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Don't Get Too Comfortable
David Rakoff

$24.95 (Paperback book / Scribe Publications )

David Rakoff takes us on a grand tour of the American culture of excess. Whether he is discussing the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic Concorde, working as a cabana boy at a South Beach hotel in Miam... More »

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When You Are Engulfed In Flames
David Sedaris

$32.99 (Trade paperback / Little Brown )

Sedaris, king of the poignantly absurd, triumphs in this sixth essay collection (after 2004's Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim). There is less focus here on the Sedaris clan as a whole, though the various members ... More »

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The Boat
Nam Le

$29.95 (Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton )

The Boat will take you everywhere.

In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the world.

T... More »

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When Will There Be Good News?
Kate Atkinson

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Doubleday )

The third Jackson Brodie novel by the bestselling author of Case Histories and One Good Turn.

In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime.

Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is r... More »

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Sepulchre
Kate Mosse

$22.99 (Paperback book / Orion )

October 1897: on the Eve of All Saint's, when graves are said to open and spirits walk, a young Parisian girl, Leonie Vernier, disappears without trace from her Aunt's country estate, the Domaine de la Cade. That same ni... More »

Blood And Rage: A Cultural History Of Terrorism
Michael Burleigh

$60.00 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )

A far-reaching history of terrorism across the world from its beginnings to the modern-day, from the highly acclaimed author of Sacred Causes and Earthly Powers. Basing his study on a wide range of sources and key player... More »


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