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  • WOMEN & POWER: A MANIFESTO
    BEARD, MARY
    An updated edition of the Sunday Times BestsellerBritain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Hillary Clinton.Beard explores the cultural und...
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  • BELLES AND WHISTLES
    MARTIN, ANDREW
    In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Belle; smoke a post-prandial cigar as the Golden Arrow closed in on Paris, or be shaved by the Flying Scotsman's on-board barber. Everyone from schoolboys to socialites knew of these glamorous 'named trains' and aspired to ride aboard them.In Belles and Whistles, Andrew Martin recreat...
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  • WOMEN & POWER : A MANIFESTO
    BEARD, MARY
    Why the popular resonance of 'mansplaining' (despite the intense dislike of the term felt by many men)? It hits home for us because it points straight to what it feels like not to be taken seriously: a bit like when I get lectured on Roman history on Twitter.Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender...
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  • THE LADY IN THE VAN
    BENNETT, ALAN
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  • OBSTACLE IS THE WAY: THE ANCIENT ART OF TURNING ADVERSITY TO ADVANTAGE
    HOLIDAY, RYAN
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  • DOG POEMS
    Since prehistory, dogs have served as man's best friend, giving us loyalty, assistance and boundless inspiration.Dogs offer comfort and amusement to their owners; they provide solace when we're sad, entertaining antics when we're bored and affection every day. To poets in particular, these beloved creatures are the most bountiful muses, as they bark, yip, hunt, fetch, growl and...
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  • THIS IS PLEASURE
    GAITSKILL, MARY
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  • IN THE DREAM HOUSE : WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021
    MACHADO, CARMEN MARIA
    WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing experience with a charismatic but volatile woman, this is a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse.Each chapter views the relationship through ...
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  • LIBERTIE : A TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH AND ROXANE GAY'S BOOK CLUB MAY PICK
    GREENIDGE, KAITLYN
    A Times Book of the MonthMay 2021 Book of the Month for Roxane Gay's Book Club'A feat of monumental thematic imagination' - The New York TimesComing of age as a free-born Black girl in Brooklyn after the Civil War, Libertie Sampson was all too aware that her purposeful mother, a practicing physician, had a vision for their future together: Libertie would go to medical school an...
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  • BEING A BEAST
    FOSTER, CHARLES
    LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2016Charles Foster wanted to know what it was like to be a beast: a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, a swift. What it was really like. And through knowing what it was like he wanted to get down and grapple with the beast in us all.So he tried it out; he lived life as a badger for six weeks, sleeping in a dirt hole and eating earthworms, ...
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  • THE MELANCHOLY OF RESISTANCE
    KRASZNAHORKAI
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  • I LOVE DICK
    KRAUS, CHRIS5
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  • 99 STORIES OF GOD
    WILLIAMS, JOY
    Guanyadora del premi Pulitzer i finalista del “National Book Awards”, Joy Williams té un do per descriure l’absurditat i la foscor de la vida de cada dia. En “99 Stories of God”, es concentra en una de les preocupacions més importants del gener humà: El ser Suprem. Els seus personatges van de Kafka als Asteques, de Tolstoi a Abraham i Sara, encara que molts no deixen de ser pe...
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  • NEMO'S ALMANAC : A QUIZ FOR BOOK LOVERS
    IAN PATTERSON / ALAN HOLLINGHURST
    You might recognise: 'It was a bright day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.' But what about: 'Time, like an ever-rolling stream' Or even: 'I am soft sift / In an hour-glass-at the wall / Fast, but mined with a motion, a drift, / And it crowds and it combs to the fall.' Can you match each to their author? What about their book or poem? Welcome to Nemo's Almanac, t...
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  • EGO IS THE ENEMY : THE FIGHT TO MASTER OUR GREATEST OPPONENT
    RYAN HOLIDAY
    It's wrecked the careers of promising young geniuses. It's evaporated great fortunes and run companies into the ground. It's made adversity unbearable and turned struggle into shame. Every great philosopher has warned against it, in our most lasting stories and countless works of art, in all culture and all ages. Its name? Ego, and it is the enemy - of ambition, of success and ...
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  • THE PASSPORT
    MULLER, HERTA
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  • THE DIARY OF A BOOKSELLER
    BYTHELL, SHAUN
    Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribu...
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