Christmas 2026: Books From Our Events

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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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The centenary edition, with a newly commissioned introduction by Simon McBurney. ‘Those who read or listen to our stories see everything as though through a lens. This lens is the secret of narration, and it is ground anew in every…

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A book that uses poetry to talk about difficulty, and vice versa.As Lavinia Greenlaw readily ‘The idea of poetry tends to make people feel stupid, anxious or bored.’ Poetry can appear to be inherently…

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In Luke Kennard's audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a job working for Dr Blend, a university professor who is conducting a psychological experiment. How will Dr Blend's students react to someone zipped into on…

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From award-winning and acclaimed chef Jeremy Lee, a new seasonal cookbook on the day-to-day kitchening of good food.In this follow-up to the multi-award-winning Cooking, Jeremy shows you how to make the most of local produce while finding…

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Two friends meet in an art gallery after decades of silence. The idealism that once bound them together fissured and fractured under the weight of collective and personal griefs.Through their memories of youthful certainty, the antagonism…

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Phillip Tennent makes his living at the tideline, collecting artefacts that wash up from the Channel. It's been years since the crisis changed everything, but its exact nature remains obscure. Government barely functions, the seas are full…

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The profound, hugely influential exploration of spiritual growth and transformation, from one of the great Spanish mystics and poets ‘Oh living flame of love,how tenderly you scorch me’The poetry of the sixteenth-century Spanish…

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What do we leave behind when we move to a new place – and what do we carry with us, physically and emotionally, wherever we land?Here are the voices of people who have come to Britain to make a new life: a Czech-Roma lawyer in…

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Rachel Long’s keenly anticipated second collection is a study of desire, crisis and self-realisation, at once moving and whip-smart, from one of our brightest stars. 'At first you eat less because you’re happy,so fricking happy,…

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The Spinster Cookbook is a piercing exploration of what it means to cook for one in a society designed for couples and families. With sharp cultural insight, Eli Davies takes us on a culinary tour of the single woman’s kitchen, a…

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How do we give old words new voices? What must a translator lose - and what might she gain - when she moves between languages, bringing ancient stories to modern life?Emily Wilson has spent a lifetime wrestling with these questions: here,…

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Reverberating with risk, this collection negotiates the darkness of injury, the potency and pain of revelation, and agency as song.Trauma and vulnerability - violation and its aftershock - are explored within a framework of…

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In 1933, Gertrude Stein published her groundbreaking memoir The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which gained her instant celebrity. The following year she was invited to return to the United States for the first time since…