 | BROAD AND ALIEN IS THE WORLD
by Ciro Alegria
A classic of its kind: a fictional recreation of life in poor indigenous agricultural communities in the Peruvian Andes from the turn of the century until the thirties. A book which captures the beliefs, traditions and customs of these people just as the base of their social organization was facing ultimate extinction.
223x142mm 470pp
ISBN. 0850362822
1983 Paperback
Price:£12.95
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 | SANDWICHMAN
by Walter Brierley
Arthur Gardner, the Sandwichman of this novel, is a young Derbyshire miner who wants to better himself. His ambition strains his relationships with family, with workmates and with Nancy (the women he plans to marry). This edition has a twelve page introduction by Philip Gorski. The author was born in Derbyshire in 1900 and worked as a miner until 1931: he writes with power and subtlety, his book is compelling reading. He also wrote the bestseller The Means Test Man.
192x125mm: xx+283pp
0850363918
1990/1937 Paperback
Price:£6.99
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| WINTER SOLSTICE
by Dorothy Cowlin
Alexandra's contented life is shattered when she falls in love with female aviator, Iris Young. But hers was only a brittle harmony; underneath were symptoms of heterosexual tyranny and deprivation.
192x125mm 224pp
ISBN. 0850364086
1991 Paperback
Price:£5.99
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| ENGLISHMAN WITH SWORDS
by Montague Slater
A fictional journal written towards the end of the English Civil War in the years 1647-1649 by a clerk to General Fairfax.
192 x 125mm 190pp
ISBN. 0850364027
1991 Paperback
Price:£4.99
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