Books & authors

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2017

Border A Journey to The Edge of Europe

Kapka Kassabova

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2017

An Odyssey A Father, A Son and An Epic

Daniel Mendelsohn

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2017

To Be A Machine Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death

Mark O'Connell

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2017

Belonging The Story of the Jews, 1492-1900

Simon Schama

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2016

Second-hand Time

Svetlana Alexievich

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2016

Negroland A Memoir

Margo Jefferson

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2016

The Return Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between

Hisham Matar

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2015

Ted Hughes An Unauthorised Life

Jonathan Bate

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2015

The Four-Dimensional Human

Laurence Scott

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2015

The Unravelling

Emma Sky

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2015

Landmarks

Robert MacFarlane

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2015

This Divided Island

Samanth Subramanian