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Dirty Work
Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality
2024 || Paperback || Eyal Press || Bloomsbury Publishing
A report from the front lines of 'dirty work' in the United States - labour that society considers essential, but morally compromised.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
2024 || Paperback || Khaled Hosseini || Bloomsbury Publishing
THE RICHARD & JUDY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
'A suspenseful epic' Daily Telegraph
'A triumph' Financial Times
'Heartbreaking' Mail on Sunday
'Deeply moving' Sunday Times
Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move ...
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Quit Like a Woman
The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
2024 || Paperback || Holly Glenn Whitaker || Bloomsbury Publishing
*The book that inspired Chrissy Teigen and Sex and The City's Miranda to quit drinking*
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'An incredible read' - Chrissy Teigen
'Has the power to change your relationship with your entire life' - Glennon Doyle
'This thoughtful, moving book will help a lot of people get to a healthier place' - Johann Hari
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We live in a world obsessed with drinking. We drink at work events, lunches, book clubs and weddings. Yet no one ever questions alcohol's ubiquity. In fact, the only...
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This Mortal Coil
A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year
2024 || Paperback || Andrew Doig || Bloomsbury Publishing
A GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR
'A superb book' Simon Sebag Montefiore
'An empowering story of human ingenuity' Economist
'Full of curious facts' The Times
Causes of death have changed irrevocably across time. In the course of a few centuries we have gone from a world where disease or violence were likely to strike anyone at any age, and where famine could be just one bad harvest away, to one where in many countries excess food is more of a problem than a lack of it. Why h...