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Marvellously detailed snapshot of the lives of a wide range of women between 1950 and the early 1990s, the boredom of office work and the camaderie which liberated them.
The story of Lena and he rmother, caretakers at the holiday home of a wealthy city family. The house is surrounded by a security fence, rebels are rumoured to be nearby and nothing is quite what it seems. An inventive and gripping take on the perils of AI.
A gripping espionage thriller combining two stories: the young Lachlan Kite and his girlfriend’s hunt for a Rwandan genocidaire in 1995, and the unfinished business from their mission in the present.
Books will be delivered to the Savile Club for collection at the event on 29th April – select “Collect from Shop” at the checkout after entering your billing address details.
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In association with the Institute of Psychoanalysis.
Fellow explorer Fiennes re-examines the life of the enigmatic writer and traveller T. E. Lawrence, who first set foot in Arabia in 1909 and spent his life closely involved with its people and politics.
Roland Baines, son of an emotionally repressed army family, arrives at boarding school aged 11. His relationship with a teacher affects his academic progress. A thoughtful novel of unfulfilled promise, self-reflection, and acceptance.
Books will be delivered to the Savile Club for collection at the event on 18th March – select “Collect from Shop” at the checkout after entering your billing address.
‘I’m not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I’m here to change your mind about your mind.’
There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and/or genres. But rarely does a book delve into what’s going on inside us when we listen.
Michel Faber explores two big questions: how we listen to music and why we listen to music. To answer these he considers biology, age, illness, the notion of ‘cool’, commerce, the dichotomy between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ taste and, through extensive interviews with musicians, unlocks some surprising answers. From the award-winning author of The Crimson Petal and the White and Under the Skin, this curious and celebratory book reflects Michel Faber’s lifelong obsession with music of all kinds.
Listen will change your relationship with the heard world.
In 1940s Hollywood, Maria, an associate producer at a studio on the verge of bankruptcy, must find a way through her present difficulties while also facing up to her family’s past in fascist Italy in an exploration of the relationship between life and art.