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'Andrea Wulf belongs to the small, splendid canon of writers unafraid to render fact with feeling' Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian and author of FiguringAn inspiring biography of the remarkable naturalist, explorer and…
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‘It is dangerous to want someone this much. He has always known it, from the very first night.’It is September 1974. Two men meet by chance in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is…
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Translated by Lin KingWinner of the 2026 International Booker PrizeWinner of the 2024 National Book Award for Translated LiteratureWinner of the 2024 Baifang Schell Book Prize for Outstanding Translated Literature from Chinese…
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In her new cookbook, Michèle Roberts casts her net further afield with handpicked recipes adapted from an array of historical and personal sources. Containing over 170 recipes, many of them introduced with the author’s…
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When Brian Dillon was sixteen his mother died and he simply gave up all schoolwork. While he courted exam failure, his real education was going on elsewhere: with books, music, films and television. When at last he made it to university,…
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‘Finally I have something to recommend when people ask for a funny book! Heartburn is properly hilarious, like a 200 page stand up set, except less mean, and with more food.’
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From the Baillie Gifford Prize-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing comes a riveting story of wealth, violence and deceit at the heart of a glittering city.In 2019, a London teenager, Zac Brettler,…
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Translated by Daniel BowlesThe cult translated hit of 2024-25: a road trip novel like you've never read before from one of Europe's most acclaimed writers'Odd and evocative, a frolicking rumination' TIMES CRITICS' BEST BOOK…
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‘One of the most perfect short novels I’ve ever read. Helen Garner vividly depicts the gentle implosion of the Fox family – from shabby domestic bliss to disaster (and back again) – in 150 pages of brilliantly spare prose.’
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Human Geography was Poet Laureate Simon Armitage's first-ever poetry pamphlet, published in 1986 when he was twenty-three years old. It was a time for him of experiment and potential – ‘when I felt like a nobody but could…