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What We've Been Reading: August 2025

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The Jhalak Prize shortlists 2024
New & Noteworthy

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- Motherness : A Memoir of Generational Autism, Parenthood, and Radical Acceptance
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- Green, Julie M.

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- Political Girl : Life and Fate in Russia
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- Alyokhina, Maria

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- Troublemaker : The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford
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- Kaplan, Carla

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- Trying : A Memoir
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- Caldwell, Chloe

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- The Parallel Path : Love, Grit and Walking the North
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- Ashworth, Jenn

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- Lynchian : The Spell of David Lynch
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- Higgs, John

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- The Lost Flock : Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman’s Journey to Save Scotland’s Original Sheep
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- Cooper, Jane

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- Winter : the Story of a Season
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- McDermid, Val

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- Turn My Head Into Sound : A history of Kevin Shields and My Bloody Valentine
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- Perer, Andrew

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- One Aladdin Two Lamps
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- Winterson, Jeanette

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- Greyhound
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- Pocock, Joanna

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- Stella Dadzie : A Whole Heap of Mix Up
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- Dadzie, Stella

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- Twenty Years : Hope, War, and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation
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- Rasmussen, Sune Engel

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- The Edge of Silence : In Search of the Disappearing Sounds of Nature
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- Ansell, Neil

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- The Tower
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- Lenarduzzi, Thea

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- Art Work : On the Creative Life
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- Mann, Sally