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Series: I Am Billy the Kid Paperback Michael Blouin 9781772141887 $24.95 FICTION Jul 01, 2022

What if Billy the Kid not only didn't die, but was saved by a woman? History tells us that the short and violent life of William Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, ended at the hand of Pat Garrett on the moonless night of July 14, 1881. But I Am Billy the Kid tells a different story, straight from Billy himself. This revisionist history seen through the lens of a twenty-first century sensibility features the picaresque hero we thought we knew and the unexpected one that we don't; a fearless and determined young woman who is in no mood to ... + Read More
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Series: Queasy Paperback Madeline Sonik 9781772141894 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 25, 2022

The award-winning author of Afflictions & Departures turns her kaleidoscopic lens on England in the 1970s in Queasy, a series of linked memoirs. While still grieving her father's death and the end of her first romantic relationship, Madeline Sonik moved with her mother from Windsor, Ontario to the seaside village of Ilfracombe in North Devon, England. As a teen at war with herself, nothing could have prepared her for the incredible cultural differences that she would encounter, nor the social and political tumult that was England at the time... + Read More
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Series: Unrest Paperback Emma Cote 9781772141900 $18.00 FICTION Apr 01, 2022

Winner of the 43rd Annual 3-Day Novel Writing Contest Mortician Mylène Andrews spends her days dealing with death, but has never quite figured out how to live. After her estranged mother passes away, adult-orphaned Mylène sets out in her hearse to see the graveyards her mother visited before her death, guided by a collection of unsent postcards and the residual wake of a tragedy long-considered buried. With an aversion to black, a colourful vintage wardrobe, and a caustic sense of humour, Mylène has always subverted expectations of how a f... + Read More
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Series: Catastrophe Theories Paperback Mari-Lou Rowley 9781772141917 $18.00 May 31, 2022

The poems in Catastrophe Theories reflect an increasingly unstable, surreal, and catastrophic world. Written over the past decade, the poems in Mari-Lou Rowley's oracular work capture the zeitgeist of the moment. A world where human folly and frailty compete with corpocracy and technological determinism against the stubborn magnificence of the natural world. Yet, these poems are neither prescriptive nor hopeless. Exploring the lives and concepts of mathematicians such as Euclid, Hypatia, Alan Turing, and René Thom, along with dream imagery an... + Read More
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Series: Stay Woke, Kids! Main Hardcover Kazvare 9781838853556 $22.50 HUMOR Dec 07, 2021

Are immigrants taking our jobs, or are they all slobs?What does 'I'm colourblind' mean and why does it make no sense?And just how can you spot a Karen from a mile away?This illustrated collection of verse tackles these issues and more. This is a delightfully caustic and refreshing book that will have readers thinking deeply and laughing out loud.
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Series: Anderson and Costello thrillers The Blood of Crows Main Paperback Caro Ramsay 9781838855031 $19.95 FICTION Jan 18, 2022

Better the devil you know . . . or the one you don't?For DI Colin Anderson, there's no such simple thing as right and wrong.As his seemingly clear-cut conviction of paedophile Skelpie Fairbairn is declared unsafe, Anderson finds himself under investigation. Pressure on the DI mounts as an elusive criminal mastermind known as the Puppeteer seems to be the link in a series of alarming events: a gangster torched alive; a teenage boy tortured then dropped off a bridge; and the suicide of a cop working on a decades-old, unsolved child kidnapping.Whe... + Read More
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Series: The Fugitives Main Hardcover Jamal Mahjoub 9781838850821 $33.95 FICTION Jan 18, 2022

The Kamanga Kings, a Khartoum jazz band of yesteryear, is presented with the opportunity of a lifetime when a surprise letter arrives inviting them to perform in Washington, D.C. The only problem is . . . the band no longer exists.Rushdy is a disaffected secondary school teacher and the son of an original Kamanga King. Determined to see a life beyond his own home, he sets out to revive the band. Aided by his unreliable best friend, all too soon an unlikely group are on their way, knowing the eyes of their country are on them.As the group moves ... + Read More
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Series: The Heart of Things An Anthology of Memory and Lament Main Hardcover Richard Holloway 9781838854959 $37.95 REFERENCE Jan 18, 2022

Richard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. As Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church he put principle over Church policy to advocate for gay rights and women in the priesthood. He never shied away from confronting his own doubts and fears, whether questioning his own faith, or facing the inevitability of death. Across numerous bestselling books he has been a radical voice of compassion and realism, helping us navigate the hectic modern world.Throughout his life Richard has turned to poets and writers t... + Read More
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Series: Mrs Death Misses Death Main Hardcover Salena Godden 9781838851194 $33.95 FICTION Feb 01, 2022

