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Tower Street, East London, 1975: a crumbling block of artists' studios shaped by the myth of male genius but maintained by Connie, a female caretaker struggling to find her creative voice. Cut to 2017, and this same building is now luxury apartments, the new home of young couple Jane and Tam...

Know Thy Audience, Nadia de Vries's third poetry collection, disavows the platitude from which it takes its name and makes the reader complicit in both her aggression and her submission, sparked by a history of domestic abuse that escapes all euphemism and metaphor - but not poetry altogether

The author writes five days a week for a year, for the length of the analytic hour. She follows Freud's model of train travel for his theory of free association, assuming a line of thought that reveals the hidden logic that connects seemingly disconnected ideas. She echoes other women throughout.

An Anglo-American comedy of manners about identity and class, The Jacques Lacan Foundation reveals-and revels in-the numerous pretentions that surround academia and authorship, and the institutions that foster them.

Florilegia: a compilation of excerpts or, in Latin, "a gathering of flowers."Taking the life of British botanist, Anna Atkins, as her initial point of departure, the narrator's own passions, collections, and so it follows biography soon becomes entwined with that of her subject.

June 2016, and former "sexiest classical musician" Allegra Le Clef is suffering from a compound wrist fracture. Europe also crumbles... Shocking, camp-and shockingly camp-My Other Spruce and Maple Self is nevertheless a profoundly sad book about a woman unable to come to terms with her own declining status, as well as that of the West.

Known primarily as a screenwriter for Antonioni, Fellini and Tarkovsky among others, Tonino Guerra also wrote fiction. Reissued to mark the centenary of his birth, and with a new introduction by acclaimed cultural critic Michael Bracewell, Equilibrium remains a relevant, powerful, and intensely visual account of a ruined man in a ruined Europe.