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Blaine Harden

Escape From Camp 14

Introducing the incredible story of Shin Dong-hyuk – the only person born in a North Korean gulag […]

Tim Weiner

Enemies – A History of the FBI

Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI’s secret intelligence operations, from an author whose work […]

Julie Coleman

The Life of Slang

This book traces the development of English slang from the earliest records to the latest tweet. It […]

Siri Hustvedt

Living, Thinking, Looking

From the internationally bestselling author of What I Loved and The Summer Without Men, a dazzling collection […]

Irvine Welsh

Skagboys

Mark Renton has it all: he’s good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. […]

John Lanchester

Capital

Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the Capital. Each house has seen its fair share of first […]

Simon Reynolds

Retromania

We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band reformations and […]

Herbert A. Leibowitz

Something Urgent I Have to Say to You

Herbert Leibowitz’s “Something Urgent I Have to Say to You” provides a new perspective on the life […]

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Flappers and Philosophers

Encompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the […]

Jonathan Coe

The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim

Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom: separated from his wife and daughter, estranged from his […]

Blake Bailey

Cheever

From the acclaimed author of A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates comes the […]

Rob Young

Electric Eden

In this groundbreaking survey of more than a century of music making in the British Isles, Rob […]

August Kleinzahler

Sleeping It Off in Rapid City

The first broad retrospective of August Kleinzahler’s career, Sleeping It Ofƒ in Rapid City gathers poems from […]

Sylvia Plath

Ariel – The Restored Edition

Sylvia Plath’s famous collection, as she intended it. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind […]

Linwood Barclay

Fear the Worst

Tim Blake is an average guy. He sells cars. He has an ex-wife who’s moved in with […]