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Poetry
100 Poems: Seamus Heamey
Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, and no other edition exists which has such a broad range, drawing from first to […]
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Graphic Novels
A Guest in the House
‘The stories Carroll creates have a deep, literary-grounded feel but they are entirely original. Her voice is unique and powerful and I, for one, am addicted to it.’ GUILLERMO DEL TORO A contemporary gothic horror and comics classic, perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Stranger Things and The Haunting of Hill House I used to dream […]
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Art - Biography - Music
A Year with Swollen Appendices
The diary and essays of Brian Eno republished twenty-five years on with a new introduction by the artist in a beautiful hardcover edition. At the end of 1994, musician, producer and artist Brian Eno resolved to keep a diary. His plans to go to the cinema, theatre and galleries fell through quickly. What he did […]
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Art - Biography - Music
A Year with Swollen Appendices
The diary and essays of Brian Eno republished twenty-five years on with a new introduction by the artist in a beautiful hardcover edition. At the end of 1994, musician, producer and artist Brian Eno resolved to keep a diary. His plans to go to the cinema, theatre and galleries fell through quickly. What he did […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Acts of Service
A provocative debut exploring sex and sexuality as a twentysomething New Yorker pursues a sexual freedom that follows no lines other than her own desire.
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Graphic Novels
Alison
Alison is newly married, barely twenty and struggling to find her place in the world. A chance encounter with an older artist upturns her life and she forsakes convention and her working-class Dorset roots for the thrumming art scene of London in the late seventies.
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Classics - Illustrations
Animal Farm
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. It’s just an ordinary farm – until the animals revolt. They get rid of the irresponsible farmer. The other animals are sure that life is improving, but as systems are replaced and half-truths are retold, a new hierarchy emerges . . . Orwell’s […]
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Film & Entertainment
Asteroid City
The screenplay of the new film by Wes Anderson. Asteroid City (adapted from a “hypothetical” play) takes place in a fictional desert town, circa 1955. Synopsis: the itinerary of the annual Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention (organized to bring together students and parents from across the country for fellowship and scholarly competition) is spectacularly disrupted by […]
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Contemporary Fiction
Avalon
Bran’s Southern California upbringing is anything but traditional. After her mother abandons her and joins a Buddhist colony, Bran is raised by her ‘common-law stepfather’ on Bourdon Farms – a plant nursery that doubles as a cover for a biker gang. She spends her days tending plants, slogging through high school and imagining what life […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Beautiful World, Where Are You
The new novel from the author of Normal People. Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known […]
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Biography - Memoir - Music
Beeswing
The memoir of international music icon Richard Thompson, co-founder of the legendary folk rock group Fairport Convention. ‘Thompson could be said to be an English Dylan – only in some ways he’s even better than that.’ GUARDIAN ‘This quiet joy of a memoir is just what you’d expect from one of the finest British musicians […]
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Contemporary Fiction
Big Swiss
Greta liked knowing people’s secrets. That wasn’t a problem. Until she met Big Swiss. Big Swiss. That’s Greta’s nickname for her – she is tall, and she is from Switzerland. Greta can see her now: dressed top to toe in white, that adorable gap between her two front teeth, her penetrating blue eyes. She’s a […]
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Health - Music
Bodies: Life and Death in Music
Money, freedom, adoring fans: professional musicians seem to have it all. But beneath the surface lies a frightening truth: for years the music industry has tolerated death, addiction and exploitation in the name of entertainment. In Bodies, Ian Winwood explores the industry’s reluctance to confront its many failures in a far-reaching story which features first-hand […]
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Health - Music
Bodies: Life and Death in Music
Money, freedom, adoring fans: professional musicians seem to have it all. But beneath the surface lies a frightening truth: for years the music industry has tolerated death, addiction and exploitation in the name of entertainment. In Bodies, Ian Winwood explores the industry’s reluctance to confront its many failures in a far-reaching story which features first-hand […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Boys Don’t Cry
‘I can’t remember ever reading anything so moving. I’ve had to go back to bed! It’s so BEAUTIFUL and convincing and so so sad, but worth it because the story is so compelling.’ – MARIAN KEYES They say boys don’t cry. But Finn’s seen his Da do it when he thinks no one’s looking, so […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction - Thriller
Brutes