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEMrs Death tells her intoxicating story in this life-affirming fire-starter of a novelMrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from spending eternity doing her job and now she seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. Wolf Willeford, a troubled young writer, is well acquainted with death, but until now hadn't met Death in person - a black, working-class woman who shape-shifts and does her work unseen.Enthralled by her stories, Wolf becomes Mrs Death's scribe, and begins to write her memoirs. Using their ... + Read More
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Series: Small Bodies of Water Main Hardcover Nina Mingya Powles 9781838852153 $33.95 NATURE Feb 15, 2022

'A remarkable book' Robert Macfarlane'A distinctive new voice: attentive and tender' Amy Liptrot'Elegant, understated, urgent and nourishing' Jessica J. LeeHome is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans.Nina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo - where her mother was born and her grandfather studied freshwater fish. There, the local swimming pool became her first body of water. Through her life there have been others that have meant different things, but have still been, in their own way, home: from the wild coa... + Read More
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Series: No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader Main Hardcover Mark Hodkinson 9781786899972 $33.95 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Apr 12, 2022

Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. His dad kept it on top of a wardrobe with other items of great worth - wedding photographs and Mark's National Cycling Proficiency certificate. If Mark wanted to read it, he was warned not to crease the pages or slam shut the covers.Today, Mark is an author, journalist and publisher. He still lives in Rochdale, but is now snugly ensconced (or is that buried?) in a 'book cave' surrounded by 3,500 titles - at the last count. No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy ... + Read More
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Series: Louis Wain's Cats Main Hardcover Chris Beetles 9781838854706 $67.50 DESIGN Nov 09, 2021

'Chris Beetles' book is a joy, an inspiration and as thorough a document into understanding the life and times of Louis Wain as one could hope to read' - Benedict Cumberbatch'Louis Wain invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world'. Broadcast in 1925 by H.G. Wells, these words characteristically foretold the future of the Wain cat which has, once more, become the century's most recognisable image in cat art. During their heyday, in the time before the First World War, Louis Wain's cats, dressed as humans, portrayed that stylish Edward... + Read More
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Series: Fear Stalks the Land! A Commonplace Book Main Paperback Thom Yorke 9781838857363 $22.95 MUSIC Nov 30, 2021

In which the writings of the authors Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood are gathered together.This commonplace book includes faxes, notes, fledgling lyrics, sketches, lists of all kinds and scribblings towards nirvana, as were sent between the two authors during the period 1999 to 2000 during the creation of the Radiohead albums Kid A and Amnesiac.This is a document of the creative process and a mirror to the fears, portents and fantasies invoked by the world as its citizens faced a brave new millennium.
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Series: Kid A Mnesia A Book of Radiohead Artwork Main Hardcover Thom Yorke 9781838857370 $69.95 MUSIC Nov 30, 2021

Whilst these records were being conceived, rehearsed, recorded and produced, Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood made hundreds of images. These ranged from obsessive, insomniac scrawls in biro to six-foot-square painted canvases, from scissors-and-glue collages to immense digital landscapes. They utilised every medium they could find, from sticks and knives to the emerging digital technologies.The work chronicles their obsessions at the time: minotaurs, genocide, maps, globalisation, monsters, pylons, dams, volcanoes, locusts, lightning, helicopters... + Read More
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Series: The Bear Woman Paperback Karolina Ramqvist 9781552454312 $21.95 FICTION Feb 08, 2022

A writer’s obsession with the story of Marguerite de la Rocque leads her to question how women’s stories have been told, and how she will tell her own. Blending autofiction and the essay, The Bear Woman takes us on a journey of feminism and literary detective work that spans centuries and continents. In the 1540s, a young French noblewoman, Marguerite de la Rocque, was abandoned by her guardian on an island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with her maidservant and her lover. In present-day Stockholm, an author and mother of three becomes captivate... + Read More
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Series: Rooms Women, Writing, Woolf Paperback Sina Queyras 9781552454336 $21.95 LITERARY CRITICISM May 31, 2022

From LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind Thirty years ago, a professor threw a chair at Sina Queyras after they’d turned in an essay on Virginia Woolf. Queyras returns to that contentious first encounter with Virginia Woolf to recover the body and thinking of that time. Using Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own as a touchstone, this book is both an homage to and provocation of the idea of a room of on... + Read More
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Series: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century Paperback Kim Fu 9781552454367 $21.95 FICTION Feb 01, 2022

