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Square Haunting by Francesca Wade
Square Haunting by Francesca Wade
Francesca Wade

'Outstanding. I'll be recommending this all year.' Sarah Bakewell'A beautiful and deeply moving book.' Sally Rooney'I li...

Intimations : Six Essays
Intimations : Six Essays
Zadie Smith

"Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of reflective essays by one of the most clear-sighted ...

Conditional Citizens
Conditional Citizens
Laila Lalami

The acclaimed, award-winning novelist--author of The Moor's Account and The Other Americans--now gives us a bracingly pe...

Memorial Drive
Memorial Drive
Natasha Trethewey

"In Memorial Drive, Natasha Trethewey has transformed unimaginable tragedy into a work of sublimity. There's sorrow and ...

Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
Anonymous

One of the New York Times' 20 Books to Read in 2020 "Unforgettable...Behind her brilliantly witty and uplifting message ...

Very Good Lives
Very Good Lives
J. K. Rowling

In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the firs...

Mom and Me and Mom
Mom and Me and Mom
Maya Angelou

'In the first decade of the twentiety century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.' So begins...

Why be Happy when You Could be Normal?
Why be Happy when You Could be Normal?
Jeanette Winterson

The shocking, heart-breaking - and often very funny - true story behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. In 1985 Jeanette...

Black Milk by Elif Shafak
Black Milk by Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak

An acclaimed Turkish novelist's personal account of balancing a writer's life with a mother's life. After the birth of...

Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens
Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens traces his journey from a Portsmouth military family to Balliol College, and a career as a public i...

Nothing to Be Frightened Of
Nothing to Be Frightened Of
Julian Barnes

"I don’t believe in God, but I miss him." So begins Julian Barnes’s brilliant new book that is, among many things, a...

Brother, I'm Dying
Brother, I'm Dying
Edwidge Danticat

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyA National Book Award FinalistA New York Times Notable...

Shakespeare: The World as Stage
Shakespeare: The World as Stage
Bill Bryson

William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but h...

1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
James S. Shapiro

How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? I...

The Mitford Girls
The Mitford Girls
Mary S. Lovell

THE MITFORD GIRLS tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are ...

Cider with Rosie
Cider with Rosie
Laurie Lee

At all times wonderfully evocative and poignant, Cider With Rosie is a charming memoir of Laurie Lee's childhood in a re...

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath

Published in Their Entirety for the First Time, Sylvaia Plath's journals provide an intimate portrait of the writer who ...

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
David Foster Wallace

A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST - one of the mo...

Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
David Herbert Donald

A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham Linc...

A Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway

The first thing to say about the 'restored' edition so ably and attractively produced by Patrick and Sean Hemingway is t...

Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau is considered one of the leading figures in early American literature, and Walden is without doubt h...

Unreliable Memoirs
Unreliable Memoirs
Clive James

Before James Frey famously fabricated his memoir, Clive James wrote a refreshingly candid book that made no claims to be...