Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 47 No. 11

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‘Utterly fascinating' NEW YORK TIMES'A profound, rich document’ NEW STATESMAN'An act of intimate storytelling' VOGUEA recently discovered journal from one of America's most iconic writers, Joan Didion, the author…

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A TOP 12 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK IN THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMESTHE BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK FOR NOVEMBER 2024‘This book is magic. It’s all I ever needed’ LENA DUNHAMEve Babitz died on December 17, 2021. Found…

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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER‘Wise, funny and generous’ The Times‘Warm and perceptive’ New York Times‘So honest and funny and smart’ Observer‘Griffin Dunne knows how…

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A touching memoir of reconciling two parallels tracks of the author's life during the nine years he worked as Joan Didion's assistant-one the disintegration of his home life, and the other the world of Didion's transformative friendship and…

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A contemporary of Federer, Nadal and the Williams sisters brings us inside the strange and fascinating world of pro tennisTHE NO. 1 BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024'As elegant and powerful as a Federer…

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From the bestselling author of The Master, longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year.An intimate, original biography of tennis legend Rafael Nadal, and the first to cover his entire career.After his award-winning look at…

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The Roger Federer Effect reveals how Roger Federer transcended tennis to become one of the most revered sports stars in the world. Friends, rivals, fans, celebrities and artists explain how the winner of 20 Grand Slam titles -…

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The compelling biography of Novak Djokovic, the greatest male tennis player of all time - looking at past events, his beliefs and what has made him one of the most enigmatic and successful sportsmen throughout history.'A fantastic…

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An enthralling and moving biography of the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician and physicist, which explores his complex personal life alongside his astonishing scientific journey.The first biography - 'a stunning achievement' (Kai…

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Translated by Antonia Lloyd-JonesIn September 1913, Mieczyslaw Wojnicz, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in what is now western Poland. Every day, its…

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A captivating biography of one of the world’s greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir Longlisted for the 2024 Cundill History Prize “Ruby Lal coaxes the…

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A masterful story of friendship and how much we’re willing to risk to possess one of life’s most treasured mercies: a second chanceTHE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATIONOcean Vuong returns with a big-hearted novel…

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The long-awaited memoir of the legendary actor, for readers of Keith Richards’ LIFE and Bruce Springsteen’s BORN TO RUNDiscover the incredible and revelatory autobiography from one of the most iconic actors in the…

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Britain. Made in Europe.In the 1930s, tens of thousands of central Europeans sought sanctuary from fascism in Britain. While the rainy, seemingly quaint island they discovered on arrival was a far cry from the dynamism of Weimar Berlin or…

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A riotous biography of the charismatic ruler of eighteenth century Poland and Saxony, and his catastrophic reign'It's been a superb year for history but Augustus the Strong ranks up there with the very very best! I cant recommend…