We are living in the age of the image - the perfect image. From the constant bombardment of air-brushed photos, to the dubious lifestyle choic ...
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Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa First Novel AwardEight-year-old Carmel has always been different - sensitive, distracted, with an heartstopping tendency to go mi ...
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Vibrantly and sympathetically told, this is the story of one remarkable year - a capsule history of exhilarating triumphs and shattering defeats around the worl ...
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To unravel the secret of the icon's past, Pekkala traces its last known whereabouts to a band of self-mutilating radicals known as The Skoptsy, who were hunted ...
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It is the evening of 18 July 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Emile Zola is on the run. Forced to leave Paris, with nothing but the clothes he is standing i ...
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Arriving in California as a young boy in the early 1960s, Edward Van Halen and his brother Alex were ripe for the coming musical revolution. The sons of a Dutch ...
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It's 1973 and 12-year-old Jenny is in shock. She's just been cast as one of the lead roles in a feature film. She's going to be a child actor! Soon she must jet ...
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The cat flap opened. Emily thought a wild animal was coming into the house. But the muddy creature that climbed through had four little wheels and a tail.&n ...
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In Girl in a Band Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of women, tells her story. Filled with the sights and sounds of a ...
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Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip hop superstardom. ...
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'In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . ..'Having recalled his life through the story of his physical s ...
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BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please is the longest-running broadcast of verse anywhere in the world. It is a compelling invitation for readers of all ages and backgroun ...
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Welcome to Japan, the most running-obsessed nation on earth, where: a long-distance relay race is the country's biggest annual sporting event; companies sponsor ...
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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERA RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB CHOICEBEST THRILLER, iBOOKS BEST OF 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE IAN FLEMING SILVER DAGGER, 201 ...
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As the sixties dream faded, a new flamboyant movement electrified the world: GLAM! In Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds explores this most decadent of genres on bot ...
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If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has two years of this, 729 more nights. The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the Wall ...
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*LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*Kavanagh begins his life patrolling the Wall. If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has two years of this, 729 mor ...
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In the late 1970s, a young boy disappears from a summer cabin in the Swedish woods. His mother claims that he was abducted by a giant. The boy is never found. T ...
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On its back sits a creature, which the photographer claims is something extraordinary.Twenty-five years later, and back in Laponia, Susso runs a much-maligned w ...
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After Gropius' agonized decision to leave Nazi Germany in 1933, she explores his life in exile by tracing how a disorientating period in London evolved into a p ...
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The concept for the Bauhaus - literally 'building house' - came from Walter Gropius, a practicing architect and one of the great thinkers of the 20th century. Y ...
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LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION War-torn, unstable and virtually bankrupt, revolutionary Russia tried to light its way to the future wi ...
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Longlisted for the The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2016 An epic story of courage, genius and terrible folly, this is the first history of how the Sovi ...
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*Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun is now available*Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he ...
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