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Adam Sisman
The Secret Life of John le Carré

Winner of the Crime Fest HRF Keating Award 'Not merely the conclusive homage to a compulsively fascinating character, but an insightful study into the biographical process itself' Nicholas Shakespeare 'No…

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Harron Walker
Aggregated Discontent

"After a brief fling with corporate stability in her twenty-something cis era, Harron Walker has transitioned into a terminally single freelancer and part-time shopgirl. She's in the throes of her se…

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Ron Chernow
Mark Twain

The complex and fascinating life of Mark Twain, as told by a Pulitzer prizewinning biographer Born in 1835, the man who would become America's first, and most influential, literary celebrity spent his ch…

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Jessica Lightfoot,
Strabo

"This book provides a short and accessible introduction to Strabo's life, times and cultural context. It outlines the importance of geography and geographical writing in the Augustan period and its d…

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Gail Crowther
Dorothy Parker in Hollywood

From the author of the "deliriously fast paced and erudite" (Library Journal) THREE MARTINI AFTERNOONS AT THE RITZ comes an examination of the legendary writer Dorothy Parker's life and legacy i…

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Samuel Carr
Favourite Flower Poems

A rich collection of poetry that celebrates the beauty and symbolism of the humble flower. These verses celebrate the arrival of spring with the emergence of the snowdrops, to the summer colour of asters,…

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Susan Sontag
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

"Sontag's celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS available in one volume. Sontag destigmatizes both illnesses by removing the metaphorical thinking that has made these among the most feared diseases of…

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Jonathan Smolin
The Politics of Melodrama

"Ihsan Abdel Kouddous (1919-1990) is the most popular and prolific writer of Arabic fiction in the twentieth century. The Politics of Melodrama is the first book to take on this giant of Arabic ficti…

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Yiyun Li
Things in Nature Merely Grow

"Yiyun Li's remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James"--

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Jonathan Smolin
The Politics of Melodrama

"Ihsan Abdel Kouddous (1919-1990) is the most popular and prolific writer of Arabic fiction in the twentieth century. The Politics of Melodrama is the first book to take on this giant of Arabic ficti…

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Christina Rivera
My Oceans

Christina Rivera braids lyrical prose with research into endangered marine life. She explores the kinship of bodies of water and beings, ranging from her own experiences of motherhood to mantas, turtles, …

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Catherine Reef
The Brontë Sisters

The Brontë sisters are among the most beloved writers of all time, best known for their classic nineteenth-century novels Jane Eyre (Charlotte), Wuthering Heights (Emily), and Agnes Grey (Anne). In this s…

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Kate Beaton
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

A New York Times Notable Book; a Barack Obama's end of year favorite of 2022; and the winner of Canada Reads Kate Beaton's Ducks stunned the world with its unflinching honesty and candid vulnerability, ce…

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Trevor Bryce
Hattusili, the Hittite Prince Who Stole an Empire

"This accessible and gripping biography documents the life and reign of one of the most famous and well-documented Hittite rulers. Hattusili ruled over the ancient kingdom of Anatolia (modern Turkey)…

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Harriet Baker
Rural Hours

WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMESYOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD'A fascinating look at the impact of country home-making on the lives and work of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann. It's …

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Ryann Donnelly
Body High

How do we medicate ourselves, and why can't we cure the people we love? In Body High, encounters with lurid bodily sculptures from the '60s offer remedies to the author's own illness and malaise.In Body H…

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Iona Heath
John Berger

Iona Heath relates the importance that John Berger's work and friendship had on her working life as a GP. It includes extracts from letters that span 20 years of her correspondence with John Berger.

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Olivia Laing
The Garden Against Time

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in pa…

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Ken Krimstein
Einstein in Kafkaland

From award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein, a brilliant graphic narrative revealing the pivotal year in Prague when Einstein became "Einstein," Kafka became "Kafka," and ev…

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Simon Wu
Dancing on My Own

"An essay collection exploring the aesthetics of class aspirationalism, the complications of creating art and fashion for everyone, and the limits of identity politics"--

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