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Harold Bloom, the doyen of American literary critics and author of The Western Canon, has spent a professional lifetime reading, writing about and teaching Shakespeare. In this magisterial interpretation, Bloom explains Shakespeares genius in a ra...

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From the author of Little Children and now a major new TV series, The Leftovers asks what if one day some of us simply vanished? And some were left behind? Following the sudden disappearance of thousands of citizens, Kevin Garvey, Mapletons new ma...

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Americas preeminent fiction writer New Yorker A raw, propulsive tale of love and grief Mail on Sunday Michaela and her husband have moved to the starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape of New Mexico, to take residency at a distinguished academic i...

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A new book by Americas leading literary critic on the uses of deep reading. Practical, inspirational and learned, How to Read and Why is Blooms manifesto for the preponderance of written culture. In the vastly influential The Western Canon, Harold...

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SOON A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES from director Shawn Levy, starring Louis Hofmann, Lars Eidinger and Marion Bailey, with Hugh Laurie and Mark Ruffalo, and introducing Aria Mia Loberti. WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD F...

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Lynne Truss's first novel, in which she shows herself to be one of the very best comic writers. 'It was nobody's fault, this widely held assumption that Come Into the Garden had long since sought eternal peace in the great magazine ...

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A remarkable novel from the National Book Award-winning author of Going After Cacciato and The Things They Carried, which combines the power of the finest Vietnam fiction with the tension of a many-layered mystery. In a remote lakeside cabin deep ...

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Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense - economic and political, artistic and perso...

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Problem: Best friends keep giving extremely generous gifts Solution: Give better ones in return Philip has a lot on his mind. At home, in his unnecessarily large, excessively expensive house in south London, he is attempting to become a Taoist mas...

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Eating the Sun is the story of the discovery of a miracle: the source of life itself. From the intricacies of its molecular processes to the beauty of the nature that it supports, Eating the Sun is a wondering tribute to the extraordinary process ...

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Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize, an epic novel of startling originality which confirms Nicola Barker as one of Britain's most exciting literary talents. If history is a sick joke which keeps on repeating, then who keeps on telling i...

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Annie Proulx, one of America's finest writers, invites us to share her experience in the building of her new home on a rich plot of untouched, unspoilt prairie and her pleasure in uncovering of the layers of American history locked beneath th...

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Acclaimed author Matt Ridley's thrilling follow-up to his bestseller 'Genome'. Armed with the extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, Ridley turns his attention to the nature versus nurture debate to bring the first popular account of the r...

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The new novel from David Baddiel, comedian, columnist and author of the critically-praised The Secret Purposes. In New York's Mt. Sinai hospital, the world's greatest living writer, Eli Gold, is dying. Witnessing his death are his precoc...

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The debut novel by the iconic film director. Stylish and camera-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan are lovers and competitors nomadic freelancers in pursuit of sensation and depravity in the social media age, encountering each other only in airport hotels...

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Good games are like good jokes. They get passed on from person to person but sometimes they get forgotten. Ting Tang Tommy! is about reminding you of the best games you've ever known and showing you some you might never have come across. A tr...

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The new book from Alaa Al Aswany, author of the international bestseller The Yacoubian Building and Chicago. Friendly Fire is a novella and collection of short stories from Alaa Al Aswany, author of the bestselling The Yacoubian Building. As in th...

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An absolutely masterly work Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politicsan aesthetic war zone where the Western world wre...

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Includes a new chapter on John Cage. Alex Rosss award-winning international best-seller, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing him as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural h...

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Not only haunted by death, but also by beauty and the strangeness of being alive. A deeply memorable novel Colm Tibn I have friends and family, I am in this wonderful country, I have money, there is nothing much wrong with me except I am dying. na...

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From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende's latest novel tells the story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own ...

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How does one talk about love? yearning, n./adj. At the core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect. We are all beginners when it comes to love, from those tentative first dates to learning how to live with, or without, someone...

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"My husband died, my life collapsed." On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the Princeton Medical Center where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. Both Joyce and R...

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A sensational tale of obsession and murder from the author of The Wilding. England, 1640s. Jacob Cullen is an educated, vigorous and dauntingly strong manservant in a Royalist household, who has begun to develop a dangerous interest in god-fearing...

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A fully updated edition of the first major biography of David Cameron now covering his first years as Prime Minister and leader of the coalition government. David Cameron is the first Conservative Prime Minister in a generation, and also the first...

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With one night to remember a lifetime, I Married You for Happiness is a riveting and deeply moving love story. "His hand is growing cold, still she holds it." The story unfolds over a single night, as Nina, numb with grief, sits at the b...

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Compassionate and compelling, this is not a political story but a quest for love in the heart of darkness Simon Sebag Montefiore A biography on an epic scale, with a combination of tragedy and history worthy of a Russian novel Independent Superbly...

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The best of the awesome Youtube and Twitter phenomenon Sh*t Girls Say! I just love tiny thingsI hate the word moistIm so paleI had such a good sleepWhats your dogs name?Ice cream makes me cough Get it together, because were not even joking right n...

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AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself....

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Riveting Margaret Atwood I loved this book intensely Lauren Groff Guardian The startling, witty, highly anticipated second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Atmospheric Disturbances. The plague is spreading. The Thirty Years War is beg...

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