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A memoir from the author of The End Of History, whose views changed with the invasion of Iraq and the 2008 Crash.

In the Realm of the Last Man

Francis Fukuyama

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An investigation of Gottlob Berger, SS head of the POW camps who disobeyed (some) orders, sparing the lives of the 'Prominente' prisoners including the author's grandfather, the 7th Earl of ... read more

Out of Colditz: My Father the POW and the Nazi who Controlled his Fate

David Lascelles

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A powerful portrait of three generations of a working-class Cumbrian family, from a hillside farm to brushes with the police, pubs, Northern Ireland, a barracks in Cyprus - and the Far Righ... read more

These Wild English: A Family, a Class, a Country on Fire

Nicola Wilding

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An illustrated book on the histories, customs and origins of those mysterious Companies.

The City Unlocked: London Livery Companies from Wool to Digital

Margaret Willes

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The Nobel laureate of economics has a new theory of liberal democracy that just might get us out of our socio-economic doldrums. By the author of Why Nations Fail.

What Happened to Liberal Democracy? Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity –

Daron Acemoglu

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In the vein of Edna O'Brien and John McGahern, this is a novel about leaving and returning - two prominent themes in Irish literature. In 1923, Catherine Carolan is six and already too intel... read more

A Thought Without Collision

Adrian Duncan

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A rather dream-like tale of a man vanishing from a server farm in Norway and of another who wakes in a forest. Parallel lives or universes? A compelling short novel that plays with the mythi... read more

Air

Christian Kracht

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On the Mark: A History of Punctuation from Ancient Egypt to the Emoticon

Florence Hazrat

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In this remarkable book, JS looks at the history, geology, languages, religions, culture and politics of a region that spans 11 countries and is home to millions; from Ancient Rome to infest... read more

Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara

Judith Scheele

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The daughter of the Dean of Westminster investigates the murder of an antiquarian, a theft and ghostly visions. There's an amiable parrot too, called Cuthbert.

The Bells of Westminster

Leonora Nattrass

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The Daily Artist’s Way: Creative Living Every Day

Julia Cameron

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The 48 Laws Of Power

Robert Greene

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AM's last book was 'Night Trains' , in which we could luxuriate in dreams of the Blue Train, the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-lits and lamp-lit dining cars... Now, post-Brexit, the au... read more

Steam Trains Today: Journeys Along Britain?s Heritage Railways

Andrew Martin

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The Pelican Child

Joy Williams

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Hugely entertaining historical excursion into eternity - and into the pockets of a curious bunch of collectors and astronomers.

The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time

Helen Gordon

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The celebrated professor speaks up for why the past might be thought to matter and how it still affects us now.

Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old

Mary Beard

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Crushed from within, bombed from without. It is remarkable that this testament from a resident Tehran academic has emerged.

Tehran Diaries: Dispatches from Iran under Siege

Raha Nik-Andish

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MJH's career is almost impossible to categorise. A cult favourite, an inventive stylist and a traverser of genres, this latest novel about a salvage-merchant at the end of the world is typic... read more

The End of Everything

M. John Harrison

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The Hungarian's speech to the Swedish Academy is a free-wheeling, looping gem, about angels, humankind, degradation, rebellion, hope and not-hope.

Enough About Angels: The Nobel Lecture

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

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From the ancients to the moderns, from Helen of Troy to the novels of Han Kang: audacious and sparkling work from the acclaimed translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey.

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys through Ancient Literature

Emily Wilson

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The astonishingly diverse flora and fauna, not of stretches of unbroken emerald but rather in scrubby, scratchy beauty.

Grasslands: The Intricate Life of Britain’s Hidden Habitats

John Wright

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The myth of a holy river is discovered to be true when a young man returns to his ancestral village in the Punjab and finds water in his grandmother's well. What follows is an immersive, sat... read more

Saraswati

Gurnaik Johal

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Discipline

Larissa Pham

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His fourth collection of brilliant and meticulously kept diaries, this time covering the years 2016-2024.

Enough Said

Alan Bennett

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Born in Cardiff and now a Silicon Valley tycoon, MM explores his family's Jewish and European roots.

Auslander: One Family’s Story of Escape and Exile

Michael Moritz

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A substantial biography of one of the scientists who first deciphered DNA.

Crick: A Mind in Motion

Matthew Cobb

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Lively introduction to one of Ancient Greece's city states. Erudite and punchy.

Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower

Andrew Bayliss

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Scabrous comedy about bookselling - by an English poet and bookseller in Los Angeles.

Service

John Tottenham

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Kuper has attended every World Cup since 1990. He shares his experiences of the global spectacle from a pleasingly anthropological perspective.

World Cup Fever: A Footballing Journey in Nine Tournaments

Simon Kuper

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A satirical and entertaining tale of a mother and son who bicker their way around Switzerland, fuelled by vodka and a grim determination to squander a fortune made from the arms trade.

Eurotrash

Christian Kracht

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The Course of the Heart: An extraordinary, genre-bending classic

M. John Harrison

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Mysticism is about existential ecstasy - an experience of heightening one's senses and self into a sheer feeling of aliveness. Mystical experiences offer us a practical way to open our thoug... read more

On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy

Simon Critchley

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'Augustine of Hippo'... but where is Hippo? One of the central Catholic saints was an Algerian Berber: this account argues for the importance of his origins.

Augustine the African

Catherine Conybeare

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The author, who died in 2020 and left this book unfinished, knew Durrell well. Happily, the completed chapters cover the busiest portions of his friend's life: childhood in India, youthful m... read more

Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912-1945

Michael Haag

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A valuable alternative to Niall Ferguson's, whose immense vol 1 still waits for vol 2. Translated from the French.

Henry Kissinger: An Intimate Portrait of the Master of Realpolitik

Jeremie Gallon

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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

Kathleen DuVal

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