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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

Mairi's top three of 2024

The Jhalak Prize shortlists 2024
New & Noteworthy

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- Two Women Living Together
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- Hana, Kim

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- Queen James : The Life and Loves of Britain’s First King
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- Russell, Gareth

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- This Is Me, Is That You? : Encounters with Schizophrenia
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- Poser, Steven

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- The Art of Patience : Seeking the Snow Leopard in Tibet
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- Tesson, Sylvain

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- When the Dust Settles
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- Easthope, Lucy

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- Utterly Lazy and Inattentive : Martin Parr in Words and Pictures
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- Parr, Martin

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- Uneven : A History of Bisexuality in Nine Pioneering Lives
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- Mills, Sam

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- Everything We Thought Was Beautiful : Interviews with Radical Palestinian Women
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- Collective, Shoal

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- Life & Fable
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- Vincent, Guislaine

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- The Wild Within : What Plants Taught Me about Life, Recovery and Renewal
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- McNeill, Brigit Anna

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- Gaza : A Doctor's Diary
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- Khalid, Salman

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- Surf's Up: Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys
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- Doggett, Peter

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

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- Post-Man : Essays on Being a Neurodivergent Non-Binary Person
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- Manley, Alex

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- Women Design : Pioneers from the twentieth century to today
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- Sellers, Libby

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- Articulate : A Deaf Memoir of Voice
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- Kolb, Rachel