The Sensualist

‘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 …

Rhyme and Reason

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‘Enchanting’ Stephen Fry’Unconventional, surprising and provocative from the first page’ Times Literary SupplementDid you know:- Lord Byron sold more books in a day than Jane Austen did in her lifetim …

Too L.A.

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In between the partying, the drugs, the love affairs, the ‘squalid overboogie’ of it all, Eve Babitz made time to chronicle the world as she saw it in works like Eve’s Hollywood; Slow Days, Fast Compa …

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 …

Didion & Babitz

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A TOP 12 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK IN THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMESTHE BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK FOR NOVEMBER 2024’This book is magic. It’s all I ever needed’ LENA DUNHAMEve Babitz died on December 17, 2021. …

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 …

Much Ado About Numbers

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‘A spectacular journey… Highly recommended!’ Dr Simon Smith, The Shakespeare Institute ‘A fascinating and hugely entertaining guide to Shakespearean mathematics.’ Prof Sarah Hart, author of Once Upo …

Uneven

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‘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 …

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 …

Innards

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‘A gut punch of a collection…it astonishes as it reveals how malignant political forces can both ravage and vitalize the human spirit.’ New York TimesSet in Soweto, the urban heartland of South Afri …

Twenty-First-Century Tolkien

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‘Fascinating…. Wonderfully exhilarating.’ Mail on SundayFinalist for The Tolkien Society Best Book AwardAn engaging, original and radical reassessment of J.R.R. Tolkien, revealing how his visionary …

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 …

The Platinum Queen

***Published in honour of our late Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, The Platinum Queen presents seven decades of world history through the words of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch: over 256 e …

Home/Land

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When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her so …

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 …