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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE 2017 A New Statesman, Spectator, History Today, Guardian and Sunday Times Book of the Year When Martin Luther nailed a sheet of paper to the church door of...

You ve just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you re destined for - what do you do In Murakami s world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the...

How does a writer compose a suicide note This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist William Styron had ever contemplated before. In this true account of his depression, Styron describes an illness that reduced him from a successful...

When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario In this disarmingly witty book, Julian Barnes confronts our unending obsession with the end. He reflects on what it means to miss God, whether death can be good for our careers and why...

How do we find calm in our frantic modern world Tim Parks - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. With brutal honesty and dry wit, he recounts his journey...

Babies: our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. Anne Enright describes the intensity, bewilderment and extravagant happiness of her experience of having babies, from the exhaustion of early...

Salman Rushdie, a self-described emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two, explores the true meaning of home. Writing with insight, passion and humour, he looks at what it means to belong, whether roots are real and homelands imaginary, what it...

Freya Wyley meets Nancy Holdaway amid the wild celebrations of VE Day, the prelude to a devoted and competitive friendship... Freya, ambitious and outspoken, pursues a career on Fleet Street while Nancy, less self-confident, struggles to get her...

How to be a good father Children s birthday parties, unsuccessful family holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes: the trials of parenthood are all found in Knausgaard s compelling and honest account of family life. Contrasting moments of...

In this inspiring, witty and eminently sensible book, Nigella Lawson sets out a manifesto for how to cook (and eat) good food every day with a minimum of fuss. From basic roast chicken and pea risotto to white truffles and Turkish Delight figs,...

What s the worst another drink could do John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating teenager who raids her parents liquor cabinet, only to drown her sorrows in it, to the suburban...

Welcome to motherhood - a land of aching fatigue, constant self-sacrifice and thankless servitude, a land of bottomless devotion, small hands and feet like warm pink roses, and velvet kisses. Here is a land where men and women, once carefree...

How do we love With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. Love in all its forms has been an abiding theme of Jeanette Winterson s writing. Here are selections from her books about that...

Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines In this visionary collection, Virginia Woolf leads us on a transformative journey through the liberating powers of the mind. From an exploration of...

Have you ever tried to learn another language When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly, the language a muddle of personal pronouns and moody verbs....

Can we truly know the one we love In this painfully candid book Marcel Proust looks straight into the green eye of every lover s jealous struggle. He broods on why we are driven to try possess one another, how jealousy can outlive death, and whether...

Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water This is a joyful swimming tour of Britain, a frog s-eye view of the country s best bathing holes - the rivers, rock pools, lakes, ponds, lochs and sea that define a watery...

How do you remember the summers of your childhood For Laurie Lee they were flower-crested, heady, endless days. Here is an evocation of summer like no other - a remote valley filled with the scent of hay, jazzing wasps, blackberries plucked and...

Your sister might be the kindred soul who knows you best, or the most alien being in your household; she might enrage you or inspire you; she might be your fiercest competitor or closest co-conspirator, but she ll always share with you a totally...

Is who we are really only skin deep In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels race through the stories of those debased and dehumanised because of it. A young black girl longing for the blue eyes of white baby dolls spirals...