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Books
The High House
Jessie Greengrass
A stunning novel of the extraordinary and the everyday, The High House explores how we get used to change that once seemed unthinkable, how we place the needs of our families against the needs of others – and it asks us who, if we had to, we would save.
Bring Back Our Girls
Joe Parkinson, Drew Hinshaw
Bring Back Our Girls is an urgent and engrossing work of investigative journalism that unfolds across four continents, from the remote forests of northern Nigeria to the White House; from Khartoum safe houses to gilded hotel lobbies in the Swiss Alps.
The Daughters of Kobani
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won.
The Duchess Who Dared
Charles Castle
The extraordinary story behind A Very British Scandal, starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany.
Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science
Luke O'Neill
A number one Irish bestseller, and winner of the Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards.
A Dictionary of Naval Slang
Gerald O'Driscoll
Taking the reader from 'Acting green' all the way to 'Water-rat', A Dictionary of Naval Slang is a treasury of naval argot, jargon, lingo and cant, and a window on the lost world of living on the high seas.
The Upswing
Robert D Putnam, Shaylyn Romney Garrett
'Putnam's book speaks for the many millions who don't think the way zealots do' Guardian
My Father’s Dragon
Ruth Stiles Gannett
Both a Newbery Honor Book and an American Library Association Notable Book, this charming story has delighted generations of readers since its original publication in 1948.
Cynical Theories
Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay
How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity?and Why This Harms Everybody
BOOK OF THE YEAR in The Times, the Sunday Times and the Financial Times