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Bradley Trevor Greive, Cameron Bloom

The life-affirming story, accompanied by beautiful photographs, of how an abandoned magpie chick helped one family overcome tragedy.

Adebayo Ayobami

This Nigerian debut is the heart-breaking tale of what wanting a child can do to a person, a marriage and a family; a powerful and vivid story of what it means to love not wisely but too well.

Carol Birch

ORPHANS OF THE CARNIVAL sweeps us from the music halls of Vienna to an attic in modern-day South London, playing out an epic tale of grit, love, music and the triumph of the human spirit pushed to…

Kent Nerburn

Scarlett Thomas

Barack Obama

An international bestseller which has sold over a million copies in the UK, Dreams From My Father is a refreshing, revealing portrait of a young man asking big questions about identity and belonging.…

Matt Haig

Terence Cave, owner of Cave Antiques, has already experienced the tragedies of his mother's suicide and his wife's murder when his teenage son, Reuben, is killed in a grotesque accident. His remaining…

Matt Haig

Matt Haig

Now in paperback, this is a manifesto for staying alive, whatever your demons, from the bestselling author of "The Radleys, The Humans" and many other novels. Haig recounts how, at the age of 24…

Matt Haig

Matt Haig

Samin Nosrat

While cooking at Chez Panisse at the start of her career, Samin Nosrat noticed that amid the chaos of the kitchen there were four key principles that her fellow chefs would always fall back on to make…

David Eagleman

Locked in silence and darkness, the brain nevertheless creates both your identity and your reality. Renowned neuroscientist Eagleman takes reader on a journey into the heart of our very existence, asking…

David Lynch, Kristine McKenna

Doug Dorst, J. J. Abrams

A debut novel from the creator of "Lost" and "Cloverfield". Eagerly anticipated, and shrouded in mystery, all we know is that it is a love story, a tale of suspense, and a book within a book.

Daniel Pink

A book that will change how you think and transform how you live Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people - at work, at school, at home. It is wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains…

Matt Haig

'Profound, witty and uplifting' Observer 'Full of eloquent, cogent and positive reminders of the beauty of life' Independent The Comfort Book is a collection of consolations learned in hard times and…

Rebecca Solnit

Now part of "The Canons", this is a classic history of activism and social change over the past five decades. An updated edition.

Olivia Laing

Olivia Laing moved to New York in her mid-thirties. This incredibly personal account details the daily loneliness she felt and how she began to explore this lonely city through art. 'Triumphant... a brave…

Miranda July

The bestselling, critically acclaimed short story collection in a new "The Canons" edition. Startling, tender and sexy by turns.

Lidia Yuknavitch

Matt Haig

Ayobami Adebayo

Eve Babitz