'The crucial thing is to find a truth that is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die' - Kierkegaard

'These [How to Read] books let you encounter thinkers eyeball to eyeball by analysing passages from their work' Terry Eagleton, New Statesman

How to Read is a personal master-class in reading, bringing you face to face with the work of some of the most influential and challenging writers in history.

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Kraut explores the intellectual milieu that gave rise to Plato's thinking and emphasises the influence of Socrates.

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'These [How to Read] books let you encounter thinkers eyeball to eyeball by analysing passages from their work' Terry Eagleton, New Statesman

A brilliantly witty and learned exploration of how we read books (or, rather, don't read books) and the place they hold in our culture.

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Contends that in the age of infinite publication, the truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book, but the one who understands the book's place in our culture. This book examines the many kinds of 'non-reading' (forgotten books, unknown books, books discussed by others, books we've skimmed briefly).

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The key principles for a more humane and balanced approach to thinking, to politics and to life, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks.

India: a mosaic of peoples, religions, cultures and climates, where ancient traditions and bustling modernity exist side by side. In this volume, writers offer penetrating insights into the complexities of the sub-continent.

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A spellbinding novel of love, hidden World War II secrets and living with the enemy on the island of Guernsey.

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Julia is a bold feminist retelling of Nineteen Eighty-Four that goes beyond Winston Smith's story to finally reveal what life in Oceania was like for women

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From an internationally acclaimed, multi award-winning author: this is a story of love and betrayal set in Berlin during the years before and after the fall of the Wall.

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A fast-paced journey around Karachi in the company of those who know the city inside out - from an electrifying new voice in narrative non-fiction.

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The sensational and controversial novella about the evacuation of a Palestinian village in 1948, published in English for the first time.

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15-year-old Rose is trying to make sense of her world. Her mum has vanished, & Rose is convinced that she must be in danger. Unable to cope with the possibility of having been abandoned, Rose constructs her own explanation for her mum's disappearance while her father suspiciously carries on as if nothing has happened.

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Radical, untamed, always unexpected: a thrilling, can't-look-away collection of stories from the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon Convenience Store Woman.

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Offers a portrait of the human devastation wrought by the Bosnian wars, and their aftermath. This book takes readers through the ravaged post-war landscape in the company of a few of those who survived, as they visit the scenes of their loss: a hall where the clothing of victims is displayed; and an underground cave with its pale jumble of bones.

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A miscellany about life, loss and the human condition.

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Love in the time of Communism: a rich, colourful novel about the perils and pleasures of being gay and coming out from behind the iron curtain, from Poland's answer to Almodovar.

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From the author of The Empathy Exams comes a profound meditation on isolation, longing and the conflicts faced by all those who choose to tell true stories about the lives of others.

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A groundbreaking, approachable book on the role of emotions in animal and human societies, from the world-renowned primatologist and author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are

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When journalist Anna arrives in Nairobi, she knows that the daily atrocities she reports on will be upsetting, but she hadn't counted on having to battle her own personal demons too. This novel is about an unlikely friendship between two women - a troubled war-reporter and her formidable black companion, who is both chambermaid and counsellor.

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'[A] minor masterpiece of compression, intelligent selection and lucid analysis ... It provides an outstanding introduction to the history of Western Europe's least understood people' Spectator

This exhilarating single-volume history of the whole world from the Iron Age to the Information Age, by one of Latin America's greatest living writers, gives a voice back to the voiceless, and lets the demonized, the starved and the discarded speak their History.