Flaming June…’A Map Towards Fluency’ on the LRB’s Bestseller List!

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When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear – all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated …

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The latest instalment in the multi-award winning Jackson Lamb series

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A Map Towards Fluency, Lisa Kelly’s first collection, considers words, the power they impart, the power their absence withholds.

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His unique and intimate history of a nation celebrates the British countryside as a living, working, and occasionally rancorous environment – rather than an unaffected …

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The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation ‘Everything needs to change. And it has to …

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Winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2018Jay Bernard’s extraordinary debut is a fearlessly original exploration of the black British archive: an enquiry …

Gayle recommends:

Finally I have something to recommend when people ask for a funny book! Heartburn is properly hilarious, like a 200 page stand up set, except kinder, and with more food.

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Stalingrad is the prequel to Life and Fate, one of the twentieth century’s greatest novels. The battle for Stalingrad – a maelstrom of violence and firepower – will …

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In The Beekeeper of Sinjar, the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail tells the harrowing stories of women from across Iraq who have managed to escape the clutches of …

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THE EXTRAORDINARY #1 BESTSELLER – a word-of-mouth literary phenomenon ‘Do not read this book in public: it will make you cry’ Anne Enright ‘Unsparing, formidable, …