This book is jointly published by Chris Beetles Ltd and Canongate Books. This biography contains 300 plates of richness and variety, all of which are reproduced faithfully from the original artwork. The first comprehensive exhibition of Wain's work was held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 1972 and, since then, Louis Wain has steadily become more fashionable, and collected worldwide. This is Wain's world, funny, edgy and animated: a whole cat world. This is a titillating world of cats at play, uninhibited and slightly dangerous, with most group activities likely to turn into mishap, mayhem and catastrophe. Wells, these words characteristically foretold the future of the Wain cat which has, once more, become the centuĭuring their heyday, in the time before the First World War, Louis Wain's cats, dressed as humans, portrayed that stylish Edwardian world having fun: at restaurants and tea parties, going to the Race and the Seaside, celebrating at Christmas and Birthdays, and disporting themselves with exuberant games of tennis, bowls, cricket and football. 'Louis Wain invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world'. The definitive biography of the iconic English artist, packed with weird and wonderful artwork. Louis Wain's Cats by Chris Beetles $65.00 NZD And then you’ll cry and be really surprised about it since you were laughing so much.’ –Elizabeth Knox ‘Equipped with an exhilaratingly badly-behaved protagonist, She’s a Killer builds from a slice of very strange life into a thriller by way of a succession of stunning comic set pieces. ‘A claustrophobic eco-thriller with a gloriously unreliable narrator, She’s a Killer is tense and sharp, and feels unnervingly prescient.’ –Brannavan Gnanalingam
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But then she meets Pablo’s teenage daughter, Erika – an actual genius full of terrifying ambition. When Alice meets a wealthugee named Pablo, she thinks she’s found a way out of her dull existence. ‘I mean, can you even calculate the square root of 762 anymore?’ The last time Simp was here was when Alice was seven, on the night a fire burned down the family home. Alice’s imaginary friend, Simp, has shown up, with a running co Thirty-something Alice has a near-genius IQ and lives at home with her mother with whom she communicates by Morse code. The world’s climate is in crisis and New Zealand is being divided and reshaped by privileged immigrant wealthugees. She's a Killer by Kirsten McDougall $35.00 NZD
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Medhat Samir, the driver with CEO aspirations meditative and mythical Nihal silent but deadly Hind dictatorial and exacting Nadia, a self-proclaimed bitch to work with-and the many people, mostly men, who said Diwan would never work.Ĭhronicles of a Cairo Bookseller is a portrait of a country hurtling toward revolution, a feminist rallying cry, and an unapologetic crash course in running a business under the law of entropy. Its eclectic cast of characters features Diwan's impassioned regulars, like the demanding Dr. Ten years later, Diwan had become a rousing success, with ten locations, 150 employees, and a fervent fan base.įrank, fresh, and very funny, Nadia Wassef's memoir tells the story of this journey. Culture was languishing under government mismanagement, and books were considered a luxury, not a necessity. At the time, nothing like Diwan existed in Egypt. They were three young women with no business degrees, no formal training, and nothing to lose. R, Hind, and their friend, Nihal, she founded Diwan, a fiercely independent bookstore.
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The echoing calls to prayer the raging insults hurled between drivers the steady crescendo of horns honking the shouts of street vendors the television sets and radios blaring from every sidewalk. Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef $38.00 NZD