Telegram Books http://www.telegrambooks.com/ Telegram Books: an independent publisher of fiction from around the world en Copyright 2009 Thu, 28 May 2009 15:53:38 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss What the Critics Say... 'Hussein vibrantly evokes the Karachi of the 1950's and 1960's in an affectionate tribute to a long marriage' Guardian

'Framed in distilled prose, this is a moving fable about this slow and sometimes startling growth of love. A slender delight.' Financial Times

'Readers of Hussein's precise poetic prose in this quietly melancholy novel will be similarly rewarded' TLS

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'Witty and thoughtful.'TLS

‘A vivid and absorbing story, fast-paced and confident of its strong historical flavourings’
Irish Times read the full review here

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Fiction
October 2009
Paperback
13 x 20 cm
270 pp
£8.99

]]> http://www.telegrambooks.com/archives/the_lamppost_diary/the_lamppost_diary_book_info/#000450 http://www.telegrambooks.com/archives/the_lamppost_diary/the_lamppost_diary_book_info/#000450 The Lamppost Diary: Book Info Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:55:45 +0000 The Lamppost Diary: About the Author Agop J. Hacikyan is a Canadian academic and writer of Armenian descent. He is the author of several books on literature and linguistics as well as five novels, including A Summer Without Dawn, an international bestseller. He has resided in Montreal since 1957.

]]> http://www.telegrambooks.com/archives/the_lamppost_diary/the_lamppost_diary_about_the_author/#000449 http://www.telegrambooks.com/archives/the_lamppost_diary/the_lamppost_diary_about_the_author/#000449 The Lamppost Diary: About the Author Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:53:24 +0000 The Lamppost Diary For young Tomas, nothing in Istanbul is certain, except perhaps the lamppost at the end of his street that he touches every day for luck on his way to school. WWII rages, the spectre of the Armenian genocide haunts his parents and he is unsure of the affections of his neighbour Anya, the daughter of White Russian
émigrés. Anya and Tomas fall in love. Ten years on, Anya is in the US studying medicine while Tomas tries to scrape enough money together to join her. He becomes the editor of a new literary magazine, and things seem to be going his way until one of his writers is brutally murdered, apparently because of a story Tomas has published. Can Tomas flee the country and rejoin Anya before getting caught up in the murder investigation?

]]> http://www.telegrambooks.com/archives/the_lamppost_diary/#000448 http://www.telegrambooks.com/archives/the_lamppost_diary/#000448 The Lamppost Diary Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:51:28 +0000 Eating Air: Excerpt To read the first two chapters of Eating Air click here

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Fiction
14 September 2009
Hardback
Demy
408 pp
£12.99

]]> http://www.telegrambooks.com/archives/eating_air/eating_air_book_info/#000446 http://www.telegrambooks.com/archives/eating_air/eating_air_book_info/#000446 Eating Air: Book Info Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:04:58 +0000 Eating Air: About the Author Guyanese-born writer and actress Pauline Melville’s first book, Shape-Shifter, won the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Macmillan Silver Pen Award and a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.

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Ella de Vries, a stunning beauty with obsidian eyes who dances with the Royal Ballet, falls in love with Donny McLeod, a Dionysiac rebel and free spirit who 'believes in nothing'.

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Mohamed Choukri was born in Morocco in 1935. He was one of North Africa 's most controversial and widely read authors, penning numerous works, including For Bread Alone and Streetwise (also available in Telegram editions). He was Chair of Arabic Literature at Ibn Batatu College in Tangier.


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Genre: Memoir
Publication: August 2009
Slipcase containing three paperback titles
Format: 13 x 20
Edition: Paperback
Price: £9.99


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To Mohamed Choukri, Tangier was 'the most extraordinary and mysterious city in the world.' A haven for many Western writers in the early twentieth century, Tangier drew the likes of Paul Bowles, Jean Genet and Tennessee Williams in the 1960s and 1970s. All were befriended by Choukri. Mohamed Choukri’s recollections of these encounters offer a unique insight into these three cult figures of twentieth-century literature.

'As a writer, he is in an enviable position.' Paul Bowles
'Gently humorous and discreet with a reticent sympathy implicit.' Tennessee Williams

]]> http://www.telegrambooks.com/archives/in_tangier_paperback/#000440 http://www.telegrambooks.com/archives/in_tangier_paperback/#000440 In Tangier Paperback Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:02:00 +0000 The Critics Say... "This elegant short novel, fluidly translated from the Arabic by Michael K. Scott, is his stream of consciousness, and provides insight into both the Shia community and the universal experience of growing old." Tablet

]]> http://www.telegrambooks.com/archives/borrowed_time/borrowed_time_reviews/#000436 http://www.telegrambooks.com/archives/borrowed_time/borrowed_time_reviews/#000436 Borrowed Time: Reviews Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:45:48 +0000 The Critics Say... "One of those books that is influential beyound all commercial measure ... it is pleasant for the Anglophone reader to run into so many texts written originally in English - and yet capable of leaping out at you in the most unexpected way. It's a testament to originality, to defiance of convention, a revolt against sentimentality, and if you ever used the term "black humour" yourself, or expressed a liking for it, then you really ought to have this on your shelf." Guardian
Read the full review here.

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