Mexican Hooker #1: And My Other Roles Since the Revolution Carmen Aguirre (Author) Series:
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Portobello Books Ltd
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Granta Books
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14 Apr 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781846275432 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-543-2 ISBN10: 1846275431 EAN: 9781846275432 x Description: At six years old Carmen Aguirre was a Chilean refugee adjusting to life in North America. At eighteen she was a revolutionary dissident married to a man she couldn't fully love. In her twenties she fought to find herself as an actress and break away from the stereotypes thrust upon her housekeeper, hotel maid, Mexican Hooker #1. But alongside these many identities was another that was hard to embrace and impossible to escape: that of the thirteen-year-old girl attacked by one of Canada's most feared rapists. Thirty-three years after the assault, Carmen decided it was time to meet the man who changed her life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century Hugh AlderseyWilliams (Author) Series:
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03 Mar 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781847089021 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-902-1 ISBN10: 184708902X EAN: 9781847089021 x Description: A profound and delightful jeu d'esprit of a book, mixing biography, etymology, cultural history and quixotic scientific experiments. Aldersey-Williams pulls the unfairly neglected yet enormously influential writer Thomas Browne out of the obscure pages of Pseudodoxia Epidemica and into the 21st century, to apply his generous curiosity and rational intelligence to the vagaries and contradictions of life today. Browne has had some impressive fans (Sebald, Woolf, Borges, Poe, Marias) but this book will revive him, bringing his extraordinary genius to a whole new audience. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Exotic England: The Making of a Curious Nation Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (Y) (Author) Series:
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07 Apr 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 248g ISBN13: 9781846274206 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-420-6 ISBN10: 1846274206 x Description: England may be a small country on a small island, but its inhabitants have always had a boundless curiosity about the world beyond their shoreline. From the nation's modern origins in the Renaissance, travellers have eagerly roamed the globe and been enticed by the diversity and richness of other civilizations. And while this appetite for adventure has often been tainted by aggression or exploitation, the English have also carried within them a capacity to soak up new experiences and ideas and to weave them into every aspect of life back home, from language and literature to customs and culture. Here we trace this golden thread of otherness through five centuries of English history to reveal how it has shaped the buildings, flavoured the food, powered the economy, and created a truly diverse society. Today, when England is no longer synonymous with Britain and the English ask themselves who they are, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown paints a sumptuous and illuminating portrait of who they have been and brings a fresh,
invigorating perspective on what 'Englishness' really means. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Story of a Brief Marriage Anuk Arudpragasam (Author) Series:
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06 Jul 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 151g ISBN13: 9781783782383 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-238-3 ISBN10: 1783782382 EAN: 9781783782383 x Description: Dinesh is a young man trapped on the frontlines between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers. Desensitized to the horror all around him, life has been pared back to the essentials: eat, sleep, survive. All this changes when he is approached one morning by an older man who asks him to marry his daughter Ganga, hoping that victorious soldiers will be less likely to harm a married woman. For a few brief hours, Dinesh and Ganga tentatively explore their new and unexpected connection, trying to understand themselves and each other, until the war once more closes over them. Told in meditative, nuanced and powerful prose, this shattering novel marks the arrival of an extraordinary new literary voice. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Strange Labyrinth: Outlaws, Poets, Mystics, Murderers and a Coward in London's Great Forest Will Ashon (Author) Series:
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06 Apr 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 416pp h216mm x w135mm x s25mm 463g ISBN13: 9781783783434 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-343-4 ISBN10: 1783783435 EAN: 9781783783434 x Description: In litter-strewn Epping Forest on the edge of London, might a writer find that magical moment of transcendence? He will certainly discover filthy graffiti and frightening dogs, as well as world-renowned artists and fading celebrities, robbers, lovers, ghosts and poets. But will he find himself? Or a version of himself he might learn something from? Strange Labyrinth is a quest narrative arguing that we shouldn't get lost in order to find ourselves, but solely to accept that we are lost in the first place. It is a singular blend of landscape writing, political indignation, cultural history and wit from a startling new voice in non-fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Strange Labyrinth: Outlaws, Poets, Mystics, Murderers and a Coward in London's Great Forest Will Ashon (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
01 Feb 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 345g ISBN13: 9781783783458 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-345-8 ISBN10: 1783783451 EAN: 9781783783458 x Description: In litter-strewn Epping Forest on the edge of London, might a writer find that magical moment of transcendence? He will certainly discover filthy graffiti and frightening dogs, as well as world-renowned artists and fading celebrities, robbers, lovers, ghosts and poets. But will he find
himself? Or a version of himself he might learn something from? Strange Labyrinth is a quest narrative arguing that we shouldn't get lost in order to find ourselves, but solely to accept that we are lost in the first place. It is a singular blend of landscape writing, political indignation, cultural history and wit from a startling new voice in non-fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things that Matter Diana Athill (Y) (Author) Series:
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07 Jul 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 144pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781783782727 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-272-7 ISBN10: 1783782722 EAN: 9781783782727 x Description: What matters in the end? In the final years of life, which memories stand out? Writing from her retirement home in Highgate, London, as she approaches her 100th year, Diana Athill reflects on what it is like to be in her nineties, and on the moments in her life which have risen to the surface and sustain her in her later years. She recalls in sparkling detail the exact layout of the garden of her childhood, a vast and beautiful park attached to a large house, and writes with humour, clarity and honesty about her experiences of the First and Second World Wars, and her trips to Europe as a young woman. In the remarkable title chapter, Athill describes her pregnancy at the age of forty-three, losing the baby and almost losing her life, and her gratitude on discovering that she had survived. With vivid memories of the past mingled with candid, wise and often very funny reflections on the experience of being very old, Alive, Alive Oh! reminds us of the joy and richness to be found at every stage of life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Florence Diary Diana Athill (Y) (Author) Series:
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03 Nov 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 64pp h178mm x w125mm x s5mm 156g ISBN13: 9781783783168 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-316-8 ISBN10: 1783783168 EAN: 9781783783168 x Description: In August 1947, Diana Athill travelled to Florence by the Golden Arrow train for a two-week holiday with her good friend Pen. In this playful diary of that trip, Athill recorded her observations and adventures - eating with (and paid for by) the hopeful men they meet on their travels, admiring architectural sights, sampling delicious pastries, eking out their budget and getting into scrapes. Written with an arresting immediacy and infused with an exhilarating joie de vivre, A Florence Diary is a bright, colourful evocation of a time long lost, and a vibrant portrait of a city that will be deliciously familiar to any contemporary traveller. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Freedom Regained: The Possibility of Free Will Julian Baggini (Author) Series:
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03 Mar 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w219mm ISBN13: 9781847087188 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-718-8 ISBN10: 1847087183 EAN: 9781847087188
x Description: Do we have free will? It's a question that has puzzled philosophers and theologians for centuries and feeds into numerous political, social, and personal concerns. Are we products of our culture, or free agents within it? How much responsibility should we take for our actions? Are our neural pathways fixed early on by a mixture of nature and nurture, or is the possibility of comprehensive, intentional psychological change always open to us? What role does our brain play in the construction of free will, and how much scientific evidence is there for the existence of it? What exactly are we talking about when we talk about 'freedom' anyway? In this cogent and compelling book, Julian Baggini explores the concept of free will from every angle, blending philosophy, neuroscience, sociology and cognitive science. Freedom Regained brings the issues raised by the possibilities - and denials - of free will to vivid life, drawing on scientific research and fascinating encounters with expert witnesses, from artists to addicts, prisoners to dissidents. Contemporary thinking tells us that free will is an illusion, and Baggini challenges this position, providing instead a new, more positive understanding of our sense of personal freedom: a freedom worth having. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Curvology: The Origins and Power of Female Body Shape David Bainbridge (Author) Series:
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Portobello Books Ltd
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
07 Jan 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781846275524 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-552-4 ISBN10: 1846275520 EAN: 9781846275524 x Description: In Curvology, Cambridge Veterinary Anatomist David Bainbridge applies the science of evolutionary biology to women's bodies, to explain why the human female is the only female animal to have curves and how these curves rule our lives, by influencing not only sexual selection but also social hierarchy and self-image. Written in lucid and engaging prose, Bainbridge's unique brand of popular science also draws on illuminating references from zoology, art history, contemporary media culture, and a range of first-person interviews with some actual human women. Offering a level-headed and fresh perspective on a contentious issue, Curvology is a fascinating, controversial, and highly newsworthy read. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Census Jesse Ball (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 318g ISBN13: 9781783783755 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-375-5 ISBN10: 1783783753 EAN: 9781783783755 x Description: 'CENSUS is a vital testament to selfless love; a psalm to commonplace miracles; and a mysterious evolving metaphor. So kind, it aches.' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas A father and son who are census takers journey across a nameless country from the town of A to the town of Z in the wake of the father's fatal diagnosis. Knowing that his time is menacingly short, the father takes his son, who requires close and constant adult guidance, on this trip of indefinite length. Their feelings for each other are challenged and bolstered as they move in and out of a variety of homes, meeting a variety of different people. Census is about the ways in which people react to the son's condition, to the son as a person in the world. It is about discrimination and acceptance, kindness and art, education and love. It is a profoundly moving novel, glowing with wisdom and grace, roaring with a desire to change the world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago Patrick Barkham (Y) (Author) Series:
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05 Oct 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 368pp h234mm x w153mm x s22mm 565g ISBN13: 9781783781881 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-188-1 ISBN10: 1783781882 EAN: 9781783781881 x Description: The British Isles are an archipelago made up of two large islands and 6,289 smaller ones. Some, like the Isle of Man, resemble miniature nations, with their own language and tax laws; others, like Ray Island in Essex, are abandoned and mysterious places haunted by myths, ghosts and foxes. There are resurgent islands such as Eigg, which have been liberated from capricious owners to be run by their residents; holy islands like Bardsey, the resting place of 20,000 saints, and still a site of spiritual questing; and deserted islands such as St Kilda, famed for the evacuation of its human population, and now dominated by wild sheep and seabirds. In this evocative and vividly observed book, Patrick Barkham explores some of the most beautiful landscapes in the British Isles as he travels to eversmaller islands in search of their special magic. Our small islands are both places of freedom and imprisonment, party destinations and oases of peace, strangely suburban and deeply wild. They are places where the past is unusually present, but they can also offer a vision of an alternative future. Meeting all kinds of islanders, from nuns to puffins, from local legends to rare subspecies of vole, he seeks to discover what it is like to live on a small island, and what it means to be an islander. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago Patrick Barkham (Y) (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 321g ISBN13: 9781783781904 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-190-4 ISBN10: 1783781904 EAN: 9781783781904 x Description: Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2018 Shortlisted for the BBC Countryfile Magazine Country Book of the Year 2018 'For all the islomaniacs out there, Patrick Barkham's Islander looks unmissable' Robert Macfarlane 'Brimming with nature, this is a fitting tribute to the strangeness and beauty of our British isles' Financial Times 'Islander is a charming and attractive book... his shrewd study of the islander mentality [...] could stand for the entire country' Spectator The British Isles are an archipelago made up of two large islands and 6,289 smaller ones. Some, like the Isle of Man, resemble miniature nations, with their own language and tax laws; others, like Ray Island in Essex, are abandoned and mysterious places haunted by myths, ghosts and foxes. There are resurgent islands such as Eigg, which have been liberated from capricious owners to be run by their residents; holy islands like Bardsey, the resting place of 20,000 saints, and still a site of spiritual questing; and deserted islands such as St Kilda, famed for the evacuation of its human population, and now dominated by wild sheep and seabirds. In this evocative and vividly observed book, Patrick Barkham explores some of the most beautiful landscapes in the British Isles as he travels to eversmaller islands in search of their special magic. Our small islands are both places of freedom and imprisonment, party destinations and oases of peace, strangely suburban and deeply wild. They are places where the past is unusually present, but they can also offer a vision of an alternative future. Meeting all kinds of islanders, from nuns to puffins, from local legends to rare subspecies of vole, he seeks to discover what it is like to live on a small island, and what it means to be an islander. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Butterfly Isles: A Summer In Search Of Our Emperors And Admirals Patrick Barkham (Y) (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 296g ISBN13: 9781783784585 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-458-5 ISBN10: 178378458X EAN: 9781783784585 x Description: Butterflies animate our summers but the fifty-nine species found in the British Isles can be surprisingly elusive. Some bask unseen at the top of trees in London parks; others lurk at the bottom of damp bogs in Scotland. A few survive for months, while other ephemeral creatures only fly for three days. Several are virtually extinct. This bewitching book charts Patrick Barkham's quest to find each of them - from the Adonis Blue to the Dingy Skipper - in one unforgettable summer. Wry, attentive, full of infectious delight and curiosity, written with a beautifully light touch, The Butterfly Isles is a classic of British nature writing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them Elif Batuman (Author) Series:
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05 Apr 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 215g ISBN13: 9781783784516 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-451-6 ISBN10: 1783784512 EAN: 9781783784516 This Product Replaces: 9781847083142 x Description: The true story of one woman's intellectual and sentimental education and her strange encounters with others devoted - absurdly, melancholically, ecstatically - to the Russian classics Roaming from Tashkent to San Francisco, this is the true story of one budding writer's strange encounters with the fanatics who are devoted absurdly! melancholically! ecstatically! - to the Russian classics. Combining fresh readings of the great Russians from Gogol to Goncharov with the sad and funny stories of the lives they continue to influence, The Possessed introduces a brilliant and distinctive new voice: comic, humane, charming, poignant and completely, and unpretentiously, full of an infectious love for literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The State We're In: Maine Stories Ann Beattie (Author) Series:
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07 Jan 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781783782918 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-291-8 ISBN10: 1783782919 EAN: 9781783782918 x Description: The State We're In is the first new collection in a decade from the writer that John Updike credited with creating 'an entirely different kind of short story'. Cool, ironic and witty, these stories are sharply observed, but underpinned with a quiet tenderness. Told through the voices of vivid and engaging women of all ages, The State We're In explores their doubts and desires and reveals the unexpected moments and glancing epiphanies of
daily life. Some of Beattie's idiosyncratic and compelling characters have arrived in the coastal state of Maine by accident, while others are trying to escape. The collection is woven around Jocelyn, a disaffected teenager living with her aunt and uncle for the summer, forging new friendships, avoiding her mother's calls, taking writing classes, and encountering mortality for the first time. Beattie's voice is mesmerising and her keen insight into the human heart cuts through our preconceptions and prejudices. The State We're In is a pitch-perfect meditation on the singular strangeness of life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I'm Jack Mark Blacklock (Author) Series:
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02 Jun 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 272pp h198mm x w127mm ISBN13: 9781783780860 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-086-0 ISBN10: 178378086X EAN: 9781783780860 x Description: In this provocative novel Mark Blacklock portrays the true and complex history of John Humble, aka Wearside Jack, the Ripper Hoaxer, a timewaster and criminal, sympathetic and revolting, the man hidden by a wall of words, a fiction-spinner worthy of textual analysis. In this remarkable work, John Humble leads the reader into an allusive, elusive labyrinth of interpretations, simultaneously hoodwinking and revealing. I'm Jack is a riveting novel about truth, lies, prison and shame. It is also a profound and furious love letter to Sunderland. It is a puzzle, a hoax, a multi-voice portrait and a virtuoso assemblage of textual elements. I'm Jack announces the arrival of a radically talented and innovative novelist. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
White Houses Amy Bloom (Author) Series:
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01 Mar 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 240pp h216mm x w135mm x s13mm 219g ISBN13: 9781783781720 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-172-0 ISBN10: 1783781726 EAN: 9781783781720 x Description: In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena Hickok - Hick to friends - a straight-talking reporter from South Dakota, whose passionate relationship with the idealistic, patrician First Lady would shape the rest of their lives. Told by the indomitable Hick, White Houses is the story of Eleanor and Hick's hidden love, and of Hick's unlikely journey from her dirt-poor childhood to the centre of privilege and power. Filled with fascinating back-room politics, the secrets and scandals of the era, and exploring the potency of enduring love, it is an imaginative tour-de-force from a writer of extraordinary and exuberant talent. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
White Houses Amy Bloom (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
24 Apr 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 224pp h216mm x w135mm x s13mm 319g ISBN13: 9781783784929 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-492-9 ISBN10: 178378492X EAN: 9781783784929 x
Description: In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena Hickok - Hick to friends - a straight-talking reporter from South Dakota, whose passionate relationship with the idealistic, patrician First Lady would shape the rest of their lives. Told by the indomitable Hick, White Houses is the story of Eleanor and Hick's hidden love, and of Hick's unlikely journey from her dirt-poor childhood to the centre of privilege and power. Filled with fascinating back-room politics, the secrets and scandals of the era, and exploring the potency of enduring love, it is an imaginative tour-de-force from a writer of extraordinary and exuberant talent. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Daphne Will Boast (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
08 Feb 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h216mm x w135mm x s17mm 277g ISBN13: 9781847088352 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-835-2 ISBN10: 184708835X EAN: 9781847088352 x Description: Daphne suffers from a rare medical condition; her body shuts down when she feels strong emotions. As a result she has built strong walls between herself and the world, avoiding passion, anger, disappointment and surprise. But when she meets Ollie, who seems to see through her armour, who seems to want to know the real Daphne, her carefully built defences begin to crumble.
