Anya’s Christmas Guide
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A beautiful debut poetry collection on rupture and what it means to regain and redefine your sense of self from childhood to adulthood.
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In this rowdy, frank reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between, the remarkable mind behind the hit series Girls and the bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl asks whether fulfilling her creative ambitions has been…
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A wondrous tale of bonds forged when two men are pitted against each other on a remote island during the Highland Clearances, from the prize-winning author of West.LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZEWATERSTONES WELSH BOOK OF THE…
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Discover the haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy set in a deserted world.Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned?…
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Is it possible life without romantic love isn't so bad?An essential memoir about building life on your own terms***A SUNDAY TIMES AND INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***'The book I've been waiting for my entire life'DOLLY ALDERTON, author…
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Château Rouge is a joyful, vibrant, short novel about one of Paris’ most underrated neighbourhoods. It is a modern take on the flâneur, who is absorbed in trying to find an authentic experience of the city.
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London Falling is a true story about the mysterious death of Zac Brettler, and his family’s search for truth as they uncover their son’s fantasy life in London’s wealthy and violent underworld.
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'I write from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the frigid, the unfucked and the unfuckables, all those excluded from the great meat market of female flesh, and for all those guys who don't want to be protectors, for those who would…