Jane Austen’s bicentenary, Arundhati Roy’s first novel in 20 years, and unpublished F Scott Fitzgerald ...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
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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
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The long-awaited portrait of a literary master from one of our generation's greatest biographers...
The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Biography memoir true crime
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
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Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of the 1970s and ’80s . . . if you dare. Page...
Horror Reference
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Jane Austen’s bicentenary, Arundhati Roy’s first novel in 20 years, and unpublished F Scott Fitzgerald ...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
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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
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The long-awaited portrait of a literary master from one of our generation's greatest biographers...
The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms
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Following on from the success of Men Explain Things to Me comes a new collection of essays in which...
and 41 other items
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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
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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
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The best work yet from the Pulitzer finalist and best-selling author of For the Relief of Unbearable...
Fiction thriller
Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe
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"It's long been assumed of the region where my grandmother was born...that at some point each year...
History Biography Memoir
A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial
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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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Books Editor (673 KP) added 12 items to the list BG Prize 2017
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BG Prize 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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
History Religion