Summer Books 2025 Archives

Shares an editor with the 4-vol Letters of Samuel Beckett

The Letters of Muriel Spark, Volume 1: 1944-1963

Dan Gunn

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After Guy Burgess, the Mountbattens and the Duke of Windsor, the Yorks must be trembling.

Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York

Andrew Lownie

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A readable and authoritative account of what has unfolded so far.

King of Kings: The Fall of the Shah, the 1979 Iranian Revolution and t ...

Scott Anderson

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Shines a light on Maria of Modena and the circle of remarkable women she gathered around her (including Sarah Churchill, Queen Anne's 'favourite'). Educated and dynamic, they contrast sharpl... read more

The Graces: The Extraordinary Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration ...

Breeze Barrington

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The archetypal frontier town - a promising place for both immigrants and ne'er-do-wells.

Deadwood: Gold, Guns and Greed in the American West ...

Peter Cozzens

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The great scholar of early archaeology looks at early trade routes - further intriguing background to Dalrymple's The Golden Road.

Driven by the Monsoons: Through the Indian Ocean and the Seas of China ...

Barry Cunliffe

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Eighteen women over five centuries: their travails, triumphs, influence, legacy - and their houses. Wonderful social history.

Mistress: A History of Women and their Country Houses ...

Anthony Fletcher

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This eye-watering analysis by a US academic specialising in modern Russia has a broader reach - from Chinese bandits and C18th English tea smugglers to the role of crime in the creation of n... read more

Homo Criminalis: How Crime Organises the World

Mark Galeotti

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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 We ...

Toby Green

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An intriguing look at the revolutions through the prism of Lenin's train journey, Mao's Long March and Castro's return to Cuba from his Mexican exile.

Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys that Chan ...

Simon Hall

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The author of one of the best books on Marie Antoinette shows how an apparently functional regime descended - how quickly! - into chaos

The French Revolution: A Political History

John Hardman

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Begins with the Nakba of 1948.

A Short History of the Gaza Strip

Anne Irfan

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A meticulous, fascinating account of the labour, scandal and chicanery beneath the fortunes of nine heiresses and their influence in politics and art.

Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery ...

Miranda Kaufmann

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From the 1780s to (almost) the present; with particular reference to the roles of the Amendment and the Supreme Court. Lepore is a professor at Harvard.

We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution

Jill Lepore

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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 t ...

Justin Marozzi

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The story of four convulsive years in which a bunch of outsize characters grabbed what they could and transformed the city.

The Gods of New York: The Tumultuous Eighties, from Donald Trump to th ...

Jonathan Mahler

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A brilliant angle on the Cold War. By his grandson.

Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations and the Untold Story of the 19 ...

Thant Myint-U

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This first-hand account was written by a radiologist who survived the bombing but died of leukaemia in 1951. It is published in English for the first time on the 80th anniversary.

The Bells of Nagasaki

Takashi Nagai

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The story of four remarkable French women who belonged to different Resistance cells. Arrested by the Gestapo, they were sent to Ravensbr?ck. They survived - and joined forces after the war.

The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How An Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Re ...

Lynne Olson

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It feels awkward to use the term 'reassessment' on the Maginot Line, since nothing can alter the fact that it was useless. However, it was undoubtedly a marvel of engineering that affected t... read more

The Maginot Line: A New History

Kevin Passmore

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Explores how some kind of Indo-European 'big bang' occurred about 5,000 years ago. Finno-Ugrics may quibble.

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global

Laura Spinney

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From the end of the Middle Ages to the rise of mass media: a magisterial history of how news was communicated and experienced.

The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe ...

Joad Raymond Wren

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An account of the investigation by the German newspaper Handelsblatt following an approach by an ex-employee of Tesla: makes for startling reading.

The Tesla Files: A whistleblower, a Leak, a Fight for Truth: The Insid ...

S?nke Iwersen

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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 sequel to his Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (2007).

The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century

Tim Weiner

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Goncourt-winning historical love story.

Watching Over Her

Jean-Baptiste Andrea

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A novel about MacBryde and Colquhoun.

The Two Roberts

Damian Barr

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From one of Austen's biographers, here is an entertaining novel in which Jane and her family are on holiday in Sidmouth in 1801, where her naval brother is on leave and handsome strangers st... read more

Six Weeks by the Sea

Paula Byrne

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A seething dissection of respectability.

Other People

Celia Dale

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This seminal Spanish novel is set in Estremadura in the 1960s, where tensions simmer between impoverished workers and their wealthy landlords.

