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Beyond the Roadblocks - Squibs & long shots 1984-2015
by Jonathan Falla
Price:
$5.00 USD.
Words: 71,380.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: November 1, 2017
by
Stupor Mundi Books.
Categories:
Nonfiction » History, Essay » Literature, Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir, Nonfiction » History » Revolutionary, Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Literacy » General
"Forty-eight occasional pieces ranging from the music of forest rebels to Arabic novels by way of Kenyan trains and the automatic pistols in my mother's attic." Jonathan Falla's life and work has taken him from origins in the Caribbean to disaster relief agencies and children's rights, by way of university scholarships and nursing. His writing career includes award-winning stage and film drama...
Poor Mercy
by Jonathan Falla
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 92,420.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: October 10, 2022
by
Stupor Mundi Books.
Categories:
Fiction, Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Alternative history, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Political
Jonathan Falla, author of the acclaimed Blue Poppies, follows up with a devastating story set among the harsh deserts of Western Sudan. Ten years in the writing, the book is disturbingly prescient of recent events. Set in Darfur, this is the dramatic and frightening story of improbable love between two people working for a European aid agency caught up in an African crisis. Mogga and Leila, a...
Felix Underground
by Patrick Patourel
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 37,240.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: March 23, 2018
by
Stupor Mundi Books.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Children's Books » Fiction
In a dark old factory in a sinister old town, a young boy is working to feed his family. Felix is training as a printer - until: disaster! He drops a letter down the drain, and before he knows what is happening he is dragged underground also, down to a world of boiling mud and beetles where child prisoners mine for gold, guarded by talking green gas and menaced by white alligators which are...
Ivory Towers
by R.B. Le Page
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 153,160.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: May 13, 2018
by
Stupor Mundi Books.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir, Nonfiction » Biography » Teachers & educators, Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Research, Nonfiction » Social Science » Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
R B Le Page (1920-2006) was one of the founding fathers of sociolinguistics. From an impoverished and unpromising start in east London WW2, and after a dangerous few years flying against submarines during the war, he worked his way through Oxford to become a young lecturer at the new University College of the West Indies in the 1950s, then a professorship in Malaya, and finally at York...
The Morena
by Jonathan Falla
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 89,590.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: November 1, 2017
by
Stupor Mundi Books.
Categories:
Fiction, Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
A quietly devastating tale of innocence caught up in civil war, Jonathan Falla's The Morena was shortlisted for the National SHort Story Prize. Other tales here have been widely published and broadcast of BBC Radio, and won a PEN fiction prize. "Glacial and understated, Falla's prose has an almost mythical quality. Beautifully evocative and utterly engrossing." Textualities.com
Terraferma
by Jonathan Falla
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 65,050.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: November 1, 2017
by
Stupor Mundi Books.
Categories:
Fiction, Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
The killing of a mammoth obstructing the tourist routes in the Scottish Highlands, and the death of a Red Brigade terrorist in an attic overlooking the Venetian lagoon. Desperate negotiations with an architect in Iran, and the beating of an aid worker for failing to deliver rain - these are some of the startling scenarios of Jonathan Falla's second collection of stories. "Falla's harsh, precise...
Good News From Riga
by Jonathan Falla
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 70,490.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: March 23, 2018
by
Stupor Mundi Books.
Categories:
Fiction, Fiction » Urban, Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias
"Your parents know that somebody is spying on them? Why doesn't your father rip down the microphone?" "He's proud of it." "Proud? It's an outrageous intrusion!" "Father says: better spied on than not worth spying on." Jonathan Falla's sixth novel is a startling and creepy tale of exiles living in ruined factories in a city determined to ignore their presence. Until, that is, a well-meaning but...
Angel Fur and Other Stories
by Csilla Toldy
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 41,140.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: October 9, 2019
by
Stupor Mundi Books.
Categories:
Fiction, Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
Twenty seven strange and unsettling stories which take us from Budapest to the Grand Canyon by way of passionate affairs in Central European apartments, and a faded Hungarian film star trying to save children from being shot. Csilla Toldy fled from the Communist regime in Hungary in 1981 and now lives in Ireland where she is known as a poet and film maker. - "After reading this collection...