Stuart Arnot

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Reading, mostly, sometimes listening, almost never writing or playing. He/him. Newcastle upon Tyne.

Paperback book, The White Witch of Rosehall by Herbert G. de Lisser.
Penguin paperback, Brigid Brophy, Hackenfeller's Ape. Price on the cover is 3/6.
Paperback book, José Saramago, The Tale of the Unknown Island, Illustrations by Peter Six. The cover also informs us that Saramago is the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature
Book, A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid. The cover includes a reproduction of an Antiguan stamp with the head of Queen Elizabeth II on it. It also includes a dedication from Salman Rushdie.
Vintage Classics paperback, Roberto Bolaño, Nazi Literature in the Americas. 'Bolaño's impressive novel triumphs, Observer.
Faber Finds edition of Wilson Harris, The Waiting Room
(Peepal Tree Press) Caribbean Modern Classics, Wilson Harris, The Eye of the Scarecrow
Paperback book; Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy: Racism in the Formation of the Philosophical Canon, 1780-1830, by Peter K. J. Park
(Peepal Tree Press) Caribbean Modern Classics, Wilson Harris, Heartland, paperback.
Paperback book, The Opoponax, Monique Wittig. Translated by Helen Weaver.
Paperback in Fontana Modern Novels series, Gabriel Okara, The Voice
Continuum paperback of Paulo Freire's Education for Critical Consciousness
Paperback book, Jacques Rancière, Distant Freedom: Essay on Chekhov
Paperback book, Roger Mais, Brother Man. Heinemann fish symbol.
Paperback book, Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands, by Hazel V. Carby. Cover picture is of Carby as a young child, looking slightly worried or confused in a garden. Quote from Saidiya Hartman on it: 'Heartbreaking and beautiful ... Carby deftly captures the ways that relations of power are lived, intimately, quietly, destructively, and profoundly. What an achievement'
Paperback book, A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr.
Cousins by Aurora Venturini, paperback. My legs (awful knees) on a train.
Paperback book, Corregidora by Gayle Jones. 'No novel about any black woman could ever be the same after this', Toni Morrison.
Paperback book. Cover dominated by black and white photograph of a wall of very tall cacti. Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo, translated by Douglas J. Weatherford. Introduction by Gabriel García Márquez. 'One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century world literature', Susan Sontag.
Penguin Classics paperback, Claude McKay, Romance in Marseille
Paperback book in Peepal Tree's 'Caribbean Modern Classics' series, Roger Mais, The Hills Were Joyful Together.
Book, The Birth of African-American Culture: an Anthropological Perspective, Sidney W. Mints and Richard Price. Cover quote: "A classic. The most cogent and detailed attempt to think through what acculturation of Africans in the Americas was like." -Albert J. Raboteau.
Paperback book. Glyph, a novel. Percival Everett, author of Erasure and I Am not Sidney Poitier.
Exlibris hardback, Race Men by Hazel Carby. No dust jacket.
NYRB classics paperback, Balcony in the Forest by Julien Gracq. Foreword by Richard Howard.
Paperback book in Peepal Tree's 'Caribbean Modern Classics' series, Edgar Mittelholzer, My Bones and My Flute, A Ghost Story in the Old-fashioned Manner
Paperback book, Mohammed Mrabet, M'Hashish
Maryse Condé, Heremakhonon a novel, paperback book
Amos Tutuola, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, recent Faber paperback.
Penguin Classic, Mary Butts, 'Armed with Madness'. Man Ray cover
Hardback book, 'My Mercedes is Bigger than Yours' by Nkem Nwankwo.
Penguin modern classics paperback, Sam Selvon, Moses Ascending.
Paperback book. Jorge Luis Borges, This Craft of Verse.
Paperback book, 'Histoire Extraordinaire' by Michel Butor. Cape Editions.
Paperback book, Édouard Glissant, The Fourth Century, a novel. Le Quatrième Siècle, translated by Betsy Wang. Picture of the African savannah on cover, while seeming odd, does make some sense even though the book is set in Martinique.
Paperback book, Paul Beatty, Tuff. 'The funniest satire on US culture you'll ever read... Read Tuff for yourself and find out what's so funny' The Face.
Paperback book. Mikhail Bulgakov, Notes on a Cuff and Other Stories. New Translation.
Klee's drawing, Silver Moon-Mould Blossom 1921
Square paperback book. Paul Klee, On Modern Art. With an introduction by Herbert Read. Cover image is Klee's 'Migrating Fish's from 1926.
Paperback book. Benjamín Labatut, 'When We Cease to Understand the World's. Pushkin Press. "A monstrous and brilliant book", Philip Pullman. "Mesmerising and revelatory", William Boyd. Winner English PEN Award. Shortlisted, The 2021 International Booker Prize.
Paperback book, Joseph Roth, Flight Without End.
Paperback book in the Dedalus European Classics series. The Red Laugh by Leonid Andreyev. Cover image is from Battleship Potemkin.
Paperback book, Merle Hodge, Crick Crack Monkey.
Hardback book. A Season in Sinji, JL Carr.
Paperback book. Ways of Sunlight, Sam Selvon. 'A delightful book, a pleasure to read' Sunday Times. Longman Caribbean Writers. Hodder Education.
Paperback book, Mary by Bessie Head. A black and white image of a woman looking at the camera, her face half in shadow.
Really weirdly heavy hardback book: Naguib Mahfouz, The Dreams
Paperback book, Charles Mungoshi, Coming if the Dry Season.
Tender Buttons, Gertrude Stein. Cheap looking paperback (Dover)
Paperback book: The Guyana Quartet, Wilson Harris. With a foreword by Ishion Hutchinson. 'An Exhilarating Experience... Genius', Jamaica Kincaid.
Penguin Modern Classic: Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners. Background image of a Black man with a snooker cue gazing towards the camera.
A hand over Monique Wittig's Across the Acheron. It covers a grey, rounded and abstracted but identifiable female form.
Small paperback book in Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series, Double Nickels on the Dime by Michael T. Fournier.
Paperback book. Ishmael Reed, The Terrible Threes: A Novel
The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi. Incredible cover, featuring print of a red person inside a black person inside a red person inside a black person. Larger figures are clearly crying.
Book in Penguin Classics series, Nella Larsen, 'Passing'. Introduction by Emily Bernard.
The spine of a slim black hardback book. Legible: Wittig, The Straight Mind. Illegible, Harvester Wheatsheaf.
Paperback book. Doctor Brodie's Report by Jorge Luis Borges. Painting of a skeleton standing at a tomb, with its left elbow resting on a tomb and the right hand atop a skull that is on the tomb.
Book, 'How to Blow Up a Pipeline' by Andreas Malm.