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A Truce That Is Not Peace

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025

‘The best memoir you will read all year’ NICK HORNBY

‘A triumphant meditation on loss, literature and the unspoken’GUARDIAN

‘Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable’ ZADIE SMITH

‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ MARIE CLAIRE

Her Name Is Alice: My Daughter, Her Transition and Why We Must Remember Her

‘Thoughtful, beautiful, incredibly necessary. People need to read this book, especially if they feel a resistance to. I wish everyone would.’ Sofie Hagen

‘Uncompromising, anguished, combative: culture wars have victims, and this is an agonising story told with honesty and passion.’ Richard Beard

‘An intimate, beautifully told memoir’ Elinor Cleghorn

Notes to John

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

‘Utterly fascinating’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘A profound, rich document’NEW STATESMAN

‘An act of intimate storytelling’VOGUE

A recently discovered journal from one of America’s most iconic writers, Joan Didion, the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights.

Perfect Bound: A memoir of trauma, heartbreak and the words that saved me

A Mail on Sunday Best Memoir 2024

‘Truly compelling.’ Cathy Rentzenbrink

‘Breathtaking … I loved it.’ Fern Britton

‘Courageous. Inspiring. Hopeful.’ Alastair Campbell

‘Gripping’ Observer

‘Brave and raw’ Daily Mail

‘An amazing story, powerfully told’ Mail on Sunday

Losing Young: How to Grieve When Your Life is Just Beginning

‘An incredibly useful take on facing grief as a young person’ CARIAD LLOYD

‘Brilliantly, brilliantly written … Packed with clarity, curiosity and courage’ FELIX WHITE

‘It turned on so many lights for me … What a profoundly helpful book’ KATHRYN MANNIX

Time and Tide

A poignant and introspective memoir from Irish journalist and broadcaster Charlie Bird.

Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard

‘Enlightening, moving’ SIR IAN MCKELLEN

From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern lives.

Notes on Grief

**DREAM COUNT, the searing, exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is out now!**

A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.

Devotion: A Memoir

A moving and lyrical memoir about life, love and loss, from a true giant of Gaelic games.

Listen: How to Find the Words for Tender Conversations

‘Powerful, humane and wise’ JULIA SAMUEL

‘Everyone should read it’ NIGELLA LAWSON

‘Beautiful … This is a book for everyone. You feel held by it’ PHILIPPA PERRY

Most of us have a conversation we’re avoiding.

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