Featured on CBC's The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers The debut collection from PEN/Hemingway Award finalist and ‘propulsive storyteller’ (NYT Book Review), with stories that are by turns poignant and pulpy In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house becomes an impossible, Kafkaesque nightmare. Each story builds a new world all its own: a group o... + Read More
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Series: Whitemud Walking Paperback Matthew James Weigel 9781552454411 $23.95 POETRY Apr 12, 2022

An Indigenous resistance historiography, poetry that interrogates the colonial violence of the archive Whitemud Walking is about the land Matthew Weigel was born on and the institutions that occupy that land. It is about the interrelatedness of his own story with that of the colonial history of Canada, which considers the numbered treaties of the North-West to be historical and completed events. But they are eternal agreements that entail complex reciprocity and obligations. The state and archival institutions work together to sequester documen... + Read More
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Series: After Beowulf Paperback Nicole Markotic 9781552454428 $21.95 POETRY Apr 05, 2022

hwæt, another Beowulf translation? Not exactly… Welcome to Denmark’s Heorot Hall, where King Hrothgar invites to his banquet table everyone but Grendel, Saxon’s cradle-made monster. Dissing this ur-outsider initiates a predictable and monstrous backlash, a Mediæval fracas that only the eponymous Beowulf can quash. Sailing across the whaleroads, he arrives to “quell and queltch and quatch the Grendel beast.” Beowulf, that still-recognizable hero, embodies a “blank” function, a motive-driven yet motiveless megastar. He’s the young, fit, male, sel... + Read More
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Series: Heady Bloom Paperback Andrew Faulkner 9781552454435 $21.95 POETRY Apr 05, 2022

A buddy-cop dramedy starring a bottle of Advil and a headache that won’t quit Imagine you’re standing in a room, and someone on the other side of the door won’t stop knocking – ever. Welcome to Andrew Faulkner’s world of the never-ending, low-grade headache, a medical issue resolved only by striking up a committed relationship with the slippery miracle that is Advil. Through direct address, sideways glances, lyrical interludes and deep consideration of what it means to overcome a condition when living is a part of the condition itself, these po... + Read More
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Series: The Agents Paperback Grégoire Courtois 9781552454329 $21.95 FICTION Jan 18, 2022

Nineteen Eighty-Four meets Squid Game, via The Office, in this boldly dystopian novel The agents don’t know what they’re agents of, but they’re very busy agenting, which means watching endless data feeds in their cubicles, cubicles that are piled one on top of another in a massive tower in which the agents both live and work. Empty floors serve as battlefields where different guilds of agents fight for territory. It seems that defenestration is the only way out, the ‘ballet of suicides.’ It is here we meet Theodore, who has amputated his own to... + Read More
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Series: In the Margins On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing Hardcover Elena Ferrante 9781609457372 $28.50 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Mar 25, 2022

A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter. In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as “an oracle among authors.” Here, in these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. She writes about her influences, her struggles, and her formation as both a reader and a writer; she describes the perils of “bad language” and suggests ways in whi... + Read More
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Series: The Hanged Man of Conakry Paperback Jean-Christophe Rufin 9781609457334 $23.95 FICTION Jan 07, 2022

Something has got Aurel Timescu’s attention: an unsolved and apparently unsolvable crime. A vacationer has been found hanged. And it is a crime that will go unpunished if Aurel isn’t ready for the fight of his life. Aurel Timescu’s French is tinged with a Romanian accent, he has the disheveled air of a character from between the wars, and a past as a performer in piano bars. Nobody can quite understand how he got to be Consul. Now, he’s taken a position in French Guinea—what a place for a man who says he can’t stand the heat! He passes his time... + Read More
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Series: Lacuna Hardcover Fiona Snyckers 9781609457259 $35.50 FICTION Jan 21, 2022

Winner of the Sala Novel AwardWinner of the Humanities and Social Sciences Award for the Novel A cry for reparations for Lucy Lurie. She is the victim of an act of terrible sexual violence that devastes her life. Afterwards, she becomes obsessed with the author John Coetzee, the man who wrote the scene of violence in which she was attacked. Withdrawn and fearful of crowds, Lucy nonetheless makes occasional forays into the world of men in her search for Coetzee himself. She means to confront him. The Lucy in his novel, Disgrace, is passive and ... + Read More
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Series: In His Own Image Paperback Jerome Ferrari 9781609456740 $23.95 FICTION Mar 11, 2022

