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Fulvia

Jane Draycott

RRP: £10.99

‘A thoroughly rapacious woman…as cruel as she is greedy’ Cicero’A woman who took no thought for spinning or housekeeping…meddlesome and headstrong’ Plutarch'[She] caused the death of many, both to …

The Crypto Genius

Benjamin Wallace

RRP: £12.99

‘Could be the best mystery story of the past twenty years.’ James Patterson’This is, by far, the deepest investigation into possibly the biggest mystery of the 21st century. I couldn’t put it down.’ M …

When the Going Was Good

Graydon Carter

RRP: £12.99

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 IN THE INDEPENDENT, GQ, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND BBC CULTURE’Graydon Carter is a brilliant raconteur of his own life…it’s a real yarn of a lost world’ Marin …

Even the Good Girls Will Cry

Melissa Auf der Maur

Thanks to a thrown beer bottle and a fan letter to a P.O. box, Melissa Auf der Maur’s first band scored an opening slot for the Smashing Pumpkins in her bohemian home town, Montreal. Sensing Melissa’s …

Stay Alive

Ian Buruma

In 1939, when Ian Buruma’s epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and its 4.3 million people have made their accommodations to the regime, more or less. When war broke out with Pol …

How Will I Ever Get Through This?

Lucy Hone

RRP: £14.99

‘The best work I know on positive psychology and grief is Lucy Hone’s’ Dr Martin SeligmanGrief is not confined to bereavement. Yet society rarely recognises these non-death losses, leaving many feelin …

The Making of a Permabear

Jeremy Grantham

‘[A] fine and essential work’ Wall Street Journal’Insightful and droll’ Financial TimesWhen Jeremy Grantham entered the investment business in the 1960s, he brought the thrifty Yorkshire values he had …

Three Wee Bookshops at the End of the World

Ruth Shaw

Following the international bestselling success of The Bookseller at the End of the World, Ruth Shaw continues her remarkable story in this charming sequel. Having found love with Lance, Ruth shares t …

Uneven

Sam Mills

RRP: £12.99

‘Given bisexuality’s all too frequent erasure, there is a need to represent [these] specific histories’ Times Literary SupplementUneven tells the stories of nine pioneering bisexual artists, writers a …

Crooks 2

Paul Williams

RRP: £16.99

In this sequel to the explosive bestseller Crooks, Paul Williams reveals the inside stories behind more of his biggest scoops. Beginning with a sex scandal that rocked the Catholic Church, Crooks 2 sh …

For the Sun After Long Nights

Fatemeh Jamalpour

In 2022, in response to the killing of Mahsa Jina Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died in police custody after being arrested for not wearing her hijab, thousands of Iranians – mostly women – t …

For the Sun After Long Nights

Nilo Tabrizy

***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION***IN SEPTEMBER 2022, in response to the death of Mahsa Jîna Amini in police custody, after being arrested and beaten for not wearing her …

Joyride

Susan Orlean

‘An exuberant, inspiring memoir’ Guardian’Brilliant…A high-spirited, exhilarating memoir’ Wall Street Journal ‘In Joyride, the takeaway often has as much to do with the art of living as the art of w …

Miles Franklin Undercover

Kerrie Davies

RRP: £16.99

‘There is a theory that any woman can be rescued from the shoals of failure and despair by finding some man to ask her in marriage, but before I could be happy in love I should at least need to realis …

Red

Jacky Colliss Harvey

RRP: £12.99

A New York Times bestseller, Red is the first book to explore the history of red hair and red-headedness throughout the world.With an obsessive fascination that is as contagious as it is compelling, J …

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Daniel Pollack-Pelzner

How did Lin-Manuel Miranda become the preeminent musical storyteller of the 21st century?Daniel Pollack-Pelzner traces Miranda’s path from a friendly but often isolated child to the winner of multiple …

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