Reading Guides
Books Always. Everywhere
Including Books Always Everywhere — Jane Blatt, illustrated by Sarah Massini
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Spring Books
Including Behind the Beautiful Forevers —
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Winter Selection 2012
Including Debt: The First 5,000 Years — David Graeber
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10 Books about Cycling
Including Slaying the Badger: LeMond, Hinault and the Greatest Ever Tour De France — Richard Moore
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10 Books about Reading
Including Reading Like a Writer — Francine Prose
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10 Works about Greece
Including Twice a Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece and Turkey — Bruce Clark
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Littoral Literature
Including Land’s Edge: A Coastal Memoir — Tim Winton
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Notting Hill Editions
Vintage Children's Classics
Including The Railway Children — E. Nesbit
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Little Toller Books
Including Salar the Salmon — Henry Williamson, illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe
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Debt: A Reader's Guide
Including "The Merchant of Venice”: Third Series — William Shakespeare, volume editor John Drakakis
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A Book Lover's Reading Guide
Including The Lover's Dictionary: A Love Story in 185 Definitions — David Levithan
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10 Books about Swimming
London Films
Including Prick up your Ears — Stephen Frears
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Six of the Best for Children
Including The 10 Best Games in the World — Angles Navarro
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Summer Reading At The London Review Bookshop
Including Blood Knots: A Memoir of Fishing and Friendship — Luke Jennings
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Ten Books about Ghosts
Including The Man Who Sees Ghosts — Friedrich Schiller, translated by David Bryer
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A Reader's Guide to the Essay
Including The Professor — Terry Castle
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Pulitzer Prize Winners 2011
Including Best Of It — Kay Ryan
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World Literature at the London Review Bookshop
Including Measuring the World — Daniel Kehlmann
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A Reader's Guide to Memory
Including Memory as a Remedy for Evil — Tzvetan Todorov, translated by Gila Walker, photographs by Naveen Kishore
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Against History and Geography: A Reader's Guide to Italy
Including Between Salt Water and Holy Water: A History of Southern Italy — Tommaso Astarita
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Almost as good as a book
Including Saturday Night and Sunday Morning —
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Smile: A Reader's Guide To Happiness
Including Candide, or Optimism — Voltaire, introduction by Michael Wood, translated by Theo Cuffe
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South: A Reader's Guide to the Other America
Including The War of the End of the World — Mario Vargos Llosa
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Tall Stories for Short People
Including 13 Words — Lemony Snicket
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Virginia Woolf
Including the Essays of Virginia Woolf Vol. 6 — Virgina Woolf
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Monsters: a Reader's Guide to Imaginary Animals
Including Animalinside — Laszlo Krasznahorkai and Max Neumann, edited by Dan Gunn, illustrated by Max Neumann
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Penguin Mini Modern Classics
Including The Lady in the Looking Glass — Virginia Woolf
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Seagull Books Highlights
Including The Trials of Spinoza — Tariq Ali
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The LRB Collection
Including What I Don’t Know About Animals — Jenny Diski
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Back in the Jug Agane
Including The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren — Iona Opie and Peter Opie
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Peirene Press
Including Stone in a Landslide — Maria Barbal, edited by Paul Mitchell, translated by Laura McGloughlin
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Quiet, Please!
Including The Heart is a Lonely Hunter — Carson McCullers, introduction by Kasia Boddy
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It Makes the World Go Round: A Reader's Guide to Money
Including The Pardoner’s Tale (Unabridged) — Geoffrey Chaucer, read by Richard Bebb
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It’s a Bug’s Life
Including Bugs and the Victorians — John F. McDiarmid Clark
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Man Booker Prize 2010
Including C — Tom McCarthy
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Contemporary Scottish Writing: Northern Highlights
Including Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off — Liz Lochhead
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Summer Selection
Including Correspondence — Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann, translated by Wieland Hoban
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A Fool at One End: A Reader's Guide to Fish and Fishing
Including The Founding Fish — John McPhee
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The New Yorker 20 under 40
Including The Dissident — Nell Freudenberger
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Central European Classics
Including War with the Newts — Karel Capek
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British Library CDs – The Spoken Word
Including Bernard Shaw – The Spoken Word — George Bernard Shaw and British Library Sound Archive
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Murder, They Wrote
Including The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner — James Hogg
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Being Alone
Including I Am Legend — Richard Matheson
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After a Fashion
Including Adorned in Dreams — Elizabeth Wilson
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One Train Can Hide Another
Including Death Ride from Fenchurch Street and other Victorian Railway Murders — Arthur V. Sellwood and Mary Sellwood
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The Year Is...
Including 1599 — James Shapiro
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The Turning: A Reader's Guide to 1989
Including Retroactive Justice:Prehistory of Post-Communism — István Rév
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Related Reading
Including Bad Blood — Lorna Sage
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From the Ground Up
Including Of Farming and Classics — David Grene, foreword by Robert Pippin
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Slow Down!
