Featured in the LRB Vol. 48 No. 16
Selected by the Bookshop
Titles featured in – and related to – Vol. 48 No. 14 of LRB, which can be found here.
Books by LRB contributing editors can be found here.
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The definitive story of the slackers and shoegazers who reinvented rock.'To devote a book to a set of wilfully amorphous and hazy bands, many of them long-forgotten outriders, is an act of love, commensurate with the saturated thrum of much…
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Corruption, sleaze and violence were woven into the fabric of twentieth-century Sicilian life, as the Mafia rose to dominance. This is the story of one man who stood in opposition.In 1986, the largest Mafia trial in Italy’s history…
Relative Failures: The Lives of Willie Wilde, Mabel Beardsley and Howard Sturgis
Matthew Sturgis
£25.00
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History remembers the greats – but what about those who lived alongside them? In the cultural ferment of late nineteenth-century London, three fascinating but often overlooked figures navigated the world in the shadow of their…
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*A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2020*'I absolutely loved it... I cannot say enough how much I enjoyed it.' NAOMI ALDERMANThe first work of fiction from award-winning poet Frances Leviston offers a frighteningly perceptive slice of contemporary…
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'A rollicking, brilliant book' GARETH RUSSELL, author of Queen James…
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A little while ago, I told the actor M that I was thinking of writing her autobiography. She liked the idea. She’s a good sport.Would you just make it up? she said. M is a film star, and one of the most recognisable faces of our time.…
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