Our Current Bestsellers
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Strange Beach is the debut collection from poet and choreographer Oluwaseun Olayiwola. Intimate and erotic, ecological and philosophical, the poems in Strange Beach illuminate the body as a porous landscape across which…
Recommended by Gayle
‘Not a day goes past that I don't shake a fist at the sky and cry in despair, “When will Claire-Louise Bennett publish something new?!” Until my cries are answered, I'll make do with rereading Pond, Bennett's wildly brilliant and totally unique collection of stories following one woman living alone in the Irish countryside. EDIT: Claire-Louise Bennett has now written another book, and it’s better than I dreamt it could be.’
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A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of StoryWith an introduction by Theo Downes-Le Guin, Karen Joy Fowler, Molly Gloss and Kelly LinkUrsula K. Le Guin’s essential guide to the writer’s craft, now publishing in…
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Part of the beauty of the art of cooking is that it involves transience, making something delightful that then vanishes, and that in turn involves cherishing the time we spend on perfecting a dish. Cooking yourself something delicious is…
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From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive.To give up or not to give up?The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple.Giving up our supposed vices is one thing;…
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Sometimes it’s very uplifting to feel one’s fleshy boundaries dissolve. To not know where one ends and the world begins. To feel someone's breast is your breast too. Total immersion can be very transporting indeed.‘I think…
Recommended by Gayle
‘I can’t tell you how tenderly I – a person who spends much of their time going to the BFI alone – feel about Jeremy Cooper’s Brian, a novel about a man who spends all his time going to the BFI alone. A love letter to the BFI and to London! To small, quiet lives made expansive by access to film and art! To friendship and community!’
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What can the fall of Rome teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist, both experts in their field, investigateOver the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly,…
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Translated by Ayça TürkoğluHow do you live with violence and dread? How do you cope with the threat of them recurring? These are among the urgent questions posed by Cemile Sahin's second novel, and the first to be…
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With an introduction by Lynne TillmanFollowing the death of her mother, twenty-two-year-old Anastasia King leaves Paris to return to Dublin.In the time that she has been away, her estranged father has died. On arriving to her family home,…