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'A book such as W. G. Sebald might have written, had be been an Irish engineer' Vona Groarke

First book on Covid-19 by a scientist on SAGE, assessing how the government 'followed the science'.

A controversial masterpiece, grappling with how generations born after the Holocaust can preserve memory without it becoming a commodity.

A lively social history of tea told through the story of the Twinings tea company.

'There's no such thing as a free lunch' is the one phrase everyone has heard from economics - not even for bankers. But why not? What does economics tell us about the price of lunch - and everything else? Set out like a good lunch-time conversation, this book guides you through the mysteries of the economy.

An award-winning poet's nonfiction debut - essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support and inspire us.

The narrator of Cold Nights of Childhood grows up in a rapidly changing Turkey, where the atmosphere is nationalist, patriarchal, technocratic. As a misfit in search of freedom, love and happiness, she escapes to Berlin, is overcome by depression on her return, and trapped in a psychiatry clinic for five years. After electroshock therapy and inhumane treatment, she is released into the care of friends and family, making tentative steps in a halting journey towards recovery.In her unique, unstructured style, Tezer Özlü explores the extremity of her inner life and the painful pleasures of memory. Translated into English for the first time by Maureen Freely, this novel is a classic akin to The Bell Jar and Good Morning, Midnight.