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Beginning at a love hotel by Japan’s Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, ‘Question 7’ is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H.G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan’s father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river not knowing if he is to live or to die. At once a love song to his island home and to his parents, this hypnotic melding of dream, history, place and memory is about how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves.
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In Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal, author and host of Radio 4’s Infinite Monkey Cage Robin Ince uses his own late-stage diagnosis of ADHD to explore neurodivergence and anxiety.
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A haunting blend of memoir, cultural history and environmental exploration, ‘Red Pockets’ confronts the hungry ghosts of our neglected ancestors, while searching for an acceptable offering. What do we owe to past and future generations? What do we owe to the places that we inhabit?
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Maggie and Liz may be sisters (and yes, named after a pair of much more famous siblings) but that’s about all they have in common. Maggie is a free spirit – travelling the world, flitting through life and relationships without ever really having to connect. Liz, meanwhile, is the lynchpin of Little Martin village society and determined to be the perfect wife, mother and homemaker – even if she does live in a new build. When Liz and Maggie’s beloved grandmother, Queen Vic, dies in a characteristically dramatic fashion, they are left to deal with the aftermath – inheriting the family Manor, as well as full responsibility for their profligate father, a notorious womaniser who causes trouble wherever he goes. Maggie and Liz have been living separate lives for years – but now might finally be the time to put their differences behind them.
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‘A Wilder Way’ is a memoir of a relationship with an ever-changing garden, of setting down roots and becoming embedded in nature, and of how tending to a patch of land will not only grow us as individuals, but can also help to grow a better world.
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A gripping memoir of one woman’s self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indictment of privilege, extreme wealth, and work culture
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‘Can a planet have legal rights? Could it be defended in a court of law?’ A revolution is taking place. Around the world, ordinary people are turning to courts seeking justice for environmental damage. At the forefront of this movement, pioneering barrister Monica Feria-Tinta advocates not only for the people fighting for their homes and livelihoods, but also for those who have no voice: for rivers, forests and endangered species. In ‘A Barrister for the Earth’, Monica takes us behind the scenes of ten real cases – as she argues against the destruction of cloud forests in the world’s first Rights of Nature case, to holding Sovereign states to account for inaction in addressing climate change in a landmark win for the Torres Straight Islanders.
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‘If only my Cantonese parents weren’t so allergic to the word love?’?
A bittersweet memoir of love, culture and saying the unsayable with food.
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‘Full of direct quotations and written with the immediacy of fresh recollection’ New Yorker
A previously unpublished work from one of America’s most iconic writers, Joan Didion, the author of The Year of Magical Thinking.
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‘How I Came To Know Fish’ is Ota Pavel’s magical memoir of his childhood in Czechoslovakia. Fishing with his father and his Uncle Prosek – the two finest fisherman in the world – he takes a peaceful pleasure from the rivers and ponds of his country.
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In these exquisite stories from the genius of English modernism, everyday objects acquire profound significance: a lump of buried green glass leads to a lifetime of obsession; a mark on the wall prompts a questioning of reality itself; a pale-yellow silk dress provokes a painful self-reckoning. Beautiful, strange and pioneering, each piece is a small precious stone to be held to the light and savoured.
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‘All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an older woman, by revolution, by army discipline, by any escape or any subjection, and then you are civilised and life goes on normally in a Latin way.’ Gertrude Stein’s ‘Paris, France’, published in 1940 on the day Paris fell to Nazi Germany, is a witty account of Stein’s life in France, and the perfect introduction to her work.
