Charlie’s Christmas Guide
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Recommended by Charlie
Gaining Ground is a profound novel about one woman’s determination to become her true self, even at the expense of others. An essential reissue.
Recommended by Charlie
Jeremy Lee is a joyous companion in the kitchen: this is a book to read and cook from with great pleasure.
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'Enchanting, illuminating and tender' - Nigel Slater'The lasting message of How to Begin is one of empowerment' - The Observer'I believe you can live in a book of poems'A book about finding a creative voice and becoming an artist via a…
Recommended by Charlie
My favourite new novel of the year, a surreal tale of fractured identities that is both wily and moving.
From the publisher:
In 2009 writer John Berger visited Le Corbusier’s pilgrimage chapel at Ronchamp in eastern France. His companions on the trip were Sr. Lucia Kuppens and Sr. Telchilde Hinckley, two Benedictine nuns from Connecticut, and artist John…
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Ingeborg Bachmann’s short fiction – each piece a razor-sharp feminist masterpiece, as urgent as a confession – arrives here in full force. This major collection draws together all the stories Bachmann wrote over her…
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A painter’s memoir of obsession, loss and creation during a trip to Venice Alone in Venice for an artist’s residency, Celia Paul records her daily painting practice. Her days are both charged with and interrupted by the turmoil…
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In a family home in the north of France, a crime has been committed. But a crime of what order? Who exactly is the victim and who, if anyone, is the criminal? In Twenty Minutes of Silence, Helene Bessette unleashes a polyphonic…
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