Wittgenstein Jr.

Melville House UK

Literature & Fiction

Lars Iyer

Literary

The Argonauts

Biographies & Memoirs

Maggie Nelson

Community & Culture

The Reflection

WILCKEN, Hugo

A BBC Radio 2 Book Club title Do you think the world of the Eurovision Song Contest, with its crazy props, even crazier dancers and crazier still songs has nothing to do with serious European politics? Think again. The contest has been a mirror for cultural, social and political developments in Europe ever since its inauguration, when an audience in dinner jackets and ball-gowns politely applauded each song. It has been a voice of rebellion across the Iron Curtain, an inspiration for new European nations in the 1990s and 2000s, the voice of liberation for both sexual and regional minorities. It even once triggered a national revolution. Eurovision charts both the history of Europe and the history of the Eurovision Song Contest over the last six decades, and shows how seamlessly they interlink and what an amazing journey it has been.

Eurovision! A History of Modern Europe Through the World's Greatest Song Contest

Arts & Photography

Chris West

Music

“A pleasure to read from beginning to end.” —Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March Esther, an American art conservator, has fled New York for London—partly to escape her failing marriage, partly to tend to her dying mother. On her first night there, she spots a young man returning home very late, wet and muddy, to the house next door. Their eyes connect and he disappears inside. This first encounter sparks Esther’s curiosity about her new neighbors: Amir, the moody college student she caught sneaking in, and, more intruiguing still, Amir’s father, Javad—a neuroscientist from Iran. Throughout the spring, a tentative friendship blossoms, but when terrorists attack London’s tube and bus lines in July, Esther finds her relationship with Javad strained by her gnawing suspicions about Amir . . . suspicions that will ultimately upend the possibilities for the future, and reveal the deep stamp of the past. Sweeping, suspenseful, and exquisitely written, Underground Fugue is a powerful testament to how human connection can survive history’s most fearsome echoes.

Underground Fugue

Margot Singer

Humans have been making, using, perfecting, and decorating umbrellas for millennia - holding them over the heads of rulers, signalling class distinctions, and exploring their full imaginative potential in folk tales and novels. In the spirit of the best literary gift books, Brolliology is a beautifully designed and illustrated tour through literature and history.

Brolliology A Real And Fictional History Of The Umbrella

Rankine, Marion

History & Criticism

Britain's decision to leave the EU reflected the biggest vote of no confidence in the political establishment in modern British history. Yet despite Brexit leading to shock and dismay across the globe, this backlash against the political elite had been decades in the making. But how did we get here? Dr Paul Stocker examines how ideas of the far right – always a fringe movement in Britain – have become part of the cultural and political mainstream. He traces the rise of rar right movements and ideologies in the UK from the early twentieth century to the current day, examining historical attitudes and prejudices, revealing the UK is far from the tolerant, open-minded country so many of us want to believe in. (Shocking, we know.) Paul Stocker. Melville House, 2017. Hardcover.

English Uprising: Brexit and the Mainstreaming of the Far-Right

Paul Stocker

Let Me Be Like Water

Under the cathartic spell of the sea, and with a little help from a retired magician, a young woman learns how to rebuild her life in this stunningly poignant debut.Holly moved to Brighton to escape her grief over the death of her boyfriend, Sam. But now she is here, sitting on a bench, listening to the sea sway... what is supposed to happen nextThe solitude she had so craved leaves her feeling wrecked. Stranded. But after she meets Frank, the tide begins to shi . Frank, a retired magician who has experienced his own loss but manages to be there for everyone else. Gradually, as he introduces Holly to a circle of new friends, young and old, all with their own stories of love and grief to share, she begins to learn to live again.A moving and powerful debut, Let Me Be Like Water is a book simultaneously about nothing and everything: about the humdrum yet extraordinariness of everyday life; of lost and new connections; of loneliness and friendship.

Perry, S.K.

Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it - and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Ever since, she's been helping others to do the same. Tovar is hungry for a world where bodies are valued equally, food is free from moral judgment, and you can jiggle through life with respect. In concise and candid language, she delves into unlearning fatphobia, dismantling sexist notions of fashion, and rejecting diet culture's greatest lie: that fat people need to wait before beginning their best lives.

You Have The Right To Remain Fat

Tovar, Virgie

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