In this gripping and tender modern myth, Will Boast explores the unexamined assumptions we make about our bodies and our relationships through the prism of a soulful contemporary love story. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Journeyman Marc Bojanowski (Author) Series:
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05 May 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 176pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781783782512 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-251-2 ISBN10: 178378251X EAN: 9781783782512 x Description: Nolan Jackson is a journeyman carpenter by trade and an itinerant by nature. While fellow Americans fight in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, he builds tract homes across the west of America, travelling between jobs. Following a shocking workplace accident in his temporary home of Las Vegas, he uproots himself from the relationships he has made to head west towards the ocean. On his way he passes through his brother's town and is forced to stay put after an unexpected accident. Bereft of his car and his tools, with only the little-used and much-neglected mechanisms of his heart, Nolan turns to the task of building the foundations of a meaningful life. Intimate, honest and exquisitely crafted, Journeyman is a state-of-thenation novel about dwelling, building, belonging, love and the value of a place to call home. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Addlands Tom Bullough (Author) Series:
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02 Jun 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 304pp h222mm x w143mm ISBN13: 9781783781645 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-164-5 ISBN10: 1783781645 EAN: 9781783781645 x Description: Addlands is the story of two generations of the Hamer family working the Funnon Farm. There is Idris, stubborn, strong, a man of the plough and the prayer-sheet, haunted by the war. Then comes Oliver, a near mythic giant bestriding the landscape, a fighter, a man of the hills as hard as the prehistoric stone. Then there is Etty, Oliver's mother, the centre of this close constellation, watching new technologies and old ways converge on the farm and on the life of her son. Addlands is instantly a classic of rural British fiction. It is as vast and complex as a symphony but as pure and moving as a solo voice in an empty church. As much a book about birdsong as it is about closing time brawls, Addlands' beauty is in the clear truth of its language and the sheer humane depth of its inquiries. It is a miraculous book which unfurls at the speed of life and bathes its reader in a rare golden light. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Addlands Tom Bullough (Author) Series:
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06 Apr 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781783781669 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-166-9 ISBN10: 1783781661 EAN: 9781783781669 x Description: Addlands is the moving and engrossing story of the Hamer family and their home, the Funnon Farm, deep in the hills of the Welsh borders. There is Idris, proud and insular, a man of the plough and the prayer sheet, haunted by the First World War. Then there is the boy Oliver, who grows to be a near mythic giant in the community, a fighter, a drinker, inescapably rooted in their hard, remote valley. And there is Etty, Oliver's mother, the centre of this close constellation, who navigates old ways and new technologies as she struggles to ensure her family's survival. From the ancient silence in the hills to the encroaching roar of modernity, spanning seventy years, Addlands tells of human and animal; it speaks of the land and lets the land speak for itself. It is as vast and complex as a symphony but as pure and moving as a solo voice in an empty church. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey Madeleine Bunting (Y) (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
06 Oct 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 368pp h234mm x w153mm x s25mm 614g ISBN13: 9781847085177 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-517-7 ISBN10: 1847085172 EAN: 9781847085177 x Description: Few landscapes are as iconic as the islands off the north-western Scottish coast. On the outer edge of the British Isles and facing the Atlantic Ocean, the Hebrides form part of Europe's boundary. Because of their unique position in the Atlantic archipelago, they have been at the centre of a network of ancient shipping routes which has led to a remarkable history of cultures colliding and merging. Home to a long and rich Gaelic tradition, for centuries their astonishing geography has attracted saints and sinners, and stimulated artists and writers, inspiring awe and dread as well as deep attachment.
Over six years, Madeleine Bunting travelled north-west, returning again and again to the Hebrides, exploring their landscapes, histories and magnetic pull. With great sensitivity and perceptiveness, she delves into the meanings of home and belonging, which in these islands have been fraught with tragedy as well as tenacious resistance. The Hebrides hold a remarkable place in the imaginations of Scotland and England. Bunting considers the extent of the islands' influence beyond their shores, finding that their history of dispossession and migration has been central to the British imperial past. Perhaps more significant still is how their landscapes have been repeatedly used to imagine the British nation. Love of Country shows how their history is a backdrop for contemporary debates about the relationship between our nations, how Britain was created, and what Britain has meant - for good and for ill. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey Madeleine Bunting (Y) (Author) Series:
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29 Jun 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 307g ISBN13: 9781847085184 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-518-4 ISBN10: 1847085180 EAN: 9781847085184 x Description: The Hebrides hold a remarkable place in the imaginations of Scotland and England. On the outer edge of the British Isles and facing the Atlantic Ocean, these iconic islands form part of Europe's boundary. Because of their unique position, they have been at the centre of a network of ancient shipping routes which has led to a history of cultures colliding and merging. Home to a long and rich Gaelic tradition, they have attracted saints and sinners, and artists and writers, inspiring awe and dread as well as deep attachment. Over six years, Madeleine Bunting travelled to the Hebrides, exploring their landscapes, histories and magnetic pull. With great sensitivity and perceptiveness, she delves into the meanings of home and belonging, which in these islands have been fraught with tragedy as well as tenacious resistance. She finds that their history of dispossession and migration played a part in the British imperial past. And perhaps more significant still is the extent of the islands' influence on ideas of Britishness. Love of Country shows how the islands' history is a backdrop for contemporary debates about the relationship between our nations, how Britain was created, and what Britain has meant - for good and for ill. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Texaco Patrick Chamoiseau (Author) Rose-Myriam Rejouis (Translated by) Val Vinokurov (Translated by) Series:
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Granta Books
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24 May 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 400pp h196mm x w132mm x s26mm 350g ISBN13: 9781783784349 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-434-9 ISBN10: 1783784342 EAN: 9781783784349 x Description: 'One of the major fictional achievements of our century' The Times On the edge of Fort de France, the capital of Martinique, squats a shanty town. It goes by the name of Texaco. One dawn, a stranger arrives - an urban planner, bearing news. Texaco is to be razed to the ground. And so he is lead to Marie-Sophie Laborieux, the ancient keeper of Texaco's history, who invites her guest to take a seat and begins the true story of all that is to be lost. Texaco is a creole masterpiece. Told in a newly forged language, it is a riotous collage of indigenous Caribbean and colonial European influences; a kaleidoscopic epic of slavery and revolution, superstition and imagination; a story of human deceits and desires played out to the backdrop of uncontrollable, all powerful History. First published in 1992, it was awarded France's highest literary award, the Prix Goncourt, and remains an unequivocal classic of Caribbean literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard Ivan Chistyakov (Author) Series:
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23 Nov 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 288pp h224mm x w146mm x s25mm 372g ISBN13: 9781783782567 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-256-7 ISBN10: 1783782560 EAN: 9781783782567 x Description: In the archives of the Memorial International Human Rights Centre in Moscow is an extraordinary diary, a rare first-person testimony of a commander of guards in a Soviet labour camp. Ivan Chistyakov was sent to the Gulag in 1935, where he worked at the Baikal-Amur Corrective Labour Camp for over a year. Life at the Gulag was anathema to Chistyakov, a cultured Muscovite with a nostalgia for pre-revolutionary Russia, and an amateur painter and poet. He recorded its horrors with an unmatchable immediacy, documenting a world where petty rivalries put lives at risk, prisoners hacked off their fingers to bet in card games, railway sleepers were burned for firewood and Siberian winds froze the lather on the soap. From his stumbling poetic musings on the bitter landscape to his matter-of-fact grumbles about his stove, from accounts of the conditions of the camp to reflections on the cruelty of loneliness, this diary is unique - a visceral and immediate description of a place and time whose repercussions still affect the shape of modern Russia. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard Ivan Chistyakov (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
02 Nov 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h200mm x w128mm x s10mm 206g ISBN13: 9781783782574 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-257-4 ISBN10: 1783782579 EAN: 9781783782574 x Description: In the archives of the Memorial International Human Rights Centre in Moscow is an extraordinary diary, a rare first-person testimony of a commander of guards in a Soviet labour camp. Ivan Chistyakov was sent to the Gulag in 1937, where he worked at the Baikal-Amur Corrective Labour Camp for over a year. Life at the Gulag was anathema to Chistyakov, a cultured Muscovite with a nostalgia for pre-revolutionary Russia, and an amateur painter and poet. He recorded its horrors with an unmatchable immediacy, documenting a world where petty rivalries put lives at risk, prisoners hacked off their fingers to bet in card games, railway sleepers were burned for firewood and Siberian winds froze the lather on the soap. From his stumbling poetic musings on the bitter landscape to his matter-of-fact grumbles about his stove, from accounts of the conditions of the camp to reflections on the cruelty of loneliness, this diary is unique - a visceral and immediate description of a place and time whose repercussions still affect the shape of modern Russia. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The History Thieves: Secrets, Lies and the Shaping of a Modern Nation Ian Cobain (Y) (Author) Series:
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Portobello Books Ltd
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
01 Sep 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 368pp h234mm x w153mm x s22mm 546g ISBN13: 9781846275838 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-583-8 ISBN10: 1846275830 EAN: 9781846275838 x Description: In 1889, the first Official Secrets Act was passed, creating offences of 'disclosure of information' and 'breach of official trust'. It limited and monitored what the public could, and should, be told. Since then a culture of secrecy has flourished. As successive governments have been selective about what they choose to share with the public, we have been left with a distorted and incomplete understanding not only of the workings of the state but of our nation's culture and its past. In this important new book, Ian Cobain offers a fresh appraisal of some of the key moments in British history since the end of WWII, including: the measures taken to conceal the existence of Bletchley Park and its successor, GCHQ, for three decades; the unreported wars fought during the 1960s and 1970s; the hidden links with terrorist cells during the Troubles; the sometimes opaque workings of the criminal justice system; the state's peacetime surveillance techniques; and the convenient loopholes in the Freedom of Information Act. Drawing on previously unseen material and rigorous research, The History Thieves reveals how a complex bureaucratic machine has grown up around the British state, allowing governments to evade accountability and their secrets to be buried. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Kathleen Collins (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
02 Feb 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 254g ISBN13: 9781783783403 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-340-3 ISBN10: 1783783400 EAN: 9781783783403 x Description: A sensual, dazzling introduction to the work of Kathleen Collins, a pioneering African-American filmmaker and writer whose fiction went unpublished in her lifetime. It is the summer of 1963, and New York is filled with lovers and protestors. Young women grow out their hair and discover the taste of new freedoms. Young men, white and black, travel south to fight against segregation, dreaming of a society in which love is colour-free. Written in the late 1960s and early 1970s but overlooked in Kathleen Collins's lifetime, these stories mark the debut of a masterful writer whose electrifying voice was almost lost to history. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Kathleen Collins (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
01 Feb 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 140g ISBN13: 9781783783410 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-341-0 ISBN10: 1783783419 EAN: 9781783783410 x Description: It is the long, hot summer of 1963 and New York is filled with lovers, dreamers and protestors. Young African-American women grow out their hair and discover the taste of new freedoms. Young men, white and black, travel south to fight against segregation, praying for a society in which love is colour-free. Written in the late 1960s and early 1970s but overlooked in Kathleen Collins's lifetime, these stories mark the debut of a masterful writer whose electrifying voice was almost lost to history. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Cow Book: A Story of Life on an Irish Family Farm John Connell (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 288pp h216mm x w135mm x s17mm 376g ISBN13: 9781783784165 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-416-5 ISBN10: 1783784164 EAN: 9781783784165 x Description: Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, he finds himself back on the farm and begins to learn the ways of the farmer and the way of the cows. Connell records the hypnotic rhythm of the farming day - cleaning the outhouses, milking the herd, tending to sickly lambs, helping the cows give birth. But alongside the routine events, there are the unforeseen moments when things go wrong: when a calf fails to thrive, when a sheep goes missing, when illness breaks out, when depression takes hold, when an argument erupts and things are said that cannot be unsaid. The Cow Book is the story of a calving season. It is also the story of the cow itself, from its domestication and worship as a God by the Ancient Egyptians to the modern practice of mechanized herds, via the figure of the cowboy, the destruction of the American buffalo, the demise of the aboriginal jackaroos and the consequences of BSE. And, above all, it is the story of Connell's life as a farmer, of his relationship with his birthplace of County Longford, with the community around the family farm, with the animals he tends, and with his father. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Cow Book: A Story of Life on an Irish Family Farm John Connell (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h216mm x w135mm x s17mm 277g ISBN13: 9781783784172 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-417-2 ISBN10: 1783784172 EAN: 9781783784172 x
Description: 'This is an important slice of living, breathing agricultural history written with absolute honesty by an insider who has the rare quality of being able to see it from the outside too.' - Rosamund Young, author of The Secret Life of Cows'I usually view rural Ireland from a train or car window but reading this gripping, fascinating book I felt I was becoming a cattle farmer.' - Roddy DoyleFarming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, he finds himself back on the farm and begins to learn the ways of the farmer and the way of the cows. Connell records the hypnotic rhythm of the farming day - cleaning the outhouses, milking the herd, tending to sickly lambs, helping the cows give birth. But alongside the routine events, there are the unforeseen moments when things go wrong: when a calf fails to thrive, when a sheep goes missing, when illness breaks out, when depression takes hold, when an argument erupts and things are said that cannot be unsaid. The Cow Book is the story of a calving season. It is also the story of the cow itself, from its domestication and worship as a God by the Ancient Egyptians to the modern practice of mechanized herds, via the figure of the cowboy, the destruction of the American buffalo, the demise of the aboriginal jackaroos and the consequences of BSE. And, above all, it is the story of Connell's life as a farmer, of his relationship with his birthplace of County Longford, with the community around the family farm, with the animals he tends, and with his father. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
West Carys Davies (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
24 Apr 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 160pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 230g ISBN13: 9781783784226 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-422-6 ISBN10: 1783784229 EAN: 9781783784226 x Description: When Cy Bellman, American settler and widowed father of Bess, reads in the newspaper that huge ancient bones have been discovered in a Kentucky swamp, he leaves his small Pennsylvania farm and young daughter to find out if the rumours are true: that the giant monsters are still alive, and roam the uncharted wilderness beyond the Mississippi River.
West is the story of Bellman's journey and of Bess, waiting at home for her father to return. Written with compassionate tenderness and magical thinking, it explores the courage of conviction, the transformative power of grief, the desire for knowledge and the pull of home, from an exceptionally talented and original British writer. It is a radiant and timeless epic-in-miniature, an eerie, electric monument to possibility. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? Frans De Waal (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
01 Sep 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 352pp h216mm x w135mm x s21mm 434g ISBN13: 9781783783045 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-304-5 ISBN10: 1783783044 EAN: 9781783783045 x Description: What separates your mind from the mind of an animal? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future - all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the pre-eminent species on Earth. But in recent decades, claims of human superiority have been eroded by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. Take the way octopuses use coconut shells as tools, or how elephants can classify humans by age, gender, and language. Take Ayumu, the young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University who demonstrates his species' exceptional photographic memory. Based on research on a range of animals, including crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, whales, and, of course, chimpanzees and bonobos, Frans de Waal explores the scope and depth of animal intelligence, revealing how we have grossly underestimated non-human brains. He overturns the view of animals as stimulus-response beings and opens our eyes to their complex and intricate minds. With astonishing stories of animal cognition, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? challenges everything you thought you knew about animal - and human - intelligence. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? Frans De Waal (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
06 Jul 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 247g ISBN13: 9781783783069 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-306-9 ISBN10: 1783783060 EAN: 9781783783069 x Description: What separates your mind from the mind of an animal? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future - all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the pre-eminent species on Earth. But in recent decades, claims of human superiority have been eroded by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. Take the way octopuses use coconut shells as tools, or how elephants can classify humans by age, gender, and language. Take Ayumu, the young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University who demonstrates his species' exceptional photographic memory. Based on research on a range of animals, including crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, whales, and, of course, chimpanzees and bonobos, Frans de Waal explores the scope and depth of animal intelligence, revealing how we have grossly underestimated non-human brains. He overturns the view of animals as stimulus-response beings and opens our eyes to their complex and intricate minds. With astonishing stories of animal cognition, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? challenges everything you thought you knew about animal - and human - intelligence. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Earlie King & the Kid in Yellow Danny Denton (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
24 Jan 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 368pp h216mm x w135mm x s22mm 350g ISBN13: 9781783783656 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-365-6 ISBN10: 1783783656 EAN: 9781783783656 x Description: Ireland is flooded, derelict. It never stops raining. The Kid in Yellow has stolen the babba from the Earlie King. Why? Something to do with the King's daughter, and a talking statue, something godawful. And from every wall the King's Eye watches. And yet the city is full of heartsdefiant-sprayed in yellow, the mark of the Kid. It cannot end well. Can it? Follow the Kid, hear the tale. Roll up! Roll up! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Undermajordomo Minor Patrick deWitt (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
02 Jun 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781847088727 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-872-7 ISBN10: 1847088724 EAN: 9781847088727 x
Description: Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, he is a compulsive liar and a melancholy weakling. When Lucy accepts employment assisting the majordomo of the remote, forbidding castle of the Baron Von Aux he meets thieves, madmen, aristocrats, and a puppy. He also meets Klara, a delicate beauty who is, unfortunately, already involved with an exceptionally handsome partisan soldier. Thus begins a tale of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, domestic mystery and cold-blooded murder in which every aspect of human behaviour is laid bare for our hero to observe. Lucy must stay safe, and protect his puppy, because someone or something is roaming the corridors of the castle late at night. Undermajordomo Minor is a triumphant ink-black comedy of manners by the Man Booker shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers. It is an adventure story, and a mystery, and a searing portrayal of rural Alpine bad behaviour with a brandy tart, but above all it is a love story. And Lucy must be careful, for love is a violent thing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sabrina Nick Drnaso (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
01 Jun 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 208pp h247mm x w205mm x s25mm 910g ISBN13: 9781783784905 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-490-5 ISBN10: 1783784903 EAN: 9781783784905 x Description: 'The best book - in any medium - I have read about our current moment ... A MASTERPIECE' Zadie Smith 'A masterpiece for our times' Observer WHERE IS SABRINA? The answer is hidden on a videotape, a tape which is en route to several news outlets, and about to go viral. A landmark graphic novel, already hailed as one of the most exciting and moving stories of recent years, Sabrina is a tale of modern mystery, anxiety, fringe paranoia and mainstream misinformation -- a book that tells the story of those left behind in the wake of tragedy, has important things to say about how we live now, and possesses the rare power to leave readers pulverised. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
This Living and Immortal Thing Austin Duffy (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
28 Jan 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h216mm x w135mm x s19mm 288g ISBN13: 9781783781676 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-167-6 ISBN10: 178378167X EAN: 9781783781676 x Description: 'My life is in your hands, doctor, they would sometimes say, which it never was...' This Living and Immortal Thing inhabits a world of medicine, research, cancer and death. Its disillusioned and darkly funny narrator is an Irish oncologist, who is searching for a scientific breakthrough in the lab of a New York hospital while struggling with his failing marriage and his growing alienation within the city's urban spaces. Tending to the health of his laboratory mice, he finds comfort in work that is measurable, results that are quantifiable. But life is every bit as persistent as the illness he studies. As he starts a new treatment on his mice, he meets a beautiful but elusive Russian translator at the hospital, his estranged wife begins to call, his neighbours are acting strangely and his supervisor pressures him to push ahead professionally. And always there is the pull of family; of the place he considers home. Shot through with Duffy's haunting, beautiful descriptions of the science underlying cancer, which starkly illustrate the paradox of an illness at whose heart is a persistent and deadly life force, This Living and Immortal Thing shows how the cruelty of the disease is a price we pay for the joy and complexity of being in the world.
