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Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
2024 || Paperback || Kristen Ghodsee || Vintage Publishing
Ghodsee is going to start a revolution' Daisy Buchanan, author of The Sisterhood A witty, fiercely intelligent exploration of why capitalism is rigged against women and what we can do about it. Unregulated capitalism is bad for women.
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Waterlog
2024 || Paperback || Roger Deakin || Vintage Publishing
Encompassing cultural history, autobiography, travel writing and natural history, Waterlog is a personal journey, a bold assertion of the native swimmer's right to roam, and an unforgettable celebration of the magic of water.
On Freedom
2024 || Paperback || Timothy Snyder || Vintage Publishing
A brilliant exploration of freedom - what it is, how it's been misunderstood, and why it's our only chance for survival - by the acclaimed, bestselling author of On Tyranny.
Timothy Snyder has been called 'the leading interpreter of our dark times'. As a historian, he has given us startling reinterpretations of political collapse and mass killing. As a public intellectual, he has turned that knowledge toward counsel and prediction, working against authoritarians.
His book On Tyranny has inspi...
Memory Chalet
2024 || Paperback || Tony Judt || Vintage Publishing
It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die.
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The Weather Machine
How We See Into the Future
2024 || Paperback || Andrew Blum || Vintage Publishing
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Genghis Khan
The Man Who Conquered the World
2024 || Paperback || Frank McLynn || Vintage Publishing
Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power, eclipsing Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Napoleon?
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Love Letters: Vita and Virginia
2024 || Paperback || Vita Sackville-West e.a. || Vintage Publishing
Eavesdrop on the affair that inspired Virginia to write her most fantastical novel, Orlando, and discover a relationship that - even a hundred years later - feels radical and relatable. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM ALISON BECHDEL, AUTHOR OF FUN HOME AND CREATOR OF THE BECHDEL TEST.
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Chaos
2024 || Paperback || James Gleick || Vintage Publishing
Brings together work in the field of chaos theory, an extension of classical mechanics, in which simple and complex causes are seen to interact.
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Burning Questions
The Sunday Times bestseller from Booker prize winner Margaret Atwood
2024 || Paperback || Margaret Atwood || Vintage Publishing
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Danube
2024 || Paperback || Claudio Magris || Vintage Publishing
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD FLANAGANIn this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and whose curiosity limitless, guides his reader from the source of the Danube in the Bavarian hills through Austro-Hungary and the Balkans to the Black Sea.