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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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£22

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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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£9.99

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

Resurrection

Leo Tolstoy

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£14.99

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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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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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£20

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

Vulture

Phoebe Greenwood

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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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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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£25

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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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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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From seed to maturity to dessication, the life-cycle of the teasel, closely observed - a process that has bewitched the author, an artist and naturalist. A pamphlet from a tiny press.

Teasels

Sam Francis

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£12

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Now 95, and not disposed towards early retirement, DG has a great deal of experience to offer.

Lessons for Young Artists

David Gentleman

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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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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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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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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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£40

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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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£35

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New hardback edition of her tremendous first novel.

The Country Girls

Edna O'Brien

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£12.99

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Catalogue of an exhibition at the Ashmolean, in which William's daughter - who was crucial to the work that went out under his name - is brought into the light.

May Morris: The Essence and Soul of Beautiful Embroidery ...

Lynn Hulse

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£25

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A Russian folktale about a boy who finds a magic ring and tries to win the hand of a princess. For ages 5-8.

The Magic Ring

Boris Shergin

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Sato - a white rabbit with a human face - gathers sparkles from the stream and sun spots from the grass; wakes in a lighthouse to find a shell with a musical-box handle... Charming, soft mag... read more

Sato the Rabbit: Morning Light

Yuki Ainoya

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Bourdain for trendy millennials and astonishingly generous with the F word.

Tart: Misadventures of an Anonymous Chef

Slutty Cheff

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What happened to Matisse's art when he spent the winter in Morocco in 1912.

Matisse in Morocco: A Journey of Light and Color

Jeff Koehler

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A new collection.

Mouth

Mona Arshi

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£12.99

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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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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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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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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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A huge biography - by a seasoned practitioner - of this zany, difficult, unhappy and brilliant man.

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Roger Lewis

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£30

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A second volume of memoir.

Backstage: Stories of a Writing Life

Donna Leon

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£12.99

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A love story in - and of - Croatia.

Slanting Towards the Sea

Lidija Hilje

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Commissioned by James Beale in 1891, the Sussex house remained in the family until it went to the National Trust in 1972.

Standen: Philip Webb, Morris & Co. and the Creation of an Arts an ...

Anne Stutchbury

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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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Wool barons, pirates and Pole-seekers in South Georgia, Tierra del Fuego, Uruguay: kaleidoscopic.

Small Earthquakes: A Journey Through Lost British History in South Ame ...

Shafik Meghji

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Catalogue of an exhibition on the Wunderkammer at the Palazzo Grimani, Venice, which focusses particularly on the George Loudon Collection.

A Cabinet of Wonders: A Celebration of Art in Nature ...

Thierry Morel

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£45

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