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Nick Hunt's hugely enjoyable Outlandish overturns our preconceptions of Europe's familiar landscapes. He shows us places that shouldn't exist - a patch of Arctic tundra in Scotland; the continent’s largest surviving remnant of primeval forest in Poland and Belarus; Europe’s only true desert in Spain; and the fathomless grassland steppes of Hungary. These anomalies transport us to faraway regions of the world. More like pockets of Africa, Asia, the Poles or North America, they make our own continent seem larger, stranger and more filled with secrets. Hunt is an entertaining guide, and his encounters with the people who inhabit these places - from reindeer nomads, and Wild West fantasists, to eco-activists, horseback archers and Shamans - make for some of the most engaging and enjoyable travel writing we have read in recent times.

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This dazzling novella by @wordsbynatasha is published today. In the words of Ali Smith, ‘It’s a quiet, measured call to revolution. It’s about everything that has changed and still needs to change, socially, historically, politically, personally. It’s slim in the hand, but its impact is massive; it strikes me as the kind of book that sits on the faultline between a before and an after.’

Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Step out into a world of Go Home vans. Go to Oxbridge, get an education, start a career. Do all the right things. Buy a flat. Buy art. Buy a sort of happiness. But above all, keep your head down. Keep quiet. And keep going.

The narrator of Assembly is a Black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend’s family estate, set deep in the English countryside. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can’t escape the question: is it time to take it all apart?

Assembly is a story about the stories we live within – those of race and class, safety and freedom, winners and losers. And it is about one woman daring to take control of her own story, even at the cost of her life. With a steely, unfaltering gaze, Natasha Brown dismantles the mythology of whiteness, lining up the debris in a neat row and walking away.

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Huge congratulations to David Diop and Anna Moschovakis on winning the #InternationalBooker2021

At Night All Blood is Black portrays a young man's descent into madness and tells the little-heard story of the Senegalese who fought for France on the Western Front during World War I.
After his best friend is mortally wounded in combat, Alfa, the protagonist, is alone amidst the savagery of the trenches, far from all he knows and cherishes. He throws himself into fighting with renewed vigour, but soon begins to frighten even his own comrades.

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Barbara Hepworth was one of the most important British artists of the Twentieth Century. Her beautiful, formally precise sculpture is absolutely synonymous with a certain kind of cool clear-eyed mid-century modernism. Whilst many of her contemporaries have had major biographies of late (Bacon, Freud et al.) and there have been un-official books on Hepworth before, this is the first time a biographer has been granted full access to her archives. Eleanor Clayton has written a quietly brilliant book - acute, elegant and perceptive - which does full justice to Hepworth's fascinating life and work. As you would hope this is a lavishly illustrated, attractively produced book and Ali Smith's typically wide-ranging introductory essay is worth the cover price alone.

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Thirteen-year-old Byron needs to get away, and doesn’t care how. Sick of being beaten up by lads for “talkin’ like a poof” after school. Sick of dad – the weightlifting, womanising Gaz – and Mam, who pissed off to Turkey like Shirley Valentine. Sick of all the people in Hucknall who shuffle about like the living dead, going on about kitchens they’re too skint to do up and marriages they’re too scared to leave. It’s a new millennium, Madonna’s ‘Music’ is top of the charts and there’s a whole world to explore – and Byron’s happy to beg, steal and skank onto a rollercoaster ride of hedonism. Life explodes like a rush of ecstasy when Byron escapes into Nottingham’s kinetic underworld and discovers the East Midlands’ premier podium-dancer-cum-hellraiser, the mesmerising Lady Die. But when the comedown finally kicks in, Byron arrives at a shocking encounter that will change life forever.

Bold, poignant and riotously funny, What It Feels Like For a Girl is the unique, hotly-anticipated and addictively-readable debut from one of Britain’s most exciting young writers.

“Fresh, original, heartbreaking” Reni Eddo-Lodge

“Devastating, hilarious, unlike anything I have ever read. Destined to be a classic” Pandora Sykes

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D H Lawrence has always been a deeply divisive figure. He was seen as both a hero and a fool in his lifetime and latterly as a prophet of the sexual revolution as well as a crushing misogynist. Acres of print have been dedicated to his life and writing, but Frances Wilson's riveting and unconventional Burning Man is no ordinary portrait of this complex man. She takes the voices of a varied and fascinating cast of Lawrence's friends and enemies - a veritable who's who of early 20th Century life and letters - and weaves their voices into a dazzling chorus, at once profound, gossipy and conceptually daring. Whatever your preconceptions about the man, a biography this good demands to be read and savoured.

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The @bbc_proms guide has just arrived and promises a summer of fantastic music.
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Julian Sancton’s Madhouse at the End of the Earth is just one of those books: an edge of your seat slice of real life Antarctic horror and a masterpiece of storytelling that grips and grips.

In August 1897 The Belgica sets sail, eager to become the first scientific expedition to reach the South Pole. But the ship soon became stuck fast in the ice of the Bellinghausen sea, condemning the ship’s crew to overwintering in Antarctica and months of endless polar night. In the darkness, plagued by a mysterious illness, their minds ravaged by the sound of the rats teeming in the hold, they descended into madness. On board are two young officers whose friendship had blossomed in captivity - Dr. Frederick Cook, the wild American whose later infamy would overshadow his brilliance on the Belgica; and the ship's first mate, soon-to-be legendary Roald Amundsen, who later raced Captain Scott to the South Pole. Together, Cook and Amundsen would plan a last-ditch, desperate escape from the ice-one that would either etch their names into history or doom them to a terrible fate in the frozen ocean. Reminding us of Nathaniel Philbrick and Ben Macintyre, Sancton’s book is very much the real deal.

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