From Goncourt Prize-winning author Jérôme Ferrari, a bewitching story of passion, death, and love, and a powerful reflection on the ambiguous relationship between art and reality Born in a small town in Corsican countryside, Antonia grows up in a place of deeply-rooted traditions and strong family ties. When she’s fourteen, her uncle, a priest, gives her a camera—suddenly changing the way she looks at the world and igniting a passion that will prompt her to become a photojournalist. Over two decades later, Antonia is walking around the port o... + Read More
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Series: Reeling Paperback Lola Lafon 9781609457310 $23.95 FICTION Mar 18, 2022

Award-winning author, Lola Lafon continues her exploration of the psyches of young girls–their fragility, their resilience. Fontenay, a Parisian suburb, 1984. Cléo is 12 when her parents prod her into taking ballet classes. She drops out after a long year of feeling lost, not classy nor graceful enough, and undoubtedly not as rich as the other kids. By chance, she signs up for Modern Jazz class at a MJC–a state funded organization whose mission is to provide access to art and culture to all children. Modern Jazz is her calling, and soon Cléo is... + Read More
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Series: Xstabeth Hardcover David Keenan 9781609457341 $28.50 FICTION Apr 01, 2022

A transcendent love letter to literature and music, Xstabeth is an exciting new work from a writer who, book-by-book, is rewriting the rules of contemporary fiction. Aneliya’s father dreams of becoming a great musician but his naivete and his unfashionable music suggest he will never be taken seriously. Her father’s best friend, on the other hand, has a penchant for vodka, strip clubs, and moral philosophy. Aneliya is torn between love of the former and passion for the latter. When an angelic presence named Xstabeth enters their lives Aneliya a... + Read More
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Series: The Forests Paperback Sandrine Collette 9781609457297 $25.50 FICTION Mar 18, 2022

Winner of the 2020 Grand Prix RTL-Lire, a powerful novel about a man’s desperate quest to bring new life to a desolate world. Nobody wanted Corentin. Not his father, who flees as soon he can, nor the women in the village, only preoccupied with gossip, nor especially his mother, who dreams of getting rid of him. Dragged from home to home, his childhood feels like a sad, aimless pilgrimage. Until the day his mother abandons him with an old woman, Augustine. That’s when life begins again for him, deep into the Valley of the Forests, the remote re... + Read More
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Series: The Heretic Paperback Liam McIlvanney 9781609457419 $25.50 FICTION Mar 18, 2022

Set in 1976, seven years after the murders recounted in Liam McIlvanney’s breakout novel, The Quaker, this new Glasgow noir novel is a standalone mystery featuring serial character, Detective Duncan McCormack. McCormack has returned to Glasgow after a stint with the Metropolitan Police in London. The reason for his return is left a lurking mystery throughout. He is investigating a series of murders that seem at first to be the result of random bouts of violence among Glasgow’s poor and destitute. McCormack, however, has insight into Glasgow’s ... + Read More
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Series: Commissario Ricciardi Winter Swallows Paperback Maurizio de Giovanni 9781609457273 $25.50 FICTION Jan 27, 2023

The tenth Commissario Ricciardi Neapolitan mystery is “endlessly surprising… a delicate balancing act between love and pain, horror and beauty.”—ThrillerNordChristmas has just passed and the city is preparing to celebrate New Year when, on the stage of a variety show, famous actor Michelangelo Gelmi fires a gun at his wife, Fedora Marra.The shooting itself would be nothing strange: it is repeated every evening as part of their performance. But this time, someone replaced one of the blanks with a real bullet. Gelmi swears his innocence, but few... + Read More
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Series: The Passenger The Passenger: Rome Paperback AA. VV. 9781787703544 $31.50 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Feb 25, 2022

Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN THIS VOLUME: Rome doesn’t judge you by Nicola Lagioiaã?»The soul of the city by Matteo Nucciã?»39 memos for a book about Rome by Francesco Piccoloã?»Plus: a guide to the sounds of Rome by Letizia Muratori; the feigned unrest and real malaise of the suburbs; the influence of the Vatican; the excessive power of real estate speculators and the rule of gangs; disillusioned trappers; football fans of every age, and much more... ... + Read More
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Series: Like Punk Never Happened Main Paperback Dave Rimmer 9780571361083 $22.50 MUSIC Dec 15, 2022