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This Living and Immortal Thing Austin Duffy (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
02 Feb 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 215g ISBN13: 9781783781683 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-168-3 ISBN10: 1783781688 EAN: 9781783781683 x Description: This Living and Immortal Thing inhabits a world of medicine, research, cancer and death. Its disillusioned and often darkly funny narrator is an Irish oncologist, who is searching for a scientific breakthrough in the lab of a New York hospital while struggling with his failing marriage and his growing alienation within the city's urban spaces. Tending to the health of his laboratory mice, he finds comfort in work that is measurable, results that are quantifiable. But life is every bit as persistent as the illness he studies. As he starts a new treatment on his mice, he meets a beautiful but elusive Russian translator at the hospital, his estranged wife gets in touch and his supervisor pressures him to push ahead professionally. And always there is the pull of family, of the place he considers home. Shot through with Duffy's haunting, beautiful descriptions of the science underlying cancer, which starkly illustrate the paradox of an illness with a persistent and deadly life force at its heart, This Living and Immortal Thing shows how the cruelty of the disease is a price we pay for the joy and complexity of being in the world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Natural Causes: Life, Death and the Illusion of Control Barbara Ehrenreich (Y) (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
12 Apr 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 256pp h216mm x w135mm x s15mm 348g ISBN13: 9781783782413 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-241-3 ISBN10: 1783782412 EAN: 9781783782413 x Description: We tend to believe we have agency over our bodies, our minds and even our deaths. Yet emerging science challenges our assumptions of mastery: at the microscopic level, the cells in our bodies facilitate tumours and attack other cells, with life-threatening consequences. In this revelatory book, Barbara Ehrenreich argues that our bodies are a battleground over which we have little control, and lays bare the cultural charades that shield us from this knowledge. Challenging everything we think we know about life and death, she also offers hope - that we find our place in a natural world teeming with animation and endless possibility. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine Ben Ehrenreich (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
04 Aug 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 448pp h234mm x w153mm x s26mm 519g ISBN13: 9781783783106 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-310-6 ISBN10: 1783783109 EAN: 9781783783106 x Description: This is a book about Palestine today. It is neither apologetic nor romanticized, but a powerful and brilliantly realized scream of a book, scorching and tender, from a journalist whose anger and empathy burn through every word. Over the past three years, Ben Ehrenreich has shared the laughter, fury and sorrow of people in cities and villages across the West Bank, young and old people, men and women. He has witnessed the extremes to which they are pushed, the daily deprivation and oppression that they face, the strategies they construct to survive it - stoicism, resignation, rebellion, humour, and a stubborn, defiant joy. In The Way to the Spring, he describes the cruel mechanics of the Israeli occupation and the endless absurdities and tragedies it engenders: the complex and humiliating machinery of the checkpoints, walls, courts and prisons; the steady, strangling loss of lands that have been passed down for generations; the constant ebb and flow of deadly violence. Blending political and historical context with the personal stories of the people Ehrenreich meets, The Way to the Spring is a testimony, a provocation and a vital document. Written with grace and power, it breathes fresh life and urgency to a place and a conflict that too easily disappears in the shouting. This is a necessary book, an unflinching act of witnessing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine Ben Ehrenreich (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
30 Mar 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s26mm 311g ISBN13: 9781783783113 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-311-3 ISBN10: 1783783117 EAN: 9781783783113 x Description: Over the past three years, American writer Ben Ehrenreich has been travelling to and living in the West Bank, staying with Palestinian families in its largest cities and its smallest villages. He has witnessed the extremes to which they are pushed, the daily deprivation and oppression that they face, and the strategies they construct to survive it - stoicism, resignation, rebellion and stubborn defiance. In The Way to Spring, he describes the cruel mechanics of the Israeli occupation and the endless absurdities and tragedies it engenders: the complex and humiliating machinery of the checkpoints, walls, courts and prisons; the steady, strangling loss of land that has been passed down for generations; the constant ebb and flow of deadly violence. Blending political and historical context with riveting personal stories, The Way to Spring is a testimony, a provocation, and an unflinching act of witnessing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Elisabeth's Lists: A Family Story Lulah Ellender (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 336pp h210mm x w148mm x s20mm 444g ISBN13: 9781783783830 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-383-0 ISBN10: 1783783834 EAN: 9781783783830 x Description: Many years after the death of her grandmother, Lulah Ellender inherited a curious object - a book of handwritten lists. On the face of it, Elisabeth's lists seemed rather ordinary - shopping lists, items to be packed for a foreign trip, a tally of the eggs laid by her hens. But from these everyday fragments, Lulah began to weave together the extraordinary life of the grandmother she never knew - a life lived in the most rarefied and glamorous of circles, from Elisabeth's early years as an ambassador's daughter in 1930s China, to her marriage to a British diplomat and postings in Madrid under Franco's regime, post-war Beirut, Rio de Janeiro and Paris. But it was also a life of stark contrasts - between the opulent excess of embassy banquets and the deprivations of wartime rationing in England, between the unfailing charm she displayed in public and the dark depressions that blanketed her in private, between her great appetite for life and her sudden, early death. Throughout Elisabeth's adult life, the lists were a source of structure and comfort. And now, as Lulah learns that she is losing her own mother, she finds herself turning to her grandmother's life, and to her much-travelled book of lists, in search of meaning and solace. Elisabeth's Lists is both a vivid memoir and a moving study of the familial threads that binds us, even beyond death. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Things We Lost in the Fire Mariana Enriquez (Author) Series:
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Portobello Books Ltd
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
06 Apr 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 208pp h216mm x w135mm x s12mm 204g ISBN13: 9781846276347 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-634-7 ISBN10: 1846276349 EAN: 9781846276347 x Description: A woman returns to the rundown suburb of Buenos Aires her family once called home. From the safety of her window, she watches as a teenage prostitute raises her five-year-old son on the street. They sleep outside, surrounded by pimps and addicts, psychopaths and dealers, worshippers of the occult and corrupt police. One day, the mother and the dirty kid are gone, and the dismembered body of a child is found in the neighbourhood. Is the murder part of a satanic ritual, or a gangland killing? Could it be the dirty kid, and if so, is his mother a victim too; or an accomplice; or his killer? Thrilling and terrifying, The Things We Lost in the Fire takes the reader into a world of Argentine Gothic: of sharp-toothed children; of women racked by desire; of demons who lurk beneath the river; of stolen skulls and secrets half-buried under Argentina's terrible dictatorship; of men imprisoned in their marriages, whose only path out lies in the flames. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In Defence Of History Richard J. Evans (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
01 Feb 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 268g ISBN13: 9781783784592 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-459-2 ISBN10: 1783784598 EAN: 9781783784592 x Description: The classic explanation of the craft of history and the vital worth of historians to civilization In this volume, English historian Richard Evans offers a defence of the importance of his craft. At a time when fact and historical truth are under unprecedented assault, Evans shows us why history is necessary. Taking us into the historians' workshop to show us just how good history gets written, he demolishes the wilder claims of postmodern historians, who deny the possibility of any realistic grasp of history, and explains the deadly political dangers of losing a historical perspective on the way we live our lives. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia Masha Gessen (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
25 Oct 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 528pp h234mm x w153mm x s36mm 598g ISBN13: 9781783784004 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-400-4 ISBN10: 1783784008 EAN: 9781783784004 x Description: In The Future is History Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled, at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children or grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own - as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers and writers, sexual and social beings. Gessen charts their paths not only against the machinations of the regime that would seek to crush them all (censorship, intimidation, violence) but also against the war it waged on understanding itself, ensuring the unobstructed emergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today's terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state. The Future is History is a powerful and urgent cautionary tale by contemporary Russia's most fearless inquisitor. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia Masha Gessen (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
05 Oct 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 528pp h234mm x w153mm x s31mm 609g ISBN13: 9781783784097 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-409-7 ISBN10: 1783784091 EAN: 9781783784097 x Description: In The Future is History Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled, at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children or grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own - as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers and writers, sexual and social beings. Gessen charts their paths not only against the machinations of the regime that would seek to crush them all (censorship, intimidation, violence) but also against the war it
waged on understanding itself, ensuring the unobstructed emergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today's terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state. The Future is History is a powerful and urgent cautionary tale by contemporary Russia's most fearless inquisitor. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Ghost's Story: A Novel Lorna Gibb (Author) Series:
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06 Oct 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781783780365 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-036-5 ISBN10: 1783780363 EAN: 9781783780365 x Description: Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries seances and spiritualist meetings grew in popularity. One 'ghost' appeared more than any other: the Katie King spirit. A Ghost's Story presents the mysterious spirit writings and biographical outpourings of Katie King, this famous and enigmatic spirit celebrity. Is she a profound and curious consciousness guided into this realm by the faith of true believers, or the cheap trickery of parlour cheats and exploitative swindlers? Katie King is both, and more. This is the tale of a ghost's quest to understand human faith, loss and passion. It is also the tale of a contemporary scholar desperate to understand the allure of the spirit world, journeying with Katie from the candle-lit drawing rooms of Victorian London to the Imperial Palaces of Tsars; from the shadiest of gimmicks and tricks, to the most poignant sincerity of the death-bed wish. A Ghost's Story announces a narrator like no other, moving in and out of time and space, obstreperous, witty and profoundly honest. Above all, it is an examination of belief and a spectacular insight into what lies on the other side. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Paulina & Fran Rachel B. Glaser (Author) Series:
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07 Jan 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781783781584 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-158-4 ISBN10: 1783781580 EAN: 9781783781584 x Description: Sharp-tongued, fearsome Paulina meets lovely, listless Fran one night at a house-party held near their privileged New England art school. Together they drift through their classes, critique their fellow students, lavish attention on their curls and nurture their shared dreams of genius. But when their burgeoning friendship tips from intensity into enmity our two heroines find themselves cast out from the halcyon days of art school, divided from one another and set adrift in the increasingly disappointing world of adulthood. Written with wit and brio, dancing between razor-sharp satire and a tender portrait of unrequited love, Paulina & Fran is a beguiling whirl of a novel from a writer of immense talent. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Paulina & Fran Rachel B. Glaser (Author) Series:
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01 Sep 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h197mm x w130mm ISBN13: 9781783781591 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-159-1 ISBN10: 1783781599 EAN: 9781783781591 x Description: Sharp-tongued, fearsome Paulina meets lovely, listless Fran one night at a house party held near their privileged New England art school. Together they drift through their classes, critique their fellow students, lavish attention on their curls and nurture their shared dreams of genius.
