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| BABEL GUIDE TO DUTCH & FLEMISH FICTION [Theo Hermans] A handy-sized upbeat guide to novels and stories written in Dutch and Flemish which are available in English. { 208pp, 140x215mm, January 2001; PB, £12.95, 1899460802:9781899460809 , Boulevard Books } |
| BABEL GUIDE TO FRENCH FICTION IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION : Babel Guide [Ray Keenoy, Laurence Laluyaux & Gareth Stanton (eds)] The Babel guide has 150 original reviews of books by over 100 authors from France, Quebec, North and West Africa, Belgium and Switzerland. Each review provides a kind of trailer for the work and is followed by an excerpt as a taster. It introduces big names of French literature such as Sartre, Camus, Colette and Duras, and a collection of less familiar writers, such as Driss Chraibi and Madeline Bourdouxhe. It includes a database of French fiction translated in the UK since 1950, with original titles and current prices. This is the third in a series of accessible and illustrated guides to world fiction available in English translation, aimed at journalists, academics, teachers and the ordinary reader. The reviews let potential readers have a idea as to whether a work might suit them. REVIEW: "Easy and enjoyable..." -- The Times Literary Supplement. "Intelligent, comprehensible and entertaining..." -- Library Review. "An excellent series..." -- The Guardian. "Its user-friendly and reader-tempting; this is because of the excellent reviews..." -- The Observer. "Aimed at the reading public, these guides should be equally useful to librarians and teachers..." -- The Linguist. "Splendid and useful... a beautifully-conceived series of guides presenting English translations of contemporary fiction...." -- In Other Words. "A brilliant idea, well executed..." -- The Good Book Guide. "A brilliant idea..." -- BBC Radio 3. { 252pp, 130x200mm, January 1996; PB, £9.95, 1899460101:9781899460106 , Boulevard Books } |
| BABEL GUIDE TO GERMAN FICTION IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION : Austria, Germany, Switzerland [Ray Keenoy, Dr Mike Mitchell & Maren Meinhardt (eds)] The Babel Guide is a new way in to the excitement of world fiction with lively original reviews and excerpts of the best books by the writers of Austria, Germany and Switzerland. It includes full listings of all translations published since 1950. A unique introduction to the wealth of fiction in translation. Babel Guides is a new series on contemporary world fiction in English. The Reviews introduce the best, most representative books, with a quotation as a taster. The Database gives useful details on fiction. REVIEW: "Easy and enjoyable..." -- The Times Literary Supplement. "Intelligent, comprehensible and entertaining..." -- Library Review. "An excellent series..." -- The Guardian. "Its user-friendly and reader-tempting; this is because of the excellent reviews..." -- The Observer. "Aimed at the reading public, these guides should be equally useful to librarians and teachers..." -- The Linguist. "Splendid and useful... a beautifully-conceived series of guides presenting English translations of contemporary fiction...." -- In Other Words. "A brilliant idea, well executed..." -- The Good Book Guide. "A brilliant idea..." -- BBC Radio 3. { 249pp, 125x200mm, January 1997; PB, £9.95, 1899460209:9781899460205 , Boulevard Books } |
| BABEL GUIDE TO ITALIAN FICTION IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION [Ray Keenoy et al (eds)] The Babel guide has 150 original reviews of books by Italian authors available in English. Each review provides a kind of trailer for the work with an extract as a taster. It includes a database of Italian fiction translated into English since 1945 with original titles and current prices. This is the first in a series of illustrated guides, written in a lively and accessible style. It aims to provide potential readers with an idea of whether a book will suit their own tastes. REVIEW: "Easy and enjoyable..." -- The Times Literary Supplement. "Intelligent, comprehensible and entertaining..." -- Library Review. "An excellent series..." -- The Guardian. "Its user-friendly and reader-tempting; this is because of the excellent reviews..." -- The Observer. "Aimed at the reading public, these guides should be equally useful to librarians and teachers..." -- The Linguist. "Splendid and useful... a beautifully-conceived series of guides presenting English translations of contemporary fiction...." -- In Other Words. "A brilliant idea, well executed..." -- The Good Book Guide. "A brilliant idea..." -- BBC Radio 3. { 183pp, 130x200mm, January 1996; PB, £7.95, 1899460004:9781899460007 , Boulevard Books } |
