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'Peace writes the boldest and most original British fiction of his generation.'
RICHARD LLOYD PARRY, NEW YORK TIMES
'Hypnotic.'
GUARDIAN, on Red or Dead
'Probably the best novel ever written about sport.'
THE TIMES, on The Damned Utd
From the author of
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World Within a Song
Including tracks by the Velvet Underground, Joni Mitchell, Otis Redding, Dolly Parton, and Billie Eilish-as well as thoughts on Jeff's own songs - World Within a Song asks: why do we listen to music, why do we love songs, and how can music connect us to each other and to ourselves?
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Autobibliography
In my case, reading has always served a dual purpose. In a positive sense, it offers sustenance, enlightenment, the bliss of fascination. In a negative sense, it is a means of withdrawal, of inhabiting a reality quarantined from one that often comes across as painful, alarming or downright distasteful. In the former sense, reading is like food; in the latter, it is like drugs or alcohol.
In Aut
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The Ways of Paradise
A cult book at the intersection of fiction and essay, on the connections between art, literature, spirituality and the occult through history.
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Memories of Distant Mountains
Every day for over a decade, Orhan Pamuk has written and drawn in his notebooks. Translated into English for the first time, these stunning snapshots of his life and creative process are a wonderful accompaniment to his bestselling works of fiction.
They include daily events and reflections, dialogues with his imagined characters, notes on his works-in-progress, his experience of wri
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And the Walls Became the World All Around
Johanna Ekstroem was a Swedish artist and writer who published over a dozen books of poetry, fiction and memoir in her lifetime. In 2022, ill with cancer, she asked her closest friend, Sigrid Rausing, to edit and finish her final book. Originally a memoir on the loss of a relationship during the pandemic, the focus shifted from the loss of love to, potentially, the loss of life. These excerpts fro
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Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic
From the trailer parks of Vegas to the mansions of Nashville, Bunnie Xo has lived a lot of lives and seen the darkest sides of humanity. Her memoir, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic, is cold, clear evidence that no one is irredeemable. With a heavy dose of humor and a refreshing sense of self-awareness, Bunnie pulls no punches as she shares her journey of redemption while offering some
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Looking at Women, Looking at War
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE
WITH A FOREWORD FROM MARGARET ATWOOD
'This book would always have been important evidence that the Ukraine people were suffering criminal attack. Written by a poet, it is also a work of literature, published after the author lost her life doing her research. It is an icon of a young woman's heroism' Philippa
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The Half of It - A Memoir
A memoir from singer-songwriter Madison Beer, chronicling the past decade of her life spent in the spotlightthe ups, the downs, and the in-betweens that you wont see on social media. Discovered at twelve years old, Madison Beer was one of the first artists to have her entire life documented online. Over the past decade, she has navigated the spotlight as a child, through her teenage years, and n
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The Contrarian
A New York Times Notable Book
A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business, and politics
“Max Chafkin´s The Contrarian is much more than a consistently shocking biography of Peter Thiel, the most important investor in tech and a key supporter o
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Walk Through Walls
"I had experienced absolute freedom-I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn't matter, that nothing mattered at all-and it intoxicated me."
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The Last Girl
New York Times Editors' Choice In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia had dreams of becoming a history teacher or open
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"There Are Things I Want You to Know" about Stieg Larsson an
Here is the real inside story—not the one about the Stieg Larsson phenomenon, but rather the love story of a man and a woman whose lives came to be guided by politics and love, coffee and activism, writing and friendship. Only one person in the world knows that story well enough to tell it with authority. Her name is Eva Gabrielsson.
Eva Gabrielsson and Stieg Larsson shared everything, sta
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The Barefoot Woman
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE
A moving, unforgettable tribute to a Tutsi woman who did everything to protect her children from the Rwandan genocide, by the daughter who refuses to let her family's story be forgotten.
The story of the author's mother, a fierce, loving woman who for years protected her family from the violence encroaching upon them in pre-genocide
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How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998
For the first time ever, collected here are all three volumes of the diaries of Helen Garner, inviting readers into the world behind the novels and nonfiction of a literary force.
“This is one for the introverts — the wary and the peevish, the uncertain of their looks, taste, talent and class status . . . . [Garner's] prose is clear, honest, and economical; take it or leave it.”—Dwigh
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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé´s Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire
“The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts.”—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist
“Warsan Shire is our ultimate modern poet. . . . This is our James Baldwin.”—The New York
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