Independent Publishing Highlights
Fiction and nonfiction from independent publishers
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The Borgias: Power and Fortune
Paul Strathern
Staff Pick
A name that recollects ambition and sleaze, and all possible combinations thereof; a family...
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Air Age Blueprint
K Allado-McDowell
How can humans and non-humans come together to save the planet in an age of...
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Shortest Histories
Various
Time is very much of the essence with these indispensable narrative histories from Old Street...
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The Private Lives of Trees
Alejandro Zambra
Veronica is late, and Julian is increasingly convinced she won’t ever come home. To pass...
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The Birthday Party
Laurent Mauvignier
Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone...
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On Reading
George Orwell
Bookshop Memories, Good Bad Books, Nonsense Poetry, Books vs. Cigarettes and Confessions of a Book...
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Kew Gardens
Virginia Woolf
First published in 1921 as part of her ground-breaking short-story collection Monday or Tuesday, Kew...
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Inside the Whale
George Orwell
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide...
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The Vitality of Democracy
Gisela Stuart
There is no such thing as the perfect society. There are no hard and fast...
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My Life in France
Julia Child
When Julia Child arrived in Paris in 1948, ‘a six-foot-two-inch, thirty-six-year-old, rather loud and unserious...
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Where God Does Not Walk
Luke McCallin
THE WESTERN FRONT, JULY 1918. Gregor Reinhardt is a young lieutenant in a stormtrooper battalion...
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The Carnivorous Plant
Andrea Mayo
‘Society judges the person who falls into the trap, and not the other person, who...