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Founded in 1898, Duckworth is an independent publisher with a general trade and academic list. Duckworth General publishes literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction, including history, biography and memoir. Authors include John Bayley, Beryl Bainbridge, Robert Littell, Joan Bakewell, J J Connolly, Mary Warnock, William Vollmann and Helmut Newton. Recently, it has enjoyed success with Clive Woodall’s One for Sorrow and J J Connolly’s Layer Cake, which reached number one and two respectively on the independent publisher bestseller list. Duckworth Academic features important new scholarly monographs and series in Archaeology, Classics, Ancient History and Ancient Philosophy. Its extensive backlist of both Duckworth and Bristol Classical Press titles includes school and student texts in Latin, Greek, Russian, French, German and Spanish language and literature. Duckworth also has a list of Russian literature in translation published under the Ardis imprint. Duckworth is associated with the Overlook Press in New York. |
The Atheist’s Bible: An Illustrious Collection of Irreverent Thoughts"All thinking men are atheists", Ernest hemingway once famously wrote. True? Here are quips, quotes and questions from a distinguished assortment of geniuses and jokers, giving eaders a chance to decide for themselves. . .
Traversa: A Solo Walk Across Africa, From the Skeleton Coast to the Indian OceanFran Sandham’s incredible account of his 3,000-mile solo walk across Africa, finally available in paperback.
Becoming Female: The Male Body in Greek TragedyIn the first book-length examination of the body in classical Athenian tragedy, Cawthorn reconsiders the figure of the male tragic hero, making use of both feminist and body theory. The male hero becomes female in the space of tragedy through the experience of suffering, and seems unable to return to any secure expression of masculinity. This state of the dissolute male hero extends to affect the audience so that it too becomes feminised by the processes of tragedy.
Vicious Circle: A Novel Of ComplicityThe winner of the LA Times Book Prize, finally available in paperback. The award-winning author of the forthcoming BBC drama, The Company, returns with a blockbusting thriller that interrogates the brutal psychology of a conflict that has defined our age.
In Search of the GreeksIn Search of the Greeks is a lively introduction to the societies of Classical Greece written specifically for students and teachers of Classical Civilisation at GCSE. No comparable textbook exists at this level.
Guantanamo: A Novel'One of the best, if not the best German novel to be published since the dawn of the new millennium' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Guantanamo is the meticulously researched story of a young German of mixed Muslim Indian and German heritage, whose journey to his father’s country to claim his inheritance leads to a tragic twist of fate when he is captured and deported to Guantanamo Bay. |
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