The Platinum Queen

For the first time, all 70 of the Queen’s Christmas speeches are published together in full, along with six additional feature speeches made at significant points in her life.Organised by decade, each …

A Hitch in Time

‘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

‘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 …

The Case of the Vanishing Blonde

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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

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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…

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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 …

For the Sake of Argument

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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 …

Love, Poverty and War

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Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays showcases the Hitchens’ rejection of consensus and cliché, whether he’s reporting from abroad in Indonesia, Kurdistan, Iraq, North Korea, or Cuba, or when hi …

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. …

Three Little Truths

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**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

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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

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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

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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

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Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf’s modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she sha …

Autumn in Venice

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National Geographic Traveller’s the Best Books on European Cities, 2019The remarkable story of Hemingway’s love affair with both the city of Venice and the muse he found there – a young Italian girl w …