New and Recommended: Our Front Table
Selected by the Bookshop
Our Front Table is reserved for our pick of lively and surprising non-fiction. Find something unexpected here today.
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The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One - and since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a masterclass on…
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Powell vs ProustThere are few writers about whom opinions diverge so widely as Anthony Powell, whose Dance to the Music of Time sequence is one of the most ambitious literary constructions in the English language.…
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A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it.From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John…
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London is often called the best place in the world to eat – a city where a new landmark restaurant opens each day, where vertiginous towers, sprawling food halls and central neighbourhoods contain the cuisines of every country in the…
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Translated by Sophie HughesWinner of The British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2022.“When Women Kill is a highly original and beautifully written work, which uncovers uncomfortable truths about a society…
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'A latter-day Bulgakov . . . A Ukrainian Murakami.' - Phoebe Taplin, Guardian'A post-Soviet Kafka.' - Colin Freeman, Daily TelegraphThis journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv,…
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A gloriously illustrated and fascinating bestiary of the world’s most extraordinary endangered animals – a treasure trove of vanishing wonders.A swift flies two million kilometres in its lifetime. That’s far enough to get…
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THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERA GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, THE TIMES, IRISH TIMES, ROUGH TRADE, MOJO, CLASH, ROLLING STONE, UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEARFrom award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes the unexpected and inspiring story of a…