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LW is first class on catastrophic events - his book on 9/11 won a Pulitzer. Now he shows how political incompetence and cynicism caused mortality ten times greater than US combat deaths in V... read more

The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

Lawrence Wright

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Adichie, a notoriously private writer, is eloquent - but careful with her ink - after the unexpected death of her father.

Notes on Grief

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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The author's father was an American soldier who fell in love with a Japanese girl on the devastated island. This affecting book probes her own complex feeling and the attitudes among which s... read more

Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir

Elizabeth Miki Brina

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This huge authorised biography is a magnificent testament to a great novelist with a complex love life.

Philip Roth: The Biography

Blake Bailey

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From the author of the definitive book on Chernobyl.

Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis ...

Serhii Plokhy

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A new departure for the author of 'The Tipping Point' etc... A history book about what happened in WW2 when technological innovation collided with good intentions...

The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War

Malcolm Gladwell

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Bittersweet comic love story, by the author 'Standard Deviation', a wonderfully funny and zany novel that included passive-aggressive Origami nuts.

Early Morning Riser

Katherine Heiny

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Short stories selected by Julian Barnes. A handsome hardback edition.

A Vision of the World: Selected Short Stories

John Cheever

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The poem and poet that stole the show at Biden's inauguration, published here for the first time.

The Hill We Climb

Amanda Gorman

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This magnificent book - which takes its title from a remark of the singer Josephine Baker - gives us the cultural landscape of black genius from the mid C20th to the present. We are in extr... read more

A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance ...

Hanif Abdurraqib

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From being America's most significant ally in the region, Iran suddenly became its greatest adversary: this account, from 1941 onwards, explains how the Shah himself contrived to lose suppor... read more

The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty ...

Ray Takeyh

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Explores what happens to places where people no longer live: Chernobyl, swathes of Detroit, Caribbean volcanoes, Scottish mining regions - redemptive, reflective.

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape ...

Cal Flyn

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Twelve essays from her early years never previously collected.

Let Me Tell You What I Mean

Joan Didion

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Lodge was hugely significant in US politics, from his influence with Eisenhower and as ambassador to Vietnam, right up to the 1970s. He did more than anyone else to transform the Republicans... read more

The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War ...

Luke A. Nichter

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The first of two huge volumes runs from his birth to the decision to run for the presidency.

JFK: Volume 1: 1917-1956

Fredrik Logevall

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Memoirs, from his early years to the White House.

A Promised Land

Barack Obama

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Recounts seven decades of activities, with interviews that include most of the surviving former heads of the CIA and discussions of the Agency's role in containing presidential powers. Revel... read more

The Spymasters

Chris Whipple

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The 'special relationship' was dreamt up by Churchill to keep Britain afloat geopolitically when faced with the loss of empire. Buruma takes a shrewd look at Churchill and FDR, JFK and Macm... read more

The Churchill Complex: The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FD ...

Ian Buruma

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The veteran journalist reviews the current US presidency, in all its baffling volatility, basing himself on several exclusive interviews and a wealth of documentary evidence.

Rage

Bob Woodward

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Recent illness has prompted this new book from Snyder, author of 'Bloodlands' and 'The Road to Unfreedom'. Health is not recognised as a human right in the US, but, he argues, what's the use... read more

Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty and Solidarity

Timothy Snyder

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By the former UK Ambassador who had the unenviable task of explaining Britain and Brexit to the US president. He resigned, and wrote this book instead.

Collateral Damage: Britain, America and Europe in the Age of Trump ...

Kim Darroch

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If you want to read one book about inequality and its ramifications for all societies, now and in the past, let it be this. By a former Pulitzer winner.

Caste

Isabel Wilkerson

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On a Greek island in 1977, Calista finds herself working for Billy Wilder on a film. His career is on the wane, and she's a young woman with a lot to learn...

Mr Wilder and Me

Jonathan Coe

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Short stories from the author of 'The Girls'.

Daddy

Emma Cline

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Essays on fiction, non-fiction and poetry, by the great American literary critic.

Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread

Michiko Kakutani

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The latest outing for this fine pairing takes in Monticello, Frank Lloyd Wright's garden, Central Park and many others.

American Gardens

Monty Don

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A memoir of Hollywood in the 1970s, from the author of 'In The Cut' and others.

Miss Aluminum: A Memoir

Susanna Moore

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Born into a farming family in the eastern Tibetan province of Kham, the author fled with his older brother following the Chinese invasion in 1959. He has spent many years in the UK and the U... read more

From a Mountain In Tibet: A Monk’s Journey

Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche

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LH is an award-winning investigative journalist who spent several years in Moscow before being expelled in 2011. In his latest book he covers the work of Russian spies in recent years, inclu... read more

Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia’s Remaking of the West ...

Luke Harding

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A thriller featuring the enigmatic art restorer and master spy Gabriel Allon.

The Order

Daniel Silva

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Suggests ways to combat the damage to liberal democracy, the media, the justice system, etc.

Surviving Autocracy

Masha Gessen

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A staggering book about how the global oil industry has poluted not just the earth but also democracy.

Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Mos ...

Rachel Maddow

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A substantial and detailed biography by the well known American art critic (and brother of Adam).

Warhol: A Life as Art

Blake Gopnik

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A novel examining celebrity and a mother-daughter relationship affected by the mother's stage fame. AE - another former Booker winner - shifts between Hollywood and 1970s Dublin.

Actress

Anne Enright

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