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Jane Austen’s bicentenary, Arundhati Roy’s first novel in 20 years, and unpublished F Scott Fitzgerald ... the literary year ahead


The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016

The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016

Martin Amis

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Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing...

Anthony Powell: A Life

Anthony Powell: A Life

Hilary Spurling

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The long-awaited portrait of a literary master from one of our generation's greatest biographers...

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Neil MacGregor

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A major new book by the author of A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS. SACRED, for November 2017,...


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The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms

The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms

Rebecca Solnit

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Following on from the success of Men Explain Things to Me comes a new collection of essays in which...

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The Autumn's new releases in nonfiction are even more exciting than the return of the pumpkin spice latte.


Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation

Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation

John Freeman

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America is broken. You don't need a fistful of statistics to know this. Visit any city, and evidence...

The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl

The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl

Tess Holliday

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Plus-­size supermodel Tess Holliday’s passionate plea for modern women, whoever they are, is to...


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After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search

After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search

Sarah Perry

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A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and...


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Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction

Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction

Grady Hendrix

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Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of the 1970s and ’80s . . . if you dare. Page...


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The Lost Continent: Travels In Small Town America
The Lost Continent: Travels In Small Town America
Bill Bryson | 1989 | Travel
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"I read all kinds of books, fiction, non-fiction. I just read a non-fiction book by Bill Bryson which is his travelogue across America."

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The Thief's Journal
The Thief's Journal
Jean Genet | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry, LGBTQ+, Technical
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"Anarchy. Sexuality. Sodomy. Obsession. Non-fiction. Werque!"

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Tasia Boxill (12 KP) created a poll

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The non-fiction literary year ahead, although we're already on September!

Jane Austen’s bicentenary, Arundhati Roy’s first novel in 20 years, and unpublished F Scott Fitzgerald ... the literary year ahead


The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016

The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016

Martin Amis

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Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing...

Anthony Powell: A Life

Anthony Powell: A Life

Hilary Spurling

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The long-awaited portrait of a literary master from one of our generation's greatest biographers...

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Sacred

Neil MacGregor

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A major new book by the author of A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS. SACRED, for November 2017,...


History
The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms

The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms

Rebecca Solnit

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Following on from the success of Men Explain Things to Me comes a new collection of essays in which...

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Fabulous! The best non-fiction book I have read in ages!
  
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Jade Spruce (4 KP) created a poll

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Books Editor (673 KP) shared own list

Sep 22, 2017
Two illuminating memoirs, an irreverent essay collection, and some non-fiction war novels, here are New York Times' books of the week.

Fall fiction is here and ready to entertain you, as new novels by Nicole Krauss, Salman Rushdie and Nathan Englander can attest.


The Golden House

The Golden House

Salman Rushdie

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When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious...


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Dinner at the Center of the Earth: A Novel

Dinner at the Center of the Earth: A Novel

Nathan Englander

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The best work yet from the Pulitzer finalist and best-selling author of For the Relief of Unbearable...


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Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe

Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe

Inara Verzemnieks

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"It's long been assumed of the region where my grandmother was born...that at some point each year...


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A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial

A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial

James Reston Jr.

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A Distinguished and Bestselling Historian and Vietnam Vet Revisits the Culture War that Raged around...


History Art Architecture
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The 2017 longlist for the Baillie Gifford Prize, UK's top non-fiction book award is out! Reni Eddo-Lodge's book is pretty damn awesome.
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Books Editor (673 KP) added 12 items to the list BG Prize 2017

Sep 8, 2017

The Baillie Gifford Prize aims to reward the best of non-fiction and is open to authors of any nationality. It is the most prestigious non-fiction prize in the UK. Here is the 2017 longlist:


An Odyssey: A Father, a Son and an Epic

An Odyssey: A Father, a Son and an Epic

Daniel Mendelsohn

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From the best-selling author of 'The Lost', a deeply moving tale of a father, a son and the lessons...

A Bold and Dangerous Family

A Bold and Dangerous Family

Caroline Moorehead

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Mussolini was not only ruthless: he was subtle and manipulative. Black-shirted thugs did his dirty...


History Politics
To be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death

To be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death

Mark O'Connell

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What is transhumanism? Simply put, it is a movement whose aim is to use technology to...

Belonging: the Story of the Jews, 1492-1900

Belonging: the Story of the Jews, 1492-1900

Simon Schama

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The Jewish story is a history that is about, and for, all of us. And in our own time of anxious...


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