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Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense - economic and political, artistic and perso...

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This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry. This is a book abou...

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Wiles is basically Kafka, if Kafka had spent more time in British hotels and pubs David Baddiel Will Wiles both re-invents and murders the London novel, in a spectacular act of evil, surgical intensity Warren Ellis Its outstanding Mail on Sunday, ...

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Superb radically new and beautiful Observer Magical and evocative Imogen Hermes Gowar, author of The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock Heartachingly poignant Lucy Holland, author of Sistersong An ancient tapestry of legend brilliantly rewoven Francis Spuff...

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Two generations of an American family come of age - one before 9/11, one after - in this moving and original novel from the "intellectually restless, uniquely funny" (New York Times Book Review) mind of Nell Zink Pam, Daniel, and Joe mig...

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'...an essential and fascinating manual for every woman who wants to understand equality within an ever-changing, modern world.' Scarlett Curtis '...[this book] taught me more than any book has ever taught me about AI.' Chris Evans, Virgin Radio

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A top ten New York Times bestseller. With the haunting emotional power of American Dirt and the atmospheric suspense of Where the Crawdads Sing: a compulsive debut novel that explores the aftershock of a brutal crime on the women of a small Texas ...

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Magnificent and stunning Jeff VanderMeer, author of Hummingbird Salamander An immense achievement. Masterful and merciless Olivia Sudjic, author of Asylum Road Expertly conjures California noir filtered through the ambient and not-so-ambient apoca...

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An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay In Your Lane . Slay in Your Lane Presents:¿Loud Black Girls ¿features essays from the diverse voices¿of twe...

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'Nastily good fun' Metro SET TO BECOME A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ELIZABETH MOSS Shirley Jackson meets Ottessa Moshfegh meets My Sister the Serial Killer in a brilliantly unsettling and darkly funny debut novel full of suspense and paranoia G...

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Americas preeminent fiction writer New Yorker A raw, propulsive tale of love and grief Mail on Sunday Michaela and her husband have moved to the starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape of New Mexico, to take residency at a distinguished academic i...

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Lynne Truss's first novel, in which she shows herself to be one of the very best comic writers. 'It was nobody's fault, this widely held assumption that Come Into the Garden had long since sought eternal peace in the great magazine ...

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How does one talk about love? yearning, n./adj. At the core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect. We are all beginners when it comes to love, from those tentative first dates to learning how to live with, or without, someone...

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"My husband died, my life collapsed." On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the Princeton Medical Center where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. Both Joyce and R...

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Hadley Freeman brings us her personalised guide to American movies from the 1980s why they are brilliant, what they meant to her, and how they influenced movie-making forever. For Hadley Freeman, American moves of the 1980s have simply got it all....

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Breakfast may be the most important meal of the day, but only if we skip it. We have long been told to breakfast like kings and dine like paupers. In the wake of his own type 2 diabetes diagnosis, Professor Terence Kealey was given the same advice...

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An uncanny, startlingly beautiful story collection steeped in the Cornish landscape, from the award-winning author of Diving Belles and Other Stories and Weathering. At the very edge of England, where the Atlantic Ocean meets the land and visitors...

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The next voice of a generation Elle LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE A young woman called A lives with a young woman called B. B is becoming more and more like A: wearing her clothes, using her make-up. If As boyfriend, C, likes A because A is...

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A celebration of modern German home cooking from Anja Dunks young family kitchen. Strudel, Noodles and Dumplings is a long-awaited revival of this underserved national cuisine, proving that there is more to German food than Bratwurst and Black For...

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This is my manifesto for morning. There is an energy in the earlier hours, an awareness I enjoy. In todays world we tend to wake as late as we can, timed to when we have to work. But we dont need to chase the day. In Morning, Allan Jenkins shows h...

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Penelope Fitzgeralds final masterpiece. One of the ten books novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography that make up our Matchbook Classics series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. The year i...

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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Fail and Magpie Elizabeth Day has revolutionised the way we see failure Stylist A beautiful timely and humane book Alain de Botton Most failures can teach us something meaningful about ourselves i...

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