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I Think of You Always All the Time: The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas

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The novelist writes movingly about her parents' love affair, working with a trove of letters found when their East Midlands bungalow was being cleared after their deaths.

On This Spot Fell One Tear of Love

Louise Doughty

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The lives of three children born between 1938 and 1946, to a Nazi war criminal, a Holocaust survivor and a German-Jewish couple settled in Israel. Decades later, the three met.

Children of the Third Reich:Three Pasts, Three Futures

Catrine Clay

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From 1900 to the present, via the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the creation of Israel and the rise of the Saudis - and much else besides.

The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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A Jesuit priest is sent by the Vatican to investigate a case of a person turning into a pillar of salt: a jolly romp of the gothic and supernatural. By the author of The Watchmaker of Filig... read more

The Salt King

Natasha Pulley

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This is that rare thing - a book about food with no photographs - which means it's light enough to read in the bath. A millennial's answer to the endless question 'What shall we have for din... read more

But First, Dinner: Food for Our Real Lives

Eleanor Steafel

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The Sirens Of Titan: The science fiction classic and precursor to Douglas Adams

Kurt Vonnegut

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The Lathe Of Heaven

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Motherland: A Journey Through African History, Culture and Identity

Luke Pepera

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The Vanity Fair Diaries: The Magazine that Defined a Decade 1983-1992

Tina Brown

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From the end of WW1 to Hitler's appointment as Chancellor, this is the story of the arts and science that flourished, as well as the politics.

Weimar Germany: Death of a Democracy

Victor Sebestyen

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Unaccountable, opaque and opportunistic, private equity owns more and more of the stuff of day-to-day life, from petrol stations to care homes - and then loads it all with debt. A terrifying... read more

The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself

Hettie O'Brien

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A selection of Le Guin's essays, written in old age.

No Time to Spare

Ursula K Le Guin

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A study of the country's footpaths, from prehistoric to modern parks and trails. By one of the great historians of the countryside.

The Path More Travelled: The Secret History of Britain’s Footpaths

Nicholas Crane

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The Hypocrite: Shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards 2024 and longlisted for the

Jo Hamya

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Stronger: The Untold Story of Muscle in Our Lives

Michael Joseph Gross

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A convincing psychological portrait that exposes the role of myth, rumour and 'fake news' in the dynastic collapse.

Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs

Antony Beevor

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As in Moneyland and Butler To The World, Bullough exposes eye-watering networks of criminal grift.

Everybody Loves Our Dollars: How Money Laundering Won

Oliver Bullough

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The distinguished Australian novelist Helen Garner won the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for her diaries. Here, she and two other writers who attended the trial of Erin Patterson offer their th... read more

The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations on a Triple Murder Trial

Helen Garner

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Adler's collected and always incisive non-fiction.

After the Tall Timber

Renata Adler

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A history of how mothering has been perceived: from the ancient world to Wollstonecraft, slavery and modernity. How men have constructed notions, and how women have forged their own paths.

A Woman’s Work: Reclaiming the Radical History of Mothering

Elinor Cleghorn

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The poet, translator and editor of Nemo's Almanac is astonishingly well-read; if books do furnish a room, this man's memory palace will be vast and labyrinthine... With a book habit that beg... read more

Books – A Manifesto: Or, How to Build a Library

Ian Patterson

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The rich, almost mythological history of the iconic World's End boutique, illustrated with images of the shop and the pop culture icons who frequented it.

Granny Takes a Trip: High Fashion and High Times at the Wildest Rock ‘n’ Roll Bo

Paul Gorman

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From a former winner of the International Booker, translated from the Bulgarian, this is a poignant tale of a father, son and a fading garden.

Death and the Gardener

Georgi Gospodinov

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A lyrical memoir of deafness. He's won both the Ted Hughes Award and Rathbone's Folio Prize for his poetry.

The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound

Raymond Antrobus

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In the concluding part of his trilogy about Nazi war criminals and the law, Sands turns to Pinochet, Chile's Disappeared and a former SS officer.

38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia

Philippe Sands

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Remember Chocolat? Here is a prequel.

Vianne

Joanne Harris

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Married respectively to Franz Joseph and Napoleon III, these two young, beautiful, dynamic empresses were involved in most of the major aspects of their times. Looking at them in parallel - ... read more

The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugenie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe

Nancy Goldstone

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A carefully researched account of the fifty women who made up the orchestra. A niece of Mahler's was one, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch MBE another. Friendship, coercion, collaboration, cruelty and... read more

The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival

Anne Sebba

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You get the sense that the interviews for this oral history – drawn from several decades of conversations with Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Steve McQueen, Liam Gallagher, Sarah Lucas, Kate M... read more

Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and All That

Dylan Jones

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Since its inception in 1909, the Secret Service has had as many women at its heart as men. Few would recognise themselves as Miss Moneypenny.

Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence

Claire Hubbard-Hall

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A murder in prison for Inspector Rebus to solve.

Midnight and Blue

Ian Rankin

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Cedars of Lebanon, deodars from India, cypresses from Italy, oriental planes from Greece and Turkey, maples and pines from North America: all were planted on an immense scale from the late C... read more

The Tree Hunters: How the Cult of the Arboretum Transformed Our Landscape

Thomas Pakenham

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A welcome reissue of a splendid tome. Readable, witty and good company... for 1,168 pages.

Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford

Jessica Mitford

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A look at some of the ugly jostling for power following the death of Octavian in 14CE.

Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars

Peter Stothard

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Another witty and shrewd take on modern love from the author of Exciting Times.

The Happy Couple

Naoise Dolan

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