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All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

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TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024NEW YORK TIMES' 100 MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2024'Bracing and brilliant ... scintillating writing of breadth and power' Kate Kellaway, Observer'A radical and important...
The Story Smuggler

The Story Smuggler

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'Some smuggle cigarettes, others alcohol - or weapons.Our contraband, being invisible, is more dangerous.Our contraband is undetectable by scanners.What we carry as concealed excess baggage is stories.'In this exquisite literary...
Writing Home

Writing Home

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This book brings together his diaries for 1980-1995, with reminiscences and reviews, the diary he kept during the production of his very first play, Forty Years On, which starred John...
People Who Lunch: On Work, Leisure, and Loose Living

People Who Lunch: On Work, Leisure, and Loose Living

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A riveting investigation of the utopian experiments attempting to resist the unrelenting demands of late-stage capitalism-only to end up living comfortably alongside itWhat do post-work politics, the cult of crypto,...
No Judgement: On Being Critical

No Judgement: On Being Critical

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A brilliant and addictive collection of brand-new essays on modern culture - from 'the pre-eminent and most widely read critic of her generation' The Times Included as a 2024 highlight...
My Russia: War or Peace?

My Russia: War or Peace?

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In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what...
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

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TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024NEW YORK TIMES' 100 MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2024'Bracing and brilliant ... scintillating writing of breadth and power' Kate Kellaway, Observer'A radical and important...
Calm the F**k Down

Calm the F**k Down

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The latest no-f**ks-given guide from July 2017 New York Times bestselling author of the international sensation The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k, Get Your Sh*t Together, and You...
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

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'Required reading.' - Cosmopolitan'This should be read as a sacred text. Here, you will bear witness to a perpetual salvation song.' - Jason ReynoldsRemember that moment when you first encountered...
No Judgement: On Being Critical

No Judgement: On Being Critical

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A brilliant and addictive collection of brand-new essays on modern culture - from 'the pre-eminent and most widely read critic of her generation' The Times Included as a 2024 highlight...
The Story Smuggler

The Story Smuggler

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'Some smuggle cigarettes, others alcohol - or weapons.Our contraband, being invisible, is more dangerous.Our contraband is undetectable by scanners.What we carry as concealed excess baggage is stories.'In this exquisite literary...
Oppositions: Selected Essays

Oppositions: Selected Essays

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'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought...
Oppositions: Selected Essays

Oppositions: Selected Essays

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'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought...
Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

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The Amis Collection: Selected Non-fiction

The Amis Collection: Selected Non-fiction

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If I Had My Life to Live Over: I Would Pick More Daisies

If I Had My Life to Live Over: I Would Pick More Daisies

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Etchings 6: The Ethical Issue

Etchings 6: The Ethical Issue

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Bonzer: Ap Edition

Bonzer: Ap Edition

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The Black Joy Project

The Black Joy Project

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Featuring 117 full-color photos and eight breathtaking essays on a force that fuels Black life all around the globe, this is Humans of New York meets The Black Book"A patchwork...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023

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Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022. "What's most compelling about a scientific...
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

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'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding of Hurston ... her words make it impossible for readers to...
These Wonderful Rumours!: A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries 1939-1945

These Wonderful Rumours!: A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries 1939-1945

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100 Years: Wisdom From Famous Writers on Every Year of Your Life

100 Years: Wisdom From Famous Writers on Every Year of Your Life

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Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries

Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries

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The Correspondence of Henry Edward Manning and William Ewart Gladstone: Volume Four 1882-1891

The Correspondence of Henry Edward Manning and William Ewart Gladstone: Volume Four 1882-1891

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Scratches In The Margin

Scratches In The Margin

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Strange Highways

Strange Highways

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Poisoned Pens

Poisoned Pens

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The Best American Food Writing 2023

The Best American Food Writing 2023

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Author: Mark BittmanFormat: Paperback, 140mm x 210mm, 454g, 208 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 "Excellent....Taken as a whole, the volume moves beyond food's sensory pleasures to investigate it...
Women's Wisdom Through the Ages: Timeless Quotations on Life and Faith

Women's Wisdom Through the Ages: Timeless Quotations on Life and Faith

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Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate

Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate

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Author: Daniel MendelsohnFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 120g, 128 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2022Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year.'Astounding'...
Misfits: A Personal Manifesto - by the creator of 'I May Destroy You'

Misfits: A Personal Manifesto - by the creator of 'I May Destroy You'

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Author: Michaela CoelFormat: Hardback, 119mm x 184mm, 172g, 128 pagesPublished: Ebury Publishing, United Kingdom, 2021The ground-breaking much-awaited debut by leading British star Michaela Coel. A personal and powerful book about...
The Shot Anthology: Vol. 1

The Shot Anthology: Vol. 1

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Arguably

Arguably

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Author: Christopher HitchensFormat: Paperback, 140mm x 215mm, 850g, 816 pagesPublished: Atlantic Books, United Kingdom, 2012Shortlisted for the 2012 Orwell Prize'As soon as we abandon our own reason', wrote Bertrand Russell,...
Niklas Maak: Server Manifesto: Data Center Architecture and the Future of Democracy

Niklas Maak: Server Manifesto: Data Center Architecture and the Future of Democracy

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Author: Niklas MaakFormat: Paperback, 120mm x 190mm, 170g, 64 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022If data is the greatest collective treasure of a digital society, basic material for business and politics:...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023

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Author: Carl ZimmerFormat: Paperback, 140mm x 210mm, 454g, 272 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that...
A Woman In Berlin

A Woman In Berlin

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The Oxford Book of Exile

The Oxford Book of Exile

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Isn't All This Bloody?: Scottish Writing from the First World War

Isn't All This Bloody?: Scottish Writing from the First World War

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A Taste for Travel: An Anthology

A Taste for Travel: An Anthology

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The Best American Essays 2023

The Best American Essays 2023

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Author: Vivian GornickFormat: Paperback, 140mm x 210mm, 454g, 304 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 In her introduction to this year's The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick...
From Churchill's War Rooms: Letters of a Secretary 1943-45

From Churchill's War Rooms: Letters of a Secretary 1943-45

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The Common Reader: Second Series (Collins Classics)

The Common Reader: Second Series (Collins Classics)

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Author: Virginia WoolfFormat: Paperback, 111mm x 178mm, 160g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed,...
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth About Globalization, Corporate Cons, and High Finance Fraudsters

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth About Globalization, Corporate Cons, and High Finance Fraudsters

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Letters to a Young Politician: From His Uncle

Letters to a Young Politician: From His Uncle

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The Penguin Century of Australian Stories

The Penguin Century of Australian Stories

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On Hate

On Hate

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The Princess Diarist

The Princess Diarist

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Author: Carrie Fisher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The most talked about memoir is now available in paperback When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming...