Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 47 No. 2

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Declared a terrorist menace yet voted into government in a free election, Hamas then used its Gaza power base to launch cross-border attacks that scorched Israel and transformed the dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. How did a…

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A gripping untold story of the world's most valuable seed bank, the siege of Leningrad and a terrible choiceFrom the winner of the 2023 Wingate Literary Prize comes a fascinating and moving untold story of the Leningrad scientists who…

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SHAKESPEARE: increasingly irrelevant or lone literary genius of the Western canon?‘Powerful and illuminating’ James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, winner of the Baillie Gifford…

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Translated by Charlotte BarslundA groundbreaking, potent novel about the destructive force of romantic love from award-winning writer Vigdis HjorthA relatively young woman, aged thirty. She married in her early twenties, had two children.…

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A devastating critique of the forces propelling us beyond critical temperature limits, by the bestselling author of How to Blow Up a PipelineThe world is on the cusp of one and a half degrees of warming – just the rise it has…

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Ken Loach's 1969 drama Kes, considered one of the finest examples of British social realism, tells the story of Billy, a working class boy who finds escape and meaning when he takes a fledgling kestrel from its nest.David Forrest's…

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A wicked stepmother finds her ideal prey in Caroline Blackwood’s “quite brilliant” debut  - The TimesA lavish Upper West Side apartment is the site of a familial cold war about to enter a phase of dangerous…

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A pitch-black rediscovered classic about female rage and collective hysteria in the wake of a child's disappearance from a sleepy commuter town - with a new introduction by Camilla Grudova.From the Booker-shortlisted author of Great…