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Read our Autumn 2021 catalogue by clicking on the image below or download a PDF version here.

Read our Autumn 2021 catalogue by clicking on the image below or download a PDF version here.

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DISCLAIMER: we have been re-reading this book and carrying it everywhere with us this is a photo of a pre-loved copy! But how gorgeous is this paperback (out today!)? If you loved Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race or The Good Immigrant, you'll find this an incredibly rewarding, eye-opening read.

A New York Times Top Book of 2020
Chosen as a Guardian Book of 2020
A BBC Culture Best Books of 2020
Nominated for Good Reads Books of 2020
One of Time's Must-Read Books of 2020

'Unputdownable ... Hong's razor-sharp, provocative prose will linger long after you put Minor Feelings down' - AnOther, Books You Should Read This Year

'A fearless work of creative non-fiction about racism in cultural pursuits by an award-winning poet and essayist' - Asia House

'Brilliant, penetrating and unforgettable, Minor Feelings is what was missing on our shelf of classics ... To read this book is to become more human' - Claudia Rankine author of Citizen

'Hong says the book was 'a dare to herself', and she makes good on it: by writing into the heart of her own discomfort, she emerges with a reckoning destined to be a classic' - Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts

What happens when an immigrant believes the lies they're told about their own racial identity?

For Cathy Park Hong, they experience the shame and difficulty of "minor feelings".

The daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up in America steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these "minor feelings" occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality. With sly humour and a poet's searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and artmaking, and to family and female friendship. A radically honest work of art, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche - and of a writer's search to both uncover and speak the truth.

#minorfeelings #cathyparkhong #nonfiction #essays #asianamerican #asianexperience #race #racism #antiracism #antiracistreads #antiracist #bookstagram

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How beautiful is this book? A visionary scientific account of the seven 'days' of creation, it's written by a lead player in the hunt for the Higgs boson.

What if the ancient Greeks were right, and the universe really did spring into being out of chaos and the void? How could we know? And what must its first moments have been like?

To answer these questions, scientists are delving into all the hidden crevices of creation. Armed with giant telescopes and powerful particle accelerators, they probe the subtle mechanisms by which our familiar world came to be, and try to foretell the manner in which it will end.

The result of all this collective effort is a complex tale, stranger at times than even our most ancient creation myths. Yet its building blocks give us the power to work marvels our predecessors could scarcely comprehend. In Genesis, the CERN physicist and bestselling author Guido Tonelli does poetic justice to that great story, the accomplishment of countless minds working together across the ages.

#genesis #guidotonelli #cern #higgsboson #universe #chaos #creation #nonfiction #bookstagram #igreads

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We are thrilled to reveal the beautiful cover for @katemossewriter's An Extra Pair of Hands, a deeply moving story of what it means to care for those we love, published in partnership with @wellcomecollection . If you love Kate Mosse's fiction, you'll be blown away by her lyrical, honest and heartfelt story.

More and more of us find ourselves caring for parents and loved ones - some 8.8 million people in the UK.

Here, Kate Mosse tells her own personal story of finding herself a carer in middle age: first, helping her heroic mother care for her beloved father through Parkinson's, then supporting her mother in widowhood, and finally as 'an extra pair of hands' for her 90-year-old mother-in-law.

This is a story about the gentle heroism of our carers, about small everyday acts of tenderness, and finding joy in times of crisis. It is also about celebrating older people, about learning to live differently - and think differently about ageing.

But most of all, it's a story about love.

Out June 2021. Pre-order your copy via the link in our bio.

#katemosse #anextrapairofhands #nonfiction #memoir #caring #carer #ageing #positiveageing #bookstagram

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Looking for non-fiction to light up your mind? Look no further! We’re giving away this amazing bundle of four hardback spring blockbusters in our next newsletter (out tomorrow).

Make sure you’ve signed up via the link in our bio 📚🌱

#simonkuper #helengordon #marksolms #rowanhooper

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Happy 80th birthday to great nature writer Richard Mabey! We’re proud to publish his books that have brought so much joy to so many readers, including this one - The Cabaret of Plants. From incredible plants to April showers to pioneering naturalist Gilbert White, whatever his subject, Mabey’s writing is beautiful and thought-provoking - the perfect escape for these times.

Discover Richard Mabey’s books - follow the link in our bio.

Thank you for the photo, @meganbowyer_in_graphite!

Posted @withregram • @meganbowyer_in_graphite ~ Happy New Year! This is the last bookmark drawing, of an oak twig from Lancaster Castle! The book is The Cabaret of Plants by Richard Mabey ~
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Cabaret of Plants is a super exciting and dense non fiction about the human relationship to plants, which travels all across history. It talks about how they spark imagination and wonder like nothing else, and the way the plant “market” has changed in the modern world.
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I think this bookmark looks like a wand. Like you are performing magic from a spell book and just picked up where you saved your page last...
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#thecabaretofplants #richardmabey #cabaretofplants #bookmarkdesign #smallartistsupport #shoplocal #shopsmall

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The Earth writes its own story in the landscape. In Notes from Deep Time - out today - novelist Helen Gordon sets out on a journey to piece it together.

From the secret fossils of London to the 3-billion-year-old rocks of the Scottish Highlands, and from state-of-the-art Californian laboratories to one of the world's most dangerous volcanic complexes hidden beneath the green hills of western Naples, set out on an adventure to those parts of the world where the Earth's life-story is written into the landscape.

Helen Gordon turns a novelist's eye on the extraordinary scientists who are piecing together this planetary drama. She gets to grips with the theory that explains how it all works - plate tectonics, a breakthrough as significant in its way as evolution or quantum mechanics, but much younger than either, and still with many secrets to reveal. And she looks to the future of our world, with or without us.

#helengordon #notesfromdeeptime #geology #history #evolution #quantummechanics #landscape #naturewriting #bookstagram #nonfiction

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