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A narrative history of council housing – from slums to Grenfell Tower

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Set in Singapore, and spanning fifty years, Ponti is a sweeping story of three women and the guilt that ties them to each other. For fans of Zadie Smith and Elena Ferrante.

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A concise history of one of the world’s greatest and most comprehensive museum collections, from its founding in 1753 to the present day.

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A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION I could not be held responsible for desire he could not be held at all Tracking the joys and pains of the path through addiction, and ...

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A gritty and gorgeous debut inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza made famous by the seminal documentary Paris Is Burning

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A dazzling and propulsive novel from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Aftermath. Hurtling across 1980s America, this wildly original story is full of characters ...

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Alfred Busi, the protagonist of Jim Crace’s new novel, is a songwriter with an enchanting and consoling voice, so celebrated in his home city that, when the book opens, he ...

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A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY 2017`[Smith’s] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy’ The New Yorker ...

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Translating as ‘initiation’, kumukanda is the name given to the rites a young boy from the Luvale tribe must pass through before he is considered a man. In this book, the ...

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When a brutally murdered man is found hanging in a theatre, Detective Sergeant Rex King becomes obsessed with the case.

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Together with Willie, their lanky navigator, they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the continent, over roads no car will ever quite survive.A Long Way from ...

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'The emotional geography charted in Patrick Davidson Roberts's collection is criss-crossed with fractures and fault lines. Here is a country where there is no safe passage ...

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This book is an intimate, fond and funny memoir of one of the greatest novelists of the last century.

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From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a memoir that captures the romance of New York City in the 1980s.