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- Dear Life: A Doctor’s Story of Love, Loss and Consolation by Rachel Clarke
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- We Should All be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozie Adiche
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- The Letters of Sylvia Plath
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- Time Lived, Without its Flow by Denise Riley
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- Outer Order Inner Calm by Gretchen Rubin
- The Boy who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
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- A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil Mcgregor
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- Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
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- The 100 Best Novels in Translation by Boyd Tonkin
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- The Photographers Playbook by Jason Fulford
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- French Short Stories by Robert Coward
- Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories
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- Conscious Creativity by Philippa Stanton
- The Weight of a Mustard Seed by Wendell Stevenson
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- The Paris Review Interviews Vol 1
- The Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor
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- A Woman of Firsts by Edna Adan Ismail
- Man at the Helm by Nina Stibbe
- Happiness by Design by Paul Dolan
- Why we Sleep by Matthew Walker
- The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
- Berlin by Jason Lutes
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- We have Always lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
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Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Flames by Robbie Arnott- David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones
- The Age of Bowie by Paul Morley
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- The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
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- One Pair of Hands by Monica Dickens
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- Alex Cox’s Introduction to Film
- The Big Push by Cynthia Enloe
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- Less by Andrew Sean Greer
- From Black Land to Fifth Sun by Brian Fagan
- The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober by Catherine Gray
- Collected Poems by T. S. Elliot
- London Labour and the London Poor by George Mayhew
- Antigone by Jean Anouilh
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- How To Talk so Teens will Listen by Adele Faber
- The Little Book of Self-Care by Mel Noaks
- A Manual for Heartbreak by Cathy Rentzenbrink
- A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
- Home Organization for Busy People by Janice Gray
- Recharge by Julie Montagu
- The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron
- The Art of Stopping Time by Pedram Shojai
- The Circle by Dave Eggers
Ways of Looking by Ossian Ward- The Barsetshire Chronicles by Anthony Trollope
- The Anti-Romantic Child by Priscilla Gilman
- The Collected Works of E. M. Dellafield
- A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
- What Maisie Knew by Henry James
- Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
- Written Lives by Javier Marias
- Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
- Sparks by Peter Benson
- The Private Lives of the Tudors by Tracy Borman
- One Night in Winter by Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Mad Girl by Bryony Gordon
- Sister Sebastian’s Library by Phil Whittaker
- Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu
- The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
- Respectable by Linsey Hanely
- Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
- The Summer that Melted Everything by Tiffany Daniel
- Kindle book on Journalling
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- The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald
- The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
- Elizabeth: The Lost Years by John Guy
- The Life Project by Helen Pearson
- The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader
- Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton
- The Road Home by Rose Tremain
- Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves by Sarah B. Pomeroy
- Weep Not Child by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
- Yo Yo by Steinunn Sigurdardottir
- The Quality of Life Report by Meghan Daum
- Trauma by Patrick McGrath
- Annie’s Box by Randall Keynes
- Another Country by Anjali Joseph
- Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
- Tangerine by Christine Mangan
- How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry
- Thomas and Mary by Tim Parks
- Nothing but Fear by Knud Romer
- Dancer by Colum McCann
- The Convert by Stefan Hertmans
- New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani
- A Fortunate Man by John Berger
- The Afterlife is Where we Come From: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa
- Tired of Weeping: Mother Love, Child Death and Poverty in Guinea Bissau by Jonina Einarsdottir
- Watching the English by Kate Fox
- Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk
- My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
- A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
- A Notable Woman by Jean Lucey Pratt and Simon Garfield
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- Like a Fiery Elephant by Jonathan Coe
- A London Child of the 1870s by Mary Hughes
- Dirty Havana Trilogy by Pedro Juan Gutierrez
- Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
- Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks
- Music for Torching by A. M. Holmes
- The Golden Bough by George Frazer
- Inside Story: How to Write by Martin Amis
- The Clever Guts Diet by Michael Moseley (Plus couple of other self-help/parenting on kindle)
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towes
- From the Oven to the Table by Diana Henry
- The Christmas Chronicles by Nigel Slater
- Toast by Nigel Slater
- Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
- Leap Year by Helen Russell
- Junk by Melvin Burgess
- Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
- Fracture: Adventures of a Broken Body
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Women in Clothes by Sheila Heti
- Valentina by S. E. Lynes
- Girl Up by Laura Bates
- The Bronte Myth by Lucasta Miller
- On the Map by Simon Garfield
- The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
- The Victorian City by Judith Flanders
- Daily Rituals by Mason Currey
- Winnicott by Adam Phillips
- The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis
