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 …

Rhyme and Reason

‘Enchanting’ Stephen FrySome people worry that they don’t appreciate poetry; but English poetry wasn’t written to be appreciated it was written to be enjoyed. For six centuries people have been readin …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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. …