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Everybody knows somebody who knows somebody who was given six months to live, and here they are, only just dead, eight years later or, in exceptional cases, here they still are, eating oysters and boring the shit out of people

From the 1960s to the 1980s, Sweden was an affluent, egalitarian country envied around the world. Refugees were welcomed, even misfit young Englishmen could find a place there. Andrew Brown spent part of his childhood in Sweden during the 1960s. In the 1970s he married a Swedish woman and worked in a timber mill raising their small son. Fishing became his passion and his escape. In the mid-1980s his marriage and the country fell apart. The Pri...

After adopting a fledgling rook 16 years ago, Woolfson's family became fascinated with corvids, forming special relationships with magpies and crows. Combining natural history with both a cultural account and personal story, Woolfson describes a life lived with birds, learning more about them and herself than she ever thought possible. 'Funny, touching and beautifully written... a fascinating insight into the closeness human beings can achieve...

An insider's view of Poland, reflecting on the landscape, people and history of one of the largest nations in Europe. 'Erudite, humbling and rhapsodic... No thinking traveller interested in Poland should overlook this essential book' "Guardian

Francoise, an Australian photographer, travels to Bhopal in India, where 20 years earlier a gas leak killed thousands. There she meets Naga, a Tibetan refugee whose family died in the disaster, and Arkay, a Scottish traveler battling addiction, who has found solace in Buddhism. As a testament to their time together Francoise assembles photographs from their lives into an album, the Red Book. The photographs tell their stories of love, struggle...

When Rachel sets off alone for her mother's isolated country house, she promises herself that the business of packing up and selling will only take a couple of weeks, and then she'll be home again, and back to normal. But from the moment she steps through the front door, Rachel feels that the house contains more than she had expected. A page-turning, spine-tingling novel about love and motherhood, and about loss and survival, that is also quit...

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A revealing personal portrait of a little-known country perched on the Eastern edge of Europe - captured by one of its most eloquent and engaging expats

Welcome to Everytown is an account of the English, a portrait of its people and a story about being an alien in your own land. It uncovers a country in which the familiar becomes strange, and the strange familiar.

My mother thought I was the menopause' - one of Britain's greatest contemporary novelists turns her focus, in luminous, powerful prose, to her eccentric childhood in the 1950s and '60s.

One of Granta's Classics Of Reportage, this is a reissue of the story of an empire, and the states that were submerged under a single identity of the Soviet Union. 'Kapuscinski's writing has achieved the status of literature.' "Daily Telegraph

When Jonathan Taylor was eight he began to find his father puzzling. Doctors diagnosed Parkinson's disease, and Jonathan became one of his father's carers. This is the story of a son's struggle for recognition from a father who is being transformed mentally and physically by a ruinous disease.

Taking passages from his most famous work "Essais", this book guides you through Montaigne's investigation of the mind.

Subtitled, "How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece & Turkey". A fascinating account of the first example of mass 'ethnic cleansing' in Europe in 1923, when nearly two million citizens of Turkey and Greece were moved across the Aegean because they were the 'wrong' religion.

When Wayne McLennan was growing up in a sleepy Australian mining town in the 1950s, the most exciting event of the year was the arrival of Jimmy Sharman's boxing tent. Many years later, Wayne worked at one of such tents, and in the process of finding out what makes a man fight for money, he learned a lot about Australia and a lot about himself.

A new series introducing different beliefs from across the world in lively, accessible and intelligent short books.

An extraordinary, moving book ... like opening a jewellery box packed with beautiful, unusual gems' Marian Keyes

Craig Taylor visits Akenfield, the English village made famous by Ronald Blythe's classic book to review how life has changed there after 35 years. The result is a panoramic and revealing portrait of rural English society at a time of great change.

Subtitled, "The Scandals Of Shirley Porter". The first biography of the Tesco heiress, whose reign at Westminster City Council lead to a gerrymandering scandal. With exclusive interviews and a highly entertaining style, it was written by a senior BBC investigative journalist.

Is your brain ready for a thorough philosophical health check? Really, it won't hurt a bit... Is what you believe coherent and consistent? Or is it a jumble of contradictions? If you could design yourself a God, what would He (or She, or It) be like? Can you spot the logical flaw in an argument (even if it's hiding from you)? And how will you fare on the tricky terrain of ethics when your taboos are under the spotlight? DO YOU THINK WHAT YOU T...