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The stories of the Trojan war and Helen of Troy, Patroclus and Achilles, the Sirens and the Cyclops are embedded in western culture, yet readers often fail to recognise that they were made famous by t …
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Between 1770 and 1830, London was the world’s largest and richest city, the centre of hectic social ferment and of spectacular sexual liberation. It prompted revolutionary modes of thought, novel sens …
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Brian Thompson groped his way to being a grown up. He excelled at school and met a girl – the girl of the title – who recognised his ambition to escape the miserable lives his parents had made for eac …
A distinguished literary novelist celebrates marriage, friendship and motherhood in this rich and breathtakingly intimate treasury of stories, essays, poems and letters.In 44 Things, Kirsty Gunn celeb …
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‘The prefect antidote to the ‘misery memior’.’ — The Judges, Costa Book Award 2006 for BiographyMum and Dad – Squibs and Bert – were a complete mystery to Brian Thompson, as he grew up in Cambridge a …
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The instant Sara and Toby met, they just knew that they were made for each other. But they soon discovered that they had very different ideas about how to get married. For Sara, God and Love were inse …
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Here is quite simply one of the most original books about a jazz musician ever published–a biography-cum-discography that focuses in turn on fourteen major albums recorded by Miles Davis, using them …
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In 1753, Voltaire – playwright, poet, philosopher, and one of the most feted figures in Europe – was forced into exile by King Louis XV, where he would remain for the last 25 years of his life. This p …
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Nineteen years ago, Erwin James was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was in his twenties. Over the past three years, he has written powerfully about prison life for the Guardian. This book brings to …
My Father’s Rifle is a beautiful narrative about the life of boy named Azad and his coming-of-age in Iraq during the 1960s and 1970s. Azad is born into a vibrant village culture, to a family that is p …
The story of the three Jerome sisters is one of love, glamour and money in equal measure. Their father, Leonard, was a profligate New York stockbroker whose beautiful wife, Clara Hall, was as extravag …
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‘It took me places I hadn’t expected to go. I loved it.’ Tom BrokawOne summer, Jim Sterba accepts an invitation from Frances FitzGerald to visit her log cabin.Imagine a secluded little house in the wo …
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The #1 New York Times BestsellerAn Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the YearNow a Major Motion PictureThis is the true story of a boy who wanted to grow up with the Brady Bunch, but ended up livin …
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The only book about the search for a proof to the Riemann Hypothesis.In 1859 Bernhard Riemann, a shy German mathematician, wrote an eight-page article, suggesting an answer to a problem that had long …
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‘We need more novels as innovative and exciting as this’ Matt Thorne, New StatesmanBy turns hilarious and brilliant, Coming Soon!!! is the tale of two writers: an retiring novelist setting out to writ …
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‘This is the true story of disorganised crime at its most comic – and tragic’ Independent on SundayTimes were hard for Joey Coyle. A dockworker from a struggling neighbourhood of south Philadelphia, J …
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