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Writer and peer Daniel Finkelstein narrates his family’s extraordinary story with a mixture of horror and wonderIn this remarkable family memoir, the political journalist and Conservative peer Daniel Finkelstein documents the lives of his parents and...
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With subjects ranging from Elvis to bubble and squeak, the poet’s unmistakable delivery elevates his satirical verse to the realms of high artThe latest poetry collection from John Cooper Clarke, AKA the Bard of Salford, What comes with themes includ...
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Narrator Simone Collins leans into the dark humour of life at the domestic coalface, where moments of fierce love jostle with soul-sapping drudgeryA thrillingly blunt account of new motherhood, Claire Kilroy’s Soldier Sailor has been shortlisted for...
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Miriam Margolyes, Kate Winslet and Gillian Anderson among those giving voice to objects including a femur, a thumbscrew and a glass dildo‘I think it’s terribly funny that men have these weird dangles between their legs – I wouldn’t like that at all.”...
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Maya Saroya narrates the Booker-shortlisted story of how a family channels its grief on the squash court and produces a potential championAfter 11-year-old Gopi’s mother dies unexpectedly, she and her older sisters Mona and Khush channel their grief...