Are there signs of life in our cultural body? A dose of doctors (including Murray Edmond, Bernadette Hall, James Norcliffe, Tracey Slaughter, Gregory O'Brien, Chad Taylor, Mark Braunias and Peter Black) apply their literary and artistic stethoscopes.
Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole $29.99
"The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float. Nigeria was like that for me: mostly forgotten, except for those few things that I remembered with outsize intensity."
" As readers of Cole’s novel Open City will expect, this novel is beautifully written, compelling, concise and with a degree of romantic abandon." - Independent
"In her powerful rejoinder to Orwell's Why I Write, Deborah Levy responds to his proposed motives for writing - 'sheer egoism', 'aesthetic enthusiasm', 'historical impulse' and 'political purpose' - with illuminating moments of autobiography. A vivid, striking account of a writer's life, which feminises and personalises Orwell's blunt assertions." - Spectator
"An up-to-date version of A Room of One's Own. I suspect it will be quoted for many years to come." - Irish Examiner
"Price's book achieves a rare feat indeed. A lovingly crafted account of Welsh-speaking rural life on the brink of dissolution or at least transformation, it serves both as a touching, tender document and as a thoroughly artful exercise in storytelling – one that, in methods and motifs, can claim a place on the shelf beside Berger, Sebald and Ondaatje. This beautiful book, with the many meanings of blindness and insight at its heart, traces a path not only between the visible and invisible worlds but between memory and imagination, past and present – and fact and fiction." - Independent
Which bird has caught the worm? Where is the poorly monkey? And can you spot the shy little shrimp? Each spread matches an amusing riddle with a complex patterned artwork, within which the answer lies. Delightful!
A wonderful new book from John Burningham!! One evening Sylvie notices a door in her bedroom wall that wasn't there before...
Burningham's books affirm children's inner lives and are a delight to read. This one will soon be a favourite.
Human beings know how to make machines. But what kind of machine is a human being? And could we ever make one? In order to answer these questions, other questions get in the way: What is it like to be a human being? What is it like to be some other kind of animal? What is reality? What is consciousness? Is there a God? What is love? Why live? The questions proliferate. But all these questions can be viewed as facets of a single question: What is science?
A deep-mulling, richly sensitive suite of poems on a mother's adjustments to the needs of an autistic child.
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-mi Hwang $29.99
"An adroit allegory about life..in the vein of classics like Charlotte's Web and Jonathan Livingston Seagull...A subtle morality tale that will appeal to readers of all ages." - Kirkus Review
"The scariest book I've read in a while is also the most exhilarating: there is no better, stronger picture of our bleak new technological landscape and the peppy delusions and deceptions of its profiteers than The People's Platform. But knowledge is power, and Taylor gives us a picture so clear it empowers us to find a way forward through the debris. Read it and revolt." - Rebecca Solnit
Because you want to!
"This formidable novel unpacks friendship, betrayal, unknowability - and includes an astute take on Englishness, on class, on mathematical theory, human rights, and whether people can trust their own perception of the world." - Observer
Use your eyes to uncover the cosmos of characters packed into every page! There are stories hidden everywhere.
A London-based journalist returns to South Africa and tries to determine the extent of her father's involvement in the murder of a man abducted by security forces decades earlier.
"Disquieting and compelling, announcing an astute and unusually gifted observer." - Guardian
A “novel about the impossibility of writing a novel about a real-life massacre.” In 1968 in Kilvenmani village, in the Tanjore district of Tamil Nadu, South India, 44 landless Dalit agricultural labourers, including women and children, were locked in a hut by a group of landowners and burnt alive. Fiercely political, multi-faceted and well written.
The author wants to speak to you.