The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut-a coming-of-age story about the crucible of girlhood, from a writer of rare and startling talent. We would not be born out of sweetness, we were born out of rage, we felt it in our bones. In Falls Landing, Florida-a place built of theme […]
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Biography
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
American writer Stephen Crane died in 1900 at the age of 28. In his short, intense life, this burning boy wrote a masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, as well as other novels, short stories, and dispatches from the front of two wars. His adventurous life took him to the Wild West, Mexico, then to […]
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Memoir - Music
Dance Your Way Home
This book is about the kind of ordinary dancing you and I might do in our kitchens when a favourite tune comes on. It’s more than a social history: it’s a set of interconnected histories of the overlooked places where dancing happens . . . Why do we dance together? What does dancing tells us […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Demon Copperhead
Demon Copperhead is a once-in-a-generation novel that breaks and mends your heart in the way only the best fiction can. Demon’s story begins with his traumatic birth to a single mother in a single-wide trailer, looking ‘like a little blue prizefighter.’ For the life ahead of him he would need all of that fighting spirit, along […]
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Film & Entertainment
DO NOT DETONATE Without Presidential Approval
Inspirations for Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City: a collection of new and classic writing on mid-century cinema and the American West ** Includes an exclusive interview with Wes Anderson in which the director details how the pieces collected here influenced the characters, stories, and settings in the film ** Featuring 8 newly commissioned pieces alongside more than […]
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Biography - Music
Eruption: The Eddie Van Halen Story
To mark the one-year anniversary of Eddie Van Halen’s early death comes his first full-length biography – a searching, affectionate and in-depth look at the life and legends of this true musical virtuoso. Arriving in California as a young boy in the early 1960s, Edward Van Halen and his brother Alex were ripe for the […]
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Music
Excavate! – The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall
A definitive insight into the ever-influential world of Mark E. Smith and The Fall, featuring never-before published essays and ephemera from fans, collectors and the artist and band themselves. ‘They are always different; they are always the same.’ John Peel Over the course of their prolific forty-year career The Fall were consistently one of the […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Fight Night
Poignant, hilarious and deeply moving, Fight Night is a girl’s love letter to the women raising her and a tribute to one family’s fighting spirit
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Biography - Music
From Manchester with Love
Critically-acclaimed and bestselling author Paul Morley’s long-awaited biography of Factory Records co-founder and Manchester icon Tony Wilson. ‘When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.’ Tony Wilson To write about Tony Wilson, AKA Anthony H. Wilson, is to write about a number of public and private characters and personalities, a clique of […]
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Biography - Music
From Manchester with Love
Critically-acclaimed and bestselling author Paul Morley’s long-awaited biography of Factory Records co-founder and Manchester icon Tony Wilson. ‘When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.’ Tony Wilson To write about Tony Wilson, AKA Anthony H. Wilson, is to write about a number of public and private characters and personalities, a clique of […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
His Only Wife
AN OBSERVER, TIME MAGAZINE & NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2020 A REESE WITHERSPOON’S BOOK CLUB PICK ‘Vivid, witty and utterly absorbing.’ Daily Mail In one of the most talked about and hilarious debuts of the year, Afi Tekple, a bright young seamstress from a small town in Ghana, is convinced by her […]
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Biography - Music
How To Run An Indie Label
Music is like no other business. It’s about being at the right place at the right time, following your nose and diving in feet first. It’s about being plugged into the mystical electricity and about surfing on the wild energy. It’s about how to fuck up and how to survive and be sustained by the […]
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Music
How To Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back
There are few creative acts more mysterious and magical than writing a song. But what if the goal wasn’t so mysterious and was actually achievable for anyone who wants to experience more magic and creativity in their life? That’s something that anyone will be inspired to do after reading Jeff Tweedy’s How to Write One […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
‘America’s first lady of darkness and mirth.’ Guardian ‘The best American writer of her generation.’ Nick Hornby ‘Unmissable.’ Marie Claire From one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Moore’s new novel is a magic box of longing and surprise. High up in a New York City hospice, Finn sits with his beloved […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Klara and the Sun
From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change for ever, […]
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Music
Let’s Do It
