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Independent family nonfiction publisher. We tweet about #books and other items of interest, especially #historical and #international.

 England, United Kingdom
Joined September 2016
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Books from The Guardian Five of the best body horror novels theguardian.com/books/articl…

Five of the best body horror novels

Tackling social issues with often grisly violence, you’ll need a strong stomach for these stories by authors from Han Kang to Stephen King, but they make an indelible impact

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Books from The Guardian Cross by Austin Duffy review – a tense Troubles tale theguardian.com/books/articl…

Cross by Austin Duffy review – a tense Troubles tale

The transition from violence to political change is explored in this novel of betrayal and brutality in Northern Ireland

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Books from The Guardian Sister in Law by Harriet Wistrich review – in defence of women theguardian.com/books/articl…

Sister in Law by Harriet Wistrich review – in defence of women

A campaigning lawyer’s account of her defining cases throws a feminist light on the UK justice system

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Books from The Guardian Balzac’s Paris: The City as Human Comedy by Eric Hazan review – street spirit theguardian.com/books/articl…

Balzac’s Paris: The City as Human Comedy by Eric Hazan review – street spirit

A stroll through 19th-century Paris that blends literary criticism and psychogeography

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Books from The Guardian Paris ’44: The Shame and the Glory by Patrick Bishop review – a gripping account of the City of Light’s liberation theguardian.com/books/articl…

Paris ’44: The Shame and the Glory by Patrick Bishop review – a gripping account of the City of...

This enthralling, cinematic study of the occupation and recapture of the French capital reads like an epic thriller

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Books from The Guardian Poem of the week: Highland Daunder by Jeda Pearl theguardian.com/books/articl…

Poem of the week: Highland Daunder by Jeda Pearl

A Scottish Jamaican takes defiant ownership of her homeland and ‘th braken brainches wi’in you’

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Books from The Guardian The Wendy Award by Walter Scott review – the voice of a bewildered generation theguardian.com/books/articl…

The Wendy Award by Walter Scott review – the voice of a bewildered generation

The fourth in this brilliant and painfully funny series finds our self-destructive millennial heroine nominated for an art award – and grappling with gen z sensibilities

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Books from The Guardian The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Resistance Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979) by Jon Savage review – pop’s coming out period theguardian.com/books/articl…

The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Resistance Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979) by Jon Savage review –...

In this erudite book with broad appeal, the renowned critic moves deftly from insightful analysis of pivotal artists and songs into the wider social history of the era that changed culture

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Books from The Guardian The Orange Room by Rosie Price review – quietly devastating portrait of coercive control theguardian.com/books/articl…

The Orange Room by Rosie Price review – quietly devastating portrait of coercive control

An art student’s self-worth is undermined by her boyfriend in the author’s second novel, a subtle tale of a toxic relationship

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Books from The Guardian C Pam Zhang: ‘I was aware of the drift towards fascism in Europe’ theguardian.com/books/articl…

C Pam Zhang: ‘I was aware of the drift towards fascism in Europe’

The Chinese-born, US-based author, whose debut was longlisted for the 2020 Booker, on pursuing pleasure in a volatile world, her taste for chip butties and the joys of being a naive reader

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Books from The Guardian ‘People say my book gave them a panic attack’: When We Cease to Understand the World author Benjamín Labatut theguardian.com/books/articl…

‘People say my book gave them a panic attack’: When We Cease to Understand the World author...

His page-turning books about quantum physics and game theory have given the Chilean writer a cult following – and won him famous fans from Stephen Fry to Björk and Barack Obama

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Books from The Guardian Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench review – a class act theguardian.com/books/articl…

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench review – a class act

Ripe language and impish humour abound as Barbara Flynn reads the actor’s entertaining recollections of seven decades on stage – and Dench herself recites excerpts from the Bard

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Books from The Guardian Royal Society of Literature names 29 new fellows including Elizabeth Day, Afua Hirsch and Mick Herron theguardian.com/books/articl…

Royal Society of Literature names 29 new fellows including Elizabeth Day, Afua Hirsch and Mick...

The cohort was announced in addition to 13 honorary fellows including National Black Arts Alliance director SuAndi, amid criticism of the RSL earlier this year

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Books from The Guardian Five of the best novels about celebrity culture theguardian.com/books/articl…

Five of the best novels about celebrity culture

Whether it’s a jazz age loner looking for love or a boyband star dating an older, wiser woman, fame and its many trapdoors are here for all to see

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Books from The Guardian Authors ask Waterstones to rehire worker fired after tweet about gender-critical writer theguardian.com/books/articl…

Authors ask Waterstones to rehire worker fired after tweet about gender-critical writer

Over 500 industry professionals sign open letter to bookseller after employee’s post about ‘tearing up books’ by Christina Dalcher

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Books from The Guardian Napalm in the Heart by Pol Guasch review – the aftermath of apocalypse theguardian.com/books/articl…

Napalm in the Heart by Pol Guasch review – the aftermath of apocalypse

Love, death, war and occupation are explored in a gripping and poetic examination of the human condition

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Books from The Guardian History for Tomorrow by Roman Krznaric review – looking back, moving forward theguardian.com/books/articl…

History for Tomorrow by Roman Krznaric review – looking back, moving forward

From Arab scholars to hippy mothers, can history offer forgotten answers to modern problems?

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James Butler: What’s a majority for?
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Books from The Guardian Where to start with: Milan Kundera theguardian.com/books/articl…

Where to start with: Milan Kundera

The Czech writer didn’t only leave us The Unbearable Lightness of Being, he wrote a series of playful, philosophical books examining relationships, sex and mortality

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Books from The Guardian Crime and thrillers of the month – review theguardian.com/books/articl…

Crime and thrillers of the month – review

A luminous tale of abducted teens, a page-turning marriage to a mass murderer – and a deadly gameshow

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