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My Grandmother – A memoir

Every family has its secrets. So does every nation. But Turkey’s official secret remains extraordinarily potent because public references to the massive event that occurred 93 years ago are forbidden.

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The Boy Bands Have Won

A yowl of fury against the Pop Idol-type mediocrity that seems so often to fuel cultural commerce these days.

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Three and Out

Colm Meaney is Tommy, an Irishman in London who plans to kill himself. Directed by Jonathan Gershfield

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Swimming Against the Tide

Thoroughly researched and with heart-warming personal accounts, Tom Fawthrop’s Swimming Against the Tide is an inspiration.

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Beijing Coma

Ma Jian has undertaken his most ambitious project yet; a sweeping panorama of China in the years before and after the Tiananmen Square massacre of 4 June 1989.

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Daniel Variations

Steve Reich’s tribute to murdered journalist Daniel Pearl

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Bloodshot Monochrome

A new collection of poems by one of Britain's most significant poets

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Why We Fight

Why We Fight: It is nowhere written that the American empire goes on forever.

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XXY

An Argentinean film about a hermaphrodite

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African Scream Contest

African Scream Contest: A cornucopia of Afro-trance music.

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The Transition Handbook

The Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience

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Final Silence

Final Silence is a finely modulated meditation on guilt and forgiveness.

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