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A Truce That Is Not Peace: Unabridged edition

‘I would have read another thousand chapters’ CATHERINE NEWMAN

‘Tragi-comic, and incredibly moving … essential reading for turbulent times’ LAURA VAN DEN BERG

‘A Truce That Is Not Peace is a stunner’ HANNAH PITTARD

A Truce That Is Not Peace

‘I would have read another thousand chapters’ CATHERINE NEWMAN

‘Tragi-comic, and incredibly moving … essential reading for turbulent times’ LAURA VAN DEN BERG

‘A Truce That Is Not Peace is a stunner’ HANNAH PITTARD

A Truce That Is Not Peace

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

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

‘A triumph – a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence’GUARDIAN

‘A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion’s Blue Nights’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ MARIE CLAIRE

‘This is memoir perfection … I adored it’ CARIAD LLOYD

A Truce That Is Not Peace: Unabridged edition

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

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

‘A triumph – a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence’GUARDIAN

‘A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion’s Blue Nights’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ MARIE CLAIRE

‘This is memoir perfection … I adored it’ CARIAD LLOYD

A Voyage Around the Queen

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2024 … ‘GENIUS’

A BOOK OF THE YEAR for theSPECTATOR, MAIL ON SUNDAY, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, INDEPENDENT, TELEGRAPH, SUNDAY EXPRESSand THE TABLET.

A Voyage Around the Queen

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2024 … ‘GENIUS’

A BOOK OF THE YEAR for theSPECTATOR, MAIL ON SUNDAY, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, INDEPENDENT, TELEGRAPH, SUNDAY EXPRESSand THE TABLET.

You’re Embarrassing Yourself

‘I laughed, I cried and then I laughed again’ LENA DUNHAM

‘Smart and funny … reminds me of the best of Nora Ephron’ GUARDIAN

Writer, actor, and director Desiree Akhavan shares the stories she was told to shut up about—hilarious, horny, heartbreaking tales of a life in pursuit of art and love.

Things in Nature Merely Grow

‘One of the most important books to be published in years’ SARA COLLINS

‘There are few writers with Li’s power’ DOUGLAS STUART

‘I will return to it for the rest of my life’ CHARLOTTE WOOD

A remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance from acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist Yiyun Li as she considers the loss of her son James.

Things in Nature Merely Grow: Unabridged edition

‘One of the most important books to be published in years’ SARA COLLINS

‘There are few writers with Li’s power’ DOUGLAS STUART

‘I will return to it for the rest of my life’ CHARLOTTE WOOD

A remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance from acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist Yiyun Li as she considers the loss of her son James.

Things in Nature Merely Grow

‘One of the most important books to be published in years’ SARA COLLINS

‘There are few writers with Li’s power’ DOUGLAS STUART

‘I will return to it for the rest of my life’ CHARLOTTE WOOD

A remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance from acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist Yiyun Li as she considers the loss of her son James.

Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER

ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALIST

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS

‘One of the best memoirs I’ve read in years’ SATHNAM SANGHERA

‘Beautifully written, emotional and deeply personal, yet universal … One can’t help but be moved by this story of upheaval and transformation’ SADIQ KHAN

Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World

*Shortlisted for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize*

A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year

A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year

A Spectator Book of the Year

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year

A New Yorker Book of the Year

Notes to John: Unabridged edition

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.

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.

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.

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