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The wit of Frank O'Hara meets the poignancy of Marcel Proust in this succinct memoir of the 1970s' New York literary scene.

I Remember

Joe Brainard

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By bus across the US, following the same route (Detroit to Los Angeles) that she made in her youth. A counterpoint to the 'Great American Road Trip', JP's narrative spins history, literature... read more

Greyhound

Joanna Pocock

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Observations of small things from Slater's notebooks over the years. Zen and the art of ... watching a butterfly ... eating a mango ... smelling moss ... or macaroni cheese ... Slater is a d... read more

A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy … A Memoir of Sorts ...

Nigel Slater

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Adept and powerful novel set in the West Country in 1962, in which two couples with shadowed pasts gradually unravel in the snow... Miller is an ingenious novelist who writes consistently we... read more

The Land in Winter

Andrew Miller

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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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A joyous and detailed biography of this extraordinary man, whose house in Cambridge is still a sanctuary for the artistically-inclined. His circle included Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Henry ... read more

Ways of Life

Laura Freeman

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A wonderful book about the impressions of Paradise Lost on writers, politicians and readers in the centuries since its publication, from Malcolm X to Virginia Woolf, to incarcerated students... read more

What in Me Is Dark

Orlando Reade

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A fascinating group portrait of the journalists (including Rebecca West, John Dos Passos, Martha Gellhorn, Erika Mann and Janet Flanner) who were gathered at Nuremberg - how they behaved wit... read more

The Writers’ Castle: Reporting History at Nuremberg ...

Uwe Neumahr

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Arturo’s Island

Elsa Morante

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A rich, humorous and imaginative portrait of the late Queen and her influence; from the author of Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret.

A Voyage Around the Queen

Craig Brown

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Autofiction

Hitomi Kanehara

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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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What is freedom and how do we achieve it? The acclaimed historian of the C20th travels The Road to Unfreedom in reverse: freedom understood as the freedom to do and to be, rather than freedo... read more

On Freedom

Timothy Snyder

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So Late in the Day: The Sunday Times bestseller

Claire Keegan

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Love is a dream - even more so than usual in this new novel, rich with Murakami's blurring of the fantastic and the domestic.

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

Haruki Murakami

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Until August

MÃ¡rquez, Gabrie GarcÃa
MÃ¡rquez, Gabrie GarcÃa

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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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Voyeurism, tale-bearing, truth, lies and murder this time for the author of The President's Hat and many others.

French Windows

Antoine Laurain

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Last Evenings with Teresa

Juan Marse

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

M. John Harrison

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The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts ...

Marcel Proust

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Perfection

Vincenzo Latronico

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A strange, snooping literary biography - of Proust as well as his masterpiece. Prieur's aim is not so much to chart a life, but to bring it back. His hunt for the man behind the book - via r... read more

Zombie Proust

Jerome Prieur

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A charming and practical book by the Anglo-French novelist, which includes many vignettes of her childhood in Northern France and later life in the Loire. Published by a tiny press, Les Fugi... read more

French Cooking for One

Michele Roberts

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Rey Conquer was translator-in-residence at Holocaust Centre North, where they explored the personal archives of people persecuted by the Nazis. Expecting to find instances of poetic language... read more

Conversation Time

Rey Conquer

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The giggles of an Oxford undergraduate at a tea party soon become hysterics. She is taken away, admitted to a psychiatric ward, and the stage is set for one of the classics of 1960s fiction:... read more

The Ha-Ha

Jennifer Dawson

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The narrator, an undercover agent in her mid-thirties, has been sent to spy on a group of eco-activists in France. A wry, sleuthing novel by the author of The Mars Room.

Creation Lake

Rachel Kushner

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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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Blowing hot and cold: an intense look at the relationship between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, using previously unpublished letters and other sources to explore their closeness and their late... read more

Didion & Babitz

Lili Anolik

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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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A delightful little buttercup of a book-slash-magazine-slash anthology of fiction, poetry and reviews. This is the first issue. Founded and edited by Tristram Fane Saunders.

The Little Review: No. 1

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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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From the author of The Nightingale, a novel about novelists going on holiday together (never a good idea) to Sicily.

The Unwilding

Marina Kemp

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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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A love story in - and of - Croatia.

Slanting Towards the Sea

Lidija Hilje

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Like the author, the protagonist is an Austrian-Jewish refugee who makes a life for herself in New York. A reissue.

Her First American

Lore Segal

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