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The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami's extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public. Haruki Murakami's books have galvanized millions around the world. Many of his fans know about his 10,000-vinyl-record collection, and his obsession with running, but few have

Life Without Children

A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short storiesLove and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief.Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone.In these ten, beautifully moving short stories mostly written over the last year, Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our

The Last Days of John Lennon

___________'Incredibly tense and thriller-like . . .I totally recommend it' LEE CHILD'The dialogue is punchy, cinematic . . .we get inside the mind of Patterson's villain, the delusional Chapman, through periodic chapters from his point of view as he works up the courage to pull the trigger on Lennon' GQ'Pure Patterson: fast-paced, no-frills' SUNDAY TIMES___________The greatest true-crime story

Rutherford and Fry’s Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged)

The presenters of BBC Radio 4's flagship show, The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry, set about explaining why the world is as it is, and celebrate how we know what we know (even while we get so much wrong). 'A wonderfully engaging blend of wit, enthusiasm, clarity and knowledge.' - BILL BRYSON'If only Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry were on tap to all of us, all the time- we could turn to them

Entangled Life

The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller that will transform your understanding of our planet and life itself. 'Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing' Robert MacfarlaneThe more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. They can change our minds, heal our bodies and even help us avoid environmental disaster; they are metabolic masters, earth-makers and key players in most of nature's

The Amur River

'Thubron on top form. Richly detailed, immaculately written and full of insights and encounters that bring a complex corner of the world to life' Michael PalinA dramatic and ambitious new journey for our greatest travel writerThe Amur River is almost unknown. Yet it is the tenth longest river in the world, rising in the Mongolian mountains and flowing through Siberia to the Pacific.For 1,100

Gigi

'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 she's taught, Gigi surprises everyone with her earnest approach to love. In this classic turn-of-the-century novella, Colette unveils Gigi's journey into

20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth

'She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic'This is the story of Fenfang who, determined to carve out a life more independent than her provincial roots, gets a job as a film extra in Beijing. But living a modern life is not as easy as it looks in this tumultuous, messy city.Grappling with the narrow world of cinema, an outworn Communist regime, and the city's far-from-progressive

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

'When I'd slept enough, I'd be okay. I'd be renewed, reborn.'This is the story of a woman with no name. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance.Yet she longs to lose herself completely.It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly

We Need New Names

'There are times, though, that no matter how much food I eat, I find the food does nothing for me, like I am hungry for my country and nothing is going to fix that'This is the story of Darling, uprooted from her family home by paramilitary police, and living in a Zimbabwean shanty called Paradise. Despite the turmoil, she revels in mischief and adventures with her friends, like stealing guavas

On Tyranny (Graphic Edition)

A captivating graphic edition of Timothy Snyder's bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resisting the arc toward authoritarianism, featuring the dazzling storytelling talents of renowned illustrator Nora Krug. Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny is one of the essential books of recent years, using the darkest moments in twentieth-century history to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day

The Future of Food (WIRED guides)

With a global population estimated to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050 we face a huge challenge in feeding everyone on the planet. How is that to be achieved?In this brilliantly insightful, one stop guide WIRED journalist Matt Reynolds assesses the limits and drawbacks of current food production and looks at the ways in which they can be tackled. He considers the potential for lab-grown meat to

The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo Book 5)

Eric Carles Book of Amazing Animals

Peppas Magical Creatures Little Library

Baby Touch: My Magic Bath Book

Penguin Readers Level 2: Boy In The Tower

Penguin Readers Level 6: One Of Us Is Lying

Penguin Readers Level 6: The Girl on the Train

Penguin Readers Level 7: Mrs Dalloway