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| Author: | Kenn Harper |
| Publisher: | Profile Books |
| Catalogue number: | 93733 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days |
In this book the story of arctic exploration is told through the eyes of the Eskimos.
Minik and six other Inuit were taken from Greenland to New York in 1897. There they were put on display like circus...
| Author: | Joseph Mitchell |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 97975 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
These essays first appeared in the New Yorker. They are vivid accounts of lives and practices on the waterfront of New York City, from Louis Morino, the owner of Sloppy Louie, the cafe' opposite the...
| Author: | Truman Capote |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 143192 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
When anyone says Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the image of Audrey Hepburn and her undeniable elegance always comes to the fore- even the cover of Truman Capote's classic tale is adorned with her delicate...
Ghost Town - Tales of Manhattan Then and Now
| Author: | Patrick McGrath |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury |
| Catalogue number: | 145603 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 weeks |
Ghost Town - Tales of Manhattan Then and Now is Patrick McGrath’s trio of stories weaves together different layers of narrative to give an incredible understanding of New York’s turbulent history:
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| Author: | Jay McInerney |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury |
| Catalogue number: | 145583 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Jay McInerney's Brightness Falls takes place in the most iconic location of the 1980s New York and the pulsating heart at its very midst: Wall Street.
Corrine Calloway is a young stockbroker on Wall...
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