"A rambling, soft-hearted Irish family saga, stuffed with eccentricity, literature, anecdotes, mythology, humour and heartbreak." - Kirkus
rambling,
soft-hearted Irish family saga stuffed with eccentricity, literature,
anecdotes, mythology, humour and heartbreak - See more at:
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“A
rambling, soft-hearted Irish family saga stuffed with eccentricity,
literature, anecdotes, mythology, humour and heartbreak - See more at:
http://bloomsbury.com/uk/history-of-the-rain-9781408852026/#sthash.w22TFZjv.dpuf
“A
rambling, soft-hearted Irish family saga stuffed with eccentricity,
literature, anecdotes, mythology, humour and heartbreak - See more at:
http://bloomsbury.com/uk/history-of-the-rain-9781408852026/#sthash.w22TFZjv.dpuf
rambling,
soft-hearted Irish family saga stuffed with eccentricity, literature,
anecdotes, mythology, humour and heartbreak - See more at:
http://bloomsbury.com/uk/history-of-the-rain-9781408852026/#sthash.w22TFZjv.dpuf
“A
rambling, soft-hearted Irish family saga stuffed with eccentricity,
literature, anecdotes, mythology, humour and heartbreak - See more at:
http://bloomsbury.com/uk/history-of-the-rain-9781408852026/#sthash.w22TFZjv.dpuf
“A
rambling, soft-hearted Irish family saga stuffed with eccentricity,
literature, anecdotes, mythology, humour and heartbreak - See more at:
http://bloomsbury.com/uk/history-of-the-rain-9781408852026/#sthash.w22TFZjv.dpuf
A wonderful introduction to a vast subject.
In the late 1980s Jon Ronson was the keyboard player in the Frank Sidebottom Oh Blimey Big Band. Frank wore a big fake head. Nobody outside his inner circle knew his true identity. This became the subject of feverish speculation during his zenith years. Together, they rode relatively high. Then it all went wrong...
This book tells the true story behind the just-released film (co-written by Ronson).
Are cities good for us (and just what does that mean)? Hollis does his best to answer the first question in the affirmative (without going too deeply into the second).
There are people out there in the shadows, watching, wanting to be with you. And they'll do whatever it takes to make that happen...
"An intelligent and profoundly unsettling novel." - Guardian
" On one hand this is an absorbing thriller, on the other it provokes us to mistrust our perceptions of reality, to doubt the facts of our familiar surroundings... Engrossing and uncanny." - Daily Mail
A middle-aged man discovers he has a heart condition that means he may drop dead at any minute. He makes a list of things to do. Can he be a better person, and, more importantly, a better father now that his daughter needs his support?
"Genuinely very funny, as well as engaging and rather moving." - Daily Mail
Seventeen-year-old Li Lan lives in 1890s Malaya with her quietly-ruined father, who returns one evening with a proposition: the fabulously wealthy Lim family want Li Lan to marry their son. The only problem is, he's dead. A ghost story based on the historic custom of spirit marriage.
In June 2013, reporter and political commentator Glenn Greenwald published a series of reports in the Guardian which revealed shocking the extent to which the National Security Agency had been gathering information about US citizens and intercepting communication worldwide. The reports were based on documents leaked by former NSA employee Edward Snowden. This book tells the story of those revelations, and contains new information.
A mysterious woman with the gift of storytelling transforms the lives of the residents of a Chinese village. From the author of the Newbery Honor medal-winning Where the Mountain Meets the Moon.
A conspiracy with global repercussions converges on one small flat above a dentist's office in Camberwell.
"Glow does not glow – it dazzles." - Independent
Should erotic obsession be grounds for getting away with murder? Appignanesi scrutinises historical cases and the lines we draw between sanity and madness.
"Enthrallingly narrated, Appignanesi’s book compels with its gruesome subject matter and delights with a wealth of bizarre detail." - Telegraph
Think more effectively by thinking inside-out, upside-down and back-to-front. From the authors of Freakonomics.
An unprecedented study, essential reading for anyone interested in the history of espionage, the two world wars, modern British government and the conduct of international relations in the first half of the twentieth century.
A chilling vision of a contemporary USA where the sinister Church of America is causing havoc and destroying lives. 16-year-old Vivian is awaiting the fated 'Rapture', but when her parents mysteriously disappear she embarks on a perilous journey to find them.
Winner of the Guardian/Hot Key Young Writer's Prize.
Lots of fun and nastiness, following the fun and nasty Osbert the Avenger.
"This book is full of disaster after disaster, but you just want to keep reading to see where all the disasters will lead. If you've read Osbert it is a good book to read next. If you haven't, it would still be good." - Cosmo (11)
