Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 47 No. 3

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'This is what I really want. I want to discover ways to discriminate the important things in human life. I want to find ways of getting past this blind fumbling with existence.' - Marion Milner, from A Life of One’s Own.How often…

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'Before I began this experiment I had always been haunted by the feeling that the surface of life, what everyone said about it, was quite different from the reality of life, that the important things that were happening all the time were on…

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This is a book about reading, drawing, and getting better—and what they have to do with one another.The British essayist, artist, and psychoanalyst Marion Milner (1900-1998) thought deeply about how reading, drawing, and getting…

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Explores the life, ideas and music of visionary composer Olivier Messiaen.This groundbreaking biography offers fresh perspectives on the life, ideas and music of French twentieth-century composer, organist and ornithologist Olivier…

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The much-anticipated political memoirs of Angela Merkel, the former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 2005 to 2021.Timely, intimate and important, the long-awaited memoirs from one of the most influential leaders of our…

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A new memoir from renowned political activist and author of Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the SixtiesThe revolutionary upsurge of 1968–1975 jump-hopped continents with ease but finally petered out.…

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A landmark history of the lost world of peasants and all it has to teach us, from one of Britain's leading social historians** Longlisted for the 2024 Cundill History Prize**‘A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for…

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How often do we open the fridge or peer into the freezer with the expectation that we'll find something fresh and ready to eat? It's an everyday act - but just a century ago, eating food that had been refrigerated was cause for both fear…

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A story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful and definitive account of the epic revolution that sparked the decolonisation of the modern world.'Astounding . . . history at its best' YUVAL HARARI'A wonderful and…

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A lively, new and sweeping history of the rise of the state in Plantagenet England.'An absorbing and eye-opening account of what the Plantagenets did for us.' - HELEN CASTOR'Burt and Partington show precisely and engagingly why the Middle…

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A lively new translation of Strabo’s complete Geography—an encyclopedic guide to the ancient world of the first century CE—connecting it with the world of the twenty-first centuryStrabo’s Geography is…

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From Booker-shortlisted author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp'Brilliance on every page' Samantha Harvey, author of Orbital‘Flesh is…