- The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud
- Reading like a Writer by Francine Prose
- How Novels Work by John Mullan
- How Fiction Works by James Wood
- Un Appartement a Paris by Guillaume Musso
- A Florence Diary by Diane Athill
- Diary of a Teenage Girl by Phoebe Gloekner
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer
- Stardust by Neil Gaiman
- How to Live on 24hrs a Day by Arnold Bennett
- Poems that Make Grown Men Cry
- Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver
- Black Milk by Elif Shafak
- The Blackheath Seance Parlour by Alan Williams
- The Silent Wife by A. S. A. Harris
- Mr Penumbra’s 24 hr Bookstore by Robin Sloan
- Dissolution by C. J. Sampson
- The Collected Stories of Anton Chekhov
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Karl Ove Knaussgard’s My Struggle Book 2
- The Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
- Habits of the House by Fay Weldon
- Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
- Harvest by Jim Crace
- The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
- The Pure Gold Baby by Margaret Drabble
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle/The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud
- 419 by Will Ferguson
- What the Most Successful do on the Weekend by Laura Vanderkaum
- Life! Death! Prizes by Stephen May
- The Detective’s Daughter by Lesley Thomson
- Keeping Secrets by Sue Gee
- Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussman
- Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
- The Diary of Anne Frank (new edn)
- Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon
- Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon
- Maus II by Art Spiegelman
- The Cleft by Doris Lessing
- The Old Drift by Namwalli Serpell
- The Narrow Land by Christine Hickey
- India Song by Marguerite Duras
- Two Songs by William Trevor
- A World of Difference: An Anthology, edited by Lydia Prescott
- Kara Kish by Idris Shah
- The 1,000-yr Old Boy by Ross Wexford
- The Spider Truces by Tom Connolly
- Longbourn by Jo Baker
- Purge by Sofi Oskanen
- What’s it all About by Julian Baggini (plus 2 others on kindle)
- Philosophy: The Basics
- My Age of Anxiety by Scott Sossel
- Happiness by Richard O’Connor
- This too shall Pass by Julia Samuel
- Dear Friend by Yiyun Li
- The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
- Scapegoat by Katharine Quarmby
- In the Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm
- The Granta Book of the African Short Story by Helon Habila
- I was told there’d be cake by Sloane Crosley
- The Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope
- 1222 by Anne Holt
- The Cultural Nature of Human Development by Barbara Rogoff
- Psychoanalysis outside the Clinic by Stephen Groff
- Love’s Executioner by Irvin Yalom
- Frozen in Time by Ali Sparkes
- The Dark by James Herbert
- In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
- Why we Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel by Lisa Zunshine
- The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories
- Winter in Madrid by C. J. Sansom
- Love, Sex, Death and Words by John Sutherland
- Daily Life in Victorian London: An Extraordinary Anthology by Lee Jackson
- Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A is for Angelica by Iain Broome
- When did you Last see your Father by Blake Morrison
- Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
- Thursdays in the Park by Hilary Boyd
- The Tudor Housewife by Alison Sim
- After Such Kindness by Gaynor Arnold
- Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
- A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland
- The Age of Absurdity by Michael Foley
- Burger’s Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
- This Bleeding City by Alex Preston
- Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
- Winter of the World by Ken Follett
- Telling Lives by Marianne Horsdal
- The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
- Fatherland by Robert Harris
- Pilcrow by Adam Mars Jones
- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Longevity Project by Howard Friedman and Lesley Martin
- The Age Well Project
- The World According to Garp by John Irving
- Conversations with the Dead by Margaret Atwood
- Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Weather by Jenny OffillLost Art edited by Jennifer Mundy- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- Down and Out in London and Paris by George Orwell
- The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Purpose of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim
- Starman by Paul Trynka
- Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
- La Nausee by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
- The Life and Times of Michael K. by J. M. Coetzee
- A Nurse’s Story by Christie Watson
- Stone Mattress: Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood
- A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving
- Euphoria by Lily King
- The Amber Fury by Natalie Haynes
- Transatlantic by Colum McCann
- Mary Oliver poetry collection
- Emily Dickinson poetry collection
- Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
- The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene
- The Colour of Time by Dan Jones and Marina Amaral
- The Unbearable Dreamworld of Champa the Driver
- Victorian Lady Travellers by Dorothy Middleton
- Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge
- The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
- Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin
- Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
- 1001 Wonderful Things
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- Virginia Woolf: work inspired by her writing (tate)
- Bruegel: The Complete Paintings by Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen
- Vogue 100 Highlights: National Portrait Gallery
- Pets in Portraits by Robin Gibson
- Moustaches, Whiskers and Beards by Lucinda Hawkesley
- Bright Young Things by Scarlett Thomas
- The Gossamer Thread by John Marzillier
- The Cazalet Chronicles – Light Years (Book 1) by Elizabeth Jane Howard
- The 100-yr-old-man who climbed out a window by Jonas Janasson
- Parade’s End by Ford Maddox Ford
- On Writing by Stephen King
- The Expats by Chris Pavone
- Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth Arnem
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Dry by Augustin Burroughs
- Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
- Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda Jansen
- The Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton
- Piranesi by Suzanne Collins
- Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
- Half Blood Blues by Esi Eduygan
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Agebe
- Ali and Nino by Kurban Said
- Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
- Square Haunting by Francesca Wade
- How do we know we’re doing it right by Pandora Sykes
- Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier
