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New and Recommended: Essays

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There’s something for everyone in our Essays section. Have a look at our recent favourites.

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A book of radical acceptance from the Pulitzer Prize finalist – ‘Beautiful’ - Douglas Stuart'One of the most important books to be published in years' SARA COLLINS'An extraordinary book’ SARAH MOSS'A…

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From the climate crisis and the pandemic to trends in masculinity, a stellar collection of Rebecca Solnit's most recent thinking exploring the power of activism.This book's title, No Straight Road Takes You There, is an evocation and a…

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"Everyone must read this book." – Lucia Osborne-Crowley"Extraordinary and utterly compelling." – Adam Phillips "An almost impossible balancing act." – Merve Emre“Part philosophical treatise, part memoir, part…

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New editionwith a new foreword by Helen Charman and an afterword by the authorOver the past decade, we have begun to talk more openly about the widespread harm inflicted by men on women. But little has been said about the fact that many of…

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Cycling? It’s one of my life’s constants, it feeds my need for beauty, for delight and for aimless exploring. It makes my body hum and brings me safely back to the present . . . I hope to continue pedalling, nice and slowly, for…

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Translated by Jen CallejaIn The City and the World, Gregor Hens explores the city in the twenty-first century – a space we shape and are shaped by in turn – and our place within it. Travelling from Berlin to Las Vegas,…

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A book about how language shapes us, from the Nobel and Booker-prizewinning author and his Spanish translator,This is a book about languages, what languages can and what they cannot do.In this dialogue between a Nobel Laureate and a leading…

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‘An extraordinary intervention. If you want to understand the stakes and the limitations of contemporary conflict over culture and colonial history this bold, provocative book is an indispensable resource’ Paul Gilroy,…

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A new edition of the collected letters of P.G. Wodehouse, complete with a refreshed cover look, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Britain's best-loved comic author.Charming, witty and profound, this…

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From a Forward Prize shortlisted young British poet: An investigation of masculinity, bisexuality and queerness, routed through the lives and works of four mid-century writers*SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE…

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