Category Archives: Accessories
Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these crises served to secure it. In colonial Bombay, capitalists and governors, Indian and British alike, used moments of crisis to justify interventions that delimited the city as a
The Hairy Dieters: Good Eating
Following on from their multi-million selling diet books, THE HAIRY DIETERS and THE HAIRY DIETERS: EAT FOR LIFE, the Hairy Bikers share more delicious low-calorie recipes and easy-to-follow advice. Si King and Dave Myers, aka the Hairy Bikers, have been entertaining and feeding Britain with their unique blend of tasty recipes, cheeky humour and motorbike
Supper Club
WINNER of the GUARDIAN `NOT THE BOOKER` PRIZE 2019BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR – Vogue, TIME, Vulture, Woman and Home, and many more `Subversive, radical, written with total glee and rollicking sense of unlimited possibility. Williams is one to watch` StylistIf you feed a starving woman, what will she grow into?Twenty-nine year old Roberta has
The Gifts of Reading
From the acclaimed author of The Old Ways and Landmarks — an essay on the joy of reading, for anyone who has ever loved a book Every book is a kind of gift to its reader, and the act of giving books is charged with a special emotional resonance. It is a meeting of three
Explaining Humans: Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2020
WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2020How proteins, machine learning and molecular chemistry can teach us about the complexities of human behaviour and the world around usHow do we understand the people around us? How do we recognise people`s motivations, their behaviour, or even their facial expressions? And, when do we
Ghosts: The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER`A poignant, funny tale of early-thirties love and loss` Sunday Times Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and family, plus a new home and neighbourhood. When she meets Max, a beguiling romantic hero who tells her on date one that he`s going
Real Estate
`Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statue of Peter Pan. Silk. Melancholy. The banana tree. A Pandemic. A love story.`From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy`s critically acclaimed `Living Autobiography`I can`t think of any
Growing Out: Black Hair and Black Pride in the Swinging 60s
`A gorgeously exuberant account. . . writing that is natural and vivacious . . . a fascinating and hugely enjoyable read.` Bernardine Evaristo, from the IntroductionTravelling over from Jamaica as a teenager, Barbara`s journey is remarkable. She finds her footing in TV, and blossoms. Covering incredible celebrity stories, travelling around the world and rubbing shoulders
Mayhem: A Memoir
A Sunday Times Book of the Year`Riveting, clear-sighted and exceptionally articulate… Her literary and psychoanalytic fluency gives the book an impact that feels arrestingly honest… Heartbreaking` Daily Telegraph `An unsparing account of a family destroyed by drugs. Unique and haunting` Sunday Times`What gives this book its astonishing power is not the guilt, but the intelligence
Lewis Percy
`The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won`t be got rid of.` Destined to be a haunter of libraries, Lewis`s cautious progress through life reveals to him only his own shortcomings. Estranged from his
Falling Slowly
`She hoped one day to find the image she unconsciously sought, without knowing why she sought it, something to lift the spirits, to transport her on an imaginary journey, to give a hint of the transcendence which was so blatantly lacking in her everyday life of words and paper` Sisters Beatrice and Miriam have each
Honour
From Booker-shortlisted author Elif Shafak, Honour is a gripping tale of love, betrayal and clashing cultures. `My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let her story be forgotten`Pembe and Adem Toprak leave Turkey for London. There they make new lives for their family. Yet the traditions and beliefs of their home come
Undue Influence
`People are mysterious. And they do reveal mysterious connections. But sometimes one is merely anxious to alter the script. It was not the first time I had been guilty of a misapprehension` At twenty-nine, Claire Pitt is single but not inexperienced. Attracted to Martin Gibson, a former academic married to a beautiful, manipulative invalid, she
The Next Big Thing
`This would soon be a new day, all too closely resembling the others, the normal days of his present existence, in which nothing happened nor could be expected to happen` At seventy-three Herz is facing an increasingly bewildering world. He cannot see his place in it or even work out what to do with his
Must I Go
Richly expansive and deeply moving, an intimate novel of secret lives and painful histories from one of the finest storytellers we have`This brilliant novel examines lives lived, losses accumulated, and the slipperiness of perception. Yiyun Li writes deeply, drolly, and with elegance about history, even as it`s happening. She is one of my favorite writers,
The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found
WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018A SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2019`A masterpiece of history and memoir` Evening Standard`Superb. This is a necessary book – painful, harrowing, tragic, but also uplifting` The Times Little Lien wasn`t taken from her Jewish parents in
The Adulterants
From the wickedly funny author of Submarine comes a hilarious new tragicomedy — a screwball tale of millennial angst, pre-midlife crises and one man`s valiant quest to come of age in his thirties.`Blisteringly funny and brimming with caustic charm – a joyous diagnosis of our modern ills that made me laugh out loud even when
The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature
`Wonderfully entertaining, hilarious. Contains the distilled wisdom of some of the greatest writers who ever lived` Allison Pearson, Sunday TelegraphWhat should I do with my life? What if my love is not returned? Why do bad things happen? The answers to some of life`s biggest questions are found not in trite self-help manuals but in
Everything I Know About Love
“Steeped in furiously funny accounts of one-night stands, ill-advised late-night taxi journeys up the M1, grubby flat-shares and the beauty of female friendships, as Alderton joyfully booze-cruises her way through her twenties” Metro”The book we will thrust into our friends` hands . . . that will help heal a broken heart. Alderton`s wise words can
Grand Union
The first ever collection of stories from the bestselling and beloved author of Swing Time and White Teeth`She`s already one of our best novelists and essayists, this reminds us that her short stories are right up there too` Observer`Sexy and hilarious. There is no moment in Grand Union when we are not entertained, or doubt
