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Friendship, ambition and obsession entrap a photographer and an artist in the London YBA arts scene of the 1990s.

Exhibition

Alex Hyde

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High into the remotest rocky wildernesses of the Himalayas we go with the author - a scientist and conservationist - who has been researching snow leopards for two decades.

The Ghost of the Mountains: Unravelling the Secrets of the Snow Leopard

Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi

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Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

Kathleen Collins

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This immensely long, rather brilliant novel, concerns the sudden death of a former gold digger in New Zealand in the 1860s, the whereabouts of a mysterious bonanza, opium, a whore with a cor... read more

The Luminaries

Eleanor Catton

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Born in Romania, the Nobel laureate (The Land of Green Plums and others) emigrated to Germany in her twenties. An outspoken memoir about literature, fear and the strange boredom of dictatori... read more

The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving Ceausescu’s Romania

Herta Muller

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A dual biography of the New York photographer and the artist, which is both a love story and a look at the US art world in the 1970s/1980s.

The Wonderful World that Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek

Andrew Durbin

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A tragi-comic balancing act, perfectly executed, in which a consultant juggles work, his girlfriend, her two boys and his recalcitrant, secretive grandmother.

Other People’s Children

Ben Faccini

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A novelist very like the author himself goes to interview an aging intellectual. A layered, associative short novel that explores the authentic in a digitally slippery world.

Transcription

Ben Lerner

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Publisher's description: A young boy plays hide and seek in the suburbs of Santiago, unaware that his neighbours are becoming entangled in the brutality of Pinochet's regime. Then one night... read more

Ways of Going Home

Alejandro Zambra

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Every One Still Here

Chuinn, Liadan Ni
Chuinn, Liadan Ni

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Facing the Bridge

Yoko Tawada

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Drawing on forty years reporting from the environmental front-line, Pearce offers us enlightening, hopeful stories from across the planet, and suggests further action. A salve for those in d... read more

Despite It All: A Handbook for Climate Hopefuls

Fred Pearce

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Historical fiction filtered through a contemporary lens: Perry's lyrical debut layers courtly intrigue, archival sleuthing and blurry parallel lives.

May We Feed the King

Rebecca Perry

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While showing us how ideas and rights have shifted in the last 50 years, Solnit also offers hope that change is possible.

The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change

Rebecca Solnit

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An embattled government, a resentful population and a metropolitican elite: it's not exactly 1789 but surely food for thought. Fine reportage on the present state of our good neighbour by th... read more

Fractured France: A Journey Through a Divided Nation

Andrew Hussey

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Dark, squelchy, earthy and lyrical. Short stories concerned with nature and survival from a thrilling voice.

Pulse

Cynan Jones

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Essays on vanishings and impermanence - of places, people, rituals, objects - by this fine novelist who won the International Booker a couple of years ago with Kairos.

Things That Disappear: Reflections and Memories

Jenny Erpenbeck

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An unsettling satire of the corporate workplace.

The Expansion Project

Ben Pester

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Like the eponymous strip, this book has no clear beginning or end: Lacey's blend of fiction and biography meet somewhere in the middle, physically and intellectually. These separate but comp... read more

The Moebius Book

Catherine Lacey

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A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder

Mark O'Connell

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Mountains Of The Mind: A History Of A Fascination

Robert Macfarlane

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'Mountains of the Mind' (pbk, ?8.99), about the cultural history of mountains, was very highly regarded. His new book is about the remaining wild places in Britain

The Wild Places

Robert Macfarlane

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Jefferson won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir of growing up among Chicago's Black elite - what she refers to as 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro America where resi... read more

Negroland: A Memoir

Margo Jefferson

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Train Dreams

Denis Johnson

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By the author of the Booker-shortlisted Do Not Say We Have Nothing: a playful and complex novel that interweaves characters from C17th Amsterdam, 1930s' Germany and C8th Tang China.

The Book of Records

Madeleine Thien

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A re-issue of this excellent biography in which Solnit explores how the British photographer's images of high-speed movement captured in late C19th California were created on the cusp of the... read more

River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

Rebecca Solnit

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Recent essays by the author of Orwell's Roses, Wanderlust and others.

No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain

Rebecca Solnit

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Ochre, tin, iron, radium, gold: Marsden travels from Cornwall to Georgia and back, tracing the often revolutionary use of minerals, dipping into alchemy, science and ecology and fraternising... read more

Under a Metal Sky: A Journey Through Minerals, Greed and Wonder

Philip Marsden

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A Sunny Place for Shady People

Mariana Enriquez

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A reissue of Erpenbeck's masterful novella, set on a lakeside in Brandenburg where a young architect has just built a house.

Visitation

Jenny Erpenbeck

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Henderson lends an ear to the world around him, to both the audible and the inaudible... the rustling of the Northern Lights, the sound of desert sands, the subterranean boom of a volcano...... read more

A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous

Caspar Henderson

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The late Swedish writer and poet's last book which she asked her friend and publisher Sigrid Rausing to complete and translate. This memoir is notable for its quiet atomising of desire, memo... read more

And the Walls Became the World All Around

Johanna Ekström

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From the intimate to the political, a practising psychoanalyst and professor of literary theory probes the difference between anger and aggression. Riveting reading.

All the Rage: Why Anger Drives the World

Josh Cohen

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A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder

Mark O'Connell

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Another huge novel from the author of City On Fire. A teenage girl and her father navigate relationships, addiction and other threats to serenity in New York.

The Second Coming

Garth Risk Hallberg

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Reminiscent of Süskind's Perfume or Andrew Miller's Ingenious Pain, this is set in C18th France and involves a physical prodigy. In this case, it is his ability to eat... By the author of T... read more

The Glutton

A. K. Blakemore

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