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Translated by Charlotte BarslundA groundbreaking, potent novel about the destructive force of romantic love from award-winning writer Vigdis HjorthA relatively young woman, aged thirty. She married in her early twenties, had two children.…
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A radical case for motherhood as a political state, and what liberated mothering could be'Intellectually luminous and deeply affecting, Mother State is a remarkable, revelatory and life-changing book, and an indispensable tool and…
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An anthology of writing that explores what it means to be sexually promiscuous in contemporary culture, edited by cult-favourite writer Michelle Tea.Boyfriends masquerade as straight bros to have fun on an early internet porn site. Sex on…
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From Rachel Kushner, Booker Prize finalist and two-time National Book Award finalist, comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France'The most exciting writer of her…
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Published to coincide with his 85th birthday, Ash Keys looks back on the extraordinary career of the last surviving member of the triumvirate of poets that rose out of 1960s Belfast'A master in an old, great tradition' THE…
Recommended by Gayle
‘I can’t tell you how tenderly I – a person who spends much of their time going to the BFI alone – feel about Jeremy Cooper’s Brian, a novel about a man who spends all his time going to the BFI alone. A love letter to the BFI and to London! To small, quiet lives made expansive by access to film and art! To friendship and community!’
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Authoritative and myth-busting, this is the one book you need to read to understand why we’ve been wrong about migration'An important book that will force Left and Right alike to reconsider old assumptions' The Telegraph'This…
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'He makes us see a subject we thought we knew so well from a completely different angle; in writing that is deeply researched, but inviting, warm, and full of personality' Katy Hessel 'Charlie Porter is a…
Recommended by Gayle
‘Not a day goes past that I don't shake a fist at the sky and cry in despair, “When will Claire-Louise Bennett publish something new?!” Until my cries are answered, I'll make do with rereading Pond, Bennett's wildly brilliant and totally unique collection of stories following one woman living alone in the Irish countryside. EDIT: Claire-Louise Bennett has now written another book, and it’s better than I dreamt it could be.’
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A brilliantly buzzy consideration of how we - the fans - should respond to good art made by bad peopleWise and bold and full of the kind of gravitas that might even rub off' LISA TADDEO'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration…
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The British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding Shortlist 2024
10 September 2024
