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The God Desire

From the bestselling author of Jews Don’t Count

The Point of Distraction

A memoir by the 2019 Wellcome Prize winner Will Eaves that looks at the creation of eight piano pieces.

The Hero

THE ENDURING MYTH THAT MAKES US HUMAN

What makes a hero? Who better to answer that question than Lee Child…

‘It’s Lee Child. Why would you not read it?’ Karin Slaughter

‘I don’t know another author so skilled at making me turn the page’ The Times

Giving A Damn: Racism, Romance and Gone with the Wind

‘I cannot help but see the bodies of my near ancestors in the current caravans of desperate souls fleeing from place to place, chased by famine, war and toxins. Ideas honed in slavery – of the otherness, the boorishness, the inferiority of thy neighbour – have continued to travel through American society.’

Jews Don’t Count: Unabridged edition

How identity politics failed one particular identity.

‘a must read and if you think YOU don’t need to read it, that’s just the clue to know you do.’ SARAH SILVERMAN

‘a masterpiece.’STEPHEN FRY

A Journal of the Plague Year

Welcome to London in lockdown – in 1665

This timely re-release of Defoe’s classic comes with an introduction by Wellcome-Prize-winning author, Will Eaves.

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