The prequel to Bob Stanley’s universally acclaimed Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let’s Do It is the only book that brings together all genres to tell the definitive story of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties. ‘An absolute landmark/joy/gossip-fest/door to Narnia: the history of pop music before rock’n’roll. Fascinating. I can’t recommend it enough.’ […]
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Music
Let’s Do It
The prequel to Bob Stanley’s universally acclaimed Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let’s Do It is the only book that brings together all genres to tell the definitive story of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties. ‘An absolute landmark/joy/gossip-fest/door to Narnia: the history of pop music before rock’n’roll. Fascinating. I can’t recommend it enough.’ […]
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Music
Like Punk Never Happened
The definitive account of the first rise and fall of Boy George and Culture Club, and British pop music in the 1980s. NEW EXPANDED EDITION, WITH A FOREWORD BY NEIL TENNANT FEATURES A BONUS CHAPTER ON DURAN DURAN AND A NEW AFTERWORD. ‘Speaks from the centure of pop’s beating heart.’ DYLAN JONES ‘Fascinating.’ NEW YORK […]
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Music
Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
From his allegiance to punk rock in his adolescence to becoming an essential voice on music and culture, Kelefa Sanneh makes a deep study of how popular music unites and divides us. Distilling a career’s worth of knowledge, he explores the tribes music forms, and how its genres, shape-shifting across the years, give us a […]
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Biography - Fashion - Memoir
Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture
Miss Dior is a story of freedom and fascism, beauty and betrayal, roses and repression, and how the polished surface of fashion conceals hidden depths. It paints a portrait of the enigmatic woman behind the designer Christian Dior: his beloved younger sister Catherine, who inspired his most famous perfume and shaped his vision of femininity. […]
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Graphic Novels
New York Drawings
Two strangers, both reading the same novel, share a fleeting glance between passing subway cars. A bookstore owner locks eyes with a neighbor as she receives an Amazon package. Strangers are united by circumstance as they wait on the subway stairs for a summer storm to pass. Instantly recognizable, Adrian Tomine’s illustrations and comics have […]
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Music
Nina Simone’s Gum
From award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes the unexpected and inspiring story of a piece of chewing gum. Featuring an introduction from Nick Cave. “Warren has turned this memento, snatched from his idol’s piano in a moment of rapture, into a genuine religious artefact.” Nick Cave On Thursday 1 July, 1999, Dr Nina Simone […]
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Music
Nina Simone’s Gum
From award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes the unexpected and inspiring story of a piece of chewing gum. Featuring an introduction from Nick Cave. “Warren has turned this memento, snatched from his idol’s piano in a moment of rapture, into a genuine religious artefact.” Nick Cave On Thursday 1 July, 1999, Dr Nina Simone […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Open Up
The new collection from a literary star – five achingly tender, innovative and dazzling stories of (dis)connection.
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Penance
One of Granta‘s Best Young British Novelists 2023 From the author of the cult hit Boy Parts comes a chilling, brilliantly told story of murder among a group of teenage girls—a powerful and disturbing novel as piercing in its portrait of young women as Emma Cline’s The Girls. On a beach in a run-down seaside town on the Yorkshire […]
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Biography - Essays - Memoir - Music
Re-Sisters
From the acclaimed author of Art Sex Music comes a vital meditation on womanhood, creativity and self-expression, and a revelatory exploration into the lives of three visionary artists. ‘A fascinating tale of the interlinking lives of three legendary trailblazers.’ SALENA GODDEN ‘Cosey Fanni Tutti has lived the life and has the stories to tell: not […]
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Biography - Music
Re-Sisters
From the acclaimed author of Art Sex Music comes a vital meditation on womanhood, creativity and self-expression, and a revelatory exploration into the lives of three visionary artists. ‘A fascinating tale of the interlinking lives of three legendary trailblazers.’ SALENA GODDEN ‘Re-sisters emanates an enthralling power.’ JUDE ROGERS, MOJO ‘Cosey Fanni Tutti has lived the […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Shy
From the bestselling author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny, Shy is a novel about guilt, rage, imagination and boyhood. It is about being lost in the dark, and realising you are not alone. ‘Max Porter is one of my favourite writers in the world.’ George Saunders ‘Beautiful and haunting.’ Kevin Barry […]
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Lyrics - Music
Side by Side: Selected Lyrics
The life’s work of two of British music’s most unique and timeless artists, with an introduction by Jarvis Cocker. Whenever an aspiring musician asks me about songwriting I point them towards Robert and Alfie. Their work is so unusual, so perceptive, so playful and so grown-up. I don’t think there’s anyone to compare. If you […]
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Biography - Memoir - Music
Sonic Life: A Memoir
