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Our Author of the Month for August is the Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal.

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The Cave Explorer

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A book for the budding LRB reader about one boy and his dog’s discovery of the Lascaux cave paintings. Illuminated with fold-out illustrations by Klaus Flugge Prize winner, Kate Winter, The Cave Explorer is a treasure.
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I'll Take the Fire
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I'll Take the Fire

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Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body
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Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body

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What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to Britain
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Will There Ever Be Another You
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