But when their burgeoning friendship tips from intensity into enmity our two heroines find themselves cast out from the halcyon days of art school, divided from one another and set adrift in the increasingly disappointing world of adulthood. Written with wit and brio, dancing between razor-sharp satire and a tender portrait of unrequited love, Paulina & Fran is a beguiling whirl of a novel from a writer of immense talent. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Balkans, 1804-2012: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers Misha Glenny (Author) Series:
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07 Dec 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 800pp h220mm x w150mm x s55mm 820g ISBN13: 9781783784523 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-452-3 ISBN10: 1783784520 EAN: 9781783784523 This Product Replaces: 9781847087713 x Description: In this celebrated, landmark history of the Balkans, Misha Glenny investigates the roots of the bloodshed, invasions and nationalist fervour that have come to define our understanding of the south-eastern edge of Europe. In doing so, he reveals that groups we think of as implacable enemies have, over the centuries, formed unlikely alliances, thereby disputing the idea that conflict in the Balkans is the ineluctable product of ancient grudges. And he exposes the often-catastrophic relationship between the Balkans and the rest of Europe, raising profound questions about recent Western intervention. Updated to cover the last decade's brutal conflicts in Kosovo and Macedonia, the surge of organised crime in the region, the rise of Turkey and the rocky road to EU membership, The Balkans remains the essential and peerless study of Europe's most complex and least understood region. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Strange Heart Beating Eli Goldstone (Author) Series:
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04 May 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 208pp h216mm x w135mm x s12mm 204g ISBN13: 9781783783496 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-349-6 ISBN10: 1783783494 EAN: 9781783783496 x Description: Seb's beautiful, beloved wife Leda has been killed by a swan. Sorting through her belongings after her death, he comes across a packet of unopened letters from Olaf, a man whom Leda had never mentioned. Floundering professionally and sunk by grief, he decides to travel to Leda's home village in Latvia to patch her story together. But with each new person that he turns to for answers, Seb is met instead by more questions about Leda, her past and their life together. A darkly funny, seductive novel that confronts the black undercurrent of possession inherent in love, Strange Heart Beating is a breathtaking debut from an author whose vision is both acerbic and tender. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Strange Heart Beating Eli Goldstone (Author) Series:
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05 Apr 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 151g ISBN13: 9781783783502 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-350-2 ISBN10: 1783783508 EAN: 9781783783502 x Description: Seb's beautiful, beloved wife Leda has been killed by a swan. Sorting through her belongings after her death, he comes across a packet of unopened letters from Olaf, a man whom Leda had never mentioned. Floundering professionally and sunk by grief, he decides to travel to Leda's home village in Latvia to patch her story together. But with each new person that he turns to for answers, Seb is met instead by more questions about Leda, her past and their life together. A darkly funny, seductive novel that confronts the black undercurrent of possession inherent in love, Strange Heart Beating is a breathtaking debut from an author whose vision is both acerbic and tender. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Swallowing Mercury Wioletta Greg (Author) Eliza Marciniak (Translated by) Eliza Marciniak (Translated by) Series:
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05 Jan 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 160pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 230g ISBN13: 9781846276071 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-607-1 ISBN10: 1846276071 EAN: 9781846276071 x Description: Wiola lives in a close-knit agricultural community. Wiola has a black cat called Blackie. Wiola's father was a deserter but now he is a taxidermist. Wiola's mother tells her that killing spiders brings on storms. Wiola must never enter the seamstress's 'secret' room. Wiola collects matchbox labels. Wiola is a good Catholic girl brought up with fables and nurtured on superstition. Wiola lives in a Poland that is both very recent and lost in time. Swallowing Mercury is about the ordinary passing of years filled with extraordinary days. In vivid prose filled with texture, colour and sound, it describes the adult world encroaching on the child's. From childhood to adolescence, Wiola dances to the strange music of her own imagination. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Asymmetry Lisa Halliday (Author) Series:
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01 Mar 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 288pp h216mm x w135mm x s17mm 376g ISBN13: 9781783783601 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-360-1 ISBN10: 1783783605 EAN: 9781783783601 x Description: NEW FACE OF FICTION 2018, Observer
In New York, Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer. At Heathrow airport, Amar, an Iraqi-American economist en route to Kurdistan, finds himself detained for the weekend. What draws these characters together, and how do their lives connect, if at all? Playful and inventive, tender and humane, Asymmetry is a novel which illuminates the power plays and imbalances of contemporary life - between young and old, West and Middle East, fairness and injustice, talent and luck, and the personal and the political. It introduces a major new literary talent, writing about the world today with astonishing versatility, acuity and daring. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Estates: An Intimate History Lynsey Hanley (Author) Series:
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04 May 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 194g ISBN13: 9781783783823 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-382-3 ISBN10: 1783783826 EAN: 9781783783823 This Product Replaces: 9781847087027 x Description: Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on an estate in London's East End. Writing with passion, humour and a sense of history, she recounts the rise of social housing a century ago, its adoption as a fundamental right by leaders of the social welfare state in the mid-century and its decline - as both idea and reality - in the 1960s and '70s. Throughout, Hanley focuses on how shifting trends in urban planning and changing government policies - from Homes Fit for Heroes to Le Corbusier's concrete tower blocks, to the Right to Buy - affected those so often left out of the argument over council estates: the millions of people who live on them. What emerges is a vivid mix of memoir and social history, an engaging and illuminating book about a corner of society that the rest of Britain has left in the dark. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A New Map of Wonders: A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels Caspar Henderson (Author) Series:
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03 May 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 364pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 319g ISBN13: 9781783781355 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-135-5 ISBN10: 1783781351 EAN: 9781783781355 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind Rachel Hewitt (Author) Series:
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05 Oct 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 560pp h242mm x w162mm x s43mm 790g ISBN13: 9781847085733 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-573-3 ISBN10: 1847085733 EAN: 9781847085733 x
Description: In the 1790s, Britain underwent what the politician Edmund Burke called 'the most important of all revolutions...a revolution in sentiments'. Inspired by the French Revolution, British radicals concocted new political worlds to enshrine healthier, more productive, human emotions and relationships. The Enlightenment's wildest hopes crested in the utopian projects of such optimists - including the young poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the philosophers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, the physician Thomas Beddoes and the first photographer Thomas Wedgwood - who sought to reform sex, education, commerce, politics and medicine by freeing desire from repressive constraints. But by the middle of the decade, the wind had changed. The French Revolution descended into bloody Terror and the British government quashed radical political activities. In the space of one decade, feverish optimism gave way to bleak disappointment, and changed the way we think about human need and longing. A Revolution of Feeling is a vivid and absorbing account of the dramatic end of the Enlightenment, the beginning of an emotional landscape preoccupied by guilt, sin, failure, resignation and repression, and the origins of our contemporary approach to feeling and desire. Above all, it is the story of the human cost of political change, of men and women consigned to the 'wrong side of history'. But although their revolutionary proposals collapsed, that failure resulted in its own cultural revolution - a revolution of feeling - the aftershocks of which are felt to the present day. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Days of Awe A.M. Homes (Y) (Author) Series:
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07 Jun 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h216mm x w135mm x s18mm 292g ISBN13: 9781783784820 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-482-0 ISBN10: 1783784822 EAN: 9781783784820 x Description: FROM THE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION. A.M Homes returns with signature humour and psychological accuracy, to tell thirteen stories exposing the heart of an uneasy 21st-century America. In tales of a family obsessed with the surfaces of their lives, or the story of a shopper who suddenly finds himself nominated to run for President, she explores our attachments to each other through characters who aren't quite who they hoped to become, though there is no one else they can be. Her first book since the Women's Prize-winning May We Be Forgiven, Days of Awe is another visionary, fearless and outrageously funny work from a master storyteller. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Prodigals: Stories Greg Jackson (Author) Series:
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07 Apr 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 240pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781783781997 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-199-7 ISBN10: 1783781998 EAN: 9781783781997 x Description: Adrift in lives of possibility and limitation, the flawed, struggling and sympathetic characters of these desperate, eerie stories seek refuge from meaninglessness and boredom in love, art, friendship, drugs, and sex. A journalist is either the guest or captive of a reclusive former tennis star at his mansion in the French hills; a terrible storm forces a man and a woman, who may be his therapist, to flee New York together; the artistic ambitions of a banker are laid bare when he comes under the influence of two strange sisters. Unflinching, funny and profound, Prodigals maps the degradations of contemporary life - from the deification of celebrity, to the impotence of violence, to the psychological debts of privilege, to the loss of grand narratives - with unusual insight, sincerity, and passion. It is a fiercely honest and heartfelt look at what we have become, the comedy of our foibles, and our longing for home. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Prodigals: Stories Greg Jackson (Author) Series:
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01 Sep 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781783782017 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-201-7 ISBN10: 1783782013 EAN: 9781783782017 x Description: Adrift in lives of possibility and limitation, the flawed, struggling and sympathetic characters of these desperate, eerie stories seek refuge from meaninglessness and boredom in love, art, friendship, drugs, and sex. A journalist is either the guest or captive of a reclusive former tennis star at his mansion in the French hills; a terrible storm forces a man and a woman, who may be his therapist, to flee New York together; the artistic ambitions of a banker are laid bare when he comes under the influence of two strange sisters. Unflinching, funny and profound, Prodigals maps the degradations of contemporary life - from the deification of celebrity, to the impotence of violence, to the psychological debts of privilege, to the loss of grand narratives - with unusual insight, sincerity, and passion. It is a fiercely honest and heartfelt look at what we have become, the comedy of our foibles, and our longing for home. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting Michael Jacobs (Author) Series:
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04 Aug 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 240pp h199mm x w130mm ISBN13: 9781847088086 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-808-6 ISBN10: 1847088082 EAN: 9781847088086 x Description: Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velazquez's enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In Everything is Happening Jacobs searches for the ultimate significance of the painting by following the trails of associations from each individual character in the picture, as well as his own memories of and relationship to this extraordinary work. From Jacobs' first trip to Spain to the complex politics of Golden Age Madrid, to his meeting with the man who saved Las Meninas during the Spanish Civil war, via Jacobs' experiences of the sunless world of the art history academy, Jacobs' dissolves the barriers between the past and the present, the real and the illusory. Cut short by Jacobs' death in 2014, and completed with an introduction and coda of great sensitivity and insight by his friend and fellow lover of art, the journalist Ed Vulliamy, this visionary, meditative and often very funny book is a passionate, personal manifesto for the liberation of how we look at painting. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath Leslie Jamison (Author) Series:
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03 May 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 544pp h234mm x w153mm x s32mm 739g ISBN13: 9781783781522 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-152-2 ISBN10: 1783781521 EAN: 9781783781522 x Description: Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to describe, but hard to explore. Yet in The Recovering, Leslie Jamison draws on her own life and the lives of addicts of extraordinary talent - John Cheever, John Berryman, Jean Rhys and Amy Winehouse among them - to take us inside the experience of addiction, exposing the contours, edges and wholes of an intoxicated life.
Part memoir, part group biography, part literary history and part definitive analysis of cultural and social considerations of addiction, The Recovering is a significant moment in the history of post-war narrative non-fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Negroland: A Memoir Margo Jefferson (Author) Series:
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29 Dec 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 197g ISBN13: 9781783783397 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-339-7 ISBN10: 1783783397 EAN: 9781783783397 x Description: The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. She calls this society 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty'. With privilege came expectation. Reckoning with the strictures and demands of Negroland at crucial historical moments - the civil rights movement, the dawn of feminism, the fallacy of post-racial America - Jefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a life informed by psychological and moral contradictions. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
On Michael Jackson Margo Jefferson (Author) Series:
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03 May 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 140g ISBN13: 9781783784202 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-420-2 ISBN10: 1783784202 EAN: 9781783784202 x Description: Michael Jackson: provocateur, icon, enigma. Who was he, really? And how does his spectacular rise, his catastrophic fall, reflect upon those who made him, those who broke him, and those who loved him?
Almost ten years on from Jackson's untimely death, here is Margo Jefferson's definitive and dazzling dissection of the King of Pop: a man admired for his music, his flair, his performances; and censured for his skin, his erratic behaviour, and, in his final years, for his relationships with children. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cove Cynan Jones (Author) Series:
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02 Nov 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 112pp h198mm x w129mm x s6mm 88g ISBN13: 9781783783861 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-386-1 ISBN10: 1783783869 EAN: 9781783783861 x Description: WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD 2017
Out at sea, in a sudden storm, a man is struck by lightning. When he wakes, injured and adrift on a kayak, his memory of who he is and how he came to be there is all but shattered. Now he must pit himself against the pain and rely on his instincts to get back to shore, and to the woman he dimly senses waiting for his return. With its taut narrative and its wincingly visceral portrait of a man locked in an uneven struggle with the forces of nature, this is a powerful new work from one of the most distinctive voices in British fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cove Cynan Jones (Author) Series:
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03 Nov 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 112pp h198mm x w129mm x s6mm 102g ISBN13: 9781847088819 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-881-9 ISBN10: 1847088813 EAN: 9781847088819 x Description: WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD 2017 Out at sea, in a sudden storm, a man is struck by lightning. When he wakes, injured and adrift on a kayak, his memory of who he is and how he came to be there is all but shattered. Now he must pit himself against the pain and rely on his instincts to get back to shore, and to the woman he dimly senses waiting for his return. With its taut narrative and its wincingly visceral portrait of a man locked in an uneven struggle with the forces of nature, this is a powerful new work from one of the most distinctive voices in British fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
City Secrets: Florence & Venice Robert Kahn (Author) Series:
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04 May 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 144pp h185mm x w110mm ISBN13: 9781783783632 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-363-2 ISBN10: 178378363X EAN: 9781783783632 x Description: If a standard guidebook has never revealed the Italy you seek, let City Secrets show you the way. See the glorious art and architecture of Italy's villages and cities through the eyes of the people who know them best: an architect leads you through a hidden Florence passageway built for the Medici; a novelist points out the panoramic vistas that inspired St Francis; the most renowned of Italian cooks divulges her favourite Venetian eateries; and an artist directs you to the courtyard of a Renaissance convent, where you will ring for access to the frescoes - and a miraculous handprint - that lie within. Clothbound, elegant, and pocket-sized, this book features a subtle non-guidebook design and detailed maps. It is the ideal supplement to a more basic travel guide, or a perfect gift for the sophisticated traveller who is tired of the picture postcard recommendations and wants to try something unique. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Human Acts Han Kang (Y) (Author) Series:
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03 Nov 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 173g ISBN13: 9781846275975 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-597-5 ISBN10: 1846275970 EAN: 9781846275975
x Description: Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend's corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised country searches for a voice. In a sequence of interconnected chapters the victims and the bereaved encounter censorship, denial, forgiveness and the echoing agony of the original trauma. Human Acts is a universal book, utterly modern and profoundly timeless. Already a controversial bestseller and award-winning book in Korea, it confirms Han Kang as a writer of immense importance. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe Kapka Kassabova (Author) Series:
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02 Feb 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 400pp h234mm x w153mm x s24mm 466g ISBN13: 9781783782147 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-214-7 ISBN10: 1783782145 EAN: 9781783782147 x Description: Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2017 Winner of the 2017 Highland Book Prize Winner of the Saltire Society Book of the Year 2017 Shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2018 Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017 Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2017 Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award 2018 Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2017 Shortlisted for the National Circle of Critics Award 2017 When Kapka Kassabova was a child, the borderzone between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece was rumoured to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall so it swarmed with soldiers, spies and fugitives. On holidays close to the border on the Black Sea coast, she remembers playing on the beach, only miles from where an electrified fence bristled, its barbs pointing inwards toward the enemy: the holiday-makers, the potential escapees. Today, this densely forested landscape is no longer heavily militarised, but it is scarred by its past. In Border, Kapka Kassabova sets out on a journey to meet the people of this triple border - Bulgarians, Turks, Greeks, and the latest wave of refugees fleeing conflict further afield. She discovers a region that has been shaped by the successive forces of history: by its own past migration crises, by communism, by two World wars, by the Ottoman Empire, and - older still - by the ancient legacy of myths and legends. As Kapka Kassabova explores this enigmatic region in the company of border guards and treasure hunters, entrepreneurs and botanists, psychic healers and ritual fire-walkers, refugees and smugglers, she traces the physical and psychological borders that criss-cross its villages and mountains, and goes in search of the stories that will unlock its secrets. Border is a sharply observed portrait of a little-known corner of Europe, and a fascinating meditation on the borderlines that exist between countries, between cultures, between people, and within each of us. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe Kapka Kassabova (Author) Series:
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01 Feb 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 279g ISBN13: 9781783783205 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-320-5 ISBN10: 1783783206 EAN: 9781783783205 x Description: Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2017 Winner of the 2017 Highland Book Prize
Winner of the Saltire Society Book of the Year 2017 Shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2018 Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017 Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2017 Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award 2018 Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2017 Shortlisted for the National Circle of Critics Award 2017 When Kapka Kassabova was a child, the borderzone between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece was rumoured to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall so it swarmed with soldiers, spies and fugitives. On holidays close to the border on the Black Sea coast, she remembers playing on the beach, only miles from where an electrified fence bristled, its barbs pointing inwards toward the enemy: the holiday-makers, the potential escapees. Today, this densely forested landscape is no longer heavily militarised, but it is scarred by its past. In Border, Kapka Kassabova sets out on a journey to meet the people of this triple border - Bulgarians, Turks, Greeks, and the latest wave of refugees fleeing conflict further afield. She discovers a region that has been shaped by the successive forces of history: by its own past migration crises, by communism, by two World wars, by the Ottoman Empire, and - older still - by the ancient legacy of myths and legends. As Kapka Kassabova explores this enigmatic region in the company of border guards and treasure hunters, entrepreneurs and botanists, psychic healers and ritual fire-walkers, refugees and smugglers, she traces the physical and psychological borders that criss-cross its villages and mountains, and goes in search of the stories that will unlock its secrets. Border is a sharply observed portrait of a little-known corner of Europe, and a fascinating meditation on the borderlines that exist between countries, between cultures, between people, and within each of us. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Nakano Thrift Shop Hiromi Kawakami (Y) (Author) Allison Markin Powell (Translated by) Series:
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01 Jun 2017
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The Minister and the Murderer: A Book of Aftermaths Stuart Kelly (Author) Series:
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01 Feb 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 352pp h234mm x w153mm x s21mm 529g ISBN13: 9781847089229 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-922-9 ISBN10: 1847089224 EAN: 9781847089229 x Description: In 1969, James Nelson confessed to murder, served a prison sentence, then applied to be ordained as a minster in the Scottish Church (The Kirk). The case split the church in two, and challenged the institution to consider its most basic functions, obligations and duties. Part of the
problem was that James Nelson's crime was no ordinary crime. The bible has a lot to say about murder, but not about this particular variety of murder. Stuart Kelly uses the case of Nelson to write a compelling history of the church in Scotland, of biblical and literary accounts of forgiveness and sin. The Minister and The Murderer is a gripping piece of literary detective work weaving textual analysis with memoir and narrative non-fiction. This is a book of soul-searching and speculation, deep thinking and fine writing. It is a knotty, riveting and mind-expanding investigation of truth and faith. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
