Books
Miss Dior
Justine Picardie
Miss Dior is about what a woman can be. Through the untold story of resistance hero, Catherine Dior, Picardie illuminates ideas of femininity, strength and beauty and the work of one of the world's most iconic designers.
The Poem
Don Paterson
Format: Paperback
Illuminating and authoritative treatise on 'how a poem works', from the multi-award-winning poet, editor and professor of poetry - now in paperback.
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 9
T. S. Eliot
Eliot sheds his 'usually reticent self' and the 'hilarious bleakness' he feels in wartime London to compose these entertaining and revealing letters - the latest in this exemplary series.
STAGS 4: TIGERS
M A Bennett
Format: Paperback
The alluring yet corrupt STAGS society, where the rich and privileged play fast and loose with the lives of others, is revealed to be terrifyingly global ...
Chewing the Fat
Jay Rayner
Format: Paperback
A droolworthy collection of foody columns from a man with a gargantuan appetite and glorious humour
OST
MEMORIAL, translated by Georgia Thomson
An extraordinary assemblage of moving and revelatory documents and testimony from the Nazi forced labour camps
Not a Novel
Jenny Erpenbeck
Format: Paperback
A collection of intimate and explosive essays on literature, life, history, politics and place from the award-winning author of Go, Went Gone and The End of Days
From Another World
Evelina Santangelo, translated by Ruth Clarke
A masterwork of Gothic fiction, and a deeply affecting evocation of the experience of those who seek asylum, by one of Italy's most important writers.
Wanderlust
Rebecca Solnit
Format: Paperback
A reissue of the profound and meandering modern classic about the historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers, their routes and the act of walking itself.
The Faraway Nearby
Rebecca Solnit
Format: Paperback
An inspiring and heartbreaking memoir about family, empathy and the stories we tell about ourselves and others
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