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Meadow Mori and Carrie Wexler grew up together in Los Angeles, and both became film-makers. Meadow makes challenging documentaries; Carrie makes successful feature films ...

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Seoul. On the outskirts of South Korea’s glittering metropolis is a place few people know about: a vast landfill site called Flower Island. Home to those driven from the ...

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When his fireworks factory job ends explosively, Jose uncovers surprising new talents: childcare, cleaning, gardening, he excels at it all. But hanging out with his ...

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Who will save us from the damaging lies of the pervasive diet myths and clean-eating fads of today? Enter Anthony Warner, the Angry Chef...

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A satirical epic of the Soviet soul by the bestselling author of Death and the Penguin

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From bestselling author David Sedaris, the diaries that are the source of his remarkable autobiographical stories.

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Introducing Italy’s best kept secret. This title includes lovingly written recipes that capture the spirit of this beautiful and often unexplored region, and Valeria’s ...

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Feodora and her mother live in the snowbound woods of Russia, in a house full of food and fireplaces. Ten minutes away, in a ruined chapel, lives a pack of wolves. ...

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ESSAYISM is a personal, critical and polemical book about the genre, its history and its contemporary possibilities, itself an example of what it describes: an essay that is ...

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As a poet, visual artist and essayist, David Jones is one of the great Modernists. Mostly, though, he was a complete and original poet-artist – sui generis, impossible to ...

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Charles, a fellow survivor and an eccentric scholar, finds Sophie and brings her home to his London bachelor flat. Raised in a quirky home filled with music, words and love ...

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A Book of Untruths is a family story told through a series of lies. Each short chapter features one of these lies and each lie builds to form a picture of a life-Miranda ...

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‘WHATEVER YOU DO hang on to the phone. . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . ! Feel the smoothness of its bevelled screen . . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . ! Place your thumb ...

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As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and ...

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Wilhelmina Silver’s world is golden. Living half-wild on an African farm with her horse, her monkey and her best friend, every day is beautiful. But when her home is sold ...

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After many generations, it is now, in 1971, Harold who runs Ard Farm. As the years pass, and Harold has a son of his own, he strives to keep control of his land, to make a ...

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What if you did a very bad thing... but that wasn’t the end of the story’An extremely moving, emotional rollercoaster of a debut novel’ 5* Goodreads reviewTwenty-one ...

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In 1903, W.C. Handy, the self-proclaimed ‘father of the blues’, was touring Mississippi with his band, the Colored Knights of Pythias, when he fell asleep at a railway ...

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Two decades of fighting – and the new wave of super-radicalised fighters joining the ranks in the wake of the September 11 attacks – have left him questioning his ...

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In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother’s sudden death. This extraordinary debut, full of unexpected humour and emotional truth, marks ...

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spends his days procrastinating, meandering through endless buffer-zones of information and becoming obsessed by the images with which the world bombards him on a daily ...

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Film Tie-in edition to be published to coincide with the release of the film Remainder. Praised by Zadie Smith as “one of the great English novels of the past ten year”, ...

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Takes us aboard the ship Argo for its epic return journey across the Black Sea from Persia’s Colchis – as Medea flees her home and father with Jason, the Argonauts, and ...

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‘I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I nervous that it will it make a jot of difference. I shall still be thought ...

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Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2017 County Kerry, Ireland, 1825. Nora, bereft after the sudden death of her beloved husband, finds herself alone and caring for her ...

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The Christodora of Tim Murphy’s novel is a New York apartment building, ‘handsomely simple’, built on the corner of Avenue B and 9th Street in the 1920s. By the ...