All for Nothing Walter Kempowski (Author) Anthea Bell (Translated by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h199mm x w130mm ISBN13: 9781847087218 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-721-8 ISBN10: 1847087213 EAN: 9781847087218 x Description: In January 1945, the German army is retreating from the Russian advance. Germans are fleeing the occupied territories in their thousands, in cars and carts and on foot. But in a rural East Prussian manor house, the wealthy von Globig family seals itself off from the world. Protected from the deprivation and chaos around them, they make no preparations to leave until a decision to harbour a stranger for the night begins their undoing. Finally joining the great trek west, the remaining members of the family face at last the catastrophic consequences of the war. Profoundly evocative of the period, sympathetic yet painfully honest about the motivations of its characters, All for Nothing is a devastating portrait of the complicities and denials of the German people as the Third Reich comes to an end. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Seven Good Years Etgar Keret (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 141g ISBN13: 9781783780471 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-047-1 ISBN10: 1783780479 x Description: Over the last seven years Etgar Keret has had plenty of reasons to worry. His son, Lev, was born in the middle of a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. His father became ill. And he has been constantly tormented by nightmarish visions of the Iranian president Ahmadinejad, anti-Semitic remarks both real and imagined, and, perhaps most worrisome of all, a dogged telemarketer who seems likely to chase him to the grave. Emerging from these darkly absurd circumstances is a series of funny, tender ruminations on everything from his three-year-old son's impending military service to the terrorist mindset behind Angry Birds. Moving deftly between the personal and the political, the playful and the profound, The Seven Good Years takes a life-affirming look at the human need to find good in the least likely places, and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of our capricious world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Patriots Sana Krasikov (Author) Series:
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Description: 'A sweeping, colourful read' Mail on Sunday Lose yourself in the irresistable story of one woman's journey through 20th-century Russia. Growing up in 1930s Brooklyn, Florence Fein will do anything to escape the confining values of her family and her city, and create a life of meaning and consequence. When a new job and a love affair lead her to Moscow, she doesn't think twice about abandoning America - only to discover, years later, that America has abandoned her. Now, as her son Julian travels back to Moscow - entrusted to stitch together a murky transcontinental oil deal - he must dig into Florence's past to discover who his mother really was and what she became. He must also persuade his own son, Lenny, to abandon his risky quest for prosperity in the cut-throat Russian marketplace. As he traces a thread from Depression-era America, through the collective housing and work camps of Stalin's USSR, to the glittering, oil-rich world of New Russia, Julian finally begins to understand the role he has played - as a father, and as a son. Epic in sweep and intimate in detail, The Patriots is both a compelling portrait of the entangled relationship between America and Russia, and a beautifully crafted story of three generations of one family caught between the forces of history and the consequences of past choices. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Answers Catherine Lacey (Author) Series:
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08 Jun 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h216mm x w135mm x s18mm 292g ISBN13: 9781783782178 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-217-8 ISBN10: 178378217X EAN: 9781783782178 x Description: 'This summer's Must-Read novel... a darkly funny, tartly feminist look at the tender state of our bodies and souls' Vogue 'An unsettling, whip-smart meditation on love' Independent 'A clever, gripping read... the dystopian take on dating that everyone will be reading this year' Stylist Mary is out of options. Estranged from her family, plagued by debt and beset by chronic pain, she signs up for 'The Girlfriend Experiment' - a mysterious project masterminded by a famous Hollywood actor, who, frustrated by his romantic and creative failure, hires a collection of women to fulfil the different roles of a relationship. Mary is to play the Emotional Girlfriend, alongside a Maternal Girlfriend, a Mundane Girlfriend, an Anger Girlfriend and, of course, an Intimacy Team. Each woman has her debts and her difficulties, her past loves and her secrets. As Mary and the actor are drawn ever closer together, the nature of the experiment changes, and the Girlfriends find themselves exposed to new perils, foremost among them, love. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Answers Catherine Lacey (Author) Series:
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03 May 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 215g ISBN13: 9781783782185 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-218-5 ISBN10: 1783782188 EAN: 9781783782185 x Description: WELCOME TO THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIMENT Mary is out of options. Estranged from her family and beset by phantom pain, she signs up for 'The Girlfriend Experiment' - a mysterious project masterminded by a famous Hollywood actor who hires a collection of women to fulfil the different roles of a relationship. Mary is to play the Emotional Girlfriend, alongside a Maternal Girlfriend, a Mundane Girlfriend, an Angry Girlfriend and, of course, an Intimacy Team. Each woman has her debts and her difficulties, her past loves and her secrets. As Mary and the actor are drawn ever closer together, the nature of the experiment changes, and the Girlfriends find themselves exposed to new perils, foremost among them love. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Virgin: and Other Stories April Ayers Lawson (Author) Series:
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05 Jan 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 192pp h205mm x w135mm x s15mm 257g ISBN13: 9781847085603 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-560-3 ISBN10: 1847085601 EAN: 9781847085603 x Description: Set mostly in the American South, at the crossroads of a world both secular and devoutly Christian, April Ayers Lawson's stories evoke the inner lives of young women and men navigating sexual, emotional, and spiritual awakenings. In 'The Negative Effects of Homeschooling', Conner, sixteen, accompanies his grieving mother to the funeral of her best friend Charlene, a woman who was once a man. In 'The Way You Must Play Always', Gretchen, a thirteen year old who looks even younger, heads into her weekly piano lesson in nervous anticipation of her next illicit meeting with her teacher's brother, Wesley. 'Vulnerability' charts the edgy attraction a promising young artist begins to feel for her art dealer. And in the title story, 'Virgin', Jake grapples with the growing chasm between him and his wife, Sheila, a woman who was still a virgin when they wed. At a cocktail party thrown by a wealthy donor to his hospital, he ponders the intertwining imperatives of marriage - sex and love, violation and trust, spirituality and desire - even as he finds himself succumbing to the temptations of his host. Self-assured and sensual, this collection introduces the work of a young writer of unusual mastery. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Virgin: and Other Stories April Ayers Lawson (Author) Series:
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04 Jan 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 140g ISBN13: 9781847085610 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-561-0 ISBN10: 184708561X EAN: 9781847085610 x Description: Set mostly in the American South, at the crossroads of a world both secular and devoutly Christian, April Ayers Lawson's stories evoke the inner lives of young women and men navigating sexual, emotional, and spiritual awakenings. In 'The Negative Effects of Homeschooling', Conner, sixteen, accompanies his grieving mother to the funeral of her best friend Charlene, a woman who was once a man. In 'The Way You Must Play Always', Gretchen, a thirteen year old who looks even younger, heads into her weekly piano lesson in nervous anticipation of her next illicit meeting with her teacher's brother, Wesley. 'Vulnerability' charts the edgy attraction a promising young artist begins to feel for her art dealer. And in the title story, 'Virgin', Jake grapples with the growing chasm between him and his wife, Sheila, a woman who was still a virgin when they wed. At a cocktail party thrown by a wealthy donor to his hospital, he ponders the intertwining imperatives of marriage - sex and love, violation and trust, spirituality and desire - even as he finds himself succumbing to the temptations of his host. Self-assured and sensual, this collection introduces the work of a young writer of unusual mastery. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Alarming Palsy of James Orr Tom Lee (Author) Series:
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02 Nov 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 160pp h205mm x w140mm x s15mm 230g ISBN13: 9781783783939 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-393-9 ISBN10: 1783783931 EAN: 9781783783939 x Description: James Orr - husband, father, reliable employee and all round model citizen - wakes one morning to find himself quite transformed. There's no way he can go into the office, and the doctors aren't able to help. Waiting for the affliction to pass, he wanders the idyllic estate where he lives, with its pretty woodland, uniform streets and perfectly manicured lawns. But there are cracks in the veneer. And as his orderly existence begins to unravel, it appears that James himself may not be the man he thought he was. A story that consistently confounds expectations, The Alarming Palsy of James Orr introduces a writer of extraordinary and disturbing talents. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
No Art: Poems Ben Lerner (Author) Series:
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03 Nov 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 288pp h225mm x w160mm ISBN13: 9781783782741 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-274-1 ISBN10: 1783782749 EAN: 9781783782741 x Description: This book brings together for the first time Ben Lerner's three acclaimed volumes of poetry, along with a handful of newer poems, to present a decade-long exploration of the relationship between form and meaning, between private experience and public expression. No Art is an exhilarating argument both with America and with poetry itself, in which online slang is juxtaposed with academic idiom, philosophy collides with advertising, and the language of medicine and the military is overlaid with echoes of Whitman and Keats. Here, cliches are cracked open and made new, made strange, and formal experiments disclose new possibilities of thought and feeling. No Art confirms Ben Lerner as one of the most searching and ambitious poets working today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Story of My Teeth Valeria Luiselli (Author) Christina MacSweeney (Translated by) Series:
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07 Apr 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 208pp h200mm x w125mm x s10mm 175g ISBN13: 9781783780822 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-082-2 ISBN10: 1783780827 EAN: 9781783780822 x Description: Gustavo 'Highway' Sanchez is a man with a mission: he is planning to replace every last one of his unsightly teeth. He has a few skills that might help him on his way: he can imitate Janis Joplin after two rums, he can interpret Chinese fortune cookies, he can stand an egg upright on a table, and he can float on his back. And, of course, he is the world's best auction caller - although other people might not realise this, because he is, by nature, very discreet.
Studying auctioneering under Grandmaster Oklahoma and the famous country singer Leroy Van Dyke, Highway travels the world, amassing his collection of 'Collectibles' and perfecting his own specialty: the allegoric auction. In his quest for a perfect set of pearly whites, he finds unusual ways to raise the funds, culminating in the sale of the jewels of his collection: the teeth of the 'notorious infamous' - Plato, Petrarch, Chesterton, Virginia Woolf et al. Written with elegance, wit and exhilarating boldness, Valeria Luiselli takes us on an idiosyncratic and hugely enjoyable journey that offers an insightful meditation on value, worth and creation, and the points at which they overlap. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Wild Places Robert Macfarlane (Author) Series:
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09 Nov 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 248g ISBN13: 9781783784493 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-449-3 ISBN10: 1783784490 EAN: 9781783784493 This Product Replaces: 9781847080189 x Description: Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? In his vital, bewitching, inspiring classic, Robert Macfarlane sets out in search of the wildness that remains. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mountains Of The Mind: A History Of A Fascination Robert Macfarlane (Author) Series:
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09 Nov 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 226g ISBN13: 9781783784509 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-450-9 ISBN10: 1783784504 EAN: 9781783784509 This Product Replaces: 9781847080394 x Description: WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride. In this ground-breaking, classic work, Robert Macfarlane takes us up into the mountains: to experience their shattering beauty, the fear and risk of adventure, and to explore the strange impulses that have for centuries lead us to the world's highest places. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
One of the Boys Daniel Magariel (Author) Series:
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06 Apr 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 160pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 243g ISBN13: 9781783783465 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-346-5 ISBN10: 178378346X EAN: 9781783783465 x Description: A father and his boys have won 'the war': the father's term for his bitter divorce and custody battle. They leave Kansas and drive through the night to their new apartment in Albuquerque. Settled in new schools, the brothers join basketball teams, make friends. Meanwhile their father works from home, smoking cheap cigars to hide another smell. Soon his missteps - the dead-eyed absentmindedness, the late-night noises, the comings and goings of increasingly odd characters - become sinister, and the boys find themselves watching him transform into someone they no longer recognize. Set in the stark landscape of New Mexico and the family's cramped apartment, One of the Boys delivers a superbly nuanced portrait of a violent and menacing man, manipulating the world around him that it might service his idea of himself. Brutal and urgent, this masterful debut is a story of survival: two brothers driven to protect each other from the father they once trusted. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
One of the Boys Daniel Magariel (Author) Series:
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01 Mar 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h195mm x w130mm x s10mm 132g ISBN13: 9781783783472 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-347-2 ISBN10: 1783783478 EAN: 9781783783472 x Description: A father and his boys have won 'the war': the father's term for his bitter divorce and custody battle. They leave Kansas and drive through the night to their new apartment in Albuquerque. Settled in new schools, the brothers join basketball teams, make friends. Meanwhile their father works from home, smoking cheap cigars to hide another smell. Soon his missteps - the dead-eyed absentmindedness, the late-night noises, the comings and goings of increasingly odd characters - become sinister, and the boys find themselves watching him transform into someone they no longer recognize. Set in the stark landscape of New Mexico and the family's cramped apartment, One of the Boys delivers a superbly nuanced portrait of a violent and menacing man, manipulating the world around him that it might service his idea of himself. Brutal and urgent, this masterful debut is a story of survival: two brothers driven to protect each other from the father they once trusted. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession Janet Malcolm (Author) Series:
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04 Jan 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 140g ISBN13: 9781783784530 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-453-0 ISBN10: 1783784539 EAN: 9781783784530 This Product Replaces: 9781847085351 x Description: The process known as psychoanalysis is sometimes revered, sometimes derided, and most often misunderstood. What good does it do? Can it help anyone? What risks does it pose to both patient and analyst? None of these questions can be easily answered, but in Janet Malcolm's narrative, in which all her skills as a reporter and interviewer come into play, their complexity is limpidly revealed.
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In The Freud Archives Janet Malcolm (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 140g ISBN13: 9781783784554 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-455-4 ISBN10: 1783784555 EAN: 9781783784554 This Product Replaces: 9781847085337 x Description: Who will inherit the secrets of Sigmund Freud? Who will protect his reputation? Who may destroy it? Janet Malcolm's investigation into the personalities who clash over Freud's legacy has become a celebrated story of seduction and betrayal, love and hatred, fantasy and reality. It is both a comedy and a tragedy. Malcolm's cast of characters includes K. R. Eissler, a venerable psychoanalyst and keeper of the Freud flame; Jeffrey Mason, a flamboyant Sanskrit scholar and virulent anti-Freudian; and Peter Swales, a former assistant to the Rolling Stones and indefatigable researcher. Each of them thinks they know the truth about Freud, and each needs the help of the other. Malcolm endeavours to untangle the causes of their rivalry and soured friendships, while the flaws and mysteries of Freud's early work tower in the background. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Journalist And The Murderer Janet Malcolm (Author) Ian Jack (Introduction by) Series:
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04 Jan 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 140g ISBN13: 9781783784547 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-454-7 ISBN10: 1783784547 EAN: 9781783784547 This Product Replaces: 9781847085344 x Description: 'Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible' In equal measure famous and infamous, Janet Malcolm's book charts the true story of a lawsuit between Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, and Joe McGinniss, the author of a book about the crime. Lauded as one of the Modern Libraries "100 Best Works of Nonfiction", The Journalist and the Murderer is fascinating and controversial, a contemporary classic of reportage. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?: A Story About Women and Economics Katrine Marcal (Author) Series:
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07 Jan 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 240pp h198mm x w128mm x s14mm 165g ISBN13: 9781846275661 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-566-1 ISBN10: 1846275660 EAN: 9781846275661 x Description: Adam Smith, the founder of modern economics, believed that our actions stem from self-interest and the world turns because of financial gain. But every night Adam Smith's mother served him his dinner, not out of self-interest but out of love.Today, economics focuses on self-interest and excludes our other motivations. It disregards the unpaid work of mothering, caring, cleaning and cooking and its influence has spread from the market to how we shop, think and date. In this engaging takedown of the economics that has failed us, Katrine Marcal journeys from Adam Smith's dinner
table to the recent financial crisis and shows us how different, how much better, things could be. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
New American Stories Ben Marcus (Author) Series:
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06 Oct 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 784pp h192mm x w130mm ISBN13: 9781783781485 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-148-5 ISBN10: 1783781483 EAN: 9781783781485 x Description: The short story is a barometer for the state and shape of literature. New American Stories presents the boldest, most innovative and most resonant fiction coming out of the American literary scene. Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet and Leaving the Sea, has here curated an anthology that gives the lay of the literary land. From established masters of the form like Don DeLillo and Lydia Davis to neoteric trailblazers such as Rebecca Curtis and Rachel B. Glaser, this collection sees Marcus trying to 'prove that the distinctions we erect between styles and approaches to fiction can be essentially meaningless'. The result is a must-read, must-own volume for readers of literary fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cast Away: Stories of Survival from Europe's Refugee Crisis Charlotte McDonald-Gibson (Author) Series:
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05 May 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 272pp h234mm x w153mm x s22mm 412g ISBN13: 9781846276156 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-615-6 ISBN10: 1846276152 EAN: 9781846276156 x Description: Riot police patrol the borders, bodies of drowned children wash up on holiday beaches, a humanitarian disaster unfolds in refugee settlements: this is the European Union today. But how did a bloc that was founded on the values of human rights and dignity for all reach this point? And what was driving more than a million desperate people to risk their lives on the Mediterranean in the hope of finding sanctuary? Charlotte McDonald-Gibson has spent years reporting on every aspect of Europe's refugee crisis, and Cast Away offers a vivid glimpse into the personal dilemmas, pressures, choices and hopes that lie beneath the headlines. Here, we meet five people forced from their homelands, including Nart, a Syrian lawyer who becomes an underground activist fighting the Assad regime until the risk of imprisonment and torture becomes too great. Sina is newly married and heavily pregnant when she finds herself travelling alone across three continents to escape the Eritrean dictatorship. And Hanan watches in horror as the safe world she built for her four children in Damascus collapses, and she has to entrust their lives to people smugglers. While the politicians wrangle over responsibility, and the media talk in statistics, Cast Away brings to life the human consequences of the most urgent issue of our time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Perfecting Sound Forever: The Story Of Recorded Music Greg Milner (Author) Series:
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01 Feb 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 464pp h198mm x w129mm x s26mm 301g ISBN13: 9781783784561 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-456-1 ISBN10: 1783784563 EAN: 9781783784561 x Description: From our CD collections to iPods bursting with MP3s to the hallowed vinyl of DJs, recordings are the most common way we experience music. Perfecting Sound Forever tells the story of recorded music, introducing us to the innovators, musicians and producers who have affected the way we hear our favourite songs, from Thomas Edison to Phil Spector. Exploring the balance that recordings strike between the real and the represented, Greg Milner asks the questions which have divided sound recorders for the past century: should a recording document reality as faithfully as possible, or should it improve upon or somehow transcend the music it records? What does the perfect record sound like? The answers he uncovers will change the way we think about music. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pinpoint: How GPS is Changing Our World Greg Milner (Author) Series:
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07 Jul 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h234mm x w153mm x s21mm 394g ISBN13: 9781847087089 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-708-9 ISBN10: 1847087086 EAN: 9781847087089 x Description: Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary global utility which is omnipresent, universal, and available to all: the Global Positioning System (GPS). A network of twenty-four satellites and their monitoring stations on Earth, it makes possible almost all modern technology, from the smartphone in your pocket to the Mars rover. Neither the internet nor the cloud would work without it. And it is changing us in profound ways we've yet to come to terms with. Pinpoint tells the remarkable story of GPS, from its conceptual origins as a bomb guidance system to its present status as one of the most important technologies in the world. Yet while GPS has brought us breathtakingly accurate methods of timekeeping, navigation, and earthquake tracking, our overwhelming reliance on it is having unexpected consequences on our culture, and on ourselves. GPS is reshaping our thinking about privacy and surveillance, and brings with it the growing danger of GPS terrorism. And neuroscientists have even found that using GPS for navigation may be affecting our cognitive maps - possibly rearranging the grey matter in our heads - leading to the increasingly common phenomenon 'Death by GPS', in which drivers blindly follow their devices into deserts, lakes, and impassable mountains. Deeply researched, inventive and with fascinating insights into the way we think about our place in the world, Pinpoint reveals the way that the technologies we design to help us can end up shaping our lives. It is at once a grand history of science and a far-reaching book about contemporary culture. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pinpoint: How GPS is Changing Our World Greg Milner (Author) Series:
