'Super-smart and delightful . . . cosy and classy in equal measure' Janice Hallett Elderly heiress Celeste Van Duren intended Marchfield Square to be a haven from the outside world. A place for those who need somewhere safe from their pasts, or who could otherwise not afford to stay in the city they call home. That was the plan.One of her tenants being murdered in his own kitchen, and
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as ‘a roadmap to my life’.
* Longlisted for the inaugural Women's Prize for Non-Fiction ** A Foyles Top 10 Read for March and one of Glamour's Best Books of March *'Blakeley charts a path forward based in hope, democracy and liberation' NAOMI KLEIN'A must-read for anyone keen to put the demos back in democracy' YANIS VAROUFAKISEverything you know about capitalism is wrong. Free markets aren’t really free. Record corporate
The third installment in Slavoj Žižek's essay series, Žižek's Essays, exploring the various 'liberal' fascisms which pervade contemporary political and social life.
Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe
The acclaimed debut novel from the author of PACHINKO, this sharp-eyed epic is a portrait of intergenerational strife, immigrant struggle, and social and economic mobility, set against the glimmering backdrop of late-twentieth-century New York City.
A slow-burn romance fifteen years in the making...
NOW WITH A NEW AFTERWORD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND THE SOURCE OF THE VIRAL TED TALK
The hilarious, gutsy account of misadventures in the kitchen and in the bedroom by anonymous chef Slutty Cheff.