The hotly-anticipated debut novel for 2020 from the bestselling author OLIVE is many things. Independent.Adrift.Anxious.Loyal.Kind.Knows her own mind. It’s ok that she’s still figuring it all out, navigating her world without a compass. But life…
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The new book in S. J. Parris’s bestselling, critically acclaimed series following Giordano Bruno, set at the time of Queen Elizabeth I England, 1586. A TREASONOUS CONSPIRACYGiordano Bruno, a heretic turned spy, arrives in…
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The Independent Bookshop exclusive edition of The Mirror and the Light includes exclusive material from Hilary Mantel about, amongst other things, the books that inspired the series, the poetry of Thomas Wyatt and Tudor…
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The drinks are flowing. The music’s playing. But the party can’t last. With the Blitz over and London reeling from war, jazz musician Lawrie Matthews has answered England’s call for help. Fresh off the…
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‘Indie bookshops are the lifeblood of the high street’ Dear booksellers, I’m lucky to live in a neighbourhood that has a magnificent corner shop. It is nothing like the sad specimens where everything’s wrapped…
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An era-defining novel about the relationship between a fifteen-year-old girl and her teacher Vanessa Wye was fifteen years old when she first had sex with her English teacher. She is now thirty-two and the…
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In designing a cover and series look for Starfell, I wanted to really capture a sense of the reader really feeling like they were stepping into the world Wiperia. After trying out a few…
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‘ I realised that Kurt Vonnegut doesn’t need an author style or set colours or a grid to create a unified backlist style, he needed a font.’ As a fan of Kurt Vonnegut, I…
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Bookshop Extras FeaturedRECIPE: Turn a Chocolate Fudge Cake into So Much More with Donna Hay in ‘Basics to Brilliance’
Australia’s bestselling cookbook author returns with a stunning new book, Basics to Brilliance – and a TV series tie in. In Basics to Brilliance, Donna Hay shows home cooks of any ability how to…
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Conversations Featured‘Her very selfhood, her personhood is under attack’ – Gabriel Tallent on writing the powerful ‘My Absolute Darling’
‘One of the most important books you’ll pick up this decade’ – Harper’s Bazaar In college, a professor introduced me to a long eighteenth-century poem by James Thomson called The Seasons. Tremendously influential in…