The definitive account of the first rise and fall of Boy George and Culture Club, and British pop music in the 1980s.NEW EXPANDED EDITION, WITH A FOREWORD BY NEIL TENNANTFEATURES A BONUS CHAPTER ON DURAN DURAN AND A NEW AFTERWORD'Speaks from the centure of pop's beating heart.' DYLAN JONES'Fascinating.' NEW YORK TIMES'A controversial and honest account.' NME'Music journalism at its best.' THE WORDA story of money, sex, stardom, screaming fans and forgotten ideals, Like Punk Never Happened is Dave Rimmer's witty, authoritative, fast-moving and p... + Read More
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Series: Hello, Mom The Perfect Mother's Day Gift Export - US & Canada Only Hardcover Polly Dunbar 9780571368242 $28.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Mar 29, 2022

'Tender, funny, sometimes heartbreaking snapshots of motherhood.' - Shappi KhorsandiFantastically funny, wise and charming motherhood sketches from award-winning illustrator Polly Dunbar.'Go away, I'm busy writing about the beauty of motherhood.'Polly Dunbar is an award-winning illustrator who usually draws for children rather than adults, but when she had her own sons, she started recording the beautiful and maddening moments of parenthood with a doodle.Hello, Mum is her visual diary of the magical highs and absurd lows that many parents will ... + Read More
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Series: From Manchester with Love The Life and Opinions of Tony Wilson Main Hardcover Paul Morley 9780571252497 $44.95 MUSIC Mar 08, 2022

THE TIMES & UNCUT MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARCritically-acclaimed and bestselling author Paul Morley's long-awaited biography of Factory Records co-founder and Manchester icon Tony Wilson.A BOOK OF THE YEARSUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, MOJO, LOUDER THAN WAR'Compelling . . . befitting its extraordinary subject.'BRIAN ENO'Bracing and often surprisingly tender . . . the perfect monument.'SUNDAY TIMES'Via Morley's magical prose Tony Wilson comes back to life . . . inspiring.'RICHARD RUSSELLTony Wilson was a man who became synonymous with his beloved city... + Read More
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Series: Black British Lives Matter A Clarion Call for Equality Main Hardcover Lenny Henry 9780571368495 $37.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 25, 2022

Featuring essays from David Olusoga, Dawn Butler MP, Kit de Waal, Kwame Kwei-Armah, and many more.In response to the international outcry at George Floyd's death, Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder have commissioned this collection of essays to discuss how and why we need to fight for Black lives to matter - not just for Black people but for society as a whole.Recognising Black British experience within the Black Lives Matter movement, nineteen prominent Black figures explain why Black lives should be celebrated when too often they are undervalued. D... + Read More
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Series: The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 9 1939-1941 Main Hardcover T. S. Eliot 9780571362813 $134.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Jan 18, 2022

This volume covers the production of Eliot's play The Family Reunion; the publication of The Idea of a Christian Society; and the joyous versifying of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. After exhausting himself through nights of fire-watching in the London wartime blackout, he travels the country, attends meetings of The Moot, delivers talks, and advises a fresh generation of writers including Cyril Connolly, Keith Douglas, Kathleen Raine and Vernon Watkins. Major correspondents include W. H. Auden, George Barker, William Empson, Geoffrey Fab... + Read More
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Series: Allegorizings Main Hardcover Jan Morris 9780571234134 $33.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 11, 2022

'Almost nothing in life is only what it seems.'Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary life, witnessing such seminal moments as the first ascent of Everest, the Suez Canal Crisis, the Eichmann Trial, The Cuban Revolution and so much more. Now, in Allegorizings, published posthumously as was her wish, Morris looks back over some of the key moments of her life, and sees a multitude of meanings.From her final travels to the USA and across Europe to late journeys on her beloved trains and ships, from t... + Read More
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Series: Sybil & Cyril Cutting through Time Main Hardcover Jenny Uglow 9780571354153 $44.95 ART Jan 11, 2022

'Whatever Uglow writes about she makes absolutely fascinating.' DIANA ATHILLThe story of Sybil Andews and Cyril Power, two artists who changed each other in an age of experiment and turmoil.'In all her books, she makes us feel the life behind the facts.' GUARDIAN'Wonderfully sharp and sympathetic . . . Uglow is a perfect biographer.' CRAIG BROWN, MAIL ON SUNDAYIn 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years. Both became famous for thei... + Read More
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Series: Looking for Trouble Main Hardcover Virginia Cowles 9780571367542 $32.95 HISTORY Jan 11, 2022

