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Wellness (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Nathan Hill || Picador
The story of a marriage, a city and a society over two decades, Wellness is a major novel of our times, in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen and Elizabeth Strout.
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Dead Weight
on hunger, harm and disordered eating
2024 || Paperback || Emmeline Cline || Picador
Fusing memoir and cultural history, this is an essential exploration of disordered eating in the internet era.
Ask Me Again
2024 || Paperback || Clare Sestanovich || Picador
&i>Ask Me Again&/i> is a smart and funny coming-of-age novel that explores platonic love and what is is to define yourself and your beliefs in a world obsessed by the things that divide us.
The Accidental Malay
2024 || Paperback || Karina Robles Bahrin || Picador
Mapmatics
how We Navigate the World Through Numbers
2024 || Paperback || Paulina Rowinska || Picador
How does a delivery driver distribute hundreds of packages in a single working day? Why does remote Alaska have such a large airport? Where should we look for elusive serial killers? The answers lie in the crucial connection between maps and maths.
In Mapmatics, Dr Paulina Rowinska embarks on a fascinating journey to discover the mathematical foundations of cartography and cartographical influences on mathematics. From a sixteenth-century map that remains an indispensable navigation tool desp...
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Long Island
2024 || Paperback || Colm Tóibín || Picador
The sequel to the prize-winning, bestselling novel Brooklyn.
A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello’s door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn - perhaps a little stifled by the in-laws so close, but twenty years married and with two children looking towards a good future.
And yet this stranger will reveal something that will make Eilis question the life she has created. For the first ti...
This is Europe (Heruitgave)
the Way We Live Now
2024 || Paperback || Ben Judah || Picador
A Times, Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year
'Illuminates some of the great trends of our time' - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
'Vivid, urgent and unsettling' - Tom Holland, author of Dominion
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What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population of some 750 million, sprawled from Ireland to Ukraine, from Sweden to Turkey? Who has always called it home, and who has newly arrived from elsewhere? Who are the people who drive our long-distance lorries, ...
How Life Works (Heruitgave)
a User’s Guide to the New Biology
2024 || Paperback || Philip Ball || Picador
Drawing on recent discoveries and insights, How Life Works outlines a new vision of our understanding of life for the 21st century.
Open Throat (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Henry Hoke || Picador
A mountain lion is on the brink of starvation in the urban landscape of Los Angeles. As it observes the city’s perilous beauty and confronts climate change, inequality and love, the animal asks itself: does it want to eat a human, or become one?
Annihilation
2024 || Paperback || Michel Houellebecq || Picador