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The Good Immigrant USA: 26 Writers on America, Immigration and Home

The Good Immigrant USA: 26 Writers on America, Immigration and Home

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Author: Nikesh Shukla Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 GUARDIAN MUST READ BOOKS OF 2019 'The you-gotta-read-this anthology' Stylist 'This collection showcases the joy, empathy and fierceness needed to adopt...
How to Build a Human: What Science Knows About Childhood

How to Build a Human: What Science Knows About Childhood

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Author: Emma Byrne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Byrne's book is about scientific parenting, and it is very welcome indeed ... breezy and digestible ... this is such a...
Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land

Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land

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Author: Bella Bathurst Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'A priceless portrait of one of the least understood and frequently most vilified of people: farmers. It should really be read...
Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings

Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings

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Author: Saumya Roy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'If you read one book about India, read this one.' - Geeta Anand, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of The Cure 'Mountain...
The Handshake: A Gripping History

The Handshake: A Gripping History

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Author: Ella Al-Shamahi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'A fabulously sparky, wide-ranging and horizon-broadening little study ... joyously unboring' - Sunday Times Friends do it, strangers do it and...
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire

The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire

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Men Are Stupid, Women Are Crazy: The Best Of Ruehl

Men Are Stupid, Women Are Crazy: The Best Of Ruehl

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When the Dust Settles: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A marvellous book' -- Rev Richard Coles

When the Dust Settles: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A marvellous book' -- Rev Richard Coles

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Author: Lucy Easthope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, Lucy Easthope's phone starts to ring... ________________...
Breaking News: Sex, Lies and the Murdoch Succession

Breaking News: Sex, Lies and the Murdoch Succession

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Geisha

Geisha

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Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery

Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery

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Author: Alex Renton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Through the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it...
Generations: Does When You're Born Shape Who You Are?

Generations: Does When You're Born Shape Who You Are?

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Author: Bobby Duffy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Are millennials entitled and lazy? Are baby boomers the most sexually liberal generation? Was generation X the last group to show...
Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care

Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care

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Author: Madeleine Bunting (Y) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 We're facing a crisis in care likely to affect every one of us over the course of our lives. Care-work...
Between Light and Storm: How We Live With Other Species

Between Light and Storm: How We Live With Other Species

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Author: Esther Woolfson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions...
The Bookshop Book

The Bookshop Book

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Author: Jen Campbell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Every bookshop has a story We're not talking about rooms that are just full of books. We're talking about bookshops in...
Earth-Shattering Events: Earthquakes, Nations and Civilization

Earth-Shattering Events: Earthquakes, Nations and Civilization

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Author: Andrew Robinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 From antiquity until the present day, on every continent, human beings have made a Faustian bargain with the risk of periodic...
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

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Author: Michael Bhaskar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'A fascinating book . . . Bhaskar is a reassuringly positive and often witty guide' Observer 'A fascinating, must-read book covering...
Gender Explorers: Our Stories of Growing Up Trans and Changing the World

Gender Explorers: Our Stories of Growing Up Trans and Changing the World

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Author: Juno Roche Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'I believe that children who are questioning and exploring their gender are the gender bosses that we all so desperately need....
Wars of the Interior

Wars of the Interior

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Author: Joseph Zarate Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 When you fill up your car, install your furniture or choose a wedding ring, do you ever consider the human cost...
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

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Author: Jack Lowery Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and...
Safe: 20 Ways to be a Black Man in Britain Today

Safe: 20 Ways to be a Black Man in Britain Today

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Author: Derek Owusu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'It's brave and honest, and not a moment too soon.' Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish) '[An] outstanding myth-busting book. Everyone should read it.'...
Easy Beauty: On Seeing and Being Seen

Easy Beauty: On Seeing and Being Seen

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Author: Chloe Cooper Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'GORGEOUS, VIVIDLY ALIVE' NEW YORK TIMES 'BOLD, HONEST AND SUPERBLY WELL-WRITTEN' ANDRE ACIMAN, AUTHOR OF CALL ME BY YOUR NAME...
The Brave New World of Work

The Brave New World of Work

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Anna's Story

Anna's Story

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Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women's Trauma Against Them

Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women's Trauma Against Them

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Author: Dr Jessica Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Angry, opinionated, mouthy, aggressive, hysterical, mad, disordered, crazy, psycho, delusional, borderline, hormonal . . . Women...
All That We Are: Uncovering the Hidden Truths Behind Our Behaviour at Work

All That We Are: Uncovering the Hidden Truths Behind Our Behaviour at Work

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Author: Gabriella Braun Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Who do you bring with you to work? Try as we might, we cannot leave part of ourselves under the pillow...
At Christmas We Feast: Festive Food Through the Ages

At Christmas We Feast: Festive Food Through the Ages

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Author: Annie Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'A joy to immerse oneself in' - Andi Oliver 'In the field of food history, Annie Gray leads the pack' -...
Behind Closed Doors: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING: Why We Break Up Families - and How to Mend Them

Behind Closed Doors: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING: Why We Break Up Families - and How to Mend Them

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Author: Polly Curtis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 'Brilliant . . . I love this book' LEMN SISSAY 'A must-read book'...
In the Black Fantastic

In the Black Fantastic

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Author: Ekow Eshun Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, this is an expressive exploration of Black popular culture at...
Apocalypse Ready: The manual of manuals; a century of panic prevention

Apocalypse Ready: The manual of manuals; a century of panic prevention

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Author: Taras Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 An expertly curated compilation of officially published step-by-step guides on how to deal with every kind of disaster imaginable, drawn from...
Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic

Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic

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Author: Hugh Brody Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 This is a book about silences. And land. It is about a childhood in England in the shadow of the Second...
Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back

Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back

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Author: Mark O'Connell, LCSW Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand,...
Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care

Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care

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Author: Madeleine Bunting (Y) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 We're facing a crisis in care likely to affect every one of us over the course of our lives. Care-work...
Giving Back: How to Do Good, Better

Giving Back: How to Do Good, Better

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Author: Derek A. Bardowell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Do you wish you could do more to change the world but don't know how? Do you ever look around...
At Christmas We Feast: Festive Food Through the Ages

At Christmas We Feast: Festive Food Through the Ages

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Author: Annie Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'A joy to immerse oneself in' - Andi Oliver 'In the field of food history, Annie Gray leads the pack' -...
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

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Author: Michael Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 In the last years of the millennium, bestselling author Michael Lewis sets out to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur,...
Early: An Intimate History of Premature Birth and What It Teaches Us About Being Human

Early: An Intimate History of Premature Birth and What It Teaches Us About Being Human

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Author: Sarah DiGregorio Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Inspired by Sarah DiGregorio's harrowing experience giving birth to her premature daughter, Early is a compelling and empathetic blend of memoir...
The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity

The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity

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Lucifer with a Book: A Novel

Lucifer with a Book: A Novel

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These Were My Tribesmen: A Young AustralianÕs Adventures Among the Aborigines of Central Australia

These Were My Tribesmen: A Young AustralianÕs Adventures Among the Aborigines of Central Australia

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Sure of You

Sure of You

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Man and Society: A Critical Examination of some Important Social and Political Theories from Machiavelli to Marx (Two-Volume Set)

Man and Society: A Critical Examination of some Important Social and Political Theories from Machiavelli to Marx (Two-Volume Set)

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The Bushies : True Stories of Australian Country Characters: True Stories of Australian Country Characters

The Bushies : True Stories of Australian Country Characters: True Stories of Australian Country Characters

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When I Was Your Age: Ireland's Grandparents Share Memories and Wisdom

When I Was Your Age: Ireland's Grandparents Share Memories and Wisdom

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Author: Valerie Cox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 INCLUDES INTERVIEWS WITH BERTIE AHERN, MARY KENNEDY, SEAN O'ROUKE, MARY COUGHLAN AND MANY OTHERS. What was life like for Ireland's grandparents...
Call Me Elizabeth

Call Me Elizabeth

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Brothers and Sisters

Brothers and Sisters

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Barbarism to Verdict

Barbarism to Verdict

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Cold War Steve - Journal of The Plague Year

Cold War Steve - Journal of The Plague Year

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Author: Cold War Steve Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Following the bestselling Festival of Brexit and A Prat's Progress, star satirist Cold War Steve returns with a viral vengeance...