This sensational 1941 memoir of life on the frontline of wartime Europe by a 'magnificent' (Antony Beevor) trailblazing female reporter is a rediscovered classic, introduced by Christina Lamb: 'I was blown away ... The Forrest Gump of journalism ... Incredible.' Madrid in the Spanish Civil War Prague during the Munich crisis Berlin the day Germany invaded Poland Helsinki as the Russians attacked Moscow betrayed by the Nazis Paris as it fell to the Germans London on the first day of the Blitz Virginia Cowles has seen it all. As a pioneering fema... + Read More
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Series: The Bach Cello Suites A Companion Main Hardcover Steven Isserlis CBE 9780571366248 $28.95 MUSIC Jan 04, 2022

A unique Companion to J S Bach's iconic Cello Suites from internationally-renowned cellist Steven Isserlis.'Isserlis is the master of the material, yet always able to make it accessible . . . It is an absolute treat to be led to this sublime music by such an ethusiastic expert.' MICHAEL PALIN'The book I've always wanted: an accessible, eloquent guide to the world's greatest - and maybe most elusive - pieces of music. And written by the man I'd want to tell me about it. This is such a delight.'DERREN BROWN'Illuminating.' OBSERVER'Striking.' THE ... + Read More
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Series: The Joy of Small Things 'A not-so-small joy in itself.' Nigella Lawson Main Hardcover Hannah Jane Parkinson 9781783352357 $22.50 HUMOR Nov 23, 2021

'This book is a not-so-small joy in itself.'NIGELLA LAWSON'Parkinson has the gift of making you look with new eyes at everyday things. The perfect daily diversion.'JOJO MOYES'Always funny and frank and full of insight, I absolutely love Parkinson's writing.'DAVID NICHOLLS'I loved this book . . . Parkinson's writing transports you to unexpected places of joy and comfort . . . these pages contain happiness.'MARINA HYDE'The twenty-first century feels a lot more bearable in Parkinson's company.'CHARLOTTE MENDELSONDrawn from the successful Guardian ... + Read More
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Series: Free Spirit Professional(TM) Big Conversations with Little Children Addressing Questions, Worries, and Fears Paperback Lauren Starnes Ed.D. 9781631986321 $48.95 EDUCATION Apr 15, 2022

Be prepared to respond to a wide range of potentially tough questions and sensitive concerns posed by young children. To work with young children is to constantly expect the unexpected. Tough questions are part of early childhood educators’ regular interactions with children and families. Based on children’s actual questions, Big Conversations with Little Children is readily accessible with guidelines for having difficult conversations with children, individually or as a classroom or group, and with families. The book provides guidance on how t... + Read More
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Series: Free Spirit Professional(TM) Talent Zones 10 Tools to Help Kids Develop Their Talents Paperback Lee Hancock 9781631986239 $48.95 EDUCATION Apr 15, 2022

10 tools for developing talents in multiple areas, from academics to arts to athletics, in all kids. Many believe that talent is inherent—a person either has it or doesn’t. But research shows that a student’s environment is a critical determinant for developing talents. In Talent Zones, Dr. Lee Hancock redefines talent so that parents, teachers, and coaches of kids can create environments rich in opportunities for all kids to boost their confidence and for developing talents in multiple areas, from academics to arts to athletics. Hancock pres... + Read More
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Series: Wilmington's Lie (WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE) The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy Paperback David Zucchino 9780802148650 $26.95 HISTORY Jan 29, 2021

WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION From Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup of 1898, an extraordinary event unknown to most Americans. By the 1890s, Wilmington was North Carolina’s largest city and a shining example of a mixed-race community. It was a bustling port city with a burgeoning African American middle class and a Fusionist government of Republicans and Populists that included black aldermen, police officers and magistrates. There were successful black-own... + Read More
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Series: Manifesto On Never Giving Up Hardcover Bernardine Evaristo 9780802158901 $37.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 28, 2022

From the bestselling and Booker Prize–winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activismBernardine Evaristo’s 2019 Booker Prize win was a historic and revolutionary occasion, with Evaristo being the first Black woman and first Black British person ever to win the prize in its fifty-year history. Girl, Woman, Other was named a favorite book of the year by President Obama and Roxane Gay, was translated into thirty-five languages, and has now... + Read More
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Series: Reptile Memoirs Hardcover Silje Ulstein 9780802158864 $36.50 FICTION Mar 15, 2022

