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Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2018: one week to go!
Just a week to go before the winner of the Oxford–Weidenfeld Prize is revealed! Founded by Lord Weidenfeld, the prize is for book-length...
Manderley Forever, Tatiana de Rosnay
For today's book of the week, the Book Office invites you to meet Daphné du Maurier, in a biography written by Tatiana de Rosnay and...
Man Booker International Prize: and the winner is...
The Man Booker International Prize 2018 is out! Congratulations to Olga Tokarczuk for her novel Flights, and to her translator Jennifer...
American Journal, Christine Montalbetti
Have you ever tried to understand the psychology of a lump of sugar which is trying to hide from the view of the coffee drinker? A...
The Major Refutation
The book of the week unites all books: adventure book, historical panorama, satirical tale, philosophical summa, polemical mockery,...
The Patience stone, Atiq Rahimi
For today's Book of the Week, the Book Office is taking you to the privacy of an Afghan home, in which a woman attempts to keep her...
Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker - Marie Darrieussecq
The Book of the week is Marie Darrieussecq's Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker, translated by Penny Hueston and published by...
The Fabric of Citizenship: seminar series
50 years since May 1968! Events are buzzing to celebrate the anniversary of the protests, and the Book Office would like to share an...
Olivier Rolin shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize!
At the book office, we are very proud to announce that Olivier Rolin's novel Stalin’s Meteorologist: One Man’s Untold Story of Love, Life...
What is the Sharia? Baudoin Dupret
For today's book of the week, the Book Office and Baudoin Dupret ask the question What is the Sharia? The book is published by Hurst...
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