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Music Lessons: Seven Composers and What They Taught Me

Stephen Johnson

From the bestselling author of How Shostakovich Changed My Mind comes a new book about the cathartic power of music.

Everyday Tang: On What We Can Learn From a Dynasty

Xiaolu Guo

A fascinating, profound and personal meditation on the magnificent and cosmopolitan Tang Dynasty (618–907), China’s Golden Age.

Ways of Telling

Xandra Bingley

On the Couch: Twenty Extraodinary Personalities from Picasso to Putin

Andrew Jamieson

In this groundbreaking book, Andrew Jamieson unpacks ten of psychotherapy’s most profound principles and illuminates them through the biographies of twenty remarkable people.

The Lake Poets – An Anthology

William Wordsworth Dorothy Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert Southey Charles Lamb

An anthology of favourite poems and other writings by William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey and Charles Lamb – the English ‘Lake Poets’, with an introduction by James Rebanks.

The Threshold and the Ledger

Tom McCarthy

A timely exploration of Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann by Booker-shortlisted author Tom McCarthy, appearing on the eve of Bachmann’s centenary year.

Blind Corners: Essays on Photography

Michael Collins

In this series of linked pieces, photographer Michael Collins offers a reappraisal of photographic genres, and reveals what it is about photography that is so enduringly fascinating.

The Catastrophe Hour: Selected Essays

Meghan Daum

From the acclaimed author of The Unspeakable and The Problem with Everything comes a new collection of unputdownable essays.

Changing My Mind

Julian Barnes

In this engaging and erudite essay, critically acclaimed writer Julian Barnes explores what is involved when we change our minds: about words, about politics, about books; about memories, age and time.

Outrage

Ian Nairn

Acclaimed critic Ian Nairn’s masterpiece, reissued for the first time since 1955 with an introduction by Travis Elborough, Outrage is a searing critique of urban sprawl, or ‘Subtopia’.

The Penalty Kick: The Story of a Gamechanger – Signed Copy

Robert McCrum

A tale of sportsmanship, chance and obsession, The Penalty Kick by Robert McCrum explores both the addiction of risk, and a doomed father-son relationship that could have been torn from the pages of a late-Victorian novel, inspired by the edgy, ruthless and egalitarian spirit of Northern Ireland.

The Penalty Kick: The Story of a Gamechanger

Robert McCrum

A tale of sportsmanship, chance and obsession, The Penalty Kick by Robert McCrum explores both the addiction of risk, and a doomed father-son relationship that could have been torn from the pages of a late-Victorian novel, inspired by the edgy, ruthless and egalitarian spirit of Northern Ireland.