The Last Guardian

The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire

'A tour de force of accessible scholarship' The Guardian'Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority' New StatesmanThe Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adr...

Why Dylan Matters

A GUARDIAN BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2017AN INDEPENDENT BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2017 ‘At last an expert classicist gets to grips with Bob Dylan’ Mary Beard ‘A poignant blend of memoir, literary analysis through a classical lens, musicology and, above all, love’ Guardian When the Nobel Prize for Literature was a...

Our Fight (Ronda Rousey)

From Sunday Times bestselling author, British Sports Book of the Year Award winner, and trailblazing athlete Ronda Rousey, an unfiltered and entertaining chronicle of her last decade, tackling not only UFC and WWE but also parenthood, overcoming adversity, and finding meaning in life’s journey. ‘You...

The Anomaly

THE NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2020 PRIX GONCOURT. 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD.AN INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON. 'Amusing, affecting, effervescent' Guardian'A good idea, elegantly executed' Daily Telegraph'Buckle your seatbelts, as Herve le Tellier takes you on an extraordinary ride. You won't...

Seventeen

'A powerful tale of lost youth' - Guardian'Disturbing, powerful and important' - The Times'Engaging and engrossing, frank and frankly troubling, Seventeen is a book not easily forgotten' - Karen Joy Fowler' I can't remember the last time, if ever, a memoir affected me as deeply as Seventeen' - John ...

Playground - Richard Powers

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY AND BEWILDERMENT'Is there anything Richard Powers cannot write? The world here is complete, seductive, and promising. The writing feels like the ocean. Vast, myster...

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Persepolis

Wise, often funny, sometimes heartbreaking, Persepolis tells the story of Marjane Satrapi's life in Tehran from the ages of six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outs...

Playground

THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, TWICE BOOKER SHORTLISTED AUTHORShe had the ocean. And the ocean absorbed all her hope and excitement, all her panic and pain and love, into a place far larger than anything human. Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Ric...

Doppelganger

*WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* *THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, AND PROSPECT* ‘If I had to name a single book that makes sense of these last few dark years, it would be this one’ New York Times ‘A deeply...