A bestselling Norwegian debut already sold in thirteen territories, Reptile Memoirs is a brilliantly twisty and unusual literary thriller for fans of Gillian Flynn, Jo Nesbø, Kate Atkinson, and Tana French, asking the question: Can you ever really shed your skin?Liv has a lot of secrets. For her, home is the picturesque town of Ålesund, perched on a fjord in western Norway. One night, in the early-morning embers of a great party in the basement apartment she shares with two friends, Liv is watching TV, high on weed, and sees a py... + Read More
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Series: Here Lies Hardcover Olivia Clare Friedman 9780802129390 $33.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2022

The debut novel from the “Munro-esque” (Houston Post) author of Disasters in the First World, Here Lies is Olivia Clare Friedman’s visceral and portentous look at mourning, memory, and motherhood in an alternate Louisiana ravaged by climate change. Louisiana, 2042. Spurred by the effects of climate change, states have closed graveyards and banned burials, making cremation mandatory and the ashes of loved ones state-owned unless otherwise claimed. In the small town of St. Genevieve, Alma lives alone and struggles to grieve in the wake of her ... + Read More
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Series: Architects of an American Landscape Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the Reimagining of America's Public and Private Spaces Hardcover Hugh Howard 9780802159236 $42.50 ARCHITECTURE Feb 04, 2022

A dual portrait of America’s first great architect, Henry Hobson Richardson, and her finest landscape designer, Frederick Law Olmsted—and their immense impact on AmericaAs the nation recovered from a cataclysmic war, two titans of design profoundly influenced how Americans came to interact with the built and natural world around them through their pioneering work in architecture and landscape design.Frederick Law Olmsted is widely revered as America’s first and finest parkmaker and environmentalist, the force behind Manhattan’s Central Park, Br... + Read More
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Series: The Forever Prisoner The Full and Searing Account of the CIA's Most Controversial Covert Program Hardcover Cathy Scott-Clark 9780802158925 $42.50 HISTORY Apr 22, 2022

Some argued it would save the U.S. after 9/11. Instead, the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program came to be defined as American torture. The Forever Prisoner, a primary source for the recent HBO Max film directed by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney, exposes the full story behind the most divisive CIA operation in living memory.Six months after 9/11, the CIA captured Abu Zubaydah and announced he was number three in Al Qaeda. Frantic to thwart a much-feared second wave of attacks, the U.S. rendered him to a secret black site in Thailand, where ... + Read More
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Series: Beyond Innocence The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt Hardcover Phoebe Zerwick 9780802159373 $38.50 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 18, 2022

A deeply reported, gripping narrative of injustice, exoneration, and the lifelong impact of incarceration, Beyond Innocence is the poignant saga of one remarkable life that sheds vitally important light on the failures of the American justice system at every levelIn June 1985, a young Black man in Winston-Salem, N.C. named Darryl Hunt was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a white copyeditor at the local paper. Many in the community believed him innocent and crusaded for his release even as subsequent t... + Read More
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Series: Ocean State Hardcover Stewart O'Nan 9780802159274 $38.50 FICTION Mar 25, 2022

Set in a working-class town on the Rhode Island coast, O’Nan’s latest is a crushing, beautifully written, and profoundly compelling novel about sisters, mothers, and daughters, and the terrible things love makes us do. In the first line of Ocean State, we learn that a high school student was murdered, and we find out who did it. The story that unfolds from there with incredible momentum is thus one of the build-up to and fall-out from the murder, told through the alternating perspectives of the four women at its heart. Angel, the murderer, Caro... + Read More
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Series: Give unto Others Hardcover Donna Leon 9780802159403 $37.95 FICTION Mar 25, 2022

**An Instant New York Times Bestseller**Brunetti is forced to confront the price of loyalty, to his past and in his work, as a seemingly innocent request leads him into troubling watersWhat role can or should loyalty play in the life of a police inspector? It’s a question Commissario Guido Brunetti must face and ultimately answer in Give unto Others, Donna Leon’s splendid thirty-first installment of her acclaimed Venetian crime series.Brunetti is approached for a favor by Elisabetta Foscarini, a woman he knows casually, but her mother was good ... + Read More
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Series: Pyre Paperback Perumal Murugan 9780802159335 $23.95 FICTION Feb 25, 2022

From the author of One Part Woman and The Story of a Goat, both longlisted for the National Book Award for Translation, comes a poignant and startling novel about love, caste, and intoleranceProfiled in both the New Yorker and the New York Times, Perumal Murugan is one of India’s highest selling and most respected literary writers, and Pyre is perhaps his most beloved work. Saroja and Kumaresan are young and in love. After meeting in a small southern Indian town where Kumaresan works at a soda bottling shop, they quickly marry before returning ... + Read More
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Series: Pandemic Baby Becoming a Parent in Lockdown Hardcover Pia Bramley 9781785788000 $17.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Dec 07, 2021

