The Shortest History of Democracy
The roots of democracy stretch back beyond Athens to Syria- Mesopotamia and the Indian subcontinent, where citizens’ assemblies held privile…
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Red Is My Heart
Le Sonneur
Antoine Laurain
How do you get over the woman you loved? A painful yet playful tale of love, loss and hope told in words and pictures
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Finding the Mother Tree
Staff Pick Trees; turns out they talk to each other, heal each other, work together against pest and disease, remember what they’ve done and…
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Sorrow and Bliss
Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022 Everyone tells Martha Friel she is clever and beautiful, a brilliant writer who has been l…
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The Foundling’s War
Michel Déon
The sequel to the The Foundling Boy finds Jean making his way in German-occupied France.
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The 500 Hidden Secrets of London
Where are the 5 best places to find street food? Which are the 5 best restaurants to grab your lunch at in Soho? Which pubs have the most am…
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Lean on Me
Serge Joncour
A prize-winning bestseller in France, this is the unlikely love story of two lonely people in present-day Paris
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The Premonition
A Pandemic Story In January 2020, as people started dying from a new virus in Wuhan, China, few really understood the magnitude of what was…
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Silverview
Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But on…
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend E…
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Empire of Pain
The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times/…
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Case Study
“I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting myself in danger.” London, 1965. An unwor…
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Agent Sonya
THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF WW2’S MOST EXTRAORDINARY SPY – FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SPY AND THE TRAITOR From planning an assassin…
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To Paradise
From the author of the modern classic A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the Am…
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The Martins
David Foenkinos
A Parisian writer lacking inspiration finds the heroine of his next novel outside his apartment. Telling the story of octogenarian Madeleine…
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery
By turns moving and hilarious, this unusual and insightful novel is an international publishing sensation, with sales of over 10 million cop…
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