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01 Jun 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 247g ISBN13: 9781847087096 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-709-6 ISBN10: 1847087094 EAN: 9781847087096 x Description: Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary global utility which is omnipresent, universal, and available to all: the Global Positioning System (GPS). A network of twenty-four satellites and their monitoring stations on Earth, it makes possible almost all modern technology, from the smartphone in your pocket to the Mars rover. Neither the internet nor the cloud would work without it. And it is changing us in profound ways we've yet to come to terms with. While GPS has brought us breathtakingly accurate methods of timekeeping, navigation, and earthquake tracking, our overwhelming reliance on it is having unexpected consequences on our culture, and on ourselves. GPS is reshaping our thinking about privacy and surveillance, and brings with it the growing danger of GPS terrorism. Neuroscientists have even found that using GPS for navigation may be affecting our cognitive maps - possibly rearranging the grey matter in our heads - leading to the increasingly common phenomenon 'Death by GPS', in which drivers blindly follow their devices into deserts, lakes, and impassable mountains. Deeply researched, inventive and with fascinating insights into the way we think about our place in the world, Pinpoint reveals the way that the technologies we design to help us can end up shaping our lives. It is at once a grand history of science and a far-reaching book about contemporary culture. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Wine Dine Dictionary: Good Food and Good Wine: An A-Z of Suggestions for Happy Eating and Drinking Victoria Moore (Author) Series:
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11 May 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 400pp h247mm x w178mm x s34mm 1170g ISBN13: 9781783782093 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-209-3 ISBN10: 1783782099 EAN: 9781783782093 x Description: WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS 2018 'Smart, fun, useful - highly recommended' Hugh Johnson, co-author of The World Atlas of Wine 'With apologies to Jamie and Nigella - The Wine Dine Dictionary is going to be my new kitchen bible. It should probably be yours, too' Metro 'Unbelievably useful' India Knight 'This work of genius means you'll ALWAYS know which wine goes with which food' Marina O'Loughlin Want to pick the perfect wine for dinner? Wondering what to eat with a special bottle? Let The Wine Dine Dictionary be your guide. Arranged A-Z by food at one end and A-Z by wine at the other, this unique handbook will help you make more informed, more creative, and more delicious choices about what to eat and drink. As one of the country's most popular and influential wine journalists, as well as an expert in the psychology of smell and taste, Victoria Moore doesn't just explain what goes with what, but why and how the combination works, too. Written with her trademark authority, warmth and wit, this is a book to consult and to savour. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Tidal Zone Sarah Moss (Author) Series:
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20 Apr 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 237g ISBN13: 9781783783083 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-308-3 ISBN10: 1783783087 EAN: 9781783783083 x Description: Adam is a stay-at-home dad who is also working on a history of the bombing and rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral. He is a good man and he is happy. But one day, he receives a call from his daughter's school to inform him that, for no apparent reason, fifteen-year-old Miriam has collapsed and stopped breathing. In that moment, he is plunged into a world of waiting, agonising, not knowing. The story of his life and the lives of his family are rewritten and re-told around this shocking central event, around a body that has inexplicably failed. In this exceptionally courageous and unflinching novel of contemporary life Sarah Moss goes where most of us wouldn't dare to look, and the result is riveting - unbearably sad, but also miraculously funny and ultimately hopeful. The Tidal Zone explores parental love, overwhelming fear, illness and recovery. It is about clever teenagers and the challenges of marriage. It is about the NHS, academia, sex and gender in the twenty-first century, the work-life juggle, and the politics of packing lunches and loading dishwashers. It confirms Sarah Moss as a unique voice in modern fiction and a writer of luminous intelligence. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Signs for Lost Children Sarah Moss (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781847089137 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-913-7 ISBN10: 1847089135 EAN: 9781847089137 x Description: Only weeks into their marriage a young couple embark on a six-month period of separation. Tom Cavendish goes to Japan to build lighthouses and his wife Ally, Doctor Moberley-Cavendish, stays and works at the Truro asylum. As Ally plunges into the institutional politics of mental health, Tom navigates the social and professional nuances of late 19th century Japan. With her unique blend of emotional insight and intellectual profundity, Sarah Moss builds a novel in two parts from Falmouth to Tokyo, two maps of absence; from Manchester to Kyoto, two distinct but conjoined portraits of loneliness and determination. An exquisite continuation of the story of Bodies of Light, Signs for Lost Children will amaze Sarah Moss's many fans. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Have You Been Good?: A Memoir Vanessa Nicolson (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781783780785 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-078-5 ISBN10: 1783780789 EAN: 9781783780785 x Description: Vanessa Nicolson is the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. She was born to an illustrious name and an unhappy marriage. Her father, the art historian Ben Nicolson, was homosexual and his marriage to Vanessa's Italian mother fell apart when Vanessa was very young. In this powerful and meditative memoir she chronicles her disjointed childhood and reckless youth, including holidays at Sissinghurst Castle
with her cousins, and her experience of a liberal English boarding school. Interlinked with her story is that of her daughter Rosa, who died, aged 19. This book is a meditation on the threads of love and loss that weave through a life and an examination of the meaning of cultural privilege in the context of emotional deprivation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death Mark O'Connell (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h216mm x w135mm x s15mm 248g ISBN13: 9781783781966 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-196-6 ISBN10: 1783781963 EAN: 9781783781966 x Description: Shortlisted for The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2017 What is transhumanism? Simply put, it is a movement whose aim is to use technology to fundamentally change the human condition, to improve our bodies and minds to the point where we become something other, and better, than the animals we are. It's a philosophy that, depending on how you look at it, can seem hopeful, or terrifying, or absurd. In To Be a Machine, Mark O'Connell presents us with the first full-length exploration of transhumanism: its philosophical and scientific roots, its key players and possible futures. From charismatic techies seeking to enhance the body to immortalists who believe in the possibility of 'solving' death; from computer programmers quietly re-designing the world to vast competitive robotics conventions; To Be a Machine is an Adventure in Wonderland for our time. To Be a Machine paints a vivid portrait of an international movement driven by strange and frequently disturbing ideas and practices, but whose obsession with transcending human limitations can be seen as a kind of cultural microcosm, a radical intensification of our broader faith in the power of technology as an engine of human progress. It is a character study of human eccentricity, and a meditation on the immemorial desire to transcend the basic facts of our animal existence - a desire as primal as the oldest religions, a story as old as the earliest literary texts. A stunning new non-fiction voice tackles an urgent question... what next for mankind? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death Mark O'Connell (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 183g ISBN13: 9781783781980 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-198-0 ISBN10: 178378198X EAN: 9781783781980 x Description: WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2018 Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017 A stunning new non-fiction voice tackles an urgent question... what next for mankind?
'Troubling and humorous, this is one of my current give-it-to-everyone books - I buy six copies at a time' Jeanette Winterson _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Under the Udala Trees Chinelo Okparanta (Author) Series:
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05 Jan 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 237g ISBN13: 9781847088383 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-838-3 ISBN10: 1847088384 EAN: 9781847088383 x Description: One day in 1968, at the height of the Biafran civil war, Ijeoma's father is killed and her world is transformed forever. Separated from her grief-stricken mother, she meets another young lost girl, Amina, and the two become inseparable. Theirs is a relationship that will shake the foundations of Ijeoma's faith, test her resolve and flood her heart. In this masterful novel of faith, love and redemption, Okparanta takes us from Ijeoma's childhood in war-torn Biafra, through the perils and pleasures of her blossoming sexuality, her wrong turns, and into the everyday sorrows and joys of marriage and motherhood. As we journey with Ijeoma we are drawn to the question: what is the value of love and what is the cost? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
This House is Not for Sale E. C. Osondu (Author) Series:
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03 Mar 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781847084835 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-483-5 ISBN10: 1847084834 EAN: 9781847084835 x Description: This House is Not for Sale is a story about a house in an African neighbourhood, the Family House, owned and ruled over by the patriarchal, business-minded Grandpa - by turns benevolent and cruel - and home to his wives, children, grandchildren, and the many in his service. It tells the stories of the people who live there, of the curse placed on the house by one of its former occupants, of the evil and brutality that transpires there, and finally of its downfall. By the acclaimed author of Voice of America, This House is Not for Sale is a brilliantly inventive debut novel which draws on the rich oral traditions of Nigeria and is full of wisdom and dark humour. From everyday violence and magic, to the voices of gossiping neighbours, here is an utterly engrossing story of an African community, its culture and traditions, and the power of storytelling. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The 13th Labour of Hercules: Inside the Greek Crisis Yannis Palaiologos (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781846276248 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-624-8 ISBN10: 1846276241 EAN: 9781846276248 x Description: Since the revelation of its massive hidden deficit in late 2009, Greece has been at the centre of the world's attention. Observers around the globe have watched with morbid fascination as the country has repeatedly flirted with political and financial chaos, as one failed rescue programme has followed another, as extremism spread and its official creditors bickered about the causes of its inability to recover. How did a prosperous, seemingly advanced economy in the heart of Europe collapse so precipitously? And why has it proved so hard for it to stand on its feet again? These
are the central questions running through The 13th Labour of Hercules. Through a series of compelling stories - from a cancer sufferer depending on charitable health care, to the Financial Minister charged with clearing up tax evasion, to the union bosses fighting mass unemployment and the workings of a prejudiced, corrupt government - it brings to life the social, cultural and political forces that left Greece defenceless when the global economic hurricane came, and the vicious interplay between economic depression, institutional failure and social breakdown since the country's Great Crisis began. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fallout: A Journey Through the Nuclear Age, From the Atom Bomb to Radioactive Waste Fred Pearce (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 268pp h234mm x w153mm x s16mm 322g ISBN13: 9781846276255 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-625-5 ISBN10: 184627625X EAN: 9781846276255 x Description: At a moment when a new generation of power stations and weapons are being developed, Fallout is a measured and fascinating exploration of our most misunderstood energy source and asks: what can we learn from our past mistakes, and what role should nuclear play in our future? Hiroshima. Bikini Atoll. Windscale. Chernobyl. Fukushima. These names no longer denote a place, but a disaster. In a few syllables, they evoke the heights of human ingenuity clashing with the worst of human error. Individually, each place has its own sobering story to tell; together, they form a timeline of the nuclear age. In this compelling and deeply researched book, Fred Pearce investigates the greatest nuclear incidents and accidents of the past 80 years by visiting their now iconic landscapes. He tours former power stations and abandoned testing sites in the company of scientists and engineers; and in toxic wastelands, where radioactive wolves now stalk the streets , he witnesses the surprising resilience of nature. As well as the radiological legacy, Pearce also considers the psychological impact of these disasters. Amid rumours of state cover-ups, corporate deception, and hushed-up medical epidemics, Pearce expertly weighs the evidence on either side of the argument to disentangle the facts from the fear and reveal the truth about radiation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, the Russians and the Jazz Age Timothy Phillips (Author) Series:
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07 Sep 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 320pp h234mm x w153mm x s24mm 581g ISBN13: 9781847082510 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-251-0 ISBN10: 1847082513 EAN: 9781847082510 x Description: Espionage and counter-espionage between the Soviets and the British during London's Roaring Twenties At the height of the hedonistic Jazz Age, many in British society became convinced that they were under attack from the new Soviet state. Still reeling from the Russian revolution of 1917, disturbed by the development of militant workers movements at home, and deeply paranoid about the recent wave of Russian immigration to the UK, the British government tasked the intelligence services to look for evidence of espionage. Over the next decade, as the political pressure mounted, the spooks began to cast their net of suspicion wider, to include not only suspect Russians, but British aristocrats, Bloomsbury artists, ordinary workers, and even members of parliament. It was the biggest spying operation in British Intelligence's peacetime history to date, undertaken with enthusiastic support from anti-Red crusaders like Winston Churchill, and its ramifications were profound. On the strength of the evidence uncovered, Britain deported hundreds of Russians and broke off diplomatic links with Moscow for more than two years. This was the first Cold War, and it not only set the rules of engagement for Russia and Britain for decades to come, but also sent shockwaves through the British establishment, bringing down a government and ending careers.
Drawing on a wealth of recently declassified and previously unseen material, Timothy Phillips uncovers a world of suspicion and extremism, bureaucracy and betrayal set against the sparkling backdrop of cocktail-era London. The Secret Twenties shines fresh light on a glamorous decade, and offers a gripping account of the lives of the first Soviet spies, the British Secret Services that pursued them and the double agents in their midst. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, the Russians and the Jazz Age Timothy Phillips (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 332g ISBN13: 9781847083289 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-328-9 ISBN10: 1847083285 EAN: 9781847083289 x Description: In the 1920s, many in the British establishment became convinced that their way of life was being threatened by the new Soviet state. The British government launched vast spying operations in response, carrying out surveillance on not only suspect Russians, but British aristocrats, Bloomsbury artists, ordinary workers and even MPs. What they discovered had profound ramifications for the whole of British society, dividing the nation and laying the foundations for the later Cold War. Drawing on a wealth of recently declassified archives, The Secret Twenties tells the story of the first Soviet spies and the double agents in their midst, all of it set against the sparkling backdrop of cocktail-era London. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem George Prochnik (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 528pp h234mm x w153mm x s32mm 739g ISBN13: 9781783781782 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-178-2 ISBN10: 1783781785 EAN: 9781783781782 x Description: Gershom Scholem, the great humanist thinker and founder of modern Kabalah, is all but forgotten today. But here, in a biography as daring and inquisitive as its subject, George Prochnik goes in search of Scholem, restoring the reputation of a vital intellectual and finding in his work a vision with the power to reinvigorate contemporary religious and political thought. Tracing Scholem's life from his upbringing in Berlin, where he experienced a close and transformative friendship with Walter Benjamin, Prochnik reveals how Scholem's frustration with the bourgeois ideology of Germany during WWI led him to discover mystic Judaism, Kabbalah, and, finally, Zionism. But having emigrated to what was to become Israel, Scholem again found himself a 'stranger in a strange land', ill at ease with a prevailing conservative form of Zionism. Prochnik follows Scholem to the modern Holy Land - only to find that he too is disillusioned by the state politics he encounters. But through his profound study of Scholem and his own experience of Jerusalem, Prochnik not only questions the ideological and religious constructs of Jerusalem, but finds an ethical way forward, showing how a new form of pluralism might energize Jewish thought. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Written World: How Literature Shaped History Martin Puchner (Author) Series:
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16 Nov 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 432pp h216mm x w135mm x s26mm 519g ISBN13: 9781783783137 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-313-7 ISBN10: 1783783133 EAN: 9781783783137 x Description: From clay tablets to the printing press. From the pencil to the internet. From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. This is the true story of literature -- of how great texts and technologies have shaped cultures and civilizations and altered human history. The inventions of paper, the printing press and the world wide web are usually considered the major influences on the way we share stories. Less well known is the influence of Greek generals, Japanese court ladies, Spanish adventurers, Malian singers and American astronauts, and yet all of them played a crucial role in shaping and spreading literature as we know it today. The Written World tells the captivating story of the development of literature, where stories intersect with writing technologies like clay, stone, parchment, paper, printing presses and computers. Central to the development of religions, political movements and even nations, texts spread useful truths and frightening disinformation, and have the power to change lives. Through vivid storytelling and across a huge sweep of time, The Written World offers a new and enticing perspective on human history. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp Ben Rawlence (Author) Series:
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21 Jan 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 400pp h234mm x w153mm x s25mm 469g ISBN13: 9781846275876 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-587-6 ISBN10: 1846275873 EAN: 9781846275876 x Description: To the charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it is a 'nursery for terrorists'; to the western media, it is a dangerous no-go area; but to its half a million residents, it is their last resort. Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep within the inhospitable desert of northern Kenya where only thorn bushes grow, Dadaab is a city like no other. Its buildings are made from mud, sticks or plastic, its entire economy is grey, and its citizens survive on rations and luck. Over the course of four years, Ben Rawlence became a first-hand witness to a strange and desperate limbo-land, getting to know many of those who have come there seeking sanctuary. Among them are Guled, a former child soldier who lives for football; Nisho, who scrapes an existence by pushing a wheelbarrow and dreaming of riches; Tawane, the indomitable youth leader; and schoolgirl Kheyro, whose future hangs upon her education. In City of Thorns, Rawlence interweaves the stories of nine individuals to show what life is like in the camp and to sketch the wider political forces that keep the refugees trapped there. Lucid, vivid and illuminating, here is an urgent human story with deep international repercussions, brought to life through the people who call Dadaab home. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp Ben Rawlence (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 279g ISBN13: 9781846275890 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-589-0 ISBN10: 184627589X EAN: 9781846275890 x Description: To the charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it is a 'nursery for terrorists'; to the western media, it is a dangerous no-go area; but to its half a million residents, it is their last resort. Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep within the inhospitable desert of northern Kenya where only thorn bushes grow, Dadaab is a city like no other. Its buildings are made from mud, sticks or plastic, its entire economy is grey, and its citizens survive on rations and luck. Over the course of four years, Ben Rawlence became a first-hand witness to a strange and desperate limbo-land, getting to know many of those who have come there seeking sanctuary. Among them are Guled, a former child soldier who lives for football; Nisho, who scrapes an existence by pushing a wheelbarrow and dreaming of riches; Tawane, the indomitable youth leader; and schoolgirl Kheyro, whose future hangs upon her education. In City of Thorns, Rawlence interweaves the stories of nine individuals to show what life is like in the camp and to sketch the wider political forces that keep the refugees trapped there. Lucid, vivid and illuminating, here is an urgent human story with deep international repercussions, brought to life through the people who call Dadaab home. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
First Love Gwendoline Riley (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 243g ISBN13: 9781783783182 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-318-2 ISBN10: 1783783184 EAN: 9781783783182 x Description: 'A singular, devastating journey into the ungovernable reaches of the heart' Observer SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 Neve is a writer in her mid-30s married to an older man, Edwyn. For now they are in a place of relative peace, but their past battles have left scars. As Neve recalls the decisions that led her to this marriage, she tells of other loves and other debts, from her bullying father and her self-involved mother to a musician who played her and a series of lonely flights from place to place. Drawing the reader into the battleground of her relationship, Neve spins a story of helplessness and hostility, an ongoing conflict in which both husband and wife have played a part. But is this, nonetheless, also a story of love? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
First Love Gwendoline Riley (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 130g ISBN13: 9781783783243 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-324-3 ISBN10: 1783783249 EAN: 9781783783243 x Description: 'A singular, devastating journey into the ungovernable reaches of the heart' Observer SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 Neve is a writer in her mid-30s married to an older man, Edwyn. For now they are in a place of relative peace, but their past battles have left scars. As Neve recalls the decisions that led her to this marriage, she tells of other loves and other debts, from her bullying father and her self-involved mother to a musician who played her and a series of lonely flights from place to place. Drawing the reader into the battleground of her relationship, Neve spins a story of helplessness and hostility, an ongoing conflict in which both husband and wife have played a part. But is this, nonetheless, also a story of love? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Philosopher and the Wolf: Lessons From the Wild on Love, Death and Happiness Mark Rowlands (Author) Series:
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07 Dec 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 183g ISBN13: 9781783784578 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-457-8 ISBN10: 1783784571 EAN: 9781783784578 This Product Replaces: 9781847081025 x Description: This fascinating book charts the relationship between Mark Rowlands, a rootless philosopher, and Brenin, his extraordinarily welltravelled wolf. More than just an exotic pet, Brenin exerted an immense influence on Rowlands as both a person, and, strangely enough, as a philosopher, leading him to re-evaluate his attitude to love, happiness, nature and death. By turns funny (what do you do when your wolf eats your airconditioning unit?) and poignant, this life-affirming classic of popular philosophy will make you reappraise what it means to be human. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Good Life: Philosophy from Cradle to Grave Mark Rowlands (Author) Series:
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06 Oct 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781847089502 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-950-2 ISBN10: 184708950X EAN: 9781847089502 x Description: Myshkin was born on a certain day and died on a certain day - and some things happened to him in between. These things presented him with ethical questions and this book is a record of his attempt to answer those questions. Discovered by his son after Myshkin's death, A Good Life is one man's reckoning with the life he has led and the choices he made. It is at once a philosophical handbook for living and a page-turning narrative.
