Fame and Folly

From one of America’s great literary figures, a collection of essays on eminent writers and their work, and on the war between art and life. The perilous intersection of writers’ lives with public and …

Freeman's

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‘The oldest is 70. The youngest, 26. In between, the best list of this kind I have ever seen.’ Marlon JamesIn three issues, the literary anthology from leading editor and literary critic John Freeman …

Manderley Forever

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Bestselling novelist Tatiana de Rosnay pays homage to Daphne du Maurier, the writer who influenced her deeply, in this startling and immersive new biography. A portrait of one writer by another, Mande …

Metaphor and Memory

From the author of The Messiah of Stockholm and Art and Ardor comes this collection of supple, provocative, and intellectually dazzling essays. In Metaphor & Memory, Cynthia Ozick writes about Saul Be …

Quarrel and Quandary

In this collection of essays, Cynthia Ozick, everywhere acclaimed as a critic, novelist, and storyteller, examines some of the world’s most illustrious writers and their work, tackles compelling conte …

The Din in the Head

One of America’s foremost novelists and critics, Cynthia Ozick has won praise and provoked debate for taking on challenging literary, historical, and moral issues. In her spirited essay collection The …

The Shipwreck Hunter

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Winner of the Mountbatten Award for Best Book, 2018David Mearns has discovered some of the world’s most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wood …

Martin Sharp

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Martin Sharp’s art was as singular as his style. He blurred the boundaries of high art and low with images of Dylan, Hendrix and naked flower children that defined an era. Along the way the irreverent …

Smuggler

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Richard Stratton was the unlikeliest of kingpins. A clean-cut college boy who entered outlaw culture on a university trip to Mexico, he saw his search for a joint morph into a thrill-filled dope run s …

The Last Crocodile Hunter

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‘When the world lost Steve, the animals lost the best friend they ever had, and so did I. But he’s still here with me and knowing that means that I am able to gain strength from him, and harness the s …

In Sickness, In Health… and In Jail

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The funny, insightful and moving account of what happens to a close, loving middle-class family when the father is unexpectedly thrown in jail.After fourteen years of marriage, Mel Jacob’s life looked …

Miss Muriel Matters

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In 1908 Muriel Matters, known as ‘that daring Australian girl’, chained herself to an iron grille in the House of Commons to demand votes for women, thus becoming the first woman to make a speech in t …

D.A.A.S.

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Under the guise of his alter ego Flacco, Paul Livingston once basked in the reflected glory of Tim Ferguson, Paul McDermott and Richard Fidler, and their anarchic comedy incarnation, the Doug Anthony …

Small Pieces

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE JQ WINGATE, 2017My mother, my family and Judaism are nested inside each other. I am Jewish and always Jewish; it’s analogous with family, however hard it is, and however strained, …

The Forgotten Children

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In 1959 David Hill’s mother – a poor single parent living in Sussex – reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge Farm School in Australia where, she was led to believe, they would have a good …

Cartel Wives

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An astonishing and revelatory memoir by two women who escaped the glamorous yet deadly international drug trade.Mia Flores and Olivia Flores live under assumed names. To their neighbours, they are typ …