Our Current Bestsellers
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When Brian Dillon was sixteen his mother died and he simply gave up all schoolwork. While he courted exam failure, his real education was going on elsewhere: with books, music, films and television. When at last he made it to university,…
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'In one short and sly book after another, [Levy] writes about characters navigating swerves of history and sexuality, and the social and personal rootlessness that accompanies both' AtlanticWho was Gertrude Stein?Avant-garde American…
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FROM THE PULITZER-WINNING, BOOKER-SHORTLISTED ELIZABETH STROUT COMES A STUNNING STANDALONE NOVEL OF LOVE, LONELINESS AND NEW BEGINNINGSArtie Dam is a man with a secret. He spends his days teaching history to high schoolers, expanding their…
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How We Spend Our Days by Claire-Louise Bennett, and Five Minutes' Peace by Dorothy Spencer, accompany Marguerite Duras’ seminal essay Writing (tr. Mark Polizzotti), a meditation on writing and one of her last…
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‘One of the most perfect short novels I’ve ever read. Helen Garner vividly depicts the gentle implosion of the Fox family – from shabby domestic bliss to disaster (and back again) – in 150 pages of brilliantly spare prose.’
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Translated by Ryan ChoiHell of Solitude presents a varied and eclectic selection of writings by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, one of the most important and beloved Japanese writers of the twentieth century. Bringing together fiction, poetry, and…
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Translated by Jesse KirkwoodMusashino, 1959. A young Japanese flight attendant is found strangled on the icy banks of the river. The police suspect foul play – but the deeper they dig, the more they collide with a wall of…
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In her new cookbook, Michèle Roberts casts her net further afield with handpicked recipes adapted from an array of historical and personal sources. Containing over 170 recipes, many of them introduced with the author’s…
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The work of photographer Peter Hujar defined downtown New York in the 1970s and 1980s. Paul Thek was an American sculptor and painter. Hujar and Thek met in 1956 and shared a strong intellectual and artistic connection that influenced the…
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Cult author David Keenan's most mature, magical and profoundly realised novel yet, centred on a young boy in Glasgow'Boyhood is a complete triumph . . . it slaps our dull, sterile culture hard across the face with a studded,…
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