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It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. There are riots in Paris and the Vietnam War is out of control. While the world is reeling our three characters are involved in making a Swingin’ Sixties movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives. Elfrida is drowning her writer’s block in vodka; Talbot, coping with the daily dysfunction of making a film, is hiding something in a secret apartment; and […]
In February 1945 the Allies obliterated Dresden, the ‘Florence of the Elbe’. Bombs weighing over 1,000 […]
A woman and man, parted a quarter of a century, reunite in a bar in New […]
In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in […]
n the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day […]
The Grammy- and Academy Award- nominated singer-songwriter’s haunting, lyrical memoir, sharing the story of an unthinkable […]
The Troubles made Northern Ireland a ghost factory: as the manufacturing industry withered the death business […]
Es ist wieder mal Wahlkampf. Lozen Graham muss sich mit Provokateuren, Hackern und einem rechten Milliardär […]
A dazzling novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in […]
A triumphant blend of horror, suspense and pitch-black comedy, from the Booker-shortlisted author While on her […]
Did any musician in the Seventies fly so free as John Martyn did on Bless The […]
A provocative, wildly funny, intellectually rigorous and engrossing novel, punctuated by Siri Hustvedt’s own illustrations – […]
Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself […]
England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a […]
A series of unsolved murders with one thing in common: each of the deaths bears an […]
The battered and exhausted Britain of 1945 was desperate for workers – to rebuild, to fill […]
Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville […]
Ranging from Texas, to Chile, to New Mexico and New York, in Evening in Paradise Berlin […]
From the bestselling author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to […]
For Leila, each minute after her death brings a sensuous memory: the taste of spiced goat […]
Baltic showcases the food culture of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, three countries experiencing new energy and […]
In this spellbinding new exploration of the varieties of love, the author of Call Me by […]
On a summer’s day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with […]
In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. Still reeling from the […]
The lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this Sunday […]
Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working […]
The unmissable finale to Ali Smith’s dazzling literary tour de force: the Seasonal quartet concludes in […]
An adrenaline-charged crime caper that features smart, detailed world-building based on real science and the charm […]
Loudon Wainwright III, the son of esteemed Life magazine columnist Loudon Wainwright, Jr., is the patriarch […]
Are The Planets Just For Decoration? is fantastic reading filled with amazing insight and intuitive mastery. […]
LATTICING one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality […]
‘A profound examination of friendship, romantic confusion and mortality’ John Boyne One summer’s evening, two men […]
Feminism’s success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as […]
Flavour-forward, vegetable-based recipes are at the heart of Yotam Ottolenghi’s food. In this stunning new cookbook […]
Here is Toni Morrison in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays […]
From the creator of Cat Person – the first short story to go viral – comes […]
At once, dissent and morality, deviancy and normalcy, became modern legal concepts: if writers, editors, printers […]
Afropean is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple […]
From the dawn of civilization to the modern-day music scene, this breathtaking global history reveals how […]
‘Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until […]
From the bestselling author of The Monk of Mokha and The Circle comes a taut, suspenseful […]
Meet James Samuel Vincent, an affluent Manhattan attorney who shirks his modest Irish American background but […]
It is Harvard in the early 1960s. Just off campus, Dr Timothy Leary plays host for […]
‘A unique and thoughtful musical memoir’ Observer ‘Gritty coming-of-age story . . . plenty of anecdotes […]
In its open improvisations, lapidary lyrics, errant melodies, and relentless pursuit of spontaneity, the British experimental […]
Perdita Lee may appear your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother […]
‘A stand-out triumph’ – The Sunday Times The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of […]
MEET ELLIOTT. Elliott is something of a genius. He is hugely intelligent. He’s an incredible observer. […]
This definitive biography reclaims Nelson Algren as a towering literary figure and finally unravels the enigma […]
When Colin Grant was growing up in Luton in the 1960s, he learned not to ask […]
Not far from London, there is a village. This village belongs to the people who live […]