PRE-ORDER | Signed editions
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When Joseph Stalin died in 1953, he had been the unchallenged leader of the Soviet Union for over twenty years, having presided over the ruthless modernisation of the early 1930s, the Great Purges later in the decade, the near-catastrophe…
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From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-shifting new book – which answers a resounding yes to the question of its title.At its heart is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not…
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A Financial Times 'What to read in 2025' Book'Essential reading' Françoise Vergès, author of A Decolonial Feminism'Profound and compelling ... A book that I couldn't put down' Adam Hanieh, author of Crude CapitalismWhether…
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A beautiful, expansive essay about care, dependence, and what it means to breathe in an age of environmental catastropheA few moments after birth we begin to use our lungs for the first time. From then on, we must continue breathing for as…
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*A 2025 HIGHLIGHT FOR: Telegraph, Financial Times, New Statesman, Irish Times, Elle and GQ*'Spellbinding. An incredible exploration of how young people are navigating the complex world we find ourselves in…
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WHAT THE FUTURE LOOKS LIKE TO MOST PEOPLE. AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT.Every month, surveys around the world ask people to tell them what they are really thinking. The results are at times reassuring, some-times chilling and often…
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A masterful story of friendship and how much we’re willing to risk to possess one of life’s most treasured mercies: a second chanceTHE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATIONOcean Vuong returns with a big-hearted novel…
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‘A total joy to read.’ SARAH BAKEWELL‘Thrillingly intelligent and original . . . A breakthrough in biographical form.’ EDMUND GORDON‘A discerning literary biography and a page-turning…
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WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2024The powerful new collection from legendary American poet Peter Gizzi, reckoning with the transformative power of elegy through poems of lament and love‘I am awestruck, dumbfounded … a…
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“Then the voice from nowhere carried on talking about Munch, like my mother of all people knew about Munch, like she knew I was looking at a picture right now, like she knew about the power crisis and the international unrest and the…
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From the climate crisis and the pandemic to trends in masculinity, a stellar collection of Rebecca Solnit's most recent thinking exploring the power of activism.This book's title, No Straight Road Takes You There, is an evocation and a…
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The first memoir from Geoff Dyer, author of Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It, recollecting his childhood and coming of age in postwar Britain‘Moving, atmospheric, truthful, perceptive and hilariously funny…
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Translated by Charlotte MandellFleeing a nameless war, a soldier emerges from the Mediterranean scrubland, filthy, exhausted and seeking refuge. A chance meeting forces him to rethink his journey, and the price he puts on a life. On 11…
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From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Gay Bar comes a rule-breaking, sweat-soaked, genre-busting story of outlaw loveIt’s 1996, and Jeremy, a young American, has met the British boy of his dreams…
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We all want more free time. But do we know how to use it?'Illuminating and thought-provoking' Darian Leader'Astounding, generous, and quietly exhilarating' Daisy LaFargeThe celebrated psychoanalyst Marion Milner lived for the entirety of…
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Return to the magic of the Archipelago... The Poisoned King is the dazzling second book in Katherine Rundell's epic and bestselling Impossible Creatures series.The dragons call out, and the ratatoskas tell of murder. Come with us now. There…