their lives. They each try to analyse the pressure placed on their marriage â which has allowed distressing events to be forgotten and self-delusion to herald the unthinkable. In her fourth novel, Lisa St Aubin de Terán creates an atmosphere which is profoundly unsettling. She weaves an escalating story of tension and human drama, combining the depth of character analysis which was so admired in The Tiger, with a striking new sense of pace and menace. Lisa St Aubin de Terán is the prize-winning Anglo-Guyanese London-born author of 20 books, including novels, short stories and nonfiction. Much of her writing draws on her varied life experiences. And time warps, rural communities, isolation and grace under pressure are still the dominant themes in both her life and work. |
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"She has the surrealist's gift for making the mundane exotic." -- Financial Times
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"Combines a powerful sense of place with an unusually compassionate understanding of human complexity." -- Daily Telegraph
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Pages: 172
Size: 216x135xmm
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| Published: Amaurea Press - January 2024 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 9.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 502 |
| Title: 8 of: 16 |
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| Title: The Hobby |
| By (author): Lisa St Aubin de Terán |
| ISBN10-13: 1914278275 : 9781914278273 |
A dark psychological police procedural in the tradition of P. D. James and Tana French. When a routine police visit to investigate a peeping-tom complaint uncovers the first thread of a hidden network of abuse and murder, Detective John Custer becomes determined to pursue crimes that others would rather leave buried â even as the narrative enters the minds of those responsible. When London police pay a visit to what appears to be nothing more than an elderly peeping tom, they unexpectedly stumble upon a loose thread that leads Detective John Custer into a dismal world of sex crimes, hidden graves and powerful and respected paedophiles. Ignoring the scepticism of his colleagues and superiors, Custer stubbornly follows his intuition to unravel the web of crimes gone cold. Inspired by recent revelations of elite paedophile networks and cases of child abuse, The Hobby is a psychologically layered police procedural that follows Custer and his assistant, Sergeant Jolly Campbell, as they discover a network of crimes. Moving beyond the investigation itself, the narrative also enters the minds of the perpetrators, revealing the disturbing logic and hidden histories behind their crimes. From the fan club of a 1940s child star, through Istanbul, war-torn Burma and Cairo, and back to 1980s Britain, Custer and Campbell seek to bring justice to long-forgotten victims while vying for their own personal redemption. â The author has an enviable narrative gift, and there is something magical about her deployment of it.â -- The Guardian, on Lisa St Aubin de Terán A tense and disturbing psychological crime novel likely to appeal to readers of writers such as P. D. James, Ian Rankin, Elizabeth George, Tana French, Kate Atkinson and Alan Parks. |
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Pages: 384
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| Published: Amaurea Press - November 2024 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 22.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 156 |
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| Title: The Hobby |
| By (author): Lisa St Aubin de Terán |
| ISBN10-13: 1914278283 : 9781914278280 |
A dark psychological police procedural in the tradition of P. D. James and Tana French. When a routine police visit to investigate a peeping-tom complaint uncovers the first thread of a hidden network of abuse and murder, Detective John Custer becomes determined to pursue crimes that others would rather leave buried â even as the narrative enters the minds of those responsible. When London police pay a visit to what appears to be nothing more than an elderly peeping tom, they unexpectedly stumble upon a loose thread that leads Detective John Custer into a dismal world of sex crimes, hidden graves and powerful and respected paedophiles. Ignoring the scepticism of his colleagues and superiors, Custer stubbornly follows his intuition to unravel the web of crimes gone cold. Inspired by recent revelations of elite paedophile networks and cases of child abuse, The Hobby is a psychologically layered police procedural that follows Custer and his assistant, Sergeant Jolly Campbell, as they discover a network of crimes. Moving beyond the investigation itself, the narrative also enters the minds of the perpetrators, revealing the disturbing logic and hidden histories behind their crimes. From the fan club of a 1940s child star, through Istanbul, war-torn Burma and Cairo, and back to 1980s Britain, Custer and Campbell seek to bring justice to long-forgotten victims while vying for their own personal redemption. â The author has an enviable narrative gift, and there is something magical about her deployment of it.â -- The Guardian, on Lisa St Aubin de Terán A tense and disturbing psychological crime novel likely to appeal to readers of writers such as P. D. James, Ian Rankin, Elizabeth George, Tana French, Kate Atkinson and Alan Parks. |
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Pages: 478
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| Published: Amaurea Press - May 2026 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 12.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Not yet Published
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