Summer Reading At The London Review Bookshop
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Everything Flows
Vasily Grossman’s final, unfinished novel tells the story of Ivan Grigoryevich, released after 30 years in the Gulags and struggling to make his wa... See details
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The Lost Books of the Odyssey
In 44 short chapters Zachary Mason recasts Homer’s Odyssey as a set of variations: in one of them, Odysseus returns to Ithaca to find that P... See details
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It’s All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels
Robert Penn describes the process of acquiring a new bike with a passion and level of detail that will seem unhinged to anyone who doesn’t cycle re... See details
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Wild Life in a Southern County
Richard Jefferies was born on a Wiltshire smallholding in 1848, but this lyrical evocation of the county’s downlands, copses, streams and hedgerows... See details
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The Loft
Austrian novelist Marlen Haushofer’s last book, Die Mansarde, was published in 1969 shortly before her death, but has never appeared in Engl... See details
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This Way to the Revolution: An Autobiography
In 1971 Erin Pizzey set up the world’s first refuge for battered women and their children. 40 years later, she describes the battles she was forced... See details
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The Wavewatcher’s Companion
One February morning, Gavin Pretor-Pinney and his three-year-old daughter were messing about on a Cornish beach. Unusually for Cornwall, and disapp... 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
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The Tiger’s Wife
Téa Obreht was born in 1985, in what was then Yugoslavia, and emigrated to the United States in 1997. Her first novel, The Tiger’s Wife, ret... See details
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Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
Kathryn Schulz mounts a spirited defence of the value of being wrong about things. ‘Of all the things we are wrong about,’ she writes, ‘error might... See details
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Blood Knots: A Memoir of Fishing and Friendship
Luke Jennings's Blood Knots is the memoir of his obsession with fishing, 'the technical business of angling' the lens through which memories... 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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