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'Strikingly original, utterly absorbing' Julia Boyd, author of Travellers in the Third Reich A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have other concerns. Jean-Paul Sartre waits anxiously in a Parisian cafe for his first date with no-show Simone de Beauvoir. Marlene Dietrich slips from her loveless marriage into the dive bars of Berlin. Father and son Thomas and Klaus Mann clash over each other's homosexuality. And Vladimir Nabokov lovingly places a fresh-caught butterfly at the end of Vera's bed. Little do they all know, the book burning will soon begin. Love in a Time of Hate skilfully interweaves some of the greatest love stories of the 1930s with the darkening backdrop of fascism in Europe, in an irresistible journey into the past that brings history and its actors to vivid life.

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'IT'LL EASILY BE ONE OF MY BOOKS OF THE YEAR' Hannah Beckerman<br/><br/>'It's a warm book and a touching one. And did I mention it's funny? Just read it. You'll see' The Times<br/><br/>'Funny, tender and sad' Sunday Express<br/><br/>'If you liked Meg Mason's Sorrow and Bliss, you'll love this novel' Good Housekeeping<br/><br/>'One of the richest explorations of family dysfunction I've read' the i newspaper<br/><br/>'Shades of Fleabag in this smart, funny drama' Mail on Sunday <br/><br/>'An enjoyably bittersweet novel about a dysfunctional modern family' Independent<br/><br/>'Razor-sharp ' Observer<br/><br/>'One of the funniest novels you'll read this year' Guardian<br/><br/> <br/><br/>---<br/><br/>THE BOOK THAT YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO PUT DOWN<br/><br/>---<br/><br/> <br/><br/>For Alice and Hanna, saint and sinner, growing up is a trial.<br/><br/>There is their mother, who takes a divide-and-conquer approach to child-rearing, and their father, who takes an absent one. There is also their older brother Michael, whose disapproval is a force to be reckoned with. There is the catastrophe that is never spoken of, but which has shaped everything ... <br/><br/>As adults, Alice and Hanna must deal with disappointments in work and in love as well as increasingly complicated family tensions, and lives that look dismayingly dissimilar to what they'd intended.<br/><br/>They must look for a way to repair their own fractured relationship, and they must finally choose their own approach to their dominant mother: submit or burn the house down. And they must decide at last whether life is really anything more than (as Hanna would have it) a tragedy with a few hilarious moments. From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy about complex family dynamics, mental health and the intricacies of sibling relationships.<br/><br/>WHAT READERS ARE SAYING5* 'I adored this book'5* 'A brilliant novel about a dysfunctional family'5* 'This book blew me away'5* 'Loved, loved, loved this! Laugh-out-loud funny and beautifully poignant' 5* 'The best book i've read this year'

A history of women designers and consumers from 1900 to the present day.<br/><br/>The work of women designers has not traditionally been the focus of mainstream histories of design. By revealing the untold story of female design pioneers, this comprehensive introduction celebrates their crucial role in the history of modern processes of making.<br/><br/>Arranged chronologically, this guide considers the structural barriers to professional success and how women overcame these hurdles, charting the success of designers including Anni Albers at the Bauhaus, the architect Eileen Grey, interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe and fashion icon Mary Quant, focusing on the key subjects of architecture, craft, fashion, furniture, graphics, interior, product and textile design. The link between early twentieth-century revolutionary design and lifestyle is explored, as well the ideas of shopping and consumerism as a liberating activity. The important contribution of designers during and after the Second World War is also discussed, along with design activism, design collectives and the current success of women working transnationally in architecture and design.

New York Times bestselling author of Fire and Fury and Siege completes the trilogy on the epic presidency of Donald J. Trump With Fire and Fury Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; in Siege he wrote an explosive account of a presidency under fire. In Landslide Wolff closes the story of Trump's four years in office and his tumultuous last months at the helm of the country, based on Wolff's extraordinary access to White Housee aides and to the former president himself, yielding a wealth of new information and insights about what really happened inside the highest office in the land, and the world.

What I Love About You, the TikTok bestseller, is the perfect inspirational fill-in gift book to complete and give to a loved one. Often we find it difficult to express our true feelings to the one we love. This beautiful journal is a very special way to say 'I love you'. Fill in the prompted pages and gift to your significant other as a sign of your deep connection to one another. Let your other half know how you felt when you first met them, draw a portrait of them, cast yourselves as movie stars and write down your heart's desire. With a range of prompts to answer from the hilarious to the heartfelt, this is a unique and personalised gift. Become the author of your own love story.

"Annie Ernaux's work," wrote Richard Bernstein in the <i>New York Times</i>, "represents a severely pared-down Proustianism, a testament to the persistent, haunting and melancholy quality of memory." In the <i>New York Times Book Review</i>, Kathryn Harrison concurred: "Keen language and unwavering focus allow her to penetrate deep, to reveal pulses of love, desire, remorse." In this "journal" Ernaux turns her penetrating focus on those points in life where the everyday and the extraordinary intersect, where "things seen" reflect a private life meeting the larger world. From the war crimes tribunal in Bosnia to social issues such as poverty and AIDS; from the state of Iraq to the world's contrasting reactions to Princess Diana's death and the starkly brutal political murders that occurred at the same time; from a tear-gas attack on the subway to minute interactions with a clerk in a store: Ernaux's thought-provoking observations map the world's fleeting and lasting impressions on the shape of inner life.