Our Non-Fiction Bestsellers

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The groundbreaking biography of Booker Prize-winning novelist and art historian Anita Brookner, from one of our leading literary biographers. Anita Brookner was an intensely private person who kept her friends in separate compartments and…

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What happens when politics is everywhere, yet nothing seems to change? From the abandoned dance floors of Thatcher's London to the mass mobilizations of Black Lives Matter, Anton Jager traces how pub lic life has become infused with…

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A Chorus of Ears is a series of essays on voice, lyric and the persona of the poet from one of the greatest living English poets. Originally delivered as a lecture series at Trinity College, Cambridge, in A Chorus of Ears Denise Riley…

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Having survived revolution, numerous wars, fire and attempted seizure over the course of 900 years, the Bayeux Tapestry has emerged with totemic status as one of the most important artefacts of European history. Spread out over seventy…

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The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small ThingsArundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became…

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A book that uses poetry to talk about difficulty, and vice versa.As Lavinia Greenlaw readily ‘The idea of poetry tends to make people feel stupid, anxious or bored.’ Poetry can appear to be inherently…

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Translated by Jack HargreavesA witty and humane account of one man, multiple jobs and what it means to liveHu AnYan has held nineteen different jobs since he graduated. He’s been a convenience store clerk, a bicycle salesman, a…

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An immersive journey through trees in Japan by celebrated writer Aya Koda - now available in English for the first time'Trees are not just living things, but feeling beings, like us. Better keep a watchful eye over them...'Ezo spruce,…

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*New York Times Bestseller*A Book of the Year According to Financial Times and Sunday TimesShortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the YearFrom an indispensable voice on China comes a riveting, first-hand account…

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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…