Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 45 No. 9
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For fans of Oliver Sacks and Henry Marsh, a glimpse into the fascinating world of modern neurology by a leading expert in the field.…
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'Amusing, charming, stimulating, urbane' - THE TIMES…
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A pioneering treatise on cooperation and reciprocity, from the great anarchist thinker'Don't compete! - competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!'In his pioneering 1902 treatise on human…
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When X – an iconoclastic artist, writer and polarizing shape-shifter – dies suddenly, her widow, wild with grief, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognised as a crucial creative…
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"A pitch-perfect memoir: stylish, erudite, touchingly honest and darkly funny." Jacqueline Wilson"We all have trapdoors in our lives. Sometimes we jump off just in time ... But sometimes we are unlucky enough to be on the trapdoor when the…
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Meet the people who design the algorithms that capture our musical tastes. The people who make music recommender systems have lofty goals: they want to broaden listeners' horizons and help obscure musicians find audiences, taking…
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Translated by Margaret Jull CostaBOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO GUARDIAN AND THE SPECTATORThe final novel from one of the greatest writers of the past half century'No-one nowadays writes prose like Javier Marías . . . If you're…
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NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023FROM THE WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZEBirnam Wood is on the move...Five…
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The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised In July 1588 the Spanish Armada sailed from Corunna to conquer England. Three weeks later an English fireship attack in the Channel-and then a fierce naval…
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