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Despite its title, this is not a self-help book but rather a beautiful exploration of a condition that is at the heart of human life - solitude. The book is a memoir of time spent in social ... read more

The Art of Solitude

Stephen Batchelor

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£16.99

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A story about a young woman in New York, newly married and nervous. Offill has mastered the curious genre of autofiction by shattering her books into deliciously pithy paragraphs: overheard ... read more

Dept. of Speculation

Jenny Offill

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£8.99

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Refracts an abusive relationship through a range of genre and fairytale tropes. A haunting work that is part-memoir and part-literary theory. There is also a paperback edition of this boo... read more

In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado

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£14.99

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"If you want to pretend you're shrinking, that's all right," said Treehorn's mother, "as long as you don't do it at the table."' The 50th anniversary edition of this surreal and off-beat sto... read more

The Shrinking of Treehorn (50th Anniversary Edition) ...

Florence Parry Heide

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£15.00

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JN explores ancient and modern breathing techniques to show how breathing correctly - yes, most of us do it wrong - can transform one's physical and mental health.

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

James Nestor

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£16.99

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A hardback edition of this memoir of an Anglo-Irish woman married to a German lawyer and her experiences of living in Germany during WW2. A classic, and should be given to all who don't know... read more

The Past Is Myself

Christabel Bielenberg

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£20.00

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SM has long seemed just on the edge of breaking into the literary big time. Her last novel (Ghost Wall, pbk £8.99) was a slim masterpiece in 2018, and this builds on the same eerie atmosphe... read more

Summerwater

Sarah Moss

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£14.99

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Beautifully published in India, this shows the development of Olivia's work from watercolours of contemporary life in India to the exquisite geometric works of recent years: focussed, ordere... read more

A Journey Within

Olivia Fraser

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£35.00

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A panoramic view of the British landscape through the eyes of writers and artists, from Bede to Barbara Hepworth and beyond: mystery, reflection, discovery, imagination, vision, etc. The sco... read more

Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers and the British Landscape ...

Susan Owens

Hardback
£25.00

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CC is the distinguished Australian publisher who founded Virago. Her forebear was transported for seven years for stealing a piece of hemp, but managed to prosper in Australia. He returned t... read more

Oh Happy Day

Carmen Callil

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£18.99

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Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture ...

Sudhir Hazareesingh

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£25.00

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Confusion, secrets , memory and reconciliation between two old friends sinking pints together one summer's evening in Dublin.

Love

Roddy Doyle

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£18.99

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Artemisia Gentileschi's father was a friend of Caravaggio, and she his greatest successor. This is the first catalogue dedicated entirely to Gentileschi's astonishing work.

Artemisia

Letizia Treves

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£35.00

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A comprehensive survey of his life and work.

Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting

Robert Storr

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£60.00

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Richly illustrated book presenting the gorgeous Chinoiserie floral and avian wallpapers in the houses where they have been used. The author founded the company thirty years ago, setting up a... read more

de Gournay: Art on the Walls

Claud Cecil Gurney

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£62.00

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This is an astonishing book that will change our understanding of the world in dizzying ways. Wohlleben's 'wood-wide web' is but a part of the phantasmagoric abundance of fungal life that Sh... read more

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape ...

Merlin Sheldrake

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Recipes from the tiny, heavenly caf? on the banks of Regent?s Canal.

Towpath: Recipes and Stories

Lori De Mori

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£30.00

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CE is a lively companion, adventurous and hungry, as she takes us from the Caspian Sea to the Fergana Valley in eastern Uzbekistan. This is not a traditional cookbook and the recipes play se... read more

Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes through Central Asia, From Hinterland ...

Caroline Eden

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£26.00

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