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A Book of Migrations
First published in 1997 and now reissued with a new preface, A Book of Migrations takes on, in Solnit’s characteristically digressive manner, the m... See details
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The Art-Architecture Complex
Hal Foster is Townsend Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton, a co-editor of October magazine and one of the world’s leading theorists of t... See details
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Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
Tom Paulin writes: These letters are very different from those collected in the Selected Letters of Philip Larkin 1940-85. Those w... See details
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School Wars: The Battle for Britain’s Education
In a passionate and beautifully written polemic, Melissa Benn argues that the much-maligned comprehensive education system offers the best model fo... See details
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All Made Up
Janice Galloway continues the ‘anti-memoir’ that began with This is Not About Me. This second volume follows Janice into adolescence and b... See details
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Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
Ten years ago Philip Connors threw in his job as a copy editor for the Wall Street Journal and set off for the New Mexico wilderness to become a fi... See details
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Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life
Susie Harries’s monumental biography of the German architectural historian responsible for Allen Lane’s Buildings of England series of guidebooks: ... See details
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Tippoo Sultan’s Incredible White-man Eating Tiger-toy Machine!!!
Daljit Nagra’s exuberant second collection uses the vivid dialect of Punjabi English to explore the legacy of the British Empire, the meaning of pl... See details
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The Stranger’s Child
Christopher Tayler writes:
In The Stranger’s Child he [Hollinghurst] weaves a number of stories around the idea of Brooke and hi...
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Ravilious in Pictures (Vol. 3, A Country Life)
From the publisher: We are delighted to announce the publication of volume three of ‘Ravilious in Pictures’, the series celebrating the li... See details
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White Egrets
Derek Walcott’s latest collection sees him returning to many of his characteristic themes: the nature of islands and their vexed relationship with ... See details
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The Poetry of Birds
This anthology of bird poetry in English is arranged in the standard taxonomic order familiar from field guides, beginning with Marianne Moore’s Os... See details
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Just Kids
Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe first met in 1967, barely out of their teens – both had escaped strict Catholic upbringings. They became friend... See details
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Chopin
Zamoyski has revisited his 1979 biography of Chopin and entirely rewritten it in the light of new research. Chopin has been much mythologised, and ... See details
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