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The New York Times best-seller that shows how market pricing screwed up the economy and argues for a new way of thinking about what things are really worth.

The summer Elvis and Marc Bolan die, a new star is born ... and this is his story: a tale of fate, loss and rock 'n' roll, Diamond Star Halo shows what happens when a family and a farm become the breeding ground for fame.

Exciting early work by the Man Booker-shortlisted author, discussing Herge's hugely popular children's books. McCarthy asks the question: is Tintin literature? and delves into a story of hushed-up royal descent in both Herge's work and the family history of the author.

The gorgeous, wise and witty collection of stories about the complexities of love, family and friendship, from the author of Away.

The brilliantly inventive, wildly funny and humane novel, set in an economically and politically collapsed America, by the author of the best-selling Absurdistan.

From Las Vegas to the Blackrock Desert, Vaye Watkins's stories of hardship, violence and redemption take the reader right to the heart

The sensational and controversial novella about the evacuation of a Palestinian village in 1948, published in the UK for the first time.

An exquisitely crafted, strikingly original literary debut that is both a doomed Arctic adventure and a haunting love story

'Wonderfully dark, relentlessly slippery ... I read this entire memoir with my breath held' Julie Myerson, Observer

A warm-hearted, tender novel about marriage, fatherhood and playing the tuba, part of a stunning redesign of Baker's Granta backlist.

A rising star of Latin American literature, and one of Granta's Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists

A award-winning book from an acclaimed investigative journalist, Cruel Britannia tells the hidden story of Britain's secretive and shameful record of torture, for the first time

This exhilarating single-volume history of the whole world from the Iron Age to the Information Age, by one of Latin America's greatest living writers, gives a voice back to the voiceless, and lets the demonized, the starved and the discarded speak their History.

Why do teenagers need so much sleep? Why do their feet begin to smell? Why are they suddenly attracted to sex, drugs and rock and roll? This book gives you the biological, anthropological, zoological and cultural answers.

A book that asks - and answers - one of life's most uncomfortable questions: what if I'm wrong?

'Madeleine Bunting's multidimensional chronicle is among the very best pieces of non-fiction to have been published in a long while about what it is like to be English' Simon Schama, Financial Times

'This astonishing debut novel from young New Zealander Eleanor Catton is a cause for surprise and celebration: smart, playful and self-possessed, it has the glitter and mystery of the true literary original' Guardian

'A vital account of being a woman in the 20th century ... chronicles the growth of a woman from a privileged childhood of horses and country estates to a middle-class existence in Andre Deutsch's publishing house and love affairs, to a late contemplation on old age. The prose is breathtaking, and the honesty exhilarating' Independent on Sunday

A philosopher takes a second look at sayings, proverbs, and bits of homespun wisdom: ';Every society needs its guardian of good sense: Baggini is ours.' The Financial Times These short, stimulating, and entertaining capsules of philosophy delve into the familiar words that live in our consciousness yet are rarely examined. Should you really do as the Romans do when in Rome and practice what you preach? Is the grass always in fact greener on the other side of the fence, and is there ever smoke without fire? Is beauty always in the eye of the beholder and is it actually better to be safe than sorry? From the popular author of The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten, cofounder of The Philosophers' Magazine, and academic director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, this is a witty, deeply thought-provoking reminder that we should never stop asking questions.

Sloane Crosley's essays talk about the experience of being young and living in New York. Sparkling, witty, urbane, her book soared straight to the top of the US best-seller lists. Prepare to be amused and delighted and to laugh out loud.

An extraordinarily open and moving account of Susan Sontag's final months, written by her son and drawing on previously unpublished letters and journals.

'Fishing in Utopia [winner of the 2009 Orwell Prize] is a lament for a lost Eden. But it is more than that. Essentially it is a story of modern rootlessness and the search for something to believe in' Sunday Times

In Jew Town in India's Cochin, two small communities descended from 'a lost tribe of Israel' are living side by side, on the brink of extinction. When their last two members of child-bearing age refuse to marry, their fate is sealed. This is their story.

A revealing personal portrait of a little-known country perched on the eastern edge of Europe - captured by one of its most eloquent and engaging expats.

Banish bad arguments and woolly rhetoric! More addictive mental workouts from the author of the best-selling The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten. (Originally published as The Duck That Won the Lottery.)

From the author of the best-selling This Book Will Save Your Life, an intense, thrilling portrait of the patient-analyst relationship gone awry

A modern day Revolutionary Road; a suburban New York couple tear apart the life they've built together

Rose George confronts the last taboo and takes us on an unprecedented tour through a world knee-deep in pestilential sewage - the most significant global issue about which few talk or think.