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Short Stories from a Damaged PlanetA stellar line-up of fiction writers envision the terrors of impending climate change.The size and severity of the global climate crisis is such that even the most committed environmentalists are liable to live in a state of denial. The award-winning writers collected here have made it their task to shake off this...

An epic joyful and explosive insurrection from the poet of youth rebellion.For a brief explosive period in the mid-1970s, the young and the unemployed of ItalyAAAa AaAAaAaAAAAAaAAAAaAAAaAA!AAaAaAAAAAaAAAAaAAAaAA?AAaAaAAs cities joined the workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its AAAa...

A NovelVoracious capitalism meets provincialism in this blackly comic novel of love and money in 1970s England.No one was more surprised than cynical former academic George Timmins when his old friend and property magnate David Adler contacted him out of the blue. Adler had news: not only did he have plans to pull down the centre of their childhood...

A sardonic reflection on the idealisms and absurdities of intellectual youth.The Conspiracy is the last and most acclaimed novel by French writer and activist Paul Nizan, who died two years after its publication fighting the Germans at the Battle of Dunkirk. Hailed by Jean-Paul Sartre as NizanAAAa...