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New and Recommended: Our Front Table

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Our Front Table is reserved for our pick of lively and surprising non-fiction. Find something unexpected here today.

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“ALL THE HOT WOMEN I KNOW HAVE ELLA FREARS ON THEIR BEDSIDE TABLES.”—Sheena PatelTaking the form of one long email addressed to an estate agent, Goodlord is a fictional memoir of habitation, a genre-defying…

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The story of how Francis Pryor created a haven for people, plants and wildlife in a remote corner of the fens.In 1992, the archaeologists Francis and Maisie Pryor acquired a large field in a remote corner of the Lincolnshire fens. The soil…

From the publisher:
REVISED & EXPANDED 2ND EDITIONWith an introduction by Tom McCarthyRenowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels Book of Clouds, Asunder and Sea Monsters, the Mexican writer Chloe Aridjis crosses…

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Exploring Paris arm in arm with Balzac, nineteenth-century France’s most famous novelist and observerIn Balzac’s vast Human Comedy, a body of ninety-one completed novels and stories, he endeavoured to create a complete…

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A wild ride into the uncanny mirror world of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine*WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A BOOK OF…

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Translated by John Berger and Anna Bostock'The undisputed masterpiece of négritude and a poetic milestone of anti-colonialism' Guardian'We shall speak. We shall sing. We shall shout.'This blazing autobiographical poem by the…

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The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from classic theatre to modern adaptations on stage and screen. But how well do we really know his…

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A brilliantly buzzy consideration of how we - the fans - should respond to good art made by bad peopleWise and bold and full of the kind of gravitas that might even rub off' LISA TADDEO'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration…

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Translated by Ross BenjaminAn essential new translation of the author’s complete, uncensored diaries — revealing the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writersAvailable…

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From the ‘Winner of Winners’ of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story of a utopian American experiment, and the self-serving politicians that engineered its downfall.1935. As part of President Franklin D.…

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