Verso's Altai by Wu Ming Reviewed by Edward Stourton in the Financial Times

Submitted by yalerep
on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 11:47

In Mandarin, Wu Ming can mean “Five Names” or “No Name” (depending on the tone of This alias masks four members of a collective who are the authors of Altai – and they are Italian, not Chinese. The book’s cover promises “the sequel to Luther Blissett’s bestselling Q”, the novel they published in 1999 under a different pseudonym – Blissett being the real name of a British former professional footballer.

The narrator of Altai begins the book with one name and ends it with another, suffering a queasy uncertainty about who he really is.

The Tradescants' Orchard from the Bodleian Library Reviewed in The Telegraph

Submitted by yalerep
on Thu, 05/09/2013 - 14:50

There’s a peculiar book preserved in the manuscripts department of the Bodleian Library about which little is known. The pages bear vivid, naive but carefully observed watercolours of ripe fruits: 12 types including two varieties of “apricockes” and a dozen “peeches”, most of them barely recognisable ancestors of the common peach that you and I might buy in Waitrose. They’re interspersed with insects, frogs, birds, even imaginary hybrid beasts and a miniature squirrel, sometimes seemingly in dialogue. All the drawings have a fresh immediacy to the modern eye.

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Welcome to the Yale Representation website!

Submitted by yalerep
on Sat, 12/01/2012 - 12:01

Hello!

Welcome to our new website. We are a sales agency that is dedicated in its support of the bespoke publishers we represent and the numerous bookshops we visit.

Our list is diverse and ranges from the esoteric to the zeitgeist. We have books on politics, history, gardening, art, literature; there are doodling books, maps, guides to Britain, histories of philosophy and language … it is a long list, indeed.

We can guarantee the quality of these titles despite the vibrant range on offer.