All The Lovers In The Night
By Mieko Kawakami
Fuyuko prefers the company of fictional characters to real people. Kawakami makes that feel like the most natural thing in the world.
Fiction
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Europa Editions
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2022
An Immense World
By Ed Yong
Ed Yong on the senses of the animal kingdom: catfish that taste with their skin, beetles that mate as forests burn. Our world, it turns out, is a flabbergasting place.
Non-fiction
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Random House
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2022
Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes
By Claire Wilcox
The V&A's curator of fashion examines the clothes that shaped her life—each essay handled like an object from the storeroom, with gloved fingers.
Non-fiction
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Bloomsbury
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2020
Grey Bees
By Andrey Kurkov
One beekeeper, two streets, and a village caught between two armies—Kurkov finds warmth in the smallest of places.
Fiction
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MacLehose Press
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2020