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Selected titles, hot off the press.

Acute, sensitive novel about a writer's psychic collapse. (The US edition has a different title - Dartmouth Park, which is far more Jane Austen than the contents.)

How to Make a Bomb: A Novel

Rupert Thomson

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Featuring Ali Smith, Daisy Lafarge, K Patrick, et al.

In the good seats: Essays on film

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This posthumous publication is based on the revisionist work Stamp did at the end of his life, arguing that interwar Britain was not just an era of intensifying modernism but saw an emergenc... read more

Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39

Gavin Stamp

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Freud is the primary focus here, but we also encounter Klimt, Schiele, Herzl, Empress Sisi and many others in this fine account of the new understanding of the mind that arose from Vienna at... read more

Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind ...

Frank Tallis

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An elucidating account of the conditions that led to, and subsequently shaped the Iraq war. This book casts a light on both CIA intrigue in the Middle East and Hussein's own political motiva... read more

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle Ea ...

Steve Coll

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From Milton to Benton End: the idea of gardens unpicked, now that this agile cultural commentator has one of her own. Discursive and hugely enjoyable.

The Garden Against Time: In Search Of A Common Paradise ...

Olivia Laing

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Barley Patch

Gerald Murnane

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Lexicon of Affinities

Ida Vitale

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A dizzying tale of social collapse, generational impasse and mid-life crisis; a Bonfire of the Vanities set in London. Brilliantly observed, lean, slick, clever and gripping.

Caledonian Road: The Sunday Times bestseller

Andrew O'Hagan

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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and ...

Jonathan Blitzer

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This fascinating account of a forgotten moment in history is part family memoir, part the telling of a Texan offshoot of the early Zionist movement, when 10,000 Jews set sail for Galveston b... read more

Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land ...

Rachel Cockerell

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Mountainish

Zsuzsanna Gahse

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The post-war eclipse of the rural by the urban. Joyce interweaves his own Irish family history into wider story of European peasantry to create a rich and varied cultural account of what it ... read more

Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World ...

Patrick Joyce

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The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War ...

Jesse McCarthy

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The glorious Pan-European Picnic of 19th August 1989.

The Picnic: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain ...

Matthew Longo

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When everyone walked: the network of footpaths and bridleways that connected rural communities and criss-crossed the land unchanged for centuries until the dominance of the internal combusti... read more

The English Path

Kim Taplin

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Anyone who read Christopher de Hamel's last book, or Alexandra Lapierre's novel Belle Greene, will know that the letters from Pierpont Morgan's mixed-race librarian/buyer to Berenson will be... read more

Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Lett ...

Deborah Parker

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A re-issue of McCarthy's brilliant memoir - so painful and unjust that Anita Brookner held that Jane Eyre had got away lightly in comparison. First published in 1957.

Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood

Mary McCarthy

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A sharp social satire set during a production of Coward's Blithe Spirit by the Midhurst am-dram society: expect some delicious narcissism.

In Judgement of Others

Eleanor Anstruther

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An early novella, and an excellent introduction into MB's work, in which a 22-year old returns to Dublin from Paris after the death of her mother.

The Visitor

Maeve Brennan

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Buzzati, a journalist for much of his life, was celebrated for turning the events of mid-century Italy and beyond into absurdist, even nightmarish stories, gathered together here into a new ... read more

The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty Stories

Dino Buzzati

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This caustic, witty novel is set among migrants and lost souls in East London as they try to navigate the latest government policies; translated from the Arabic.

On the Greenwich Line

Shady Lewis

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Unabridged new translation of one of the great works of C20th Italian fiction, first published in1948, set among three generations of Sicilian women.

Lies and Sorcery

Elsa Morante

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Narrated by Mozart in three periods of his life: as a child in London, as an angst-ridden youth in Paris, and as a man in sight of his own death in Leipzig. Charlatans and aristocrats abound... read more

Allegro: A Novel

Ariel Dorfman

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Rosa Luxemburg, Charlotte Salomon and Marilyn Monroe are Rose's first focus in this far-sighted and tightly-reasoned exploration of women's lives. Feminism at its most elegant and intelligen... read more

Women in Dark Times

Jacqueline Rose

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Material culture of the domestic: paintings, ceramics, embroidery, furniture, decorative arts. Many illustrations.

The Scandinavian Home: Art and Identity, 1880-1920

Patricia G. Berman

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A memoir of the author's clandestine explorations through the haunting nuclear wasteland of 'the Zone' that is Chernobyl is both compelling and sinister.

Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of ...

Markiyan Kamysh

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A new translation by Matthew Hollis of an Anglo-Saxon poem - ‘The spirit-music of land and wind and sea' - paired with black-and-white photographs by Norman McBeath, who also wrote a short... read more

The Seafarer

Matthew Hollis

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A deliciously nasty buffet of genre-inflected stories spanning horror, sci-fi, fable and even a surreal series of restaurant reviews. Lurking in each is that ravening, animal craving for foo... read more

She’s Always Hungry

Eliza Clark

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The first issue of a new, massive (almost twice the dimensions of a standard magazine) bi-annual publication. Each issue revolves around a central text - this time by AK Blakemore - with oth... read more

Footnote No.1

A. K. Blakemore

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From the emergence of tyranny to the malaise of ennui, LS surveys how Hannah Arendt's life and work can help us confront the perils of contemporary post-truth politics.

We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love ...

Lyndsey Stonebridge

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The central event of this measured and sophisticated novel is the shootings outside the Libyan embassy in 1984, which alter forever the lives of three young Libyans. Themes of exile, reticen... read more

My Friends

Hisham Matar

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A compulsive political thriller that takes us deep into the Kremlin and the psychology of authoritarianism: at its heart is Putin's chief spin-doctor, the still centre of a delirious propaga... read more

The Wizard of the Kremlin

Giuliano da Empoli

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The brilliant Princeton historian guides us through the relationship between magic and the Renaissance, demystifying the Magus' relationship with science, art, and engineering in early-moder... read more

Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa

Anthony Grafton

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A charming guide to writing and editing from the great le Guin.

Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of ...

Le Guin, Ursula K.
Le Guin, Ursula K.

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A wonderful history published by Verso, drawing on the architecture, literature and changing culture of the island to describe its constant reinvention, right up to the Cosa Nostra and the r... read more

The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History

Jamie MacKay

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