The Holy Innocents: A Novel

Miguel Delibes

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Slim picaresque novel by the German Romantic poet.

Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing

Joseph von Eichendorff

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The sisters we loved in Hideous Kinky are back - older now and kicking off in the punk London of the 1970s.

My Sister and Other Lovers

Esther Freud

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From a former winner of the International Booker, translated from the Bulgarian, this is a poignant tale of a father, son and a fading garden.

Death and the Gardener

Georgi Gospodinov

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This blistering satire on the reporting of war is a strong debut novel.

Vulture

Phoebe Greenwood

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Beguiling, compelling novel about a Cumbrian wind - which occupies a Neolithic tribe, a wizard in the Dark Ages, a Victorian engineer and a contemporary scientist.

Helm

Sarah Hall

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A love story in - and of - Croatia.

Slanting Towards the Sea

Lidija Hilje

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A powerful novel about teenage boys in Oslo during the Nazi Occupation, whose usual dodging suddenly gets serious.

The Unworthy

Roy Jacobsen

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A huge novel of sibling rivalry and the push-me-pull-you of inhabiting two cultures, spanning thirty years and three continents. Khemiri teaches creative writing on the prestigious NYU cours... read more

The Sisters

Jonas Hassen Khemiri

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Gloriously gothick fantasy about Pier Francesco Orsini, the creator of the Italian 'garden of the monsters' with its vast stone mouths and leaning buildings. An historical novel to beat them... read more

Bomarzo

Manuel Mujica Lainez

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A passionate love affair across the social divide in the years after the Spanish Civil War. First English translation of Mars?'s 1996 masterpiece.

Last Evenings with Teresa

Juan Marse

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Sharp satire on late capitalist horrors takes us from the City to the Brazilian rainforest, by a writer undersung for his novels.

The Pentecost Papers

Ferdinand Mount

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New hardback edition of her tremendous first novel.

The Country Girls

Edna O'Brien

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An unsettling satire of the corporate workplace.

The Expansion Project

Ben Pester

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A funny, raucous debut novel set in the Ukraine, involving a woman trying to breed snails and 'romance tours' of hopeful bachelors from the west looking for 'untainted' brides as the country... read more

Endling

Maria Reva

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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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Twenty stories of the Golden Age in Austro-Hungary before WW1: Joseph Roth, Arthur Schnitzler, Margit Kafka, Rainer Maria Rilke et al.

Tales from the Dual Monarchy

Annabel Barber

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Unnervingly taut tales.

Good and Evil and Other Stories

Samanta Schweblin

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The tragi-comic tribulations of an American family.

Vera, Or Faith

Gary Shteyngart

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The Maude translation from Everyman. Edna O'Brien loved this.

Resurrection

Leo Tolstoy

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Her final novel, translated from the Danish.

Vilhelm’s Room

Irma Margit Tove

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Curious tale of a museum worker and a statue of Venus falling in love. Translated from the Japanese.

When the Museum is Closed

Emi Yagi

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Edited by the author of the ingenious thriller Untraceable. Includes lesser-known modern writers as well as Nabokov, Mandelstam, Gogol et al.

Defiant Voices: Russian Short Stories from the 19th to the 21st Centur ...

Sergei Lebedev

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Alice B. Toklas's, to be precise. Picasso thought she had one, hidden under her hat... A contemporary young academic turned private detective is hired to find it. Comic, gripping, and ironic... read more

Bone Horn

Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain

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Retirement is no longer an option for an elderly former spy when she finds a baby floating down a river and her neighbour is murdered.

A Sting in Her Tale

Mark Ezra

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After his sequence of whodunnits set in Venice, here is the first in a new series set in Sicily.

The Magus of Sicily

Philip Gwynne Jones

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Set in Cairo in 1938, when a woman goes to look for her estranged father who has mysteriously disappeared...

Cairo Gambit

S. W. Perry

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From the author of the jauntily entitled Death of a Bookseller comes a new mystery that seems destined to be accompanied by a perky Noel Coward earworm.

Let the Bad Times Roll

Alice Slater

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It's 44 years since his Gorky Park, but MCS is still producing sharp, tense poltical thrillers with sinister Russians.

Hotel Ukraine

Martin Cruz Smith

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Wendy's married name is Graves; and after 40 years, she can only see one way to keep her secrets safe...

Kill Your Darlings

Peter Swanson

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Another stylised classic Japanese murder mystery from the author of The Inugamic Curse and others. And what is it about cats in Japan?

Murder at the Black Cat Cafe

Seishi Yokomizo

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