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When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years. This is an exquisite love story about ...

‘Food, like sex, is mostly in the head,’ writes John Bayley in the piece which gives this anthology its title. Sure enough, in the LRB’s pages, food has often been a medium to think about ...

The latest collection from J.H. Prynne is his longest since The White Stones, and continues the remarkable late trajectory begun in 2014's Al Dente. This edition includes an inserted loose sheet ...

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‘Unmissable. Like chancing upon an oasis, you want to drink it slowly... Subtle, unpredictable, surprising’ Guardian Things I Don’t Want to Know is the first in ...

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Gathering the best of her first five collections, a ‘sexy, cerebral and romantic’ introduction to one of the US’s most charismatic and original poets Loose-limbed, ...

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The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim is one of the most joyful books I've read – funny and weightless and sun-drenched and deeply moving. The perfect read for a dismal ...

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SUNDAY TIMES AND THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be this ... what this book forces you to face is ...

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‘A gripping, sinister fable’ Margaret Atwood (via Twitter) ‘An extraordinary debut – otherworldly, luminous, precise’ Guardian ‘Bold, inventive, haunting... ...