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The Blazing World: Siri Hustvedt with Sarah Thornton
The Blazing World: Siri Hustvedt with Sarah Thornton

In Siri Hustvedt’s latest novel The Blazing World (Sceptre) artist Harriet Burden, consumed by fury at the lack of recognition she has received from …

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Aimé Césaire’s Return to my Native Land: John Berger in conversation with David Constantine
Aimé Césaire’s Return to my Native Land: John Berger in conversation with David Constantine

John Berger came to the Bookshop to celebrate the life and work of Aimé Césaire on the occasion of Archipelago's reissue of Césaire's long poem Cahie…

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Outlaws: Javier Cercas and Paul Preston
Outlaws: Javier Cercas and Paul Preston

Javier Cercas rose to fame in the English-speaking world with The Soldiers of Salamis which won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2004 and was…

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The Novel; A Biography: Michael Schmidt and Michael Wood
The Novel; A Biography: Michael Schmidt and Michael Wood

Quoting from the letters, diaries, reviews, and essays of novelists and drawing on their biographies, Schmidt’s The Novel – A Biography (Harvard) inv…

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Sally Potter: Naked Cinema
Sally Potter: Naked Cinema

'The tutored and passionate eye of the director holds the space, which otherwise would be without boundary, indiscriminate and endless.' Since making…

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Telex From Cuba: An evening with Rachel Kushner
Telex From Cuba: An evening with Rachel Kushner

Following the hugely enjoyable launch event last year for [*The Flamethrowers*][1], Rachel Kushner returned to the shop to mark the UK publication (b…

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Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism: David Harvey and Owen Jones
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism: David Harvey and Owen Jones

In his new book, 'Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism' (Profile), David Harvey unravels the paradoxes at the heart of capitalism – its…

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The Bloomsbury Cookbook
The Bloomsbury Cookbook

To celebrate the publication of The Bloomsbury Cookbook (Thames & Hudson), we held an exclusive evening at the Bookshop, a stone’s throw away from th…

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Walking the Woods and the Water: Nick Hunt and Artemis Cooper
Walking the Woods and the Water: Nick Hunt and Artemis Cooper

In 2010 Nick Hunt set out on an epic walk in the footsteps of Patrick Leigh Fermor, across the whole European continent ‘from the Hook of Holland to …

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CB Editions: Will Eaves and May-Lan Tan
CB Editions: Will Eaves and May-Lan Tan

May-Lan Tan and Will Eaves joined us at the Bookshop for the launch of their respective books, Things to Make and Break (since shortlisted for the Gu…

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