The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel How They Communicate
There is a reason this book has lingered on bestseller lists and quietly rearranged the way casual walkers regard the woods they wander through.…
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
There is a particular kind of memoir that earns its shelf space by being exactly what it promises and a little more besides. Caitlin Doughty's…
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness Love and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
Chemistry rarely (ever?) gets the literary treatment it deserves. Most readers encounter the periodic table once, memorise a few rules about…
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
It takes a particular kind of book to make a reader chase family members around the house just to read passages aloud, and Rebecca Skloot's…
The Secret Lives of Colour
There are some books that feel as though they were designed, not simply written, and The Secret Lives of Colour is unmistakably one of them. Kassia…
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
There is something deeply improbable about a book that can make you laugh out loud on public transit while reading about severed heads arranged in…
Salt: A World History
Mark Kurlansky's Salt: A World History is the kind of book that rearranges your sense of the world by picking up something ordinary and…
The New Me
Thirty-year-old Millie is a long-term temp at a Chicago interior design firm, where she answers an unringing phone for twelve dollars an hour under…
The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
Katya Apekina's debut novel opens with a scene that sets the tone for everything that follows: sixteen-year-old Edie discovers her mother…
The Incendiaries
The Incendiaries is a slim, coiled thing - barely two hundred pages - that attempts to pack the weight of first love, religious extremism, grief,…
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
Andrea Lawlor's debut novel, first released by the tiny Rescue Press in 2017 before its Vintage and Picador reissues swept it into wider…
The Glorious Heresies
Lisa McInerney's debut novel arrives with the swagger of a writer who knows exactly what she wants to do and possesses the linguistic…
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