Our Current Bestsellers
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Original medieval remedies mix with new inventions of Julia’s own in this collection of charms for modern life.For uncertaintyremember your dreams.There is bound to be onethat will lead you throughlike a red threadWhat does it mean…
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A hybrid of memoir, travel and cultural history that explores how water altered LA and the history of film‘Outrageously good … An unforgettable book’ – OLIVIA LAING‘Reverie and…
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The things that hold life in place have been lifted off and put away. Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside, a woman lives in temporary limbo, visited by memories of all she’s left behind. The most insistent are those…
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Part of the beauty of the art of cooking is that it involves transience, making something delightful that then vanishes, and that in turn involves cherishing the time we spend on perfecting a dish. Cooking yourself something delicious is…
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The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small ThingsArundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became…
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A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global survey of how human history has reshaped the planet, and vice versa over the last 500 years‘Dazzling… brilliant… exactly the kind of history that we need on our crisis-ridden…
Recommended by Gayle
‘I can’t tell you how tenderly I – a person who spends much of their time going to the BFI alone – feel about Jeremy Cooper’s Brian, a novel about a man who spends all his time going to the BFI alone. A love letter to the BFI and to London! To small, quiet lives made expansive by access to film and art! To friendship and community!’
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Writing about witches from the London Review of Books‘the witches eat your bookthen youthen everything’– Rebecca TamásWitches in history were usually poor, ill, weak and uneducated, yet they instilled…
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Translated by Sophie Hughes Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, affordable, plant-filled apartment. Their life as young digital creatives revolves around slow cooking, Danish…
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Translated by George SzirtesOne of László Krasznahorkai's finest novels available in stunning redesigned paperbackWinner of the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeThe Melancholy of Resistance, László…