| BABEL GUIDE TO JEWISH FICTION : Babel Guide [Ray Keenoy & Saskia Brown (eds)] Who better to tell the story of the Jewish People than the tribe of Jewish storytellers? And what a tribe -- Proust, Kafka, Primo Levi, Shalom Aleichem, Israel Zangwill, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Clarice Lispector, Mordecai Richler, Amos Oz and Nobel-winner S Y Agnon. The Babel Guide is a unique introduction to fiction by Jews from around the world available in English with inviting, informative reviews of 150 new and old Jewish classics, with an author database and a listing of all fiction translated from Yiddish and Hebrew into English. REVIEW: "Easy and enjoyable..." -- The Times Literary Supplement. "Intelligent, comprehensible and entertaining..." -- Library Review. "An excellent series..." -- The Guardian. "Its user-friendly and reader-tempting; this is because of the excellent reviews..." -- The Observer. "Aimed at the reading public, these guides should be equally useful to librarians and teachers..." -- The Linguist. "Splendid and useful... a beautifully-conceived series of guides presenting English translations of contemporary fiction...." -- In Other Words. "A brilliant idea, well executed..." -- The Good Book Guide. "A brilliant idea..." -- BBC Radio 3. { 285pp, 130x200mm, January 1998; PB, £9.95, 189946025X:9781899460250 , Boulevard Books } |
| BABEL GUIDE TO PORTUGAL, BRAZIL & AFRICA FICTION IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION [Ray Keenoy (ed)] The Babel guide has 150 original reviews of books by Portuguese, Brazilian and African (from Angola and Mozambique) authors available in English. Each review provides a kind of trailer for the work, with an excerpt as a taster. Alongside names such as Portugal's Jose Saramago or Brazil's Jorge Amado, a collection of other books and authors are covered like the simpatica Clarice Lispector and 'mystery modernist' Fernando Pessoa. It includes a database of Portuguese fiction translated since 1945 with original titles and current prices. This is the second in a series of accessible, illustrated guides to world fiction available in English translation. It is aimed at the general reader of fiction, travellers looking for background books, and students of European Studies, Latin American literature and culture and Portuguese and African literature, post-colonial literature and as a general literary reference. { 161pp, 130x195mm, January 1995; PB, £7.95, 1899460055:9781899460052 , Boulevard Books } |
| BABEL GUIDE TO SCANDINAVIAN FICTION IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION : Babel Guide [Paul Binding] Some of the greatest writers of the 20th Century -- August Strindberg, Knut Hamsun, Karen Blixen, Hans Christian Andersen -- came from the rich and varied lands of the North. Travel their world with the Babel Guide, discover the classics of Scandinavia and the Baltics as well as younger writers like Peter Hoeg, Jostein Gaarder, Agneta Pleijel and Jaan Kross who follow in their footsteps. REVIEW: "Easy and enjoyable..." -- The Times Literary Supplement. "Intelligent, comprehensible and entertaining..." -- Library Review. "An excellent series..." -- The Guardian. "Its user-friendly and reader-tempting; this is because of the excellent reviews..." -- The Observer. "Aimed at the reading public, these guides should be equally useful to librarians and teachers..." -- The Linguist. "Splendid and useful... a beautifully-conceived series of guides presenting English translations of contemporary fiction...." -- In Other Words. "A brilliant idea, well executed..." -- The Good Book Guide. "A brilliant idea..." -- BBC Radio 3. { 221pp, 130x195mm, January 1999; PB, £9.95, 1899460306:9781899460304 , Boulevard Books } |
| BABEL GUIDE TO WELSH FICTION [Ray Keenoy, Rhian Reynolds & Sionedd Rowlands] A nation with two languages but one soul that speaks passionately through its writers -- here is the guide to the modern literary scene covering circa 100 works that sum up the currents and corners of Welsh life from the 1920s to the present. This little book puts the lot at your fingertips, covering novels, short-story collections, poetry and drama written in or translated into English. In addition there is a a database of translated work, while each review is followed by an extract to give a flavour of the book. The Babel Guides are an expanding series of pocket reference works to what’s available in English from the literatures of the world for a non-specialist audience. Essential for public and academic libraries, students and general readers who want to expand their literary horizons. REVIEW: "a brilliant idea, well executed" -- The Good Book Guide. "accessible and entertaining" -- Traveller’s Literary Companion. { 144pp, 138x210mm, September 2008; PB, £14.95, 1899460519:9781899460519 , Boulevard Books } |
| BRAZILIAN FICTION IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION : Babel Guide [David Treece (ed)] Mostly British scholars of literature review selected Brazilian novels and short story anthologies currently available in English translation, some new and some classic in their original Portuguese. { 172pp, 125x195mm, January 2001; PB, £12.95, 1899460705:9781899460700 , Boulevard Books } |
