Journey to the End of Time

This collection of short stories, memoir, journal entries, essays and poems spans decades of Alex Miller’s life. Opening with a moving depiction of Miller’s father leaving for war, it closes with a 20 …

A Natural History of the Studio

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For more than three decades, South African artist William Kentridge has created a vast body of work comprising drawings and multimedia installations that have been exhibited worldwide.Here he immerses …

Searches

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A BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICKOne of the New York Times’ Nonfiction Books to Read This SpringWhen Vauhini Vara was fourteen, her sister was diagnosed with cancer. Too terrified to discuss it with a human …

Why Read

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‘Will Self may not be the last modernist at work but at the moment he’s the most fascinating of the tradition’s torch bearers.’ New YorkFrom one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working tod …

Freeman's Conclusions

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Over the course of ten years, Freeman’s has introduced the English-speaking world to countless writers of international import and acclaim, from Olga Tokarczuk to Valeria Luiselli, while also spotligh …

How to Read Now

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‘I cannot say enough about How to Read Now… Check it out’ Roxane Gay’A red-hot grenade… One of my favourite books of the year’ Jia Tolentino’Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively funn …

Freeman's Animals

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Over a century ago, Rilke went to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, where he watched a pair of flamingos. A flock of other birds screeched by, and, as he describes in a poem, the great red-pink birds s …

The Girl from Revolution Road

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Based on Ghazaleh Golbakhsh’s experience as an Iranian immigrant growing up in New Zealand, these essays range from a childhood in war-torn Iran, including the trauma of a night spent in prison as a s …

A Hitch in Time

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‘Revisiting this selection of diaries and essay-reviews from the London Review of Books is restorative, an extended spa treatment that stretches tired brains and unkinks the usual habitual responses w …

On Animals

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‘Every essay in this book is magnificent… Mesmerizing.’ New York Times’How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,’ writes Susan Orlean. Since the age …

She I Dare Not Name

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Astonishing. Luminous. A book about being human.She I Dare Not Name is a compelling collection of fiercely intelligent, deeply intimate, lyrical reflections on the life of a woman who stands on the th …

Freeman's Change

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The Covid-19 pandemic forced many of us to reimagine our homes, work, relationships and adapt to a new way of life – one with far fewer possibilities for interaction. And yet, in this period of intens …

Arguably

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A Sunday Times BestsellerChristopher Hitchens (1949-2011) was a matchless writer, debater and humanist. Throughout his life he shone the light of reason and truth into the eyes of charlatans and hucks …

No One Left to Lie To

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In No One Left to Lie To, Christopher Hitchens portrays President Bill Clinton as one of the most ideologically skewed and morally negligent politicians of recent times. In a blistering polemic which …

The Trial of Henry Kissinger

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Christopher Hitchens goes straight for the jugular in The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Under his fearsome gaze, the former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor is accused of being a war crimi …

Night Fishing

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Vicki Hastrich takes the reader on a stunning voyage through her writer’s life and across her chosen patch: the private byways of Brisbane Water, north of Sydney, where she has spent much of her life. …