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Biography
Between Them
Richard Ford Hunger
Roxane Gay
The Surreal Life of Leonora
Carrington
Joanna Moorhead
HB $18.99
Richard Ford's parents volunteered
little about their early lives. Later, he
pieced their stories together from
anecdotes, history and the occasional
photograph. In this book, Ford evokes
a vivid panorama of mid-twentieth
century America, and an intimate
portrait of family life. Written with the
intelligence, precision and humanity
for which Ford is renowned, Between
Them is both a son's great act of love
and a redeeming meditation on
family. PB $32.99
Roxane Gay has written with intimacy
and sensitivity about food and body,
using her own emotional and
psychological struggles as a means of
exploring our shared anxieties over
pleasure, consumption, appearance,
and health. Roxane understands the
tension between desire and denial,
between self-comfort and self-care. In
Hunger, she explores her past and
brings readers along on her journey
to understand and ultimately save
herself. The Memory of Music
Andrew Ford Theft By Finding
David Sedaris Collecting the World
James Delbourgo
PB $32.99
Composer and broadcaster Andrew
Ford considers the nature and
purpose of music in the context of his
own life—what it is, why it means so
much to us and how it works in our
lives. From his early childhood in the
Beatles-crazy Liverpool of the 1960s
to his evolving work as a composer,
choral conductor, concert promoter,
critic, university teacher and radio
presenter, he shares the vivid musical
experiences that have shaped his life. PB $29.99
For nearly four decades, David Sedaris
has faithfully kept a diary in which he
records his thoughts and
observations on the odd and funny
events he witnesses. At a live Sedaris
event, his diary readings are often
among the most joyful parts of the
evening. But never before have they
been available in print. Tender,
hilarious, illuminating, and endlessly
captivating, Theft by Finding offers a
rare look into the mind of a great
comic genius. HB $55.00
Hans Sloane (1660-1753) was the
greatest collector of his time, and one
of the greatest of all time, but the man
himself has been almost forgotten.
This is the first biography of Sloane in
over sixty years. Early modern science
and collecting are shown to be global
endeavours intertwined with imperial
enterprise and slavery but which
nonetheless gave rise to one of the
great public institutions of the
Enlightenment—the museum.
PB $35.00
When Moorhead discovered that a
missing relative was now a famous
artist in Mexico, she set out to find her.
Leonora Carrington was one of the
last surviving participants in the
Surrealist movement, a founding
member of the Women's Liberation
Movement in Mexico and a woman
whose reputation will survive as a
muse, a novelist and a great artist. This
book is the extraordinary story of
Carrington's life, and of the friendship
between two women.