Our Current Bestsellers
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It sounds like Gliff?Well, it's something else altogether.Ghosts don't exist.They don't. End of.Story, however.It is haunting.Everything tells it.It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the…
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She is a curator, who spends her time dressing the rooms of historic buildings to bring them to life. But in the lush private quarters of a medieval palace, she finds herself so transfixed by the reign of an almost-forgotten King that the…
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Departure(s) is a work of fiction - but that doesn't mean it's not true.It is the story of a man called Stephen and a woman called Jean, who fall in love when they are young and again when they are old. It is the story of an elderly…
Claire’s Book of the Year 2025
‘My highlight has to be Painting Writing Texting, a chronicle of art and life and the friendship between painter Chantal Joffe and writer Olivia Laing.’
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'The best living essayist writing in English' John GrayWhat does it mean to 'get a life' in a culture in which there is so much to want?And why do the lives we think we need so often fail to satisfy?With his characteristic curiosity, warmth…
From the publisher:
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…
From the publisher:
Translated by Sophie Hughes Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, affordable, plant-filled apartment. Their life as young digital creatives revolves around slow cooking, Danish…
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Edmund de Waal has created a book about archives that is itself archival, a gathering together of his reflections on archives from over a decade in chronological order. The book is also cyclical, it starts in Odessa in 2009 and ends in…
From the publisher:
From the Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo'He will be read long after these times have passed' Zadie SmithWhat a lovely home I found myself plummeting toward. . .Not for the first time – in fact, for the 343rd…
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How do you prepare yourself, all alone, to enter an extraordinary state on an ordinary morning? In The Writing Life, Pulitzer Prize winning author Annie Dillard offers up her own trials in the pursuit of inspiration: the absurdity, the…