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Guinness: A Family Succession: The True Story of the Struggle to Creat ...

Arthur Edward Guinness

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'Me', in case you're wondering, is a cartoonist from California. And yes, this really is a graphic biography of the sisters - and it's sparkling with wit and energy. Delicious.

Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me

Mimi Pond

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Holmes's superb biographies of Shelley and Coleridge were followed by his dazzling study of the Romantic period, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terr... read more

The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief ...

Richard Holmes

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By pegging her narrative to White's diary entries of 1781, when White was 60 and still seven years short of publishing The Natural History of Selborne, the miraculously sensitive Uglow rele... read more

A Year with Gilbert White: The First Great Nature Writer ...

Jenny Uglow

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Holland has written previous good books about his grandfather. In this new magnum opus, he considers not the life but the extraordinary array of legends, mysteries and industries that ensure... read more

After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal

Merlin Holland

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A lively, slim account of the moral upheavals that rocked the Biedermeier sensibilities of Kant's birthplace (later the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad).

A Scandal in Königsberg

Christopher Clark

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Dimbleby went to Palestine as a reporter in the 1970s with his colleague Don McCullin. Triggered by Golda Meir's statement that Palestinians 'do not exist,' they sought to show that they did... read more

The Palestinians

Jonathan Dimbleby

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Kabul's Inter-Continental was opened in 1969 and Doucet (the BBC's Chief International Correspondent) has been staying there regularly since 1988. This is a brilliant history of Afghanistan ... read more

The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan ...

Lyse Doucet

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Hitherto buried data and lost documents contribute to this tale of political and economic hubris. The circularity of history is sadly manifest.

1929: The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History ...

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Switching from macro to micro, Stewart has assembled his articles published in his Cumbrian constituency's local paper. The tensions in a bucolic rural landscape...

Middleland: Dispatches From the Borders

Rory Stewart

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We have been fervent advocates of the first two in this series at Sandoe's and we have high expectations for the third - in which Tara meets a man who, like her, has been reliving November 1... read more

On the Calculation of Volume III

Solvej Balle

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A woman moves from the city to the countryside after splitting up from a man she still loves but no longer desires. Alone, she sifts through her memories of their parting: spilled coffee, un... read more

Big Kiss, Bye-Bye

Claire-Louise Bennett

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Written in the present continuous, this is a dreamlike novel set in the Venice of Pasolini and Fellini.

The Silver Book

Olivia Laing

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Set in 2119 after the UK is mostly submerged by rising seas, McEwan's latest combines a Ballardian dystopia with a deft mystery - a case of a disappearing poem rather than a body in the libr... read more

What We Can Know

Ian McEwan

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An illustrated edition of this celebrated novella. By turns quotidian, esoteric and fantastical - as you might expect from the irresistible title.

Super-Frog Saves Tokyo

Haruki Murakami

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Based on a C17th Danish witch trial and set in a world where magic is a real power and rightly feared.

The Wax Child

Olga Ravn

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It is 1899 and a hack English writer is off for a belated honeymoon with his American heiress... The great Banville follows du Maurier, Mann and Highsmith to Venice for the setting of his ee... read more

Venetian Vespers

John Banville

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Charms against afflictions ancient and modern to give us courage to keep on with the business of living - by a wonderful author.

Remedies

Julia Blackburn

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Following her biographies of Kierkegaard and George Eliot, this is a series of six philosophical meditations on what it means to write about a person's life, whether the singularity of a lif... read more

Transcendence for Beginners

Clare Carlisle

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In this paean to the joys of reading, Douglas-Fairhurst recounts his life with books, sharing techniques to slow down, take note, and gain more from the experience. The Oxford don pairs rig... read more

Look Closer

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

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The poet, translator and editor of Nemo's Almanac is astonishingly well-read; if books do furnish a room, this man's memory palace will be vast and labyrinthine... With a book habit that beg... read more

Books – A Manifesto: Or, How to Build a Library ...

Ian Patterson

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Very present, tense cultural criticism: a discursive set of essays on what has recently captured the writer's attention - from Tár to Celia Paul, and the shifting political terrain on eithe... read more

Dead and Alive

Zadie Smith

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Andersson is a contemporary Swedish painter who uses loose washes and strong graphic lines to beautiful and mysterious effect. There's a stillness to her landscapes and interiors that echo H... read more

Mamma Andersson: Adieu Maria Magdalena

Mamma Andersson

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First published in 1936, this endearing Icelandic novella follows the annual wintry trek of an aging shepherd, his dog and a tough old ram to round up any stray livestock and bring them off ... read more

Advent

Gunnar Gunnarsson

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A far-ranging meditation on snow, touching on physics, chemistry, meteorology, anthropology, geography, poetry and art. By a distinguished Swedish academic.

Snö: A History

Sverker Sörlin

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Religious beauties from the Eastern Orthodox church from the mid C17th to the early C20th: with scholarly notes.

Russian Icons: The Oleg Kushnirskiy Collection

Anna Ivannikova

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A brilliant primer for the intersection between function and form in C18th British/Irish style. Scholarly and well illustrated.

Architecture and Artifice: The Crafted Surface in Eighteenth-Century B ...

Christine Casey

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A fine study, bringing together architectural, urban and social history.

The Modern British City 1945-2000

Simon Gunn

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Over a dozen houses including Farmleigh, Luggala, Kenwood, Biddesden...

The Houses of Guinness: The Lives, Homes and Fortunes of the Great Bre ...

Adrian Tinniswood

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Great British tastemakers, beginning with Morris and Bloomsbury and including the Spitalfields Trust; houses and gardens that express Guilding's penchant for patina, artistry and making-do. ... read more

Bible of British Taste: Stories of Home, People and Place ...

Ruth Guilding

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With extensive interviews and new material from the Anderson archives, this will accompany his upcoming retrospective. His signature style has never been compromised by his vast success.

Wes Anderson: The Archives

Matthieu Orlean

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The new memoir from this magnificent story-teller and musician is perhaps her most personal yet.

Bread of Angels

Patti Smith

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Another knock-out book from Denham and Montgomery, after the success of the equally good-looking The Irish Bakery.

The Irish Kitchen

Cherie Denham

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50 recipes from the doyenne of the River Café, in cahoots with the American artist.

Squeeze Me: Lemons, Recipes and Art

Ruthie Rogers

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