Our Most Anticipated Books July-December

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The sixteen days of the Peasant’s Revolt, when new versions of England were born under the charismatic leader Wat Tyler, brought to life in a dazzlingly inventive novel by the author of The Manningtree Witches.It is 1381. England,…

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'On that day, ten years ago, I saw my parents for the last time. Since then I’ve changed phone numbers, houses, continents, I’ve erected an impregnable wall and put an ocean between us. They’ve been the best ten years of…

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On a remote Aegean island, the billionaire Thanassis Morel is building the Floating World: a climate-controlled utopia beneath a vast geodesic dome, promising refuge for the ultra-wealthy from the chaos consuming the outside world.…

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The fifth book by Booker Prize nominated author, Anne Serre.

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Tracing the evolution of socialist world literature from the nineteenth century to the present, Benjamin Kohlmann uncovers the formal repertoires through which a set of political ideals found aesthetic expression. At the heart of this study…

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The definitive selection of John Burnside‘s extraordinary and vibrant poems, taken from across decades but always stirring, curious, alert to the natural world and the people in it.Over thirty-five years and seventeen collections,…

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In Two Women, Jacqueline Rose fictionalizes and intertwines the lives of two remarkable figures whose stories trace the contours of the twentieth century: Edith Stein, the German-Jewish philosopher, Catholic convert and saint; and…

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Winner of the Prix Medicis 2025A son's reckoning with a formidable mother, Russia and the history that shaped them both.On 3 October 2023, beneath the dome of Les Invalides, the French Republic honours Hélène…

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A perceptive, generous survey of Britain’s towns, in all their grit and glory. Take your pick. Dubrovnik or Doncaster? Corfu or Crewe? A safari in Kenya or an abandoned zoo on the Isle of Man? Most people in the United Kingdom live…

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Art doesn't change the world directly; yet we persist in wanting it to. This book argues for a different understanding of art. In these urgent times, we need to rethink the purpose and effects of art-for the creator, the audience, the…

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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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A startling new collection of three never-before-translated stories, from the author of I Who Have Never Known Men.In the wake of some unfathomable war, a woman wanders the forest, forbidden from ever leaving its strange depths. As part of…

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Ursula k. Le Guin's beautifully realised space epic of two young friends finding their lives steer a new, and unexpected course.As the spaceship Discovery makes its slow way towards its destination – New Earth – Hsing and Luis…

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‘What if we could read our own past, our memories, even our bodies, as if they too were books open to endless interpretation?’Haunted by her father’s abuse, her complicated dynamic with her disabled mother and the death of…

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‘Like Helen I kept a diary when I was young. It was nothing like Helen's. I tried faithfully to record the events of the day, to describe what I was reading and thinking and to scrutinize and explicate my reactions and so on. She does…

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On a trip through the Scottish highlands, Marius Kociejowski stumbles upon the scattered remains of the Clearance village of Badbea on the east coast of Caithness. Intrigued by the fate of those settlers, forcefully evicted from their homes…