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Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 45 No. 19

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Now fully rewritten and entirely updated to reflect the pressing problems of today, Animal Liberation Now presents the definitive case for radically rethinking humanity's relationship with other animals'Widely recognized as the foundational…

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A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism Vesuvius is best known for its disastrous eruption of 79CE. But only after 1738, in the age of Enlightenment, did the excavations of Herculaneum and…

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Truly wonderful... Anna Funder has written another brilliant human portrait.' Claire Tomalin'Furious and fascinating' The Times'A marvellous book' Tom HanksA BLAZING, GENRE-BENDING MASTERPIECE FROM ONE…

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*FOREWORD BY SIR CLIVE WOODWARD*The definitive account of sport’s concussion crisis, how its ‘dirty secret’ was finally made public and what rugby union must now do to save itself.‘Peters’ work is in the…

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‘More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years, but it is all true’ Stephen Fry‘Mind-blowing...Browder's battle for…

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Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have together…

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERVividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. – and the first to include…

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Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking, The Bee Sting is a tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apartWINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2023WINNER OF AN…

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This tantalizing and surprising posthumous novella from Taubes (Divorcing), who died in 1969, is presented here with several of her short stories, all hovering around similar themes of isolation, entrapment, and confused connection.The…

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A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century._______________'A triumph of writing and scholarship. It is hard…

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