A Good Life is one man's life (birth, death, education, religion, morality, illness and so on) told through a philosophical lens. It is a riveting examination of the ethical questions we face, and the decisions we must make, and a defence of the idea that at the beating heart of morality we find love. And it is written with the conviction that, on their own, moral rules and principles are childish things - risible and easily refuted. It is only a life in its entirety that can be morally judged. A Good Life is sometimes profoundly funny, sometimes deeply serious. It is as readable as a novel and as provocative as the best philosophy. It is the finest work to date by a charming and brilliant thinker. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Painter to the King Amy Sackville (Author) Series:
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05 Apr 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 336pp h216mm x w135mm x s20mm 418g ISBN13: 9781783783908 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-390-8 ISBN10: 1783783907 EAN: 9781783783908 x Description: This is a portrait of Diego Velazquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, to his death 38 years and scores of paintings later. It is a portrait of a relationship that is not quite a friendship, between an artist and his subject. It is a portrait of a ruler, always on duty, and increasingly burdened by a life of public expectation and repeated private grief. And it is a portrait of a court collapsing under the weight of its own excess. Unfolding through series of masterly set-pieces and glancing sketches, this is a novel of brilliance, imagination and sheer style -- about what is shown and what is seen, about art and life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms Rebecca Solnit (Y) (Author) Series:
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24 Aug 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 268g ISBN13: 9781783783557 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-355-7 ISBN10: 1783783559 EAN: 9781783783557 x Description: Following on from the success of Men Explain Things to Me comes a new collection of essays in which Rebecca Solnit opens up a feminism for all of us: one that doesn't stigmatize women's lives, whether they include spouses and children or not; that brings empathy to the silences in men's lives as well as the silencing of women's lives; celebrates the ways feminism has shifted in recent years to reclaim rape jokes, revise canons, and rethink our everyday lives. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
To the Back of Beyond Peter Stamm (Author) Series:
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Description: After returning from a pleasant holiday with his wife, Astrid, and their two children, Thomas leaves the house. He walks down the street, and he keeps on walking. At first Astrid asks herself where he's gone, and then when he's coming back, and finally whether he is even still alive. In precise and hypnotic prose that cuts as cleanly as a scalpel, To the Back of Beyond is a novel that takes away the safe foundations of a marriage and a lifestyle to ask deeper questions about identity, connection and how free we are to change our lives. It is a graceful and resonant work from one of Europe's most important writers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
All Days Are Night Peter Stamm (Author) Michael Hofmann (Translated by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781783780099 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-009-9 ISBN10: 1783780096 EAN: 9781783780099 x Description: Gillian seems to have it all - she is beautiful, successful, and securely married. But one night, after an argument with her husband, their car crashes on a wet road, and everything is lost. When she wakes in the hospital, she is a widow with a ruined face and no way back to the person she thought she was. It is only when she begins to piece together the painful shards of her present existence and revisit a relationship from her past that she is able to glimpse the freedom that might come with her loss. From the master of unadorned storytelling, All Days Are Night is a quietly disquieting exploration of identity, inside and out. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ismael and His Sisters Louise Stern (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781847089465 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-946-5 ISBN10: 1847089461 EAN: 9781847089465 x Description: Siblings Ismael, Rosie and Cristina are deaf, and so are many in their Maya village. The deaf and hearing alike communicate in sign language, forming a tightly-knit community with an unsophisticated, simple lifestyle. But when Ismael gets into a fight at the local fiesta and flees the village, leaving Rosie and Cristina to fend for themselves, the daily rhythms of village life are disrupted, and all that they trust in comes under threat. Ismael and His Sisters is a remarkable debut novel from the acclaimed author of Chattering. It conjures up a world set apart, made visceral through its concentrated language, where sign language bridges exterior and interior worlds and gives a physical shape to the way we experience the world. It explores the interplay between the powerful forces within us and the dark elemental forces beyond our control, exposing the 'bottomless, hostile ocean' in which we all flounder. This is an extraordinary novel about the power of familial bonds, the barriers we build out of language, the dark elemental forces that threaten to overwhelm us, and above all, what it is like to be human. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Multiple Choice Alejandro Zambra (Author) Megan McDowell (Translated by) Series:
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28 Sep 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 112pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 192g ISBN13: 9781783782697 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-269-7 ISBN10: 1783782692 EAN: 9781783782697 x Description: Reader, your life is full of choices. Some will bring you joy and others will bring you heartache. Will you choose to cheat (in life, the examination that follows) or will you choose to copy? Will you fall in love? If so, will you remember her name and the number of freckles on her back? Will you marry, divorce, annul? Will you leave your run-down neighbourhood, your long-suffering country and your family? Will you honour your dead, those you loved and those you didn't? Will you have a child, will you regret it? Will you tell them you regret it? Will you, when all's said and done, deserve a kick in the balls? Will you find, here, in this slender book, fictions that entertain and puzzle you? Fictions that reflect yourself back to you? Will you find yourself? Relax, concentrate, dispel any anxious thoughts. Let the world around you settle and fade. Are you ready? Now turn over your papers, and begin. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Multiple Choice Alejandro Zambra (Author) Megan McDowell (Translated by) Series:
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03 Aug 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 112pp h200mm x w130mm x s10mm 80g ISBN13: 9781783782710 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-271-0 ISBN10: 1783782714 EAN: 9781783782710 x Description: Reader, your life is full of choices. Some will bring you joy and others will bring you heartache. Will you choose to cheat (in life, the examination that follows) or will you choose to copy? Will you fall in love? If so, will you remember her name and the number of freckles on her back? Will you marry, divorce, annul? Will you leave your run-down neighbourhood, your long-suffering country and your family? Will you honour your dead, those you loved and those you didn't? Will you have a child, will you regret it? Will you tell them you regret it? Will you, when all's said and done, deserve a kick in the balls? Will you find, here, in this slender book, fictions that entertain and puzzle you? Fictions that reflect yourself back to you? Will you find yourself? Relax, concentrate, dispel any anxious thoughts. Let the world around you settle and fade. Are you ready? Now turn over your papers, and begin. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Case Against Sugar Gary Taubes (Author) Series:
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05 Jan 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h234mm x w153mm x s23mm 448g ISBN13: 9781846276378 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-637-8 ISBN10: 1846276373 EAN: 9781846276378
x Description: More than half a billion adults and 40 million children on the planet are obese. Diabetes is a worldwide epidemic. Evidence increasingly shows that these illnesses are linked to the other major Western diseases: hypertension, heart disease, even Alzheimer's and cancer, and that shockingly, sugar is likely the single root cause. Yet the nutritional advice we receive from public health bodies is muddled, out of date, and frequently contradictory, and in many quarters still promotes the unproven hypothesis that fats are the greatest evil. With expert science and compelling storytelling, Gary Taubes investigates the history of nutritional science which, shaped by a handful of charismatic and misguided individuals, has for a hundred years denied the impact of sugar on our health. He exposes the powerful influence of the food industry which has lobbied for sugar's ubiquity - the Sugar Association even today promoting 'sugar's goodness' - and the extent that the industry has corrupted essential scientific research. He delves into the science of sugar, exposes conventional thinking that sugar is 'empty calories' as a myth, and finds that its addictive pleasures are resulting in worldwide consumption as never experienced before, to devastating effect. The Case Against Sugar is a revelatory read, which will fundamentally change the way we eat. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Memoirs of a Polar Bear Yoko Tawada (Author) Susan Bernofsky (Translated by) Series:
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02 Mar 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h216mm x w135mm x s15mm 248g ISBN13: 9781846276316 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-631-6 ISBN10: 1846276314 EAN: 9781846276316 x Description: Someone tickled me behind my ears, under my arms. I curled up, became a full moon, and rolled on the floor. I may also have emitted a few hoarse shrieks. Then I lifted my rump to the sky and tucked my head beneath my belly: Now I was a sickle moon, still too young to imagine any danger. Innocent, I opened my anus to the cosmos and felt it in my bowels. A bear, born and raised in captivity, is devastated by the loss of his keeper; another finds herself performing in the circus; a third sits down one day and pens a memoir which becomes an international sensation, and causes her to flee her home. Through the stories of these three bears, Tawada reflects on our own humanity, the ways in which we belong to one another and the ways in which we are formed. Delicate and surreal, Memoirs of a Polar Bear takes the reader into foreign bodies and foreign climes, and immerses us in what the New Yorker has called 'Yoko Tawada's magnificent strangeness'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Last Children of Tokyo Yoko Tawada (Author) Margaret Mitsutani (Translated by) Series:
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07 Jun 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 144pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm 128g ISBN13: 9781846276705 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-670-5 ISBN10: 1846276705 EAN: 9781846276705 x Description: Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old-elderly'; men and women who remember a time before the air and the sea were poisoned, before terrible catastrophe promted Japan to shut itself off from the rest of the world. He may live for decades yet, but he knows his beloved great-grandson - born frail and prone to sickness - might not survive to adulthood. Day after day, it takes all of Yoshiro's sagacity to keep Mumei alive. As hopes for Japan's youngest generation fade, a secretive organisation embarks on an audacious plan to find a cure - might Yoshiro's great-grandson be the key to saving the last children of Tokyo?
