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#AllConsuming by @ruby.tandoh is out today!

🧋 ‘Brilliant and original’ @nigelslater 

🍓 ‘Ruby is a rare and singular voice. I loved this book’ Anna Jones @we_are_food 

Ruby Tandoh’s startlingly original analysis traces this extraordinary transformation over the past seventy-five years, making sense of this electrifying new era by examining the social, economic, and technological forces shaping the foods we hunger for today.

Exploring the evolution of the cookbook and light-speed growth of bubble tea, the advent of TikTok critics and absurdities of the perfect dinner party, Tandoh’s laser-sharp investigation leaves her questioning: how much are our tastes, in fact, our own?

🍽️ ‘A fascinating, sometimes shocking, eye-opener that is also brilliantly funny’ Claudia Rosen

🍦 ‘An essential read for everyone interested in how we eat now’ @rebeccamayjohnson
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Gentle giant Florian Herscht is an orphan, adopted by a neo-Nazi who has apprenticed him as a graffiti cleaner. The Boss, a Bach fanatic, is enraged that someone is spraying wolf emblems across the monuments to the famed composer in their east German town. He is determined to punish the culprit and Florian has no choice but to join his gang as they devise a plan to catch him. But Florian has bigger things to worry about: having attended Herr Köhler’s adult education classes in physics, he can see that the world might end at any moment.

Written in one cascading sentence with the power of atomic particles colliding, Krasznahorkai’s novel is a tour de force, a moving character study, a blistering satire and devastating encapsulation of our helplessness at the moral and environmental dilemmas we face today.

#Herscht07769 by Laszlo Krasznahorkai is out in paperback tomorrow!
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7 books to read this #WomenInTranslationMonth ☀️

☀️ Tongueless by Lau Yee-Wa
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☀️ Cold Nights of my Childhood by Tezer Ozlu
☀️ Love Me Tender, Playboy and Name by Constance Debré

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Bubble tea, fast food, hype queues, Viennetta, cult cookbooks, wellness elixirs and lobster 🦞🧋🍦
 
Want to dig in? Pre-order #AllConsuming by Ruby Tandoh with Waterstones for 25% off from now until 23:59 31st July, using code SUMMER25 🍽️

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POWER. GRIEVANCE. RETRIBUTION.

In a remote Newfoundland port settlement, ruthless company man Abe Strapp is set to secure his dominance over the shore and its rich resources by marrying the daughter of a rival merchant – until the Widow Caines stands up in church and throws the wedding and Abe’s plans into chaos.

As the bitter feud between these two competitors – each determined to ruin the person they despise most – spirals further into vendetta and violence, the locals too are forced to take sides, with devastating consequences.
 
The no. 1 international bestseller #TheAdversary by Michael Crummey publishes today.

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We’re so thrilled to share that Orlaine McDonald’s incredible debut, #NoSmallThing, has been picked for @goodhousekeepinguk’s Good Books Summer Collection! 

#NoSmallThing is available now in paperback 🧡

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