<div>A glorious gut-wrenching read . . . A Notable Woman makes my heart sing. Jean&rsquo;s diaries are a life in its entirety, in all its glorious mess&rdquo; (The Pool). In April 1925, at the age of fifteen, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she kept until just a few days before her death in 1986, producing over a million words in forty-five exercise books. What emerges is a portrait of a truly unique, spirited woman and writer. Never before has an account so fully, so honestly, and so vividly captured a single woman&rsquo;s journey through the twentieth century. &ldquo;Jean&rsquo;s journals are timeless. She leaps out of her own pages, free as she never was in life: you want to protect her, and simultaneously to slap her and cheer her on. It&rsquo;s very funny, occasionally sobering, and shot through with acute insights. Who would have imagined that the life of a Buckinghamshire bookseller would make you want to turn the pages so fast? I wanted to know how she got through the war, but I was even more interested in when she would lose her virginity.&rdquo; &mdash;Hilary Mantel, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author &ldquo;Shows us, in close up, how extraordinary the business of an &lsquo;ordinary&rsquo; life can be&mdash;how much complexity and feeling and humour it can contain.&rdquo; &mdash;The Guardian &ldquo;The most moving and important book I read this year by a mile.&rdquo; &mdash;New Statesman &ldquo;What makes these diaries such pleasurable reading is one&rsquo;s sense of the diarist herself: her vibrancy and humour, her idea of life as a battle to overcome and, most of all, her endless supply of hope and her refusal to be beaten.&rdquo; &mdash;Literary Review</div>

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<div>By the bestselling author of Just My Type: a &ldquo;thoroughly enjoyable and illuminating&rdquo; journey into the concept of time &ldquo;stuffed with fascinating material&rdquo; (Observer, UK). Timekeepers is a book about our obsession with time and our desire to measure it, control it, sell it, film it, perform it, immortalize it and make it meaningful. In this fascinating, anecdotal exploration, award-winning author Simon Garfield has two simple intentions: to tell some illuminating stories, and to ask whether we have all gone completely nuts. Here, Garfield explores the nature of time through stories such as: the Beatles learning to be brilliant in an hour and a half; an Englishman arriving back from Calcutta, refusing to adjust his watch; Beethoven&rsquo;s symphonic wishes being ignored; a US Senator&rsquo;s speech that goes for 25 hours; the horrors of war frozen at the click of a camera; a woman who designs a ten-hour clock and reinvents the calendar; Roger Bannister living out the same four minutes over a lifetime; and a who prince attempts to stop time in its tracks. &ldquo;Digressive, gossipy, thoughtful and thoroughly entertaining.&rdquo;&mdash;The Sunday Times, UK</div>

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<div>&#8220;A fascinating, informative and highly entertaining expedition through the highways and byways of dogdom.&#8221; &#8212;John Bradshaw, New York Times bestselling author of Dog SenseA charming meditation on the relationship between humans and dogs, drawing upon history, science, art, and personal experience to illuminate a magical bond that has endured millennia&#8212;from the New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type. &#8220;Ludo is now an elderly gentleman, and we would do almost anything to ensure his continued happiness. We schedule our days around his needs&#8212;his mealtimes, his walks, the delivery of his life-saving medication (he has epilepsy, poor love). We spend a bizarrely large amount of our disposable income on him, and he never sends a card of thanks. When he&#8217;s not with us for a few days, the house feels extraordinarily empty. I feel so fortunate to know him.&#8221;Ludo is a dog&#8212;Simon Garfield&#8217;s beloved black Labrador retriever, one of millions of canines who have become integral parts of our lives. But how did the dog become top dog? How did these faithful animals come to assist us not only in hunting, but in bomb disposal and cancer detection&#8212;and ultimately become our closest companions? Dog&#8217;s Best Friend examines how this bond developed over the centuries, and how it has transformed countless lives, both human and canine.Garfield begins with the earliest visual representations&#8212;dogs depicted in ancient rock art&#8212;and ends at the laboratory that first sequenced the canine genome. Along the way, we meet the legendary Corgis of Buckingham Palace, the dogs of the Soviet space program, the world&#8217;s first labradoodle, and a border collie that can identify more than a thousand different plush toys. Garfield reveals the secrets of the world&#8217;s best dog trainers, takes us inside the wild world of dog breeding and dog shows, and unearths the deep psychological roots of the human-dog link. And Ludo pops his snout in from time to time as well.A celebration of this deep interspecies connection, delivered with Simon Garfield&#8217;s inimitable wit, Dog&#8217;s Best Friend offers delights and insights for anyone who has ever loved a dog.</div>

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<div>An obsessively readable memoir about the passions&mdash;and perils&mdash;of collecting, from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Just My Type. From the Penny Red to the Blue Mauritius, generations of collectors have been drawn to the mystique of rare stamps. Once a widespread pastime of schoolboys, philately has increasingly become the province of older men obsessed with the shrewd investment, the once-in-a-lifetime find, the one elusive beauty that will complete a collection and satisfy an unquenchable thirst. As a boy, Simon Garfield collected errors&mdash;rare pigment misprints that create ghostly absences in certain stamps. Then, in his mid-forties, this passion reignited&mdash;and it began to consume him. In the span of a couple of years, he amassed a collection of errors worth upwards of forty thousand British pounds. But as he was pursuing this secret passion, he was also pursuing a romantic one&mdash;while his marriage disintegrated. In this unique memoir, Simon Garfield twines the story of his philatelic obsession with an honest, engrossing exploration of the rarities and absences that both limit and define us. The end result is a thoughtful, funny, and enticing meditation on the impulse to possess. </div>

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