Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

A Bookshop of One’s Own: How a group of women set out to change the world

Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards, Christopher Bland Prize and The People’s Book Prize

A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024

An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book

The captivating true story of an underdog business – a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher’s Britain – from a woman at the heart of the women’s liberation movement.

You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

‘One of the greatest writers of our time.’ Toni Morrison

‘You Don’t Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding of Hurston … her words make it impossible for readers to consider her anything but one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century.’ The New York Times Book Review

The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym

‘Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously’ JILLY COOPER

Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer

A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021

Strangers on a Pier: Portrait of a Family

‘So wise and so well done. It made me wish it were much longer than it is’ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

From the award-winning author of Five Star Billionaire and We, The Survivors comes a whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage.

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