Quick view The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial by Maggie Nelson Now: $15.13 MSRP: Was: In 1969, Jane Mixer, a first-year law student at the University of Michigan, posted a note on a student noticeboard to share a lift back to her hometown of Muskegon for spring break. She never made it: she was brutally murdered, h… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson Now: $13.75 MSRP: Was: An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family.A timely and genre-bending memoir that offers fresh and fierce reflections on motherhood, desire, identity and feminism.At the centre … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Pathogenesis: How germs made history by Jonathan Kennedy Now: $15.13 MSRP: Was: In this revelatory book, Dr Jonathan Kennedy argues that germs have shaped humanity at every stage, from the first success of Homo sapiens over the equally intelligent Neanderthals to the fall of Rome and the rise of Islam.How did… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Philosophy of the Home by Emanuele Coccia Now: $15.13 MSRP: Was: A bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom - are these rooms all that make a home? Not at all, argues Emanuele Coccia. The buildings we inhabit are of immense psychological and cultural significance. They play a decisive role in human flour… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen Now: $17.88 MSRP: Was: A novelist's gripping investigation of the forces that led his childhood best friend from academic stardom to the psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle, New… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Eighth House by Linda Segtnan Now: $19.79 MSRP: Was: In the archives of the national library, a researcher named Linda sees a nine year-old girl's face in the pages of a yellowed newspaper, and the seed of an obsession is planted in her mind. Birgitta Sivander was brutally murdered … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A History of the World in 47 Borders by Jonn Elledge Now: $20.89 MSRP: $23.38 Was: People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Observable Universe by Heather McCalden Now: $20.63 MSRP: Was: Are we ever truly lost in the internet age? The Observable Universe is a moving, genre-defying memoir of a woman reckoning with the loss of her parents, the virus that took them, and what it means to search for meaning in a hyperc… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view An African History of Africa : From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi Now: $23.38 MSRP: Was: Everyone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone. For too long, Africa’s history has been dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, or simply ignored. Now, Zeinab Badawi sets the record… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson Now: $15.13 MSRP: Was: What can freedom really mean? In this invigorating, essential book, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience or talk about freedom. Drawing on pop culture, theory and real life, she follows freedom - with all its comp… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Fevered Planet by John Vidal Now: $15.13 MSRP: Was: Covid-19, mpox, bird flu, SARS, HIV, AIDS, Ebola; we are living in the Age of Pandemics – one that we have created. As the climate crisis reaches a fever pitch and ecological destruction continues unabated, we are just beginning t… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A Book of Days by Ms Patti Smith Now: $20.63 MSRP: Was: A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train. More than 365 images chart Smith’s singular aesthetic - inspired by her wildly popular Instagram… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Make Your Home a Nature Reserve by Donna Mullen Now: $24.75 MSRP: Was: Bees, butterflies, bats, badgers …These beautiful and fascinating creatures need a little help from us, as their natural habitats are under pressure. It’s time to invite nature into your home – whether it’s a window box, a suburba… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Emerald Exiles by Barry Landy Now: $6.59 MSRP: Was: When football players leave Ireland behind in the hopes of carving out a future in the professional game, they often end up plying their trade in the UK -competing for a chance in the Premier League, the Scottish Premiership, or t… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Tom Kiely: Erin's Champion by Kevin McCarthy Now: $6.59 MSRP: Was: Tom Kiely strode majestically through the Irish sporting scene, brushing aside all challengers, collecting championships by the score, smashing Irish, Scottish, British and European and world records on all sides. He created a bla… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Great Breakthroughs in Physics by Robert Snedden Now: $7.69 MSRP: $16.49 Was: In this beautifully illustrated and highly accessible history of the subject, author Robert Snedden looks at what has been described as the fundamental science - the one that underpins all others.The history of physics is expansiv… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Pretentiousness: Why it Matters by Dan Fox Now: $12.38 MSRP: Was: What is pretentiousness? Why do we despise it? And more controversially: why is it vital to a thriving culture? In this brilliant, passionate essay, Dan Fox argues that it has always been an essential mechanism of the arts, from t… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie Now: $23.38 MSRP: Was: A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie.On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin Now: $17.88 MSRP: Was: A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodie… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux Now: $13.75 MSRP: Was: On 7 April 1986, Annie Ernaux’s mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which, despite her mother’s condition, she had re… Add to Cart The item has been added