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Short stories - almost vignettes - of the lives of working-class young women in Battersea and Clapham Junction, first published in 1963, at the same time as Dunn's husband, Jeremy Sandford, ... read more

Up The Junction

Nell Dunn

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Entirely new stories from contemporary gothic authors such as Bridget Collins, Elizabeth Macneal, Natasha Pulley and Imogen Hermes Gower.

The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights

Bridget Collins

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One Fine Day

Mollie Panter-Downes

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A Thousand Mornings

Mary Oliver

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A Clergyman’s Daughter

George Orwell

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The Transit of Venus

Shirley Hazzard

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This uproarious, clever classic (originally published 1958) of a young American woman's sojourn in France, her love affairs on the fringes of Bohemia and the film industry, is largely based ... read more

The Dud Avocado

Elaine Dundy

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Owls Do Cry

Janet Frame

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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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By boat from the source near Diyarbakir in Turkey, through Syria and Iraq to the river's mouth in the Persian Gulf.

Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilisation

Leon McCarron

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The novelist (of, most recently, the hugely loved Horse) has written a graceful memoir of sudden bereavement, its bureaucratic aftermath and finding solace in solitude.

Memorial Days

Geraldine Brooks

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The self-proclaimed hall of fame by a very funny author.

The Best of Me

David Sedaris

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Two women in their mid-twenties, stifled by marriage and the monotony of Hampstead society, come across an advertisement in The Times: 'To Those Who Appreciate Wisteria and Sunshine. Small m... read more

The Enchanted April

Elizabeth Von Arnim

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For those prepared to forego a life of Zen-like calm to relish the pinpricks of irritation rising to deafening howls when listening to The Four Seasons on a loop on the telephone while waiti... read more

Screams: Shrieks of Horror and Yelps of Pleasure from Modern Life

Ysenda Maxtone Graham

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A generous anthology that ranges from antiquity to the contemporary - edited by the firebrand octogenarian feminist and Shakespeare scholar, whose age has in no way diminished her intelligen... read more

Poems For Gardeners

Germaine Greer

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...may be made of glass. A clever thriller that picks its way between savagery and cosy crime, with an estate agent found dead in a lake.

Other People’s Houses

Clare Mackintosh

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An anthology that brings together excerpts and insights of 100 women writers.

The Virago Book of Friendship

Rachel Cooke

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Precious Ramotswe of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency and her friend Grace Makutsi are busy sorting things out - again!

The Great Hippopotamus Hotel

Alexander McCall Smith

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The actor and director is a fine writer, as many will recall from his memoirs. These stories are witty (of course), intermittantly dissolute and beguiling.

The American No

Rupert Everett

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Seven children come together after the death of their father but find their attempts to mourn him thwarted by his will. The result is this deliciously funny, heartening, somewhat dark caper ... read more

Stealing Dad

Sofka Zinovieff

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A funny, raucous debut novel set in the Ukraine, involving a woman trying to breed snails and 'romance tours' of hopeful bachelors from the west looking for 'untainted' brides as the country... read more

Endling

Maria Reva

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If you enjoy books that make you laugh aloud, this darkly humorous, touching and brilliantly original explication of a deeply pessimistic worldview might be your thing. The author attributes... read more

FEH: A Memoir

Shalom Auslander

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A journey through the year from her Rutland studio, showing the processes as well as their beautiful results.

A Year Unfolding: A Printmaker’s View

Angela Harding

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The natural world observed and portrayed in many different lights: this is beautiful book of Harding's prints.

Wild Light: A printmaker’s day and night

Angela Harding

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The printmaker's sketchbook of her travels to watery places, with photographs too.

Still Waters & Wild Waves

Angela Harding

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25 years after its first publication, Gladwell revisits The Tipping Point, looking particularly at how the idea applies to epidemics.

Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders and the Rise of Social Engineering

Malcolm Gladwell

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From WW2, when her father-in-law Winston Churchill engaged her as a 'secret weapon', to her later support of Bill Clinton, Harriman was an extraordinarily powerful force in political and soc... read more

Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Seduction, Intrigue and Power

Sonia Purnell

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Argues that the origins of Ireland's catastrophe lay in the colonisers' experiments with capitalism and imperialism.

Rot: A History of the Irish Famine

Padraic X. Scanlan

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A vade mecum for the prurient? From the author of Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Life of London Private Members' Clubs (2022).

London Clubland: A Companion for the Curious

Seth Alexander Thévoz

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DJ takes on another Big Year, this time the one that produced Horses, Blood on the Tracks and The Hissing of Summer Lawns. His book on '95, Faster than a Cannonball, was a riot.

1975: The Year the World Forgot

Dylan Jones

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Pepys and his many women, in a new transcription.

The Confessions of Samuel Pepys: His Private Revelations

Guy de la Bédoyère

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A memoir from the Swedish tennis prodigy who retired at the age of twenty-six, in which he opens up about his childhood, family, addiction and illness.

Heartbeats: A Memoir

Bjorn Borg

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His Harold and Maude soundtrack was his finest hour. Discuss.

Cat On The Road To Findout

Yusuf/Cat Stevens

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A new gathering of these scintillating stories, by a supreme practitioner of the dark art of tingling spines.

After Midnight: Thirteen Chilling Tales for the Dark Hours

Daphne du Maurier

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The Colour of Home: Growing up in 1970s Britain

Sajid Javid

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The relationship between landscape and land use explored with subtlety and enthusiasm by the late architectural historian, Cannon by name and also Canon Historian for Bristol Cathedral. A wi... read more

The Stones of Britain: A History of Britain Through Its Geology

Jon Cannon

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