A music-obsessed retrospective, beginning with his childhood epiphany of rock ‘n’ roll in the early 1960s into an infatuation with the subversive world of 1970s punk and no wave blasting forth from New York City – where he eventually runs off to join a band in 1978. By 1981 Moore would form the legendary and […]
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Music
Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century
A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale. ‘Wonderful . . . This is a book of discovery that speaks of music as a life force, that urges us […]
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Music
Sweet Dreams: The Story of the New Romantics
The definitive oral history of the New Romantics. Sweet Dreams charts the British cultural explosion that happened in the ten years from 1975-1985 ― the rise of the New Romantics. Growing out of the remnants of the post-punk period, the New Romantics introduced club culture, ska, electronica, and goth to the world. One of the […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
The Bell Jar
When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther’s life begins to slide out of control. She finds herself spiralling into depression and eventually a […]
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Graphic Novels
The Bell Jar: The Illustrated Edition
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. Sylvia Plath’s groundbreaking semi-autobiographical novel offers an intimate, honest and often wrenching glimpse into mental illness. The Bell Jar broke the boundaries between fiction and reality and helped cement Sylvia […]
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Film & Entertainment
The Big Goodbye
Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making. In Sam Wasson’s telling, it becomes the defining story of its most colorful characters. Here is […]
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Music
The Creation Records Story
‘The greatest book ever written on British independent music’ Guardian ‘One of the best British music books of the last ten years’ Mojo Founded by Alan McGee in 1983, Creation Records achieved notoriety as the home of Primal Scream, the Jesus and Mary Chain and other anti-Establishment acts. During the Britpop boom of the mid-90s, the astonishing […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
The Lying Life of Adults
Giovanna’s pretty face has changed: it’s turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find herself and save herself? She is searching for a new face in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: the Naples […]
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Film & Entertainment - Pop Culture
The Magic Box
A riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film; a cross-genre feast of moving pictures, from classics to occult hidden gems, The Magic Box is the nation’s visual self-portrait in technicolour detail. ‘The definition of gripping. Truly, a trove of wyrd treasures.’ BENJAMIN MYERS ‘Young is a phenomonal […]
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Fiction - Science Fiction & Fantasy
The New Wilderness
Bea’s daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, her lungs ravaged by the smog and pollution of the overpopulated metropolis they call home.
The only alternative is to build a life in the vast expanse of untamed land known as The Wilderness State
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
The Night Always Comes
Between looking after her brother, working two low-paid jobs, and trying to take part-time college classes, Lynette is dangerously tired. Every penny she’s earned for years, she’s put into savings, trying to scrape together enough to take out a mortgage on the house she rents with her mother. Finally becoming a homeowner in their rapidly […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
The Republic of False Truths
Under the regime of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt is gripped by cronyism, religious hypocrisy, and the oppressive military. Now, however, the regime faces its greatest crisis
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Contemporary Fiction - Thriller
The Shards
A novel of sensational literary and psychological suspense from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged high school friends in a vibrantly fictionalized 1980s Los Angeles as a serial killer strikes across the city. Bret Easton Ellis’s masterful new novel is a story about the end of innocence, and […]
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Biography - Music
Verse, Chorus, Monster!
Among the noise and clamour of the Britpop era, Blur co-founder Graham Coxon managed to carve out a niche to become one of the most innovative and respected guitarists of his generation – but it wasn’t always easy. Graham grew up as an Army kid, moving frequently in his early years from West Germany to […]
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Lyrics - Music
Wading in Waist-High Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes
“There is something quite moving about seeing the lyrics of these fifty-six songs collected and assembled this way. You can see the evolution of the minds and hearts at work behind the lyrics. . . . It’s a thrill, realizing that it’s a still-evolving and growing body of work.” -Brandon Taylor, from the Introduction Since […]
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Biography
We Own This City
The astonishing true story of ‘one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation’ (New York Times) Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city. Drug and violent crime were surging, with homicides reaching their highest level in over two decades. For years, Sgt Wayne Jenkins and his elite team of plain-clothed officers […]
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