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    Atavists: Stories

    Lydia Millet

    Hardback

    A fast-moving, heartbreaking collection of linked stories that evokes the joy and alienation between generations and classes in the era of mass overwhelm

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    American Bulk: Essays on Excess

    Emily Mester

    Paperback

    A tender, critical and curious window into the American ethos of quantity over quality

  • The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation

    Michael DC Drout

    Hardback

    A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire world

  • Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation

    Emily Van Duyne

    Paperback

    A nuanced, passionate exploration of the life and work of one of the most misunderstood writers of the twentieth century

  • We Loved It All: A Memory of Life

    Lydia Millet

    Paperback

    This lucent anti-memoir from celebrated novelist Lydia Millet explores the pain and joy of being a parent, child and human at a moment when the richness of the planet’s life is deeply threatened