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Dizzying encounters and immense historical arcs: a hugely entertaining look (often from a bicycle) at our peculiar, scattered island nations, by the author of The Discovery of France.

The Discovery of Britain: An Accidental History

Graham Robb

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From the author of Lost Paradise: the Story of Granada, an excellent history from Mecca to Cordoba that takes in Islamic libraries in Spain and Ottoman coffee houses in London.

Crucible of Light: Islam and the Forging of Europe from the 8th to the 21st Century

Elizabeth Drayson

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A memoir by the inventor of the internet - a man who gave it away to all of us for free and will no doubt be canonised one day, if we survive as a species.

This is For Everyone

Tim Berners-Lee

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Doing the hokey-cokey with Europe - and who danced with whom - by the astute political observer.

Between the Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 1945-2016

Tom McTague

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Medea for the modern age.

No Friend to This House

Natalie Haynes

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Longing and absence inflect this novella about a mother who abandons her Pyrenean family. This first appeared in Toibin's collection Mother and Sons (2006).

A Long Winter

Colm Toibin

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Detective Jimmy Perez is drawn deep into an insular and secretive community in Orkney after his childhood friend is murdered with a rune-inscribed Neolithic stone. (Somewhere, some nut must ... read more

The Killing Stones

Ann Cleeves

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Perpetually straddling humour and epiphany, this lively debut reminds us that poetry is supposed to challenge but also delight.

After Party

Dean Browne

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Essays from five decades.

Putting Myself Together

Jamaica Kincaid

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A suspicious cheep impedes Bear's sleep! Ages 3-5.

Bear’s Nap

Emily Gravett

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Presented as the memoirs of a half-British, half-Burmese actor, beginning with his scholarship to an English private school in the 1960s. A sequence of delicately observed vignettes reveal h... read more

Our Evenings

Alan Hollinghurst

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Prodigy? Freak? Prophet? Houellebecq sets this new novel once again in the near future: governmental decline, national decay and human disintegration, but warmed this time with compassion as... read more

Annihilation

Michel Houellebecq

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A man and a child take refuge in an abandoned mine, only to discover that they are not alone... Dystopian brilliance from the author of Dirt Music, Cloudstreet and others.

Juice

Tim Winton

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We missed this brilliant exposition from our Christmas 2024 catalogue. (It's still available in hardback too.)

Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the race that is changing the world

Parmy Olson

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Unnervingly taut tales.

Good and Evil and Other Stories

Samanta Schweblin

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A new collection.

The Book of Jonah

Luke Kennard

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The pre-eminent biographer of the late Queen has had plenty of time to prepare - and update - this.

Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story

Robert Hardman

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This is the blistering account of what it was like to work for Mark Zuckerberg, by a former employee. Funnily enough, the self-styled champion of free speech tried to ban it.

Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work

Sarah Wynn-Williams

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Mosse resurrects the histories of nearly 1000 forgotten female pioneers, whilst searching to uncover forgotten figures in her own family tree.

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World

Kate Mosse

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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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An urgent, vital account of the immigration crisis from a New Yorker journalist whose been covering it for nearly a decade.

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

Jonathan Blitzer

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No doubt there will be humour at the expense of the Tory MPs who fell by the wayside for several mortal sins (mostly greed but also the ill-advised coveting of thy neighbour's tractor in the... read more

Ungovernable: The Political Diaries of a Chief Whip

Simon Hart

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A train journey in the Belle Epoque, complete with a cast of rich and poor with an anarchist along for the ride. A gripping historical novel.

The Paris Express

Emma Donoghue

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Race, class, sexuality, fitting in - or not - and how quickly life passes by: a tender, perceptive new novel by one of our finest writers.

Our Evenings

Alan Hollinghurst

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Prodigy? Freak? Prophet? Houellebecq sets this new novel once again in the near future: governmental decline, national decay and human disintegration, but warmed this time with compassion as... read more

Annihilation

Michel Houellebecq

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A man and a child take refuge in an abandoned mine, only to discover that they are not alone... Dystopian brilliance from the author of Dirt Music, Cloudstreet and others.

Juice

Tim Winton

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The much-awarded poet's new collection centres on the birth of his son and the death of his father.

Signs, Music

Raymond Antrobus

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KJ is the current 'Makar' (National Poet) of Scotland, a terrific writer of verse and prose. This new collection - in which themes of language and history, the migration of birds and people ... read more

The Keelie Hawk: Poems in Scots

Kathleen Jamie

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A selection of 31 festive poems, chosen to be read aloud. Thomas Hardy, Christina Rossetti, Robert Burns et al. All ages.

A Poem for Every Day of Chistmas

Allie Esiri

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A lesbian couple - one of whom is an egotistical, bullying narcissist - decide to have children. The novel turns on what happens when the decent one finally determines to leave, taking at le... read more

Wife

Charlotte Mendelson

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An audacious reimagining of the rise of China's first Ming emperor, in which a peasant girl steals her dead brother's identity and with it his glorious destiny. Thrilling stuff.

She Who Became the Sun

Shelley Parker-Chan

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The distinguished novelist tells of the embedded conflict between ambition and restraint in her 1970s upbringing, and of her battle with anorexia.

My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir

Sarah Moss

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Eschews tribalism for a witty, perceptive look at our core political institutions.

Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It

Sam Freedman

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An rich account of the diversity of Turkey and its culture; from pastries to prisons, communes to ice creams.

The Endless Country: A Personal Journey Through Turkey’s First Hundred Years

Sami Kent

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The author is a sociopathic psychologist. This is a remarkable account of her empathy-free adventures and how she came to terms with her personality.

Sociopath: A Memoir

Patric Gagne

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The loss of human agency to algorithms and AI in nine lives - including that of British poet Helen Mort.

Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

Madhumita Murgia

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