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Indie Book Awards: non-fic shortlist
She Wrote: On women writers & works
What We've Been Reading: August 2025
Lighthouse Bookshop x Writers' Trust of Canada: Amplified Voices
Made in the kitchen: favourite food reads
JJ's top three of 2024
New & Noteworthy
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- The Escape: The Tour, the Cyclist and Me
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- York, Pippa
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- On Thin Ice: An Explorer's Memoir of Siberia, Surveillance and Survival
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- Walker, Charlie
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- How to Be a Dissident
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- Beckerman, Gal
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- Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed
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- Slobodian, Quinn
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- Ai Weiwei - Manifesto Without Borders
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- Weiwei, Ai
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- Caregiving and the Art of Presence: A Zen Nun's Journey of Love and Letting Go
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- Nghiem, Tue
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- Tonight the Music Seems So Loud: The Meaning of George Michael
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- Sanghera, Sathnam
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- Mothertongue
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- Morgan, Alex
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- Capitalism and Its Critics: A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World
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- Cassidy, John
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- Mother Tongue: A Memoir of Family, Deafness and Identity
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- NoviGc, Sara
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- The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
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- Laing, Olivia
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- Said the Dead
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- Ní Ghríofa, Doirea
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- The Jackfruit Chronicles: Memories and Recipes from a British-Bangladeshi Kitchen
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- Ahsan, Shahnaz
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- William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'N' Roll
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- Rae, Casey
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- Everyone's Seen My Tits: Stories and Reflections from an Unlikely Feminist
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- Hazell, Keeley
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- The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss and Kitchen Objects
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- Wilson, Bee