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Neal Ascherson
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Neal Ascherson is one of Britain's finest writers in an undefinable genre that fuses history, memoir, politics and meditations on places. His books on Poland and his collected essays on the strange Britain to which he returned from Europe in the mid 1980s were deeply influential. In 1995, Black Sea won critical praise in many languages and several literary prizes.


STONE VOICES: THE SEARCH FOR SCOTLAND Paperback published on 23 April 03 ISBN 1 86207 583 2

GRANTA (23 Aug 02)

Stone Voices is Ascherson's return to his native Scotland. It is an exploration of Scottish identity, but this is no journalistic rumination on the future of that small nation. Ascherson instead weaves together a story of deep time - the time of geology and archaeology, of myth and legend - with the story of modern Scotland and its rebirth. Few writers in these islands have his ability to write so well about the natural context of history.

ISBN: 1 86207 524 7

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THE KING INCORPORATED

GRANTA (22 Jul 99)

It is the aim of this text to describe Leopold II without prejudice. The text presents many aspects of his life: as a most ruthless negotiator; as the cold father; and as the sensual ancient riding his tricycle at Vilefranche-sur-Mer to pedal round to the villa of a young mistress.


NINE LIVES: ETHNIC CONFLICT IN THE POLISH-UKRAINIAN BORDERLANDS

  (1 Jan 99)


BLACK SEA

JONATHAN CAPE (3 Jul 95)

This title is a homage to the ocean and its shores, and a meditation on Eurasian history from the earliest times to the present. It evokes the culture, history and politics of the volatile region along these shores


GAMES WITH SHADOWS

HUTCHINSON (1 Jan 88)


THE STRUGGLES FOR POLAND

MICHAEL JOSEPH (1 Jan 87)


THE POLISH AUGUST

PENGUIN (1 Jan 81)