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Guido Tonelli
Originally published in Italian in 2019 by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milano, Italy, as Genesi.
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Mohamad Jebara
An accessible biography of Muhammad, Islam’s founding prophet, tracing his development from orphan to political leader and providing insights into his personal life and tastes. –New York Times Book Review
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Jacqueline Rose
A … book of essays about violence against women from the peerless feminist critic Jacqueline Rose –
Roxane Gay
"From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between."--Provided by publisher.
Alexandra Lange
A portrait–by turns celebratory, skeptical, and surprisingly moving–of one of America’s most iconic institutions, from an author who might be the most influential design critic writing now (LARB).
Anne De Courcy
Anne de Courcy, the author of Husband Hunters and Chanel’s Riviera, examines the controversial life of legendary beauty, writer and rich girl Nancy Cunard during her thirteen years in Jazz-Age…
Robert Harms
A prizewinning historian’s epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa
Louis Menand (City University of New York)
In an absorbing narrative about personalities and social history, Menand discusses the Metaphysical Club, an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Members included…
Joseph Jebelli
This definitive account of how the human brain has evolved explores the development of memory, language, consciousness, intelligence, neurodiversity, and emotions and examines what the future may hold for our…
Amartya Sen, FBA (Harvard University)
From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a long-awaited memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to betterment of humanity.
Winfred Rembert,Erin I Kelly
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE
"A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear." -Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy and executive…
Harold Bloom
This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf –Copyright page.
Anna Katharina Schaffner
A brilliant distillation of the key ideas behind successful self-improvement practices throughout history, showing us how they remain relevant today
John Spurling
A bold and dynamic retelling of five great male-female pairings from the Greek myths: Prometheus and Pandora, Jason and Medea, Oedipus and Antigone, Achilles and Thetis, and Odysseus and Penelope…
Nicolaia Rips
A darkly funny, big-hearted and moving memoir about growing up in New York City’s legendary Chelsea Hotel.
A deliciously diverse anthology of essays, stories, poems and graphic memoirs, exploring the deeply human act of kissing.
Richard C. Francis
The amazing story of how certain ancient animals chose to live near humans, thus sealing their evolutionary fate.
Professor Richard Bradford (University of Ulster, UK)
The first biography to examine Mailer’s life as a twisted lens, offering a unique insight into the history of America from the end of World War II to the election…
Trevor Stark
How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of Stephane Mallarme.
Vladimir Nabokov
A rich compilation of the previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers, edited by Nabokov experts Boyd and Tolstoy.
Masha Gessen
An analysis of the destruction the Trump administration has waged on our institutions, the cultural norms we hoped would save us, and our very sense of identity –
Bill Hayes
An Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2022 From Insomniac City author Bill Hayes, who can tackle just about any subject in book…
Cathy Curtis
The first biography of the extraordinary essayist and short story writer Elizabeth Hardwick, author of the semi-autobiographical novel Sleepless Nights
Howard Markel (University of Michigan)
A definitive history of the race to unravel DNA’s structure, by one of our most prominent medical historians.
Rodric Braithwaite
An expert historian and former ambassador to Moscow unlocks fact from fiction to reveal what lies at the root of the Russian story. Churchill remarked that Russia is a riddle…
Matthew Dennison
From one of our finest literary biographers comes a brilliant biography of Roald Dahl: the much-loved author and creator of countless iconic literary characters. Roald Dahl was one of the…
Bill Bryson
The Body Illustrated will have you marvelling at the form you occupy, and celebrating the genius of your existence, time and time again.
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Johann Hari
Why have we lost our ability to focus? What are the causes? And, most importantly, how do we get it back?
Broadsheet Media
There’s nowhere quite like Australia. Travels celebrates all that makes the country special, from its natural beauty and ancient culture to its creative cities.
Don Watson
From the bestselling author of The Bush, the story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and a remote Aboriginal tribe: a miniature epic of human adaptation, suffering and…
Kate Fullagar
The first dual biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history - the colonised and coloniser - and a bold and innovative new portrait of…
Margaret Atwood
An exhilarating collection of non-fiction from the bestselling, double Booker Prize-winning phenomenon that is Margaret Atwood.
Ian Kershaw
The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of history
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Burkhard Bilger
A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this 'unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war' (Patrick Radden Keefe, author…
Melissa Roberts (ed.), Trevor Watson (ed.)
Australia’s women correspondents tell their stories of working at the frontline around the world.
Rebecca Donner
The thrilling and previously unknown story of the woman who led the largest anti-Nazi resistance group in Germany.
Mark Considine
A powerful statement of how to fix Australia’s failing social services
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Stuart Kells
Inside Australia's most venerable book publishing house
Bain Attwood
An important tribute to the work and life of an extraordinary Aboriginal activist.
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Richard Broinowski
Tells the life story of E.W. Cole, a colourful and much loved figure of 19th century Melbourne.
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Mark McKenna
Offers an imaginative and original new telling of modern Australia through the history and stories of ten places, all revisited and explained by award-winning author and historian Mark McKenna, including…
Jim Davidson
‘Lilliput’, in this dual biography, is the world of literary magazines in Australia between the 1940s and the 1980s. The book ranges from before the Menzies era and the Cold…
Nathan Hobby
The captivating new biography of an Australian literary giant
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Bob Byrne
Take a nostalgic trip down memory lane with Bob Byrne as he transports us back in time to a Melbourne that has long since disappeared, the streets and buildings, the…
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David Barrie
A book about animal navigation - how creatures, great and small, find their way and how brilliantly they manage without benefit of maps or instruments - and what lessons there…
Levison Wood
An inimitable tale of survival, resilience, and sheer willpower, Levison Wood’s Walking the Nile is an inspiring chronicle of an epic journey down the lifeline of civilization in northern Africa.
Mark Forsyth
A new cover look for all three of Mark Forsyth’s brilliant books on words and phrases, on the 5th anniversary of The Etymologicon’s publication.
Tim Harford
Fifty Things that Shaped the Modern Economy paints the epic picture of economic change in an intimate way, by telling the stories of tools and ideas that had far-reaching and…