Including Slow Food: The Case for Taste — Carlo Petrini, translated by William McCuaig, foreword by Alice Waters
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High Objects and Enduring Things
Including The White Spider — Heinrich Harrer
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It's All About Me
Including Berlin Childhood Around 1900 — Walter Benjamin, introduction by Peter Szondi, translated by Howard Eiland
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Northern Highlights
Including All Points North — Simon Armitage
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Pandemics: A Reader’s Guide
Including The Man with Night Sweats — Thom Gunn
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The Demon Drink
Including My Life with Dylan Thomas: Double Drink Story — Caitlin Thomas
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Books Behind Bars
Including Kalakuta Republic — Christopher Abani
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Flowers: A Reader's Guide
Including Flora Britannica — series edited by Richard Mabey
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Real to Reel
A Viewer's Guide to Documentary Film
The 2009 London International Documentary Festival ran from 28 March to 4 April, with 50 films screening in 10 venues across London.
Here’s our selection of some ground-breaking or iconic documentaries, starting with BFI's major retrospective of the British documentary film movement during its period of greatest influence:
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Wildness and Wet
Including Forests — Robert Pogue Harrison
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Darwin's Centuries
Including From So Simple a Beginning: The Four Great Books of Charles Darwin — Charles Darwin, edited by Edward O. Wilson
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Collections
Including The Collector Collector — Tibor Fischer
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Inside Out
Including 50 Drawings to Murder Magic — Antonin Artaud, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith
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Costa Awards 2008
Including The Broken Word — Adam Foulds
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Football
Including The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick — Peter Handke, translated by Michael Roloff
The Future
Including Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years — Vaclav Smil
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The President's Bookshelf
Including The Irony of American History — Reinhold Niebuhr, introduction by Andrew J. Bacevich
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A River Runs Through Them
Including Dart — Alice Oswald
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India
Including Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found — Suketu Mehta
John Updike, 1932-2009
Including The Witches of Eastwick — John Updike
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Messing About in Boats
Including Coasting — Jonathan Raban
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Rack Press
Including Dream Endings — Roisin Tierney
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Reading in Ruins
Including Rome and Environs: An Archaeological Guide — Filippo Coarelli, translated by James J. Clauss and Daniel P. Harmon, illustrated by J Anthony Clauss
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The Book of the Film
Including Literature and Cinematography — Viktor Shlovsky, Irina Masinovsky and Richard Sheldon
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The Inventions of Scotland
Including The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner — James Hogg
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What Takes a Village?
Including The Lost Villages: Rediscovering Britain’s Vanished Communities — Henry Buckton
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Workers of the World
Including Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do — Studs Terkel
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The Senses
Including The Auditory Culture Reader — edited by Michael Bull and Les Back
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Peace breaks out...
Including All Men Are Brothers — Mahatma Gandhi
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These Books Are Made For Walking
Including Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland – The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates — Patrick Leigh Fermor
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I've started so I'll finish
Including Beginnings: Intentions and Method — Edward W. Said, introduction by Michael Wood
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Enjoy your flight
Including Beyond the Blue Horizon — Alexander Frater
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Anatomising Melancholy
Including Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia — Julia Kristeva, translated by Leon S. Roudiez
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It's a Great Wall...
Including What the Chinese Don’t Eat — Xinran
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It's About the Bike
Including The Escape Artist: Life from the Saddle — Matt Seaton
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Cops and Robbers
Including Special Assignments: the Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin — Boris Akunin
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The Trees Persist
Including The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest — Andrew C. Revkin
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Venice
Including Watermark — Joseph Brodsky
Costa Book Awards
Including The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius — Graham Farmelo
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London
Including Archaeology in Reverse — Stephen Gill, afterword by Iain Sinclair
World Literature Weekend
Including The Noodle Maker — Ma Jian
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Six of the Best...
Including The Benn Diaries, 1940-90 — Tony Benn, volume editor Ruth Winstone
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Stalin Ate My Homework
Alexei Sayle first came to fame in the early 1980s as a member of the alternative comedy vanguard. Since then, he has reinvented himself as a novel... See details
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The Last Hundred Days
The poet Patrick McGuinness’s first novel is set in Bucharest, where he lived in the 1980s. The action takes place in 1989 as Ceausescu lays waste ... See details
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Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe
Gillian Tett uses her training as an anthropologist to analyse what went wrong with the money markets in 2008, and concludes, following Pierre Bour... See details
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The Frock-coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
Miles Taylor writes:
Today, as capitalism stumbles, Marx is back as a prophet for our troubled times. Engels, however, has remained on ...
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Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence
The Medici family in 15th-century Florence earned their power through banking. Novelist and historian Tim Parks describes the relationship between ... See details
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The Natural Navigator Pocket Guide
The art of using natural signs – the sun, the stars, the wind, trees, even puddles – to find one’s way is, Tristan Gooley believes, an important sk... See details