'Pia Bramley captures this bizarre love and confusion perfectly' - Cariad Lloyd'A beautiful, bittersweet keepsake for anyone who's navigated the journey to parenthood during this exceptional time' - Leah Hazard'Tender and moving' - Katherine May'This is a perfect book' - Isabel Greenberg'True loveliness on every single page' - Lizzy Stewart'A thing to treasure and keep close at hand' - Emily Haworth-Booth'A reminder of all the angst, the strangeness, the minor griefs, but - most importantly - of the magic' - Jennie AggA moving, funny exploratio... + Read More
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Series: Hot Science The Space Business From Hotels in Orbit to Mining the Moon - How Private Enterprise is Transforming Space Paperback Andrew May 9781785787454 $19.95 SCIENCE Jan 18, 2022

Dreams, schemes and opportunity as space opens for tourism and commerce.Twentieth century space exploration may have belonged to state-funded giants such as NASA, but there is a parallel history which has set the template for the future.Even before Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, private companies were exploiting space via communication satellites - a sector that is seeing exponential growth in the internet age. In human spaceflight, too, commercialisation is making itself felt. Billionaire entrepreneurs Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson ... + Read More
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Series: Who Poisoned Your Bacon? The Dangerous History of Meat Additives Paperback Guillaume Coudray 9781785787867 $25.95 COOKING Feb 15, 2022

'Highly persuasive ... a well-organised and solid dossier that alerts us to legalised chemical trickery.'Joanna Blythman, The Spectator'A bombshell book' Daily Mail'Eye-opening and important . . . a book full of righteous anger' Bee Wilson, from her ForewordDid you know that bacon, ham, hot dogs and salami are classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as 'category 1 carcinogens'?Would you eat them if you knew they caused bowel cancer?Following ten years of detailed investigation, documentary film-maker Guillaume Coudray presents a power... + Read More
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Series: Black Lion Alive in the Wilderness Hardcover Bridget Pitt 9781776191482 $28.95 NATURE Mar 08, 2022

Wilderness guide Sicelo Mbatha shares lessons learnt from a lifetime's intimate association with Africa's wildest nature.Black Lion begins in rural South Africa where a deeply traumatic childhood experience - a cousin being dragged away by a crocodile - should have turned him against the surrounding wilderness. Instead, he was irresistibly drawn to it. As a volunteer at Imfolozi Nature Reserve, close encounters with animals taught him to 'see' with his heart and thus began a spiritual awakening.Drawing from his Zulu culture and a yearning to be... + Read More
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Series: Where the Silver River Ends Paperback Anna Quon 9781988784878 $22.95 FICTION Mar 01, 2022

Lyrical realism meets family drama meets sparkling global folktale. Joan, a half-Chinese English conversation teacher unmoored in Europe, flees Budapest for a fresh start. Stepping off the train in Bratislava, she meets Milan, a proud Roma teenager, and they strike up a friendship. Milan helps Joan settle into the city, and in turn, Joan introduces him to Adriana, who has travelled to lay the memory of her dead mother to rest. They form an unlikely trio, bound by love and luck into something like family.At the crossroads of youthful hope and th... + Read More
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Series: Harbour Grids Paperback Zane Koss 9781988784885 $19.95 POETRY Apr 05, 2022

A visually and lyrically beautiful debut that celebrates the landscapes we take for granted. Harbour Grids is a long poem in four parts that investigates ideas of community and belonging. Beginning as a meditation on the surface of New York Harbor, the poem radiates outward through issues of labour, location, history, belonging, and subjectivity. How do we experience our complex relations to the world we live in? Harbour Grids seeks to answer this question by combining the sonic texture and investigative poetics of Daphne Marlatt, the improvis... + Read More
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Series: Send Me Into the Woods Alone Essays on Motherhood Paperback Erin Pepler 9781988784892 $20.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Apr 19, 2022

Dispatches from modern motherhood by a reluctant suburbanite. Send Me Into The Woods Alone is an honest, heartfelt, and often hilarious collection of essays on the joys, struggles, and complexities of motherhood. These essays touch on the major milestones of raising children, from giving birth (and having approximately a million hands in your vagina) and taking your beautiful newborn home (and feeling like you’ve stolen your baby from the hospital), to lying to kids about the Tooth Fairy and mastering the subtle art of beating children at board... + Read More