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Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep
Michael Schulman
Read more ▸ Order ▸Staff Pick
A coming of age biography about one the greatest actresses of our generation. A...
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Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists
Celia Brayfield
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘Make this your next inspirational read. Trust us, it’s Oprah’s Book Club worthy’ Vice In...
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The Rodchenkov Affair
Grigory Rodchenkov
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘The biggest sports scandal the world has ever seen’
In 2015, Russia’s Anti-Doping Centre was suspended...
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Everything in Moderation
Daniel Finkelstein
Read more ▸ Order ▸Writing on everything from a defence of suburban life and moderate politics to big ideas...
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Home in the World
Amartya Sen, FBA
Read more ▸ Order ▸Where is ‘home’? For Amartya Sen home has been many places – Dhaka in modern...
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More Than a Woman
Caitlin Moran
Read more ▸ Order ▸A decade ago, Caitlin Moran thought she had it all figured out. Her instant bestseller How...
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The Powerful and the Damned: Private Diaries in Turbulent Times
Lionel Barber
Read more ▸ Order ▸The real scoop isn’t on the front page
‘As FT editor, I was a privileged interlocutor...
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The Case for Love: My Adventures In Other Minds
A K Benjamin
Read more ▸ Order ▸An exhilarating journey into the unfathomable depths of the human mind, from the acclaimed author...
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Re-educated
Lucy Kellaway
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘I am immersed in a new world that feels a long way from my old...
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Woodston: The Biography of an English Farm
John Lewis-Stempel
Read more ▸ Order ▸In the beginning was the earth…
From the Paleozoic volcanoes that stained its soil, to the...
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Letters To My Weird Sisters
Joanne Limburg
Read more ▸ Order ▸On Autism and Feminism
It seemed to me that many of the moments when my autism...
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Hogarth: Life in Progress
Jacqueline Riding
Read more ▸ Order ▸On a late spring night in 1732, a boisterous group of friends set out from...