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Part literary mystery, part biography, part curiosity, here is the short, charming (and true) story of one man's obsession with Marcel Proust, and his decades-long quest to collect everything that once belonged to the writer - right down to his overcoat.

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Reading Chekhov is a literary pilgrimage, homage, travelogue, biography, literary criticism and a restrained love letter all rolled into one . It is the work of an iridescent and sympathetic imagination' The Times

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A rousing and inclusive call to arms for anyone who would identify themselves as English against the forces of globalisation.

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This affectionate portrait of the 'Red Princess' by her granddaughter uses letters, diaries and interviews to recreate a vanished world and also explore the author's own Russian roots.

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A haunting and elegiac love story set in a spoiled paradise, as vital and as relevant today as when it was first published.

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A compilation of 35 years' worth of critical essays from one of the boldest and most articulate cultural theorists of our time.

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A career-defining collection from one of America's most significant poets, never before published in the UK.

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This is a uniquely agile and endearing debut about a single girl in Paris, who works in fashion and calls upon the saints to help her find the perfect man.

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'A skilful, moving, even humorous book. It is more than an elegy for a lost mother or the charting of one human being's decline . It is an investigation of memory, which concludes that Memory, I have come to understand, is everything, it's life itself' - Scotland on Sunday

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A rising star of contemporary British poetry reflects on race, culture, memory and identity in his first full-length collection.

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An update on Akenfield, the English village of Ronald Blythe's best-selling book, showing how village life has changed in 35 years.

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From an award-winning travel writer, this is an evocative journey around some of the country's most ancient sites and ritual places, and a profound exploration of the relationship between man and the landscape.

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Writer Sinclair describes artist Lichtenstein's journey into the past in search of an east European Jew who disappeared in the '60s; his room, left undisturbed in London's East End for 20 years, forms the basis of an art project in June.

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A warm-hearted, tender novel about marriage, fatherhood and playing the tuba.

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Collected here together for the first time, all the dazzling, funny and poignant stories from one of America's finest contemporary writers.

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Mark Rowlands explores the intimate relationship between running and thinking, especially thoughts about the meaning of life, in this brilliant follow-up to The Philosopher and the Wolf.

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Two of the best travelogues ever written about Africa, in one volume.

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A suspenseful and psychologically rich novel about the secrets that unravel when a couple find a diamond ring - with a finger attached - washed up on a beach.

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From the author of Addlands, and featuring illustrations by Jackie Morris, an immersive and evocative non-fictional journey through Wales and a revelatory meditation on the nation's past, present and future.

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Learn how to seal a bath with Goethe, replace a window pane with a voyeuristic Milan Kundera and hang wallpaper under the watchful eye of Ernest Hemingway.

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The first book to examine the roots of our uncomfortable and often hostile attitudes towards disabled people, and to argue for greater official recognition of these crimes as hate crimes.

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From a young chef who suddenly lost her sense of smell, a fascinating personal exploration of this most nebulous of senses and the role it plays in how we eat, how we perceive the world, how we remember the past, and how we attract each other.

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A sculptor of the macabre. A sorcerer of wax. A criminal. A runaway. Zummo is exactly what the last great Medici ruler of Florence needs.

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Growing up in post-war Paris as the sickly only child of glamorous, athletic parents, the narrator invents a make-believe brother - more brilliant than he can ever be. It is only when the boy begins talking to an old family friend that he comes to realize that his imaginary sibling had a real predecessor.