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In ‘Fires Which Burned Brightly’, Faulks, a reluctant memoirist, offers readers a series of detailed snapshots from a life in progress. They include a post-war rural childhood – ‘cold mutton and wet washing on a rack over the range’ – the booze-sodden heyday of Fleet Street and a career as one of the country’s most acclaimed novelists. There are not one, but two daring escapes from boarding school; the delirium of a jetlagged American book tour; the writing of ‘Birdsong’ in his brother’s house in 1992; and memorable trips across the channel to France. Politics, psychiatry and frustrated ventures into the world of entertainment are analysed with patience and rueful humour.
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A timely and lively guide explaining the stakes, players and rules of trade wars, and what the future will hold.
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Julien Laurens, the world’s leading French football journalist, paints a vivid portrait of Mbappé’s meteoric rise to global stardom. After a decade covering Kylian’s career, Julien has had unprecedented access to the player, his inner circle, his coaches, teammates and family. Exploring Mbappé’s humble upbringing in the suburbs of Paris and schooling at the famed Clairefontaine academy, his peerless rise with AS Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain, as well as his dream move to Real Madrid where his career has reached new heights, this extensive biography crafts an intimate account of Kylian’s life. Julien takes us into the inner workings of Mbappé’s psyche, as we witness how becoming a world superstar at just 19 affected the young Parisian.
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Healthy food never tasted so good, with this celebration of authentic Sardinian food by Italian cooking star and online sensation Francesco Mattana.
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Honest, moving and of course very funny: award-winning comedian Suzi Ruffell tells the story of a life afflicted with anxiety, and asks the experts to answer some of life's big questions along the way. Perfect reading for fans of Strong Female Character by Fern Brady, How to Fail by Elizabeth Day and No Shame by Tom Allen.
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Explores the ways in which women have been systematically disconnected from their bodies throughout history and the transformative power of reclaiming that connection through pleasure. From the cultural mythology of sex as something women give and men take, to the historical demonization of female pleasure through witch trials and religious doctrine. ‘Pleasure’ traces the ways in which women’s bodies have been turned into religious battlegrounds. Yet, it also reveals the radical, healing power of reclaiming pleasure as an act of resistance and joy. Drawing on personal experiences, cultural analysis and interviews with experts, this title unpacks the myths we’ve inherited – from the virginity ideal to the male-centric view of sex – and how they affect women’s lives today.
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A hugely original tour of Great Britain by acclaimed historian Graham Robb, taking a fresh look at the people, places and events which have – for better or worse – shaped a nation.
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Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ is one of the world’s oldest and most famous works of literature. It has enthralled readers for almost three thousand years with its tales of gods and monsters, warriors and kings, but also of family, faith, and the universal longing for home. This is a retelling by celebrated classicist Barry Powell, who has studied, written about, and lectured on Homer for over three decades. Barry’s retelling is accompanied by sixty newly commissioned artworks, bringing the iconic scenes and characters to life, from the brutish Polyphemus, to the monstrous Scylla and Charybdis, mysterious Circe, faithful Penelope, and Odysseus himself.
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Acclaimed feminist writer Mona Chollet identifies and confronts the little voice inside us that blames, shames and belittles us, and explores how it can be resisted.
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A sweeping, epic and beautifully written new history of the American Revolution that resituates its origins in a global context; published to coincide with the Revolution’s 250th anniversary
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