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Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you children. A blue ticket grants you freedom. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice. And, once you’ve taken your ticket, there is no going back. But what if the life you’re given is the wrong one?
Drawing on Anthony Powell’s letters and journals, and the memories of those who knew him, Hilary Spurling explores his life. Investigating the friends, relations, lovers, acquaintances, fools and geniuses who surrounded him, she reveals the comical and tragic events that inspired one of the greatest fictions of the age.
From the bestselling author of Landmarks, Robert Macfarlane, and acclaimed artist, Jackie Morris, Lost Words provides spells to conjure nature with. All over the country, there are words disappearing from children’s lives. These are the words of the natural world – Dandelion, Otter, Bramble and Acorn, all gone. The rich landscape of wild imagination and wild play is rapidly fading from our children’s minds. The Lost Words stands against the disappearance of wild childhood. It is a joyful celebration of nature words and the natural world they invoke. With acrostic spell-poems by award-winning writer Robert Macfarlane and hand-painted illustration by Jackie Morris, this enchanting book captures the irreplaceable magic of language and nature for all ages.
In the summer of 2012 a woman named Eva was found dead in the London townhouse she shared with her husband, Hans K. Rausing. The couple had struggled with addiction for years, often under the glare of tabloid headlines. Now, writing with singular clarity and restraint, Hans’s sister, the editor and publisher Sigrid Rausing, tries to make sense of what happened. ‘Mayhem’ is an eloquent and timely attempt to understand the conundrum of addiction, and a memoir that is as poignant and riveting as it is devastating.
Written over two years while the author battled suicidal depression, this book is a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living. Li grew up in China, her mother suffering from mental illness, and has spent her adult life as an immigrant in a country not her own. She has been a scientist, an author, an immigrant, a mother – and through it all, she has been sustained by a deep connection with the writers and books she loves.
A raw and poetic account of a mind lost in madness – and how the author found her way back from the wilderness. In 2013, while completing work on her last book, ‘Kith’, Jay Griffiths suffered a devastating year-long episode of hypomania. ‘Tristimania’ is the lyrical and painfully honest account of that year. Lost in the depths of her illness, Jay eventually decided to walk the Camino de Santiago – undertaking this ancient pilgrimmage in her fragile condition despite medical advice against it – determined to find a kind of cure for her torment.
‘Little Failure’ is a candid and deeply poignant story of a Soviet family’s trials and tribulations, and of their escape in 1979 to theconsumerist promised land of the USA. It is also an exceptionally funny account of the author’s transformation from asthmatic toddler in Red Square to 40-something Manhattanite with a receding hairline and a memoir to write.
‘The Last Asylum’ begins with Barbara Taylor’s visit to the innocuously named Princess Park Manor in Friern Barnet, North London – a picture of luxury and repose. But this is the former site of one of England’s most infamous lunatic asylums, the Middlesex County Pauper Lunatic Aslyum at Colney Hatch. At its peak this asylum housed nearly 3,000 patients – among them, in the 1980s, Barbara Taylor herself. This is her powerful account of her battle with mental illness, set inside the wider story of the end of the UK asylum system.
While travelling the world in order to write her award-winning book ‘Wild’, Jay Griffiths became increasingly aware of the huge differences in how childhood is experienced in various cultures. One central riddle, in particular, captured her imagination: why are so many children in Euro-American cultures unhappy – and why is it that children in many traditional cultures seem happier? In ‘Kith’, Jay Griffiths explores these questions and many more.
David Foster Wallace was heralded by critics and fans as the voice of a generation. This book collects together 15 of Wallace’s essays, from ‘Federer Both Flesh and Not’, considered by many to be his non-fiction masterpiece, to ‘The (As it Were) Seminal Importance of Terminator 2’, his deft dissection of James Cameron’s blockbuster.
Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea-paths that form part of a vast networks of routes which criss-cross Britain.
‘Gossip of a higher sort’ was how John Updike described the art of the review. Here is the last collection of his best, most dazzling gossip. Influential reviews of Toni Morrison and John le Carre and expert critique on exhibitions of Van Gogh and Schiele are included alongside previously uncollected short stories, poems and essays.
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