The Britannias: An Island Quest by Alice Albinia
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The story of Britain told through its islands - a personal journey through an ancient landscape The Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they are woven into its collective cultural psyche. From Neolithic Orkney to modern-day Thanet, Alice Albinia explores the furthest reaches of Brita ...Show more
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen
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The Notebook has shaped the world for eight hundred years. In medieval Italy, the blank ledger transformed international trade, and enabled the intellectual artistic advances of the Renaissance. At sea, the invention of the logbook expanded horizons on the journeys of Magellan and fellow discoverers. Ar ...Show more
Women and Children (HB) by Tony Birch
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It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby, spending his days trying to avoid trouble with the nuns at the local Catholic primary school. One evening his Aunty Oona appears on the doorstep, distressed and needing somewhere to stay. As his mum and ...Show more
Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox
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A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicists Homer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set among the tales of Troy. Its subject is the anger of the hero Achilles and its dreadful consequences for the warring Greeks and Trojans. It was composed more than 260 ...Show more
Every Man for Himself and God against All: A Memoir by Werner Herzog
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Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema: building an opera house in the middle of the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the dead of winter; descending into an active volcano; living in the wilderness among grizzly bears - he has always been intrigued by the extremes of human exper ...Show more
A Life of One's Own - Nine Women Writers Begin Again by Joanna Biggs
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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Vulture and The Millions A piercing blend of memoir, criticism, and biography examining how women writers across the centuries carved out intellectual freedom for themselves--and how others might do the same I took off my wedding ring off for the last time--a g ...Show more
The Diary of Virginia Woolf Volume 1: 1915-19 by Virginia Woolf
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New editions of the complete diaries of Virginia Woolf, with introductions by a stellar line-up of contemporary novelists
Song and Self - A Singer's Reflections on Music and Performance by Ian Bostridge
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Accustomed to being centre stage, international award-winning singer Ian Bostridge, like so many performers, spent much of 2020 and 2021 unable to take part in live music. It led him to question an identity previously defined by communicating directly with audiences.This enforced silence allowed Bostrid ...Show more
Couplets by Maggie Millner
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Maggie Millner’s seductive debut is a novel-in-verse about a woman in her late twenties who leaves a long-term relationship with a boyfriend for another woman. The affair thrusts her from an outwardly conventional life into queerness, polyamory, kink, and unalloyed, consuming desire. What ensues is an e ...Show more
Parisian Days by Banine (tr. Anne Thompson-Ahmadova)
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The Orient Express hurtles towards the promised land, and Banine is free for the first time in her life. She has fled her ruined homeland and unhappy forced marriage for a dazzling new future in Paris. Now she cuts her hair, wears short skirts, mingles with Russian emigres, Spanish artists, writers and ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories by Bruce Fulton, Kwon Youngmin
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This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea’s dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating war between north and south and the rapid, disorienting urbanization of l ...Show more
August Blue by Deborah Levy
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The mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home 'If she was my double and I was hers, was it true that she was knowing, I was unknowing, she was sane, I was crazy, she was wise, I was foolish? That summer, the air was electric between us as we transmitte ...Show more