Jewish Entrepreneurship In Salonica, 1912-1940: An Ethnic Economy In Transition By Orly C. Meron In this book the author, Dr Orly C Meron, provides a multidisciplinary exploration of Salonica’s Jewish-owned economy between the years 1912-1940, a period prior to and during Greece’s national consolidation. Based on original and newly anal…
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Jewish Entrepreneurship In Salonica
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Flood’s Mousey Mousey popular
December 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Children’s author Heather Flood’s heroine Mousey Mousey has been hailed by fellow authors, children and parents as the cutest mouse ever – topping Walt Disney’s Mickey and Minnie and the little mouse in The Gruffalo! Heather’s adorable characters from Mousey Mousey and the Witches’ Revenge have become cult figure…
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Bangers and Mash
December 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Bangers and Mash is no ordinary life story – it’s a tourist’s guide to cancer treatment in pictures. “Being treated for cancer is like being in a foreign country” is how author Keith Hern puts it, “and what you really need is a guidebook.” Early on in Keith’s battle against throat cancer he began to […
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Midnight Alley by Miles Corwin
October 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Booklist, Starred Review, February, 2012 “Recommend this superb novel to fans of crime thrillers and police procedurals…” Ash Levine, the top detective in the LAPD’s elite Felony Special Squad, is called out to solve the murder of two young black men found shot to death in a Venice alley. The case is a high priority [...]
Platform Shoes
September 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Mysterious Email Messages And A Pair Of Platform Shoes…? Sherbet dib-dabs, The Sweeney, bubble lamps and watching Top of the Pops every Thursday evening… Fond memories of the 1970s and a hankering for a simpler, less complicated world were the inspiration for this contemporary short story. Platform Shoes by Marie Savakis will transport the …
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New Zealand writers – a short introduction
September 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
New Zealand’s diverse literary tradition owes as much to its rich Māori and Polynesian heritage as it does to its pioneering history. Before the printed word, story-telling and oratory captured the stories of Aotearoa New Zealand. The first book was published in New Zealand in 1830. By the 20th century authors were expanding their literary [...]…
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The Impossible Museum
September 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
On 1 October Prestel publishes The Impossible Museum: The Best Art You’ll Never See by Celine Delavaux. Published by Prestel: 1 October 2012 Spanning centuries, and encompassing a variety of masterpieces—from paintings on canvas and cave walls to structures and jewellery—this fascinating compendium of “lost art” takes readers …
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Clarus Press Publishes Neighbours and the Law
September 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Clarus Press has launched the first publication in Ireland to deal specifically with the range of legal issues that arises between neighbours. The newly published law book entitled “Neighbours and the Law” provides an up-to-date analysis of neighbourhood law guiding the reader through the many intricacies and pitfalls. Readers will get …
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Catch Up With Dickens
August 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The great great great grand-daughter of Charles Dickens, author Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, is to give a talk about the man behind the classic novels at His Majesty’s Theatre in Aberdeen this November. She will give a pre-show talk to ticket holders prior to the matinee performance of Great Expectations on Thursday, November 8 at 12.30pm. [...]…
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Irish Academic Press Launches New History Imprint
June 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Lovers of Irish history will be in for a treat as 2012 sees the unveiling of a new Irish history book imprint from Irish Academic Press. Named Merrion, and using a Dublin doorway as its logo, the new imprint seeks to produce exciting and powerful popular history in paperback at an accessible price. The books [...]
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