Peter Owen Publishers: 107 books

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by Ithell Colquhoun, Peter Owen, Eric Ratcliffe
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014

The heroine of this story (described only as "I") is compelled to visit a mysterious uncle who turns out to be a black magician who lords over a kind of Prospero's Island that exists out of time and space. Startled by his bizarre behavior and odd nocturnal movements, she eventually learns...
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Mad, Bad and Dangerous

The Eccentricity of Tyrants

by Tom Ambrose
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016

A penetrating and incisive study into the unscrupulous and fanatic minds of history's most notorious figures. From Assad to Nero, Gaddafi to Ivan the Terrible, Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Eccentricity of Tyrants presents the psychological profiles that make up a tyrant. While leaving some room...
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by Alek Popov
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016

The Black Box is the latest satirical novel from one of Europe's funniest and most exciting emerging writers. In 1990 two Bulgarian brothers, Ned and Angel, receive an unusual package from the USA: a black plastic box containing the ashes of their late father. But can either of them be sure...
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by Sigitas Parulskis
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018

Part of the Peter Owen World Series: Baltics Lithuania, 1941, Vincentas has made a Faustian pact with an SS officer: in exchange for his own safety and that of his Jewish lover, Judita, he will take photographs - 'make art' - of the mass killings of Jews in the villages and forests of his occupied...
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Nona's Room

Peter Owen World Series: Spain

by Cristina Fernandez Cubas
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017

**Winner of: Premio Nacional de Narrativa (2016) Premio de la Critica Española (2016) Premio Dulce Chacón (2016) Book of the Year 2015: La Vanguardia El Cultural Babelia ABC** An award-winning collection of six uncanny and atonal stories from one of Europe's most celebrated contemporary...
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by Kai Aareleid
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018

Part of the Peter Owen World Series: Baltics 'This story glows somewhere on the fringes of my consciousness, so close I can almost touch it.' Opening up about her family history, Tiina revisits the first two decades of her life following the Second World War, in Tartu, Estonia. The city,...
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by Anna Kavan
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001

The Parson was not published in Anna Kavan’s lifetime, but found after her death in manuscript form. Thought to have been written between the mid 50s and early 60s, it presages, through its undertones and imagery, some of Kavan’s last and most enduring fiction (such as Ice). It was published finally,...
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by Dana Todorovic
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018

A chain of unlikely events puts a violin back in the hands of ex-punk rocker and down-at-out Mortiz Toth. Tobias Keller—a Moral Issues Advisor and assistant to the Great Overseer—is under investigation for his role in the affair. To escape his certain fate, he will need to make a compelling...
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by Kristine Ulberga
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018

Part of the Peter Owen World Series: Baltics Institutionalized in an asylum, a woman with a record of hallucinations commits her life story to paper. She records, from the age of six, her earliest memories of a drunken and abusive father, the strange men her mother introduced to repair the...
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Playboy Princes

The Apprentice Years of Edward VII and VIII

by Peter Beer
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016

A fascinating dual biography proves that controversial Royal Family members are not necessarily only a feature of late 20th- or 21st-century lifeEdward VII (1841-1910) and his grandson Edward VIII (1894-1972) were born in different eras, but it is illuminating to compare the early and middle years...
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Hunted Down

The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens

by Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

A unique collection of Dickens stories, rarely seen in print, establishing him as one of the masters of the detective genre Charles Dickens was one of the great pioneers of detective fiction. While the larger-than-life characters in his novels have settled themselves in the public imagination,...
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Hunter Quatermain's Story

The Uncollected Adventures of Allan Quatermain

by H. Rider Haggard, Peter Haining
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006

Over a century after the debut of the intrepid hunter explorer Allan Quatermain in King Solomon's Mines, he remains one of the great heroes of literature whose adventures have been adapted for cinema and television. This new anthology brings to light a novelette and four short stories which have...
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by William Donaldson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014

William Donaldson reveals all in a frank and often scurrilous memoir where past and present collide in a hilarious vision of his extraordinary life. The author charts his course from his public school childhood, through production of the celebrated 1960s satire Beyond the Fringe, a riotous lifestyle...
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Arthur's Round

The Life and Times of Brewing Legend Arthur Guinness

by Patrick Guinness
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007

Ireland's best-known Irishman, his name and signature in every household and village in Ireland, and many abroad, is also the least known. Part of Dublin life for over two centuries, both family and brewery have passed into legend, but their origins have been obscured. Here, in the round, these origins...
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