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A family gathering unravels over a long, hot afternoon in New England in the 80s. A fiendishly good debut.

Idle Grounds

Krystelle Bamford

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A novel from the art critic and author of What Artists Wear and Bring No Clothes that looks at gay relationships against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis and its long aftermath.

Nova Scotia House

Charlie Porter

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Confessions

Catherine Airey

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Macfarlane's powerful new book is a beautiful torrent of vivid language and research - and also his most political work so far. As we'd expect from this remarkable writer, he ranges from the... read more

Is a River Alive?

Robert Macfarlane

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The Hohenzollerns’ distaste for the Weimar Republic (which ousted them) led to close personal alliances with the Nazis, which in turn encouraged many of their supporters to do likewise.

The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis

Stephan Malinowski

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The Struggle for Taiwan

Khan, Sulmaan Wasif
Khan, Sulmaan Wasif

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Thoughts on different kinds of love in contemporary society: why are we so fixated on it and why do so many feel it to be out of reach? Drawing on personal experience, cultural touchstones, ... read more

Love in Exile

Shon Faye

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Silent Catastrophes

W. G. Sebald

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The Library of Ancient Wisdom

Wisnom, Laura Selena
Wisnom, Laura Selena

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Tortoise by Candlelight

Nina Bawden

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When the Cranes Fly South

Lisa Ridzén

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How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking

Viv Groskop

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There are places in the world where rules are less important than kindness

Carlo Rovelli

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The Women

Hilton Als

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A murder enquiry kicks off at a think-tank conference in the Cotswolds during a Prime Minister's 7-week tenure... Coe is always entertaining and sharp.

The Proof of My Innocence

Jonathan Coe

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The distinguished historian of Christianity disentangles 3,000 years of varied attitudes to sex among Christian communities.

Lower Than the Angels

Diarmaid MacCulloch

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Charman, a fellow at Clare College Cambridge, argues that motherhood is an inherently political state of being, one that should be considered in terms of collective responsibilities as well ... read more

Mother State

Helen Charman

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A shard of crockery found in the garden of a family home in the Netherlands sets off a series of quiet, intense revelations in this novel about memory, desire, belonging and the idea of home... read more

The Safekeep

Yael van der Wouden

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Argues that the greatest threat to democracy is interlinked networks - primarily, state-controlled companies - rather than individuals.

Autocracy, Inc

Anne Applebaum

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The irrepressible Ali Smith takes us to a dystopia in which two children come home to find a line of wet red paint encircling the outside of their house...

Gliff

Ali Smith

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One of the great commentators on C18th French history (The Great Cat Massacre and others) returns to the fray.

The revolutionary temper

Robert Darnton

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In the third book of this remarkable sequence, the Greeks sail for home after a decade of war, leaving Troy a wasteland, and taking with them the captive Trojan women.

The Voyage Home

Pat Barker

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A nail-biter set in 1914, against the backdrop of Venetia Stanley's love affair with the Prime Minister, Asquith, who was more than twice her age.

Precipice

Robert Harris

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Six stories from the author of A Gentleman In Moscow.

Table for two

Amor Towles

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The Wide Wide sea

Hampton Sides

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Abdurraqib's meditation on Black music and performance, A Little Devil in America, was inspired. This new book, a literary memoir about basketball and what it takes to be successful, what it... read more

There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib

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This American professor of philosophy is a powerful advocate of the life of the mind - and of how to change it.

Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life

Agnes Callard

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In the third book of this remarkable sequence, the Greeks sail for home after a decade of war, leaving Troy a wasteland, and taking with them the captive Trojan women.

The Voyage Home

Pat Barker

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A huge narrative taking us from Victorian London to Ancient Nineveh, the Tigris in 2014 and a Thames houseboat in 2018.

There are Rivers in the Sky

Elif Shafak

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A memoir by the Swedish singer-songwriter who found her voice with Poly Styrene and Viv Albertine, later working with Massive Attack and others in her long career in music.

A Thousand Threads

Neneh Cherry

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The first in a new series by the author of The Thursday Murder Club sequence.

We Solve Murders

Richard Osman

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Companion Piece

Ali Smith

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Elizabeth Zott is a gifted chemist who reluctantly becomes America's favourite television chef. Imagine Julia Child in the form of Grace Kelly, wearing a lab coat and goggles... This feel-go... read more

Lessons in Chemistry

Bonnie Garmus

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In his memoirs, Gorbachev wrote that the explosion at Chernobyl's power plant was "perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union." Plokhy's diagnosis is meticulous and his minut... read more

Chernobyl

Serhii Plokhy

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