In this sultry month wine and dine in the company of Victorian literati, visit the Arctic with anthropologist Hugh Brody, join in the campaign to abolish borders and discover how much borders matter in the much-neglected continent of Africa. I’m also looking forward to the next instalment of Anthony Horowitz’s addictive series of metafictional whodunnits featuring the enigmatic Hawthorne and the persistently bemused Horowitz himself.
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When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde turned, he was increasingly dismissed as apolitical, too inward. In Rilke: The Last Inward Man, acclaimed critic Lesley…
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'. . . we need this book. Of course Africa needs it as well, because no other huge area of the planet is treated as such a singular region, and that has to change. But the rest of the planet needs It's a Continent because we miss out by not…
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Wine and dine with Victorian London’s literati in a heatwave in one of the first ever group biographies, introduced by Francesca Wade (author of Square Haunting).Though she loved the heat she could do nothing but lie on the sofa…
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Translated from the Russian by Robert and Elizabeth ChandlerOne of Grossman’s three great war novels – alongside Life and Fate and Stalingrad.“The People Immortal is a remarkable novel that illuminates the…
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'EASILY THE GREATEST OF OUR CRIME WRITERS' Sunday TimesPRAISE FOR HOROWITZ . . .'Just masterful stuff' RICHARD OSMAN'Fiendishly clever and hugely entertaining' LUCY FOLEY'Sheer genius' INDEPENDENT'Dazzling…
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A short and pithy introduction to the history of Russia as we know it todayRussia is the largest country in the world, with the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons. Over a thousand years this multifaceted nation of shifting borders has been…
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Borders harm all of us: they must be abolished.Borders divide workers and families, fuel racial division, and reinforce global disparities. They encourage the expansion of technologies of surveillance and control, which impact migrants and…
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‘Eminently bingeable, religiously fact-checked and seductively globetrotting . . . A preternaturally attentive reporter at work’ - The Observer‘A new book by Keefe means drop everything and close the blinds;…
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A dazzling tapesty of personal memory and distant landscapes from the renowned anthropologist and film-maker, Hugh Brody.This is a book about silences. And land.Renowned anthropologist and film-maker Hugh Brody weaves a dazzling tapestry of…
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The Science of Compost: Life Death and Decay in the Garden takes you on a journey into the underworld of composting. Doberski explains the science of what goes on but also promotes interest in the living organisms who provide the…
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