On Animals
Susan Orlean‘How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,’ writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of six, when Orlean wrote and illustrated a book called Herbert the Nea …
Genre: Language & Literature
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 …
The Case of the Vanishing Blonde
Mark BowdenRRP: £8.99
Six captivating true-crime stories, spanning Mark Bowden’s long and illustrious career, cover a variety of crimes complicated by extraordinary circumstances. In The Case of the Vanishing Blonde, the v …
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
A. N. WilsonRRP: £9.99
A Book of the Year in The Times & Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Spectator, Irish Times and TLS. ‘Superb’ Daily Mail, ‘Book of the Week”Brilliant’ The Times, ‘Book of the Week”[A] vivid, detailed account …
And Yet…
Christopher HitchensRRP: £10.99
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 …
Night Fishing
Vicki HastrichRRP: £12.99
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. …
Three Little Truths
Eithne ShortallRRP: £8.99
**AN IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER**___________________________’Funny, endearing, mysterious and outrageous, this book is wildly entertaining and hugely enjoyable.’ Liz NugentOn this street, no secret is saf …
America
Francois BusnelRRP: £12.99
France and the United States have long shared a special relationship, defined both by occasional puzzlement and endless fascination. François Busnel, one of France’s most prominent literary critics, s …
She Speaks
Yvette CooperRRP: £7.99
A powerful celebration of brilliant speeches by women throughout the ages, from Boudica to Greta Thunberg.’A treasure trove of trailblazers…’ Cathy NewmanLooking at lists of the greatest speeches of …
Life Sentence
Carl WilliamsRRP: £14.99
In 2007 Carl Williams was convicted of three murders and sentenced to 35 years’ jail. Yet his role in the Melbourne Gangland Wars went far beyond a handful of killings, however brutal, and had made hi …
All the Lives We Ever Lived
Katharine SmythRRP: £9.99
‘Deeply moving… This is a beautiful book.’ TLS______________________________Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford University when she first read Virginia Woolf’s modernist masterpiece To the Light …
The Destiny Thief
Richard RussoRRP: £9.99
A master of the novel, short story and memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Everybody’s Foolnow gives us his very first collection of personal essays, thoughts on writing, reading and living.I …
Women, Equality, Power
Helen ClarkWomen, Equality, Power is a celebration of an outstanding leader who continues to strive and work for change, and it’s a rallying call for other women leaders, whether they are in positions of politic …
I'm a Joke and So Are You
Robin InceRRP: £8.99
Evening Standard’s the Best Comedy Books of the Year, 2018Skinny’s Book of the Year, 2018 ‘Joyfully entertaining. Full of warmth, wisdom and affectionate delight in the wonder and absurdity of being h …
Letters of Intent
Cynthia OzickRRP: £16.99
‘What we ought to do, as writers, is seize freedom now, immediately, by recognizing that we already have it.’Cynthia Ozick, one of ‘the greatest living American writers’, has, over a lifetime of obser …
A Winter's Night
Theodore BrunEnter if you dare…A man driving through a remote part of Denmark is forced to take shelter from a snowstorm in a lonely castle. Inside, he encounters the Count who lives there, a strange old man who …
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