Islands of Abandonment
This is a book about abandoned places: ghost towns and exclusion zones, no man’s lands and fortress […]
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Broken Horses
Brandi Carlile was born into a musically gifted, impoverished family on the outskirts of Seattle and grew […]
Notes to Self
In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks to the business of living as a woman in the […]
A Promised Land
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of […]
James Joyce and Cinematicity
Investigates how the cinematic tendency of Joyce’s writing developed from media predating film First comprehensive consideration of […]
Narrative Fiction
What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? […]
The Source of Self-Regard
Here is Toni Morrison in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and […]
Flavour
Flavour-forward, vegetable-based recipes are at the heart of Yotam Ottolenghi’s food. In this stunning new cookbook Yotam […]
Caste
In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America […]
Difficult Women – A History of Feminism in 11 Fights
Feminism’s success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting […]
Jeff Buckley – From Hallelujah to the Last Goodbye
For the first time since Jeff Buckley’s untimely death on May 29, 1997, his manager Dave Lory […]
Dresden – The Fire and the Darkness
In February 1945 the Allies obliterated Dresden, the ‘Florence of the Elbe’. Bombs weighing over 1,000 lbs […]
1939
In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. Still reeling from the ravages […]
Blood
The Grammy- and Academy Award- nominated singer-songwriter’s haunting, lyrical memoir, sharing the story of an unthinkable act […]
Music – A Subversive History
From the dawn of civilization to the modern-day music scene, this breathtaking global history reveals how songs […]