The Butterfly Mosque
G. Willow WilsonAfter taking an Islamic Studies course in Boston, G. Willow Wilson quietly found herself adopting the tenets of the religion as her own. This intellectual and emotional exercise created a unique chall …
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Michelangelo's Finger
Raymond TallisRRP: £9.99
Raymond Tallis is a renowned polymath: he was listed by the Independent in 2007 as one of fifty ‘Brains of Britain’ and in 2004 Prospect magazine voted him one of Britain’s top public intellectual.In …
American Gangster
Mark JacobsonRRP: £8.99
The untold story of Frank Lucas, New York’s most notorious drugs lord during the 1970s. Now a blockbuster movie, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe.In 1970s New …
Zeno and the Tortoise
Nicholas FearnRRP: £8.99
A witty and irreverent guide to the key ideas and methods of the world’s greatest thinkers.Zeno and the Tortoise explains not just who each philosopher was and what he thought, but exactly how he came …
Rimbaud
Edmund WhiteRRP: £14.99
Poet and prodigy Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) died young but his extraordinary poetry continues to influence and inspire – fans include Dylan, Jim Morrison, Patti Smith. His long poem Un Saison en Enfer …
The Collected Poems 1956 – 1998
Zbigniew HerbertRRP: £14.99
Zbigniew Herbert is one of the outstanding poets of the last century. This exceptional new translation brings together, for the first time in English in one volume, his entire poetic output – from his …
The Dancer from Khiva
BibishIn a narrative that flows like a late-night confession, Bibish recounts her story… Born into an impoverished family in a deeply religious village, Bibish was named ‘Hadjarbibi’ in honour of her gran …
The Bible
Karen ArmstrongRRP: £12.99
The Bible is the most widely distributed book in the world. Translated into over two thousand languages, it is estimated that more than six billion copies have been sold in the last two hundred years …
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Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey
Alberto ManguelRRP: £8.99
The stories of the Trojan war and Helen of Troy, Patroclus and Achilles, the Sirens and the Cyclops are embedded in western culture, yet readers often fail to recognise that they were made famous by t …
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The Quran
Bruce LawrenceRRP: £7.99
Few books in history are as poorly read or understood as the Qur’an. Sent down in a series of revelations to the Prophet Muhammad, it is regarded by the faithful as the unmediated word of Allah. It is …
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The Philosophy Steamer
Lesley ChamberlainRRP: £22.50
‘Compelling, laudably unsentimental and deeply significant.’ — Frances Stonar Saunders, GuardianIn 1922, Lenin personally drew up a list of some 220 ‘undesirable’ intellectuals to be deported in prep …
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Motherland
Lesley ChamberlainRRP: £14.99
In this “lucid primer of Russian thought” (The Times Literary Supplement), Lesley Chamberlain finds that during the last two centuries Russian intellectuals have asked two fundamental questions, “what …
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Love for Sale
Nils RingdalThe exchange of sex for money is often cited as the first profession, and is certainly the most controversial: from Lilith and Mary Magdalene to Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, the prostitute has been …
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Broken Promises
Igal Sarna‘Clever, mischievous and humane, this is literary journalism in the proud tradition of Ryszard Kapúscinski and Joseph Roth’Amos Elon, author of A Blood-Dimmed Tide.A Holocaust survivor’s tortured son, …
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