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A people's history of the high street'A rich, lively and nostalgia-provoking sensory experience ... this is history in its messiest, most bustling human essence' THE TIMES'The queen of food historians' LUCY WORSLEY'Annie Gray's…

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Translated by Alison L. StrayerThe Use of Photography recounts a passionate love affair between Annie Ernaux and the journalist and author Marc Marie, after the two met in January 2003. Ernaux had been receiving intensive chemo…

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A joyful new memoir on the pleasures of food, travel and gardening from the Sunday Times bestselling authorFrom award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of…

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A moving, eye-opening journey through the world of contemporary art from one of the most innovative voices in the fieldAt a moment in which working as a professional artist is an increasingly unattainable luxury, art criticism duo The White…

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Medieval legends told and illustrated by the bestselling author of Storyland.From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Storyland and Wild, comes a sweeping new legendary of miracles, magic, human frailty and…

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A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden's early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development as well as on his shifting beliefs about political belonging in interwar England.W. H. Auden is a towering figure in modern…

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Colm Tóibín’s personal account of encountering James Baldwin’s work, published in Baldwin’s centenary year. Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm Tóibín first read James Baldwin just after turning…

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A radical case for motherhood as a political state, and what liberated mothering could be'Intellectually luminous and deeply affecting, Mother State is a remarkable, revelatory and life-changing book, and an indispensable tool and…

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A history of Black imagery that recasts our understanding of visual culture and technologyIn BLACK MEME, Legacy Russell, awardwinning author of the groundbreaking GLITCH FEMINISM, explores the “meme” as mapped to Black…

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England's finest nature writer delivers his most important work: an exploration of all the distinctive habitats that define the English landscape.England’s landscape is iconic – a tapestry of distinctive habitats that together…

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The new must-read biography of Queen Elizabeth II from the winner of the Baillie Gifford PrizeFrom one of the funniest writers of our time, the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of One Two Three…