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Recommended by Saff
Published in 2025, this feels eerily predictive... what happens when the seas close, and oil stops flowing? It is essential reading for the Iran crisis and for the wider implications of a society which is reliant on extraction.
Recommended by Saff
I read this book 2024 and it is still one of my go-to books to recommend. Matar writes with empathy in this compelling exploration of male friendship and displacement set against the backdrop of London.
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I'm not a portrait painter. If I'm anything, I have always been an autobiographer.Self-Portrait reveals a life truly lived through art. In this short, intimate memoir, Celia Paul moves effortlessly through time in words and images, folding…
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Translated by Megan McDowellSOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX DRAMASHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017'The book I wish I had written' Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women and AnimalA young woman named Amanda…
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WINNER OF THE STELLA PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025…
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What we call growth today is in fact a tumorous growth, a cancerous proliferation which is disrupting the social organism. These tumours endlessly metastasize and grow with an inexplicable, deadly vitality. At a certain point this growth is…
Recommended by Saff
‘This might be a perfect novel. Some would call this a psychological horror, I might call it a thriller... of sorts. Read it – you’ll see what I mean.’
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