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Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection.
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The story of a young man's coming of age, a tender tribute to a life lost, and a devastating analysis of a broken system.
Aged 15 and living in LA, Michael Allen was arrested for a botched carjacking. He was tried as an adult and sentenced
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The apology and confession of a minor mid-19th-century Russian official, Notes from Underground is a half-desperate, half-mocking political
From the award-winning translators of Crime and Punishment, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
Dostoevsky first conceived of this book as a 'novel-pamphlet' in which he intended to 'say everything' about Russia's new liberal reformers
'A source of uncompromising elemental warmth' Ali Smith
By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and mi
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A desperate young man plans the perfect crime - the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old woman no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law - if it
'Stunning... Weir has brought those five queens to life like never before. I just raced through it - it has all the drama and suspense of a novel' Tracy Borman
Crusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, queen seductresses, l
A brilliantly comic satire about a love affair from the visionary, world-class storyteller.
Set in 1967, at the peak of the Mao cult, this is the tale of a forbidden love affair between Liu Lian - the bored wife of a military commander - a
'One of the masters of modern Chinese literature' Jung Chang
A searing novel that traces the destruction of a community in communist China.
Told through the eyes of Xiao Qiang, a young boy, this deeply moving novel shares the tragic story
'At that time I could not imagine what would become of me, and I didn't care. It was not judgement day, but another morning'
This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by working-class evangelists in the North of England to be o
'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink...'
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'I'm alive inside. A bird is my heart. Mama and Daddy is not win. I'm winning.'
This is the story of Precious, a sixteen-year-old illiterate Black girl who has never been out of Harlem. Pregnant by her own father for the second time, she i
'She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic'
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'She wanted to die, and she wanted to live in Paris.'
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'He must know by now, I should think, that I can give as good as I get!'
This is the story of Gigi, educated as a future courtesan in Paris, her days are filled with cigars, lobster, lace and superstitions. Bored and unconvinced by what sh
'Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? - You think wrong!'
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21 LESSONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
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