Ayesha at Last

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A big-hearted, captivating, modern-day Muslim Pride and Prejudice, with hijabs instead of top hats and kurtas instead of corsets. AYESHA SHAMSI has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been …

The Hidden Half

Why does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? The answer is ‘The Hidden Half’ – those random, unknowable variables that mess up our attempts to comprehend the world.We humans are ver …

The Courage To Be Disliked

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The Japanese phenomenon that teaches us the simple yet profound lessons required to liberate our real selves and find lasting happiness.The Courage to be Disliked shows you how to unlock the power wit …

Daughter of Gloriavale

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In this personal account, Lilia Tarawa exposes the shocking secrets of the Gloriavale Christian Community cult, with its rigid rules and oppressive control of women. She describes her fear when her fa …

Evolution

New Statesman’s best books of the year, 2018This new book of poems and essays by Eileen Myles finds our game-changing writer keying lines in the euphoric style that the New York Times has called ‘one …

Moeen

Longlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards, 2018The match-winning superstar of the England cricket team finally shares his remarkable personal story in this eagerly-awaited autobiography.Moeen …

Advice for the Dying (and Those Who Love Them)

Award-winning writer and nurse Sallie Tisdale offers a lyrical, thought-provoking yet practical perspective on death and dying in this frank, direct and compassionate meditation on the inevitable.From …

Small Pieces

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My mother, my family and Judaism are nested inside each other. I am Jewish and always Jewish; it’s analogous with family, however hard it is, and however strained, it can never be disavowed… I remai …

Infinite Ground

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‘Some best-kept secrets are best not kept…’ Guardian, Books of 2016Carlos has disappeared. A retired inspector takes the case, but what should be a routine investigation becomes something strange, e …

From Fatwa to Jihad

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Almost thirty years ago, the image of burning copies of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses held aloft by thousand-strong mobs of protesters became an internationally familiar symbol of anger and offe …

Beyond the High Blue Air

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Aged 29, Lu Spinney’s son Miles suffered a devastating head injury and was left in a coma. With unflinching honesty, Lu Spinney has written a passionate, urgent account of the years following her son …

And Yet…

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And Yet… gathers the previously uncollected essays of the late Christopher Hitchens into a final volume of peerless prose from one of the great thinkers of our times.Christopher Hitchens was an unpa …

St Paul

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St Paul is known throughout the world as the first Christian writer, authoring fourteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament. But as Karen Armstrong demonstrates in St Paul: The Misunderstoo …

My Grandmother's Glass Eye

‘By poetry we – we the masses – mean something vague, something untrue, something uplifting, something beautiful, something so eloquent it isn’t for everyday. The word “poetry” is up there with “soul” …

The Black Mirror

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Inspired by E. M. Forster’s thought that ‘Death destroys a man but the idea of it saves him’, The Black Mirror takes death as an external viewpoint from which we may see our lives more clearly. Raymon …

The Book of the People

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In The Book of the People A. N. Wilson explores how readers and thinkers have approached the Bible, and how it might be read today. Charting his own relationship with the Bible over a lifetime of writ …