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Robert Irwin
Stealing with Style
Marvellous Thieves: Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights
By Paulo Lemos Horta
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Eric Ormsby
A Silk Road of the Mind
Nearer the Heart’s Desire: Poets of the Rubaiyat – A Dual Biography of Omar Khayyam and Edward FitzGerald
By Robert D Richardson
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Caroline Moorehead
Glossed in Translation
In Other Words
By Jhumpa Lahiri (Translated by Ann Goldstein)
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Madeleine Minson
A Doctor Calls
Doctor Glas
By Hjalmr Soderberg, Paull Britten Austin (trans.)
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March 2003 Issue
Sarah A Smith
Forbidden Dreams
Welcome To Paradise
By Mahi Binebine, Lulu Norman (trans.)
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April 2003 Issue
Julian Preece
Baltic Nightmare
Crabwalk
By Gunter Grass, Krishna Winston (trans.)
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May 2003 Issue
Paul Johnson
A Good Book
The Bible In English
By David Daniell
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July 2003 Issue
Sebastian Shakespeare
Fear and Loathing in the Canaries
Lanzarote
By Michel Houellebecq, Frank Wyne (trans)
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July 2003 Issue
Susanna Jones
Radical Devotion
Somersault
By Kenzaburo Oe, Philip Gabriel (trans.)
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August 2003 Issue
Theordora Sutcliffe
A Numinous Dog Story
Someone To Run With
By David Grossman, Vered Almog (trans.), Maya Gurantz (trans.)
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August 2003 Issue
Lost Nation
Soul
By Andrei Platonov (Translated by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler & Olga Meerson)
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August 2003 Issue
James Morrison
Unknown Heroes
Soldiers of Salamis
By Javier Cercas, Anne McLean (trans.)
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September 2003 Issue
Madeleine Minson
A Tale From Tallinn
Treading Air
By Jaan Kross, Eric Dickens (trans)
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October 2003 Issue
Sarah A Smith
Escape from New Caledonia
The Child of an Ancient People
By Anouar Benmalek (Trans Andrew Riemer)
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October 2003 Issue
Aidan Hartley
Sex and Death in Africa
A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali
By Gil Courtemanche (trans Patricia Claxton)
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November 2003 Issue
Francis King
Beyond The Nile
Season of Migration to the North
By Tayeb Salih (Trans Denys Johnson-Davies)
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December 2003 Issue
Teresa Waugh
The Pubescent Poet
Rimbaud Complete
By Arthur Rimbaud, Wyatt (ed, trans, intrd)
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December 2003 Issue
Allan Massie
The Terrors of Translation
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March 2004 Issue
John Murray
Balkan Tragedy
Balkan Tragedy
By David Albahari (Trans Ellen Elias Bursac)
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June 2004 Issue
Donald Rayfield
Donald Rayfield Welcomes New Translations of two Russian Classics
Lady Macbeth of Mitsenk
By Nikolai Leskov
Dubrovsky
By Alexander Pushkin
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