| EMINENT HUNGARIANS [Ray Keenoy] Watch out, there's a Hungarian about! As this lighthearted look at the phenomenon of famous Hungarians shows this is a small nation that has always punched well above its weight, playing a major role in innumerable fields, including; nuclear physics (Teller and Szilárd), modern music (Bartók and Kurtág, architecture (Erno Goldfinger) dance education (Rudolf Lábán), globalisation theory (Imre Lakatos) and retail cosmetics (Estée Lauder). As Hungary emerges from the rusty shadows of the Iron Curtain into the New Europe here's a chance to get acquainted with the new guys on the block. Ray Keenoy focuses on the relevance of fifty great figures of science, thought, culture and action for today, bringing out the enormous contribution of this small nation to the modern world -- for better (the discovery of Vitamin C) or worse (the H-bomb). { 112pp, 135x215mm, January 2004; PB, £9.95, 1899460063:9781899460069 , Boulevard Books } |
| HUNGARIAN LITERATURE : Babel Guide [Ray Keenoy et al (eds)] The Babel Guide to Hungarian Literature presents modern Hungarian literature that has been translated into English: novels, short story collections, poetry and drama. In addition to a database/bibliography at the end, many individual works are reviewed. Each review is followed by a brief extract to give a flavour of the book in question. The Babel Guides are a constantly expanding series of pocket reference books that introduce what is available in English translation from the literatures of the world. They are addressed to a non-specialized audience, with books for different tastes: from the avant-garde and experimental, to the family saga via historical romance and detective fiction. Essential for all public and academic libraries which encompass world literature. REVIEW: "Easy and enjoyable..." -- The Times Literary Supplement. "Intelligent, comprehensible and entertaining..." -- Library Review. "An excellent series..." -- The Guardian. "Its user-friendly and reader-tempting; this is because of the excellent reviews..." -- The Observer. "Aimed at the reading public, these guides should be equally useful to librarians and teachers..." -- The Linguist. "Splendid and useful... a beautifully-conceived series of guides presenting English translations of contemporary fiction..." -- In Other Words. "A brilliant idea, well executed..." -- The Good Book Guide. { 144pp, 130x195mm, January 2001; PB, £12.95, 1899460853:9781899460854 , Boulevard Books } |
| KEEP IT SAFE! : Jewish Life in a Hungarian Town [Irén Ács with Júlia Levendel] To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the holocaust in Hungary renowned photographer Irén Ács collected photographs from her birth place of Szécsény and told her own story of a Jewish childhood in the Hungarian countryside to author Júlia Levendel. 'Keep it Safe!' is a moving document of a lost world and a fascinating example of the possibilities of found photographs when accompanied by an appropriate commentary. REVIEW: "...a moving document...her book is a memorial and a valuable historical record. It's used in schools in Hungary, and there's a place for it in our own classrooms and libraries." -- Times Educational Supplement, Friday October 29th 2004. { 86pp, 210x230mm, June 2004; PB, £15.95, 1899460217:9781899460212 , Boulevard Books } |
| MAGYAR MENU [Iván Bächer; Translated by Tim Wilkinson] A small nation with big appetites the Hungarians love to eat, cook and above all talk about their rich pepper-and-cream laden grub. No-one loves talking and writing about Hungarian food, its history and qualities more than leading local columnist Iván Bächer whose always witty and sometimes screamingly funny pieces assembled here include the exploding pig-shave story and how Budapest's crows were terrorised by a pálpuszta cheese. Amidst the fun are real insights on how to prepare, eat and enjoy food in a magnificently Magyar manner. { 90pp, 140x215mm, November 2004; PB, £9.95, 1899460268:9781899460267 , Boulevard Books } |
| SOUND, MUSIC, WRITING : The Soundtraack of 20th Century Italian Literature [Roberto Favaro] A highly original and bravura reading of twentieth century literature in Italy that traces the role of sound, music, voice and even noise in the construction and atmosphere of varied narratives. Professor Favaro's study ranges over the curious declamatory verse experiments of the Futurists, D'Annuzio's novels, Italo Svevo's inner subconscious voice and from the mysterious Sardinian pipes 'sas launeddas' of Grazia Deledda up to Pasolini, Gadda, the experimental poetry of Sanguinetti and the graphic representation of music in the 'Dylan Dog' cartoon series. { 195pp, 135x210mm, January 2002; PB, £15.95, 1899460950:9781899460953 , Boulevard Books } |