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This lost classic coming-of-age tale is a tragicomic portrait of one young woman's university breakdown and recovery, introduced by Daisy Johnson.I wanted the knack of existing. I did not know the rules ... I wanted to tell them all about the animals, but would they understand?A tea party at an Oxford college. Earnest undergraduates in floral dresses clink cups, discussing essay-crises, punting, summer balls. But to one student, they are grotesquel...

The conversion of a local beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for New Cemetery. From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage chronicles the extraordinary transformation of landscape both outer and inner. These luminous and wry poems - composed in short-lined tercets - reflect the changing world: one of unstable weather patterns and unpredictable news events, all observed across a few acres of Pennine uplan...

Meet Lisa. Smart, bookish, an only child.Having navigated school and adolescence - mainly under the influence of the Brontës and Jane Austen - she goes to college and falls in love with Eric, a fellow student, whose ambition pushes him towards a summer work placement in NY and then a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford. But it's Lisa who helps him, who may have to follow him if she wants their relationship to have a chance, and who could be compromising her own ambitions ...

A 12th Century coming-of-age tale - vivid, sensual and darkly erotic - from a major literary talent.Eleven year old Astralabe's windswept days stretch by. Afternoons at the Abbey, trying to concentrate on his lessons; hours mesmerised by the lilac sky mirrored in the stingers washed up at his feet; cool evenings spent absorbing the whisperings of the village.Astralabe is alone. The infamous child of Abelard and Heloise's forbidden love, his parents are as d...

You thought you understood how the patriarchy runs our country. It's so much worse than you think.When the 'Garrick club, list of members' is leaked to Amelia Gentleman, it offers her a concise guide to Britain's male establishment: here high court judges dine with newspaper editors, senior politicians with economists, secret service chiefs with bankers. Sparking an investigation into how this male elite operates behind closed doors, Gentleman reveals why the City ...

The thrilling story of the enigmatic billionaire Pavel Durov - known as Russia's 'Mark Zuckerberg' - and his controversial social media platform, Telegram.'A wonderful exposé. Killer App tells the story of how Telegram and its founder Pavel Durov shaped our dark, modern times . . . riveting'LUKE HARDING, author of Betrayal: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest***AUGUST 2024. A private jet touches dow...

This is a history of the Second World War - as you have never heard it before.Dancer, singer and intelligence agent Josephine BakerGerman Nazi pianist Elly NeyBritish pianist Myra HessComposer Avril Coleridge-TaylorBallerina Tatiana VecheslovaViolinist Alma Rosé, conductor of the Auschwitz women's orchestraJazz band the International Sweethearts of RhythmPrize-winning author Leah Broad brings to life the unsung stories of the trailb...

'Spellbinding, elegant, and urgent . . . Held me from the first moment to the last' Katherine RundellThe great quest of Augustine's life was for truth. This was his true fire.Today, we are still the product of Augustine's thinking, only most of us don't know it. Our world is shaped by his ideas on time and language, his understanding of the self, his theory of 'Just War', his attitudes to sex and the body, his conception of God. Augustine wrote the world's ...

'A thing to rejoce over.' (Evelyn Waugh)Illicit queer crushes on a family picnic. A nightclub singer lecturing her Communist nephew. Drunken feuds at the seedy South Kensington Hotel's staff dance. The eccentric spinsters tempting a little boy to grotesque acts.Welcome to the singular world of Angus Wilson. An overlooked legend of the post-war queer landscape, he casts a waspish, tragicomic yet oddly tender eye across mid-century England. Jitterbugging, esp...

Boil the cat lady down to her essence, and you find the belief that you shouldn't trust a cat farther than you can throw it, you'd do well not trust a woman even that far, and it gets worse when they team up.What is it about women and cats? Historically, both have occupied an uncertain status: are they feral or domestic? Malevolent or harmless? Deceptive or trustworthy?With a claw-like swipe of the pen, Reiches toys with the facts and fictions that comprise the cat...

NARRATED BY JACK LOWDEN'A quirky and original debut that sizzles with scintillating prose.' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Michael Pedersen is a rare writer of real passion and power and this debut is phenomenal.' MATT HAIGLife on a remote island is turned upside down by a stranger's arrival, testing bonds of family and tradition and leaving a young dreamer's future hanging in the balance.It's no ordin...

An extraordinary account of resistance, courage and survival in Putin's Russia, from a Pulitzer Prize-winning dissident with a uniquely hopeful message.Vladimir Kara-Murza has had a front-row seat on Russian history for a quarter of a century, both as witness and participant. He challenged Putin's party at the ballot box and saw firsthand how it stifles opponents. He rallied support on the streets of Moscow and in Western corridors of power. And he paid the price for his defiance: ...