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Once upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire

Welcome to Sotheran’s, one of the oldest bookshops in the world, with its weird and wonderful clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabeled …

The Principles of War for the Information Age by Robert Leonhard

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

"The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel …

Modernists and Mavericks by Martin Gayford

The catcher in the rye / J. D. Salinger by J. D. Salinger

Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. Holden, knowing he is to be expelled …

Black Sea by Neal Ascherson

Girl's Story by Alison L. Strayer, Annie Ernaux

Contrarian by Max Chafkin, Emma Ewbank

How to Grieve by Cicero, Michael Fontaine

Letters and journals of Jonathan Swift by Jonathan Swift

Nobody Leaves by Ryszard Kapuściński

Gulliver's Travels by Pablo Marcos, Malvina G. Vogel, Jonathan Swift, and 1 other

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as …

Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer

Pravda Ha Ha by Rory MacLean

Orban: Europe's New Strongman by Paul Lendvai