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What We've Been Reading: August 2025

Lighthouse Bookshop x Writers' Trust of Canada: Amplified Voices

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JJ's top three of 2024

Mairi's top three of 2024

The Jhalak Prize shortlists 2024
New & Noteworthy

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

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- The Rigor of Angels : Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
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- Egginton, William

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- The Tower
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- Lenarduzzi, Thea

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

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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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- We Are Not Numbers : The Voices of Gaza’s Youth
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- Alnaouq, Ahmed

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- You Had to Be There : An Odyssey Through Noughties London, One Night at a Time.
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- Harsh, Jodie

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- We Survived the Night : An Indigenous Reckoning
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- NoiseCat, Julian Brave

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- Greyhound
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- Pocock, Joanna

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- You’re Embarrassing Yourself
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- Akhavan, Desiree

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- The Einstein of Sex : Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin
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- Brook, Daniel

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- The Hour of the Predator : Encounters with the Autocrats and Tech Billionaires Taking Over the World
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- da Empoli, Giuliano

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

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