Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 44 No. 17

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An award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of life'A powerful antidote to the myth of a "weaker sex"' Gina Rippon, author of The Gendered BrainFrom…

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‘Menachem Kaiser is a young writer and storyteller of stunning talent, originality, and wisdom, and his debut book is gloriously impossible to categorise — by turns hilarious and profound, digressive and suspenseful, intimate…

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This is a book about yoga. Or at least, it was. January 2015. High on literary success and familial bliss, Emmanuel Carrere embarks on a rigorous ten-day meditative retreat in rural France in search of clarity and material for his next…

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The second volume of Robert Crawford's magisterial biography of the revolutionary modernist, visionary poet and troubled man, drawing on extensive new sources.In this compelling and meticulous portrait of the twentieth century's most…

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A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II "Engrossing. . . . Kennedy convincingly shows that World War II was won, ultimately, by superior American industrial…

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Barbie or Lego? Reading maps or reading emotions? Do you have a female brain or a male brain? Or is that the wrong question?On a daily basis we face deeply ingrained beliefs that our sex determines our skills and preferences, from toys…

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'This is history with the engaging intimacy of a novel. Bashford brilliantly marries intellectual history with the story of four generations in a literary tour de force' Professor Jim Secord, author of Visions of Science'Packed with…

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The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller'Prepare your hearts, for Douglas Stuart is back. After the extraordinary success of Shuggie Bain, his second novel, Young Mungo, is another beautiful and moving book, a…

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A look inside the hidden world of London's private members' clubs, from the late-eighteenth century to the present. If we think of these clubs as predominantly white, male and aristocratic, we could not be more wrong. Their true story is…

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** A Book of the Year in The Times – The New Statesman – Observer – Financial Times – Irish Times – Irish Independent – Times Literary Supplement…