The Sensualist
Gary Shteyngart‘Gary Shteyngart keeps getting better’ Literary Review’The abiding miracle of Shteyngart’s work is that it seems just as timely as a Shouts & Murmurs gag in this week’s New Yorker while staying fixed …
Genre: DNF
Journey to the End of Time
Alex MillerThis 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
William KentridgeRRP: £20.00
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
Vauhini VaraRRP: £16.99
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
Will SelfRRP: £10.99
‘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
John FreemanRRP: £12.99
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
Elaine CastilloRRP: £12.99
‘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
John FreemanRRP: £12.99
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
Ghazaleh GolbakhshRRP: £14.99
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
Christopher HitchensRRP: £12.99
‘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
Susan OrleanRRP: £9.99
‘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
Donna WardRRP: £14.99
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
John FreemanRRP: £12.99
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 …
And Yet…
Christopher HitchensRRP: £12.99
A Sunday Times bestsellerChristopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of ou …
Arguably
Christopher HitchensRRP: £15.99
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 …
For the Sake of Argument
Christopher HitchensRRP: £14.99
The global turmoil of the late 1980s and early 1990s severely tested every analyst and commentator. Few wrote with such insight as Christopher Hitchens about the large events – or with such discernmen …
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