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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World

David Graeber

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The abridged version of his 3-vol life is perfect for a sharp-cornered handbag.

Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography

Charles Moore

Hardback
£40.00

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A deadpan memoir of hard-scrabble work in the gig economy with its performance metrics, night shifts and low pay. This has been a best-seller in China.

I Deliver Parcels in Beijing: On Making a Living

Hu Anyan

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£20.00

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Looks at the balance between the gnomic workings of the ghost in the machine in economics, and the whims and emotions of human agents.

The Winner’s Curse: Behavioral Economics Anomalies Then and Now

Richard H. Thaler

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A short coming-of-age novel set in Ischia, in which a young man spends a summer learning how to fish, to desire and to endure. Full of vitality and the sense of a young life on the brink of ... read more

Fish Don’t Close Their Eyes

Erri De Luca

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A definitive new edition of the works of this giant of philosophy and style. He is a joy to read, and his influence cannot be understated. He is the author of many helpful aphorisms, such as... read more

Complete Essays: Volume 1

David Hume

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A definitive new edition of the works of this giant of philosophy and style. He is a joy to read, and his influence cannot be understated.

Complete Essays: Volume 2

David Hume

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How could we not? By a long-time member of the British Antarctic Survey. Some illustrations.

The Penguin Book of Penguins: An Expert’s Guide to the World’s Most Beloved Bird

Peter Fretwell

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Radical thought experiments that could upend quantum physics and our understanding of the universe.

Portals to a New Reality: Five Experiments to Unlock the Future of Physics

Vlatko Vedral

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The entanglement of Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth et al in the racial politics of their age: a fascinating and original perspective in which feeling and scholarship are deftly balanced.

The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive

Mathelinda Nabugodi

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This brilliant exploration of a C17th West African slave port, through the Inquisition's investigation of its most powerful (female) slave trader, reshapes our understanding of the slave tra... read more

The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles over Life in a Seventeenth-Century West African Port

Toby Green

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An astonishing study from disparate sources of a little-understood phenomenon.

Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World

Justin Marozzi

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Now 95, and not disposed towards early retirement, DG has a great deal of experience to offer.

Lessons for Young Artists

David Gentleman

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White Teeth: 25th Anniversary Edition

Zadie Smith

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A new volume in the little clothbound Penguin hardbacks.

About Love

Anton Chekhov

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Chess: A Novel

Stefan Zweig

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Summer

Edith Wharton

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White Nights

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The Bee Sting

Paul Murray

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Elizabeth

Gyles Brandreth

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Four cloth-bound editions in a slipcase: 'Tess of the D'Urbevilles', 'Far From the Madding Crowd', 'The Mayor of Casterbridge', 'Jude the Obscure'.

Thomas Hardy: Major Works

Thomas Hardy

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Completely Perfect: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook

Felicity Cloake

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The restaurant critic's first cook book includes recipes from his favourite restaurant meals - sometimes with the help of their creators.

Nights Out At Home: Recipes and Stories from 25 years as a Restaurant Critic

Jay Rayner

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£22.00

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The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand and Vilna to the Present Day

Claudia Roden

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The River Cafe Classic Italian Cookbook

Rose Gray

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£25.00

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The dreamlike story of an architect, brought from Germany to England on a kindertransport in 1939, in search of his family

Austerlitz

W. G. Sebald

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The author's Jewish great-grandfather was not simply a chemist who happened to get out of Germany in good time: he was involved in developing chemical weapons. An uncomfortable trail for the... read more

Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance

Joe Dunthorne

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A brilliant look at the relationship between neo-liberal freedoms and authoritarian, illiberal views. The author has previously written about the decoupling of markets from democracy in Crac... read more

Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right

Quinn Slobodian

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The appeal of simplistic answers and their concomitant narrow conformity: Zmigrod's analysis makes for compelling reading in our polarized times.

The Ideological Brain: A Radical Science of Susceptible Minds

Leor Zmigrod

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the latest in this excellent series from Penguin; edited and translated by Antonia Lloyd Jones, well known for her translations of Tokarczuk, Lem and Czapski and others.

The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories

Antonia Lloyd Jones

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Mary Shelley writes her monster in Byron's house on the shores of Lake Geneva.

Love, Sex & Frankenstein

Caroline Lea

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A tremendous, intelligent history of an idea which is a lot more nuanced and interesting than political chatter might often suggest. Covers from around 1700, when modern ideas of liberty and... read more

What Is Free Speech?: The History of a Dangerous Idea

Fara Dabhoiwala

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Complete Poems Of William Empson

John Haffenden

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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 East, 1979-2003

Steve Coll

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English Pastoral

James Rebanks

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A meeting with an elderly woman tending eider ducks on a remote Norwegian island is tinder, spark and fuel for this remarkable book. Rebanks is a thoughtful story-teller and a very congenial... read more

The Place of Tides

James Rebanks

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