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Autumn in Venice

Andrea di Robilant

RRP: £12.99

National Geographic Traveller’s the best books on European cities, 2019In the autumn of 1948 Hemingway was approaching fifty and hadn’t published a novel in nearly a decade. He travelled for the first …

For a Girl

Mary-Rose MacColl

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I am by nature a private person. Secrets are different from privacy. They are things you are forced to keep to yourself, by family, friends, by your own shame. Secrets like these come to the surface o …

Not That Bad

Roxane Gay

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Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays tackles rape, assault, and har …

Drawn Out

Tom Scott

Drawn Out is a hilarious, heartbreaking, heart-warming account of Tom Scott’s tragicomic childhood, his manic student-newspaper days, his turbulent years stumbling through the corridors of power, his …

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot

John Callahan

RRP: £7.99

The memoir of legendary cartoonist John Callahan, now a major motion picture directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, and Rooney Mara.Featuring more than 60 of Callahan’s ori …

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Caroline Baum

RRP: £14.99

Three barely felt like a family. It felt like it did not count. Like we were unfinished. Incomplete. There was always a gap at the table, room to set places for others. Visitors were few and far betwe …

Grace After Henry

Eithne Shortall

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Winner of The Big Book Awards: The Best Page TurnersShortlisted for the Popular Fiction Book of the Year: The Irish Book AwardsAn Irish Independent Book of the Year_______________________________Grace …

Island Nurses

Leonie Howie

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Leonie Howie and Adele Robertson live and work on remote Great Barrier Island – so called because it faces the full brunt of the wild Pacific weather and acts as a barrier for the mainland about 100 k …

The Art of Not Falling Apart

Christina Patterson

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New Statesman’s Best Books of the Year, 2018Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year, 2018We plan, as the old proverb says, and God laughs. But most of us don’t find it all that funny when things go wrong. M …

The Murdoch Method

Irwin Stelzer

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An exclusive, insider viewpoint on the “Murdoch Method” from his right-hand man and adviser, Irwin Stelzer.Rupert Murdoch is one of the most notorious and successful businessmen of our age. Now, for t …

White Boy Running

Christopher Hope

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In the run up to the 1987 election Christopher Hope returned to his native South Africa after a twelve-year absence. The nature of that year’s whites-only election and the bitter defeat of the liberal …

A Tokyo Romance

Ian Buruma

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When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo as a young film student in 1975, he found a feverish and surreal metropolis in the midst of an economic boom, where everything seemed new and history only remained in …

The Weight of a Mustard Seed

Wendell Steavenson

RRP: £20.00

This is the account of one family’s struggle to survive the iniquities of Saddam Hussein’s savage dictatorship. A proud man, father and soldier struggles to protect himself, and his family, from tyran …

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James Bloodworth

RRP: £10.99

Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 ____________The Times Round-up of the Best Non-fiction Paperbacks, 2019The Times Best Current Affairs and Big Ideas Book of the Year, 2018’A very discomforting bo …

Mrs D is Going Within

Lotta Dann

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Despite outward appearances three years after getting sober Lotta is struggling to deal with life in the raw. It’s becoming abundantly clear what people mean when they say putting down the drink is ju …

Afterglow

Eileen Myles

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Skinny’s Book of the Year, 2018In 1990, Myles chose Rosie from a litter on the street, and their connection instantly made an indelible impact on the writer’s way of being. Over the course of sixteen …

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