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Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeleine Thien (Author) Series:
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16 Mar 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s28mm 333g ISBN13: 9781783782673 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-267-3 ISBN10: 1783782676 EAN: 9781783782673 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016. In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests. Her name is Ai-Ming. As her relationship with Marie deepens, Ai-Ming tells the story of her family in revolutionary China, from the crowded teahouses in the first days of Chairman Mao's ascent to the Shanghai Conservatory in the 1960s and the events leading to the Beijing demonstrations of 1989. It is a history of revolutionary idealism, music, and silence, in which three musicians, the shy and brilliant composer Sparrow, the violin prodigy Zhuli, and the enigmatic pianist Kai struggle during China's relentless Cultural Revolution to remain loyal to one another and to the music they have devoted their lives to. Forced to re-imagine their artistic and private selves, their fates reverberate through the years, with deep and lasting consequences for Ai-Ming - and for Marie. Written with exquisite intimacy, wit and moral complexity, Do Not Say We Have Nothing magnificently brings to life one of the most significant political regimes of the 20th century and its traumatic legacy, which still resonates for a new generation. It is a gripping evocation of the persuasive power of revolution and its effects on personal and national identity, and an unforgettable meditation on China today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Certainty Madeleine Thien (Author) Series:
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06 Apr 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 226g ISBN13: 9781783783731 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-373-1 ISBN10: 1783783737 EAN: 9781783783731 x Description: In present-day Vancouver, Gail Lim, a producer of radio documentaries, is haunted by the mysterious events in her father's childhood in war-torn Asia, and using her skills as a journalist is driven to unravel the mystery of his past. As a boy, Matthew Lim hid in the jungle fringe near Leila Road in Japanese-occupied Sandakan, North Borneo, with Ani, a girl whose friendship shapes the rest of his life. Together they barely survive the terrifying events of the war, which shatters their families and ultimately splits them apart - until years later, they meet again, only to endure another separation. At once sweeping and intimate, Certainty crosses continents, cultures and time to explore the legacies of loss, the dislocations of war and the redemptive qualities of love. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Saffron Road: A Journey with Buddha's Daughters Christine Toomey (Author) Series:
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07 Apr 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781846274930 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-493-0 ISBN10: 1846274931 EAN: 9781846274930 x Description: A brief meeting with a Buddhist nun in India made a deep impression on Christine Toomey. It sent her on a two-year, 60,000-mile odyssey to learn more about the contemporary women choosing in their thousands to become part of a long tradition of female spirituality that stretches back through the centuries and now embraces the radical possibility that the next Dalai Lama could be female. In The Saffron Road, Toomey follows in the footsteps of earlier generations of Buddhist nuns to trace the routes by which the philosophy has spread from a solitary order in a remote area of India in the 5th century BC, via 1950s San Francisco where Zen was popularised by the Beat generation, to the globally-renowned practitioners of mindfulness of today. Beginning her journey in the Himalayas, close to the birthplace of the Buddha, Toomey travels from Nepal, to India, through Burma, Japan and on to North America and Europe, along the way visiting contemporary nunneries to meet the women who practise there. Amongst those she talks to are a group of "kung fu" nuns, an acclaimed novelist, a princess, a concert violinist, a former BBC journalist, and a one-time Washington political aide. Through these conversations, the daily reality of the Buddhist existence is gradually revealed, together with the diverse spiritual paths leading these women towards nirvana. Combining travelogue, history, interviews and personal reflection, The Saffron Road opens the door to a rarely glimpsed world of ritual, discipline and enlightenment. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Latecomer Dimitri Verhulst (Author) Series:
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03 Mar 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 144pp h216mm x w135mm x s10mm 146g ISBN13: 9781846275678 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-567-8 ISBN10: 1846275679 EAN: 9781846275678 x Description: Desire Cordier - mild-mannered former librarian, put-upon husband, lover of boules - is losing his mind. Or is he? Happily tucked away in the Winterlight Home for the Elderly, Desire is looking forward to a quiet retirement with the other forgetful residents, safe in the knowledge that no one knows he's faking his memory loss. And as if there weren't reasons enough to opt out of the modern world, it would be worth it just to see Rosa Rozendaal again - the love of Desire's youth, the one who got away. But dementia isn't all fun and games. There's a former war criminal hiding out in the home; once-beautiful Rosa might be too far gone to return Desire's ardour; and our hero soon begins to suspect he might not be the only one in Winterlight who's acting a part... A tender love story of demented minds and honourable hearts, and a razor-sharp satire of the indignities of old age and the callousness of caregiving, The Latecomer excoriates our society and asks: might we all be better off forgetting? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
King Kong - Our Knot of Time and Music: A personal memoir of South Africa's legendary musical Pat Williams (Author) Series:
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01 Jul 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 237g ISBN13: 9781846276538 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-653-8 ISBN10: 1846276535 EAN: 9781846276538 x Description: On 2 February 1959, a musical about the life and times of heavyweight boxing star Ezekiel Dhlamini (known as 'King Kong') opened in Johannesburg to a packed audience that included Nelson Mandela. King Kong was not just South Africa's first ever musical, but one that grew out of a collaboration between black people and white, and showcased an all-black cast. It was an instant hit, bursting through the barriers of apartheid and eventually playing to 200,000 South Africans of every colour before transferring to London's West End. Pat Williams, the show's lyricist, was at the time an apolitical young woman trying to free herself from the controls and prejudices of the genteel white society in which she lived. Here she recounts her experience of growing up in a divided South Africa, her involvement in the musical, and its lasting impact both on herself and on the show's cast, many of whom went on to find international fame, like South African jazz legends Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela. Her memoir takes the story up to the present day. It is both a vivid evocation of a troubled time and place as well as a celebration of a joyous production, in which a group of young people came together in South Africa's dark times - to create a show which still lives on today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dog Run Moon: Stories Callan Wink (Author) Series:
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03 Mar 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h216mm x w135mm x s16mm 248g ISBN13: 9781847088147 ISBN13: 978-1-84708-814-7 ISBN10: 1847088147 EAN: 9781847088147 x Description: A construction worker is chased through the night by a shady local businessman whose dog he has stolen; a Wild West re-enactor is engaged in a long-running affair with the Indian 'squaw' who slays him on the battlefield every year; a boy is tasked by his father to rid the farm of cats. Playing out against the rugged backdrop of the untamed West, these stories are populated by characters who are toughened by life but still tender enough to bleed, to cry, to care, and to dream. With its taut plotting and calloused sensibility, Dog Run Moon is written deep in the American grain, and yet Callan Wink's humour, empathy and layered storytelling creates a fictional world entirely his own. This remarkable debut reminds you just how effortlessly powerful good writing can be. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Corvus: A Life With Birds Esther Woolfson (Author) Series:
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01 Mar 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 247g ISBN13: 9781783784486 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-448-6 ISBN10: 1783784482 EAN: 9781783784486
x Description: One spring, many years ago, Esther Woolfson's daughter rescued a fledgling rook. That rook, named Chicken, quickly established herself as part of the family, and other birds, including an irascible cockatiel and a depressive parrot, soon followed. But it was the corvids - members of the crow family - who amazed Woolfson with their personality and their capacity for affection. This classic blend of memoir and natural history combines the author's fascination with all things avian, from the mechanics of flight to the science of birdsong, with her funny, tender stories of life among the birds. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Such Small Hands Andres Barba (Author) Lisa Dillman (Translated by) Series:
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01 Mar 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 112pp h198mm x w129mm x s6mm 87g ISBN13: 9781846276750 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-675-0 ISBN10: 1846276756 EAN: 9781846276750 x Description: Her father died instantly, her mother in the hospital. She has learned to say this flatly and without emotion, the way she says her name (Marina), her doll's name (also Marina) and her age (seven). Her parents were killed in a car crash and now she lives in the orphanage with the other little girls. But Marina is not like the other little girls. In the curious, hyperreal, feverishly serious world of childhood, Marina and the girls play games of desire and warfare. The daily rituals of playtime, lunchtime and bedtime are charged with a horror; horror is licked by the dark flames of love. When Marina introduces the girls to Marina the Doll, she sets in motion a chain of events from which there can be no release. With shades of Daphne du Maurier, Shirley Jackson, Guillermo Del Toro and Mariana Enriquez, Such Small Hands is a beautifully controlled tour-deforce, a bedtime story to keep readers awake. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Continental Shift: A Journey into Africa's Changing Fortunes Kevin Bloom (Author) Richard Poplak (Author) Series:
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23 Mar 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 448pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9781846273742 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-374-2 ISBN10: 1846273749 EAN: 9781846273742 x Description: AFRICA IS FAILING. AFRICA IS SUCCEEDING. Africa is betraying its citizens. Africa is a place of starvation, corruption, disease. African economies are soaring faster than any on earth. Africa is squandering its bountiful resources. Africa is a roadmap for global development. Africa is turbulent. Africa is stabilising. Africa is doomed. Africa is the future. All of these pronouncements prove equally true and false, as South African journalists Richard Poplak and Kevin Bloom discover on their 9-year roadtrip through the paradoxical continent they call home. From pillaged mines in Zimbabwe to the creation of an economic marketplace in Ethiopia; from Namibia's middle class to the technological challenges facing Nollywood in the 21st Century; from China's investment in Botswana to the rush for resources in the Congo; and from the birth of Africa's newest country, South Sudan, to the worsening conflict in CAR, here are eight adventures on the trail of a new Africa. Part detective story, part report from this economic frontier, Continental Shift follows the money as it flows through Chinese coffers to international conglomerates, to heads of state, to ordinary African citizens, all of whom are intent on defining a metamorphosing continent. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The History Thieves: Secrets, Lies and the Shaping of a Modern Nation Ian Cobain (Y) (Author) Series:
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06 Jul 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 258g ISBN13: 9781846275852 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-585-2 ISBN10: 1846275857 EAN: 9781846275852 x Description: In 1889, the first Official Secrets Act was passed, creating offences of 'disclosure of information' and 'breach of official trust'. It limited and monitored what the public could, and should, be told. Since then a culture of secrecy has flourished. As successive governments have been selective about what they choose to share with the public, we have been left with a distorted and incomplete understanding not only of the workings of the state but of our nation's culture and its past. In this important book, Ian Cobain offers a fresh appraisal of some of the key moments in British history since the end of WWII, including: the measures taken to conceal the existence of Bletchley Park and its successor, GCHQ, for three decades; the unreported wars fought during the 1960s and 1970s; the hidden links with terrorist cells during the Troubles; the sometimes opaque workings of the criminal justice system; the state's peacetime surveillance techniques; and the convenient loopholes in the Freedom of Information Act. Drawing on previously unseen material and rigorous research, The History Thieves reveals how a complex bureaucratic machine has grown up around the British state, allowing governments to evade accountability and their secrets to be buried. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Do It Like a Woman: ... and Change the World Caroline Criado-Perez (Y) (Author) Series:
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03 Mar 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781846275814 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-581-4 ISBN10: 1846275814 EAN: 9781846275814 x Description: Doing anything 'like a woman' used to be an insult. Now, as the women in this book show, it means being brave, speaking out, and taking risks, changing the world one step at a time. Here, campaigner and journalist Caroline Criado-Perez introduces us to a host of pioneers, including a female fighter pilot in Afghanistan; a Chilean revolutionary; the Russian punks who rocked against Putin; and the Iranian journalist who uncovered her hair. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Go, Went, Gone Jenny Erpenbeck (Y) (Author) Series:
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07 Sep 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 304pp h216mm x w135mm x s18mm 391g ISBN13: 9781846276200 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-620-0 ISBN10: 1846276209 EAN: 9781846276200
x Description: One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue Richard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas, but now he is retired, his books remain in their packing boxes and he steps into the streets of his city, Berlin. Here, on Oranienplatz, he discovers a new community -- a tent city, established by African asylum seekers. Hesitantly, getting to know the new arrivals, Richard finds his life changing, as he begins to question his own sense of belonging in a city that once divided its citizens into them and us. At once a passionate contribution to the debate on race, privilege and nationality and a beautifully written examination of an ageing man's quest to find meaning in his life, Go, Went, Gone showcases one of the great contemporary European writers at the height of her powers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Aftershock: The Untold Story of Surviving Peace Matthew Green (Author) Series:
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07 Jul 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781846273315 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-331-5 ISBN10: 1846273315 EAN: 9781846273315 x Description: Over the last decade, we have sent thousands of people to fight on our behalf. But what happens when these soldiers come back home, having lost their friends and killed their enemies, having seen and done things that have no place in civilian life? In Aftershock, Matthew Green tells the story of our veterans' journey from the frontline of combat to the reality of return. Through wide-ranging interviews with former combatants -- including a Royal Marine sniper and a former operator in the SAS - as well as serving personnel and their families, physicians, therapists, and psychiatrists, Aftershock looks beyond the headline-grabbing statistics and the labels of post-traumatic stress disorder to get to the heart of today's post-conflict experience. Green asks what lessons have been learned from past wars, and explores the range of help currently available, from traditional talking cures to cutting-edge scientific therapies. As today's battle-scarred troops begin to lay their weapons down, Aftershock is a hard-hitting account of the hidden cost of conflict. And its message is one that has profound implications, not just for the military, but for anyone with an interest in how we experience trauma and survive. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Swallowing Mercury Wioletta Greg (Author) Eliza Marciniak (Translated by) Eliza Marciniak (Translated by) Series:
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02 Nov 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 119g ISBN13: 9781846276095 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-609-5 ISBN10: 1846276098 EAN: 9781846276095 x Description: Wiola lives in a close-knit agricultural community. Wiola has a black cat called Blackie. Wiola's father was a deserter but now he is a taxidermist. Wiola's mother tells her that killing spiders brings on storms. Wiola must never enter the seamstress's 'secret' room. Wiola collects matchbox labels. Wiola is a good Catholic girl brought up with fables and nurtured on superstition. Wiola lives in a Poland that is both very recent and lost in time. Swallowing Mercury is about the ordinary passing of years filled with extraordinary days. In vivid prose filled with texture, colour and sound, it describes the adult world encroaching on the child's. From childhood to adolescence, Wiola dances to the strange music of her own imagination. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Kolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russia's Haunted Hinterland Jacek HugoBader (Author) Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translated by) Series:
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07 Jun 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781846275043 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-504-3 ISBN10: 1846275040 EAN: 9781846275043 x Description: From the author of the award-winning White Fever, Kolyma Diaries is an excursion into one of the world's last remaining badlands, a place full of Gulag ghosts and living wrecks. All along the 2000 kilometres of the Kolyma highway, Bader is plied with vodka. He hears mesmerizing, sometimes devastating, tales of the journeys that brought his 'fellow travellers', the people who give him lifts, to this benighted land. This is a book about the descendants of prisoners eking out a living, of conmen and veterans and scrap iron dealers, of corrupt politicians and organised crime. Stories are told of sons given away, husbands who reappear after three decades, scholars who now survive by foraging for mushrooms and berries, sculptors who hoard the heads lopped off statues of Lenin, miners who dig up mass graves while looking for gold, and all the addicts, convicts, fallen heroes and even sportsmen who run away from their troubles and end up in the most remote region in Russia. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The White Book Han Kang (Y) (Author) Deborah Smith (Translated by) Series:
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05 Apr 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h198mm x w130mm x s15mm 250g ISBN13: 9781846276958 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-695-8 ISBN10: 1846276950 EAN: 9781846276958 This Product Replaces: 9781846276293 x Description: Shortlisted for the Man Booker International 2018 From the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2016 From the author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts comes a book like no other. The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things. It is a book about mourning, rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit. It is a stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life.
Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Patriots Sana Krasikov (Author) Series:
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02 Mar 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 560pp h216mm x w135mm x s33mm 620g ISBN13: 9781783781812 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-181-2 ISBN10: 1783781815 EAN: 9781783781812 x
Description: Lose yourself in the irresistible story of one woman's journey through 20th-century Russia. Growing up in 1930s Brooklyn, Florence Fein will do anything to escape the confining values of her family and her city, and create a life of meaning and consequence. When a new job and a love affair lead her to Moscow, she doesn't think twice about abandoning America - only to discover, years later, that America has abandoned her. Now, as her son Julian travels back to Moscow - entrusted to stitch together a murky transcontinental oil deal - he must dig into Florence's past to discover who his mother really was and what she became. He must also persuade his own son, Lenny, to abandon his risky quest for prosperity in the cut-throat Russian marketplace. As he traces a thread from Depression-era America, through the collective housing and work camps of Stalin's USSR, to the glittering, oil-rich world of New Russia, Julian finally begins to understand the role he has played - as a father, and as a son. Epic in sweep and intimate in detail, The Patriots is both a compelling portrait of the entangled relationship between America and Russia, and a beautifully crafted story of three generations of one family caught between the forces of history and the consequences of past choices. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cast Away: Stories of Survival from Europe's Refugee Crisis Charlotte McDonald-Gibson (Author) Series:
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02 Mar 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 248g ISBN13: 9781846276170 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-617-0 ISBN10: 1846276179 EAN: 9781846276170 x Description: Riot police are shutting down borders, 800 lives are lost in a single shipwreck, a boy's body washes up on a beach: this is the European Union in summer 2015. But how did a bloc founded upon the values of human rights and dignity for all reach this point? And what was driving millions of desperate people to risk their lives on the Mediterranean? Charlotte McDonald-Gibson has spent years reporting on every aspect of Europe's refugee crisis, and Cast Away offers a vivid glimpse of the personal dilemmas, pressures, choices and hopes that lie beneath the headlines. We meet Majid, a Nigerian boy who exchanges the violence of his homeland for Libya, only to be driven onto a rickety boat during Colonel Gaddafi's crackdown on migrants. Nart is an idealistic young lawyer who risks imprisonment and torture in Syria until it is no longer safe for him to stay. Sina has to leave her new husband behind and take their unborn son across three continents to try and escape the Eritrean dictatorship. Mohammed is a teenager who dreams of becoming the world's best electrician until he is called to serve as a foot-soldier in the Syrian army. And Hanan watches in horror as the safe life she built for her four children in Damascus collapses, and she has to entrust their lives to people smugglers. While the politicians wrangle over responsibility, and the media talk in statistics, Cast Away brings to life the human consequences of the most urgent humanitarian issue of our time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World Oliver Morton (Author) Series:
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Granta Books
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07 Jul 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 448pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781783780983 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-098-3 ISBN10: 1783780983 EAN: 9781783780983 x Description: The risks of global warming are real, and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without fossil fuels is daunting, and possibly insurmountable. So there is an urgent need for new thinking on climate change. To meet that need, a small but increasingly influential group of scientists is exploring proposals for planned human intervention in the climate system. A stratospheric veil against the sun; the cultivation of photosynthetic plankton; a fleet of unmanned ships seeding clouds: these are the radical technologies of climate geoengineering. It is chilling to think of
such power, and such scope for misadventure or malice, in humans hands. And yet we are now at the point where we have no choice but to take them very seriously indeed. The Planet Remade explores the science, history and politics behind these strategies. It looks at who might want to see geoengineering put to use - and why others would be dead set against it. In the last two centuries, changes to the planet - to the clouds and soils, to the winds and the seas, to the great cycles of nitrogen and carbon - have been far more profound than most of us realize. Appreciating the scale of that change compels us to rethink not just our responses to global warming, but our relationship to nature. With sensitivity, insight and expert science, Oliver Morton unpicks the moral implications of climate change, our fear that people have become a force of nature, and what it might mean to try and use that force for good. The Planet Remade is about imagining a world where people take care instead of taking control. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Fox Was Ever the Hunter Herta Muller (Author) Philip Boehm (Translated by) Series:
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Portobello Books Ltd
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Granta Books
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02 Mar 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 183g ISBN13: 9781846274770 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-477-0 ISBN10: 184627477X EAN: 9781846274770 x Description: Romania, the last months of the dictator's regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara, Adina's friend, works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the group. One day Adina returns home to discover that her fox fur rug has had its tail cut off. On another day, a hindleg. Then a foreleg. The mutilation is a sign that she is being tracked - the fox was ever the hunter. Images of photographic precision combine to form a kaleidoscope of reflections, deflections and deceit. Adina and her friends struggle to keep living in a world permeated with fear, where even the eyes of a cat seem complicit with the watchful eye of the state, and where it's hard to tell the victim apart from the perpetrator. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Case Against Sugar Gary Taubes (Author) Series:
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Portobello Books Ltd
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Granta Books
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04 Jan 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 268g ISBN13: 9781846276392 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-639-2 ISBN10: 184627639X EAN: 9781846276392 x Description: More than half a billion adults and 40 million children on the planet are obese. Diabetes is a worldwide epidemic. Evidence increasingly shows that these illnesses are linked to the other major Western diseases: hypertension, heart disease, even Alzheimer's and cancer, and that shockingly, sugar is likely the single root cause. Yet the nutritional advice we receive from public health bodies is muddled, out of date, and frequently contradictory, and in many quarters still promotes the unproven hypothesis that fats are the greatest evil. With expert science and compelling storytelling, Gary Taubes investigates the history of nutritional science which, shaped by a handful of charismatic and misguided individuals, has for a hundred years denied the impact of sugar on our health. He exposes the powerful influence of the food industry which has lobbied for sugar's ubiquity - the Sugar Association even today promoting 'sugar's goodness' - and the extent that the industry has corrupted essential scientific research. He delves into the science of sugar, exposes conventional thinking that sugar is 'empty calories' as a myth, and finds that its addictive pleasures are resulting in worldwide consumption as never experienced before, to devastating effect. The Case Against Sugar is a revelatory read, which will fundamentally change the way we eat. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Memoirs of a Polar Bear Yoko Tawada (Author) Susan Bernofsky (Translated by) Series:
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Portobello Books Ltd
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Granta Books
Pub Date:
02 Nov 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 183g ISBN13: 9781846276323 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-632-3 ISBN10: 1846276322 EAN: 9781846276323 x Description: Three bears.
The first, a diligent memoirist whose unlikely success forces her to flee Soviet Russia.
The second, her daughter, a skilled dancer in an East Berlin circus.
The third, Knut, a baby bear born and raised in Berlin Zoo at the beginning of the 21st century.
Here, then, is the enchanting story of three extraordinary bears, brought to life by one of Japan's most inventive and dazzling novelists. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________