The Duckworth Newsletter

For Curious Minds

'These are the books that are still resonating with me'

In Ordinary Time author Carmel Mc Mahon’s favourite books by fellow Irish writers, including Claire Keegan, Anna Burns, Priscilla Morris and Karl Geary.

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Inspirational wisdom for every month of 2024

A Book of Your Own offers a minimum of words – one for each day of the year – but with maximum impact: a phrase, an idea or a thought that may make you smile or simply remind you of a truth that you’d lost sight of.

Author Anne Dickson has selected twelve insights for each month of the year, to reassure and occasionally to give you a needed pause for reflection.

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Authors in the News

'The author’s broad-spectrum bonhomie makes the book an engaging read'. Check out the Financial Times review of Vet at the End of the Earth.

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Monica Macias, author of Black Girl from Pyongyang, will be at SOAS on 24 November discussing her wonderful memoir. This event is free and open to the public.

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Black Butterflies author Priscilla Morris was interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Front Row discussing the artistic legacy of her great uncle, Dobrivoje Beljkasic (listen at the 15:11 mark).

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Oskar Jensen attended the awards dinner for the Wolfson History Prize on 13 November. It was an honour for Vagabonds to be shortlisted.

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Good for Gifting!

It’s snow joke, Christmas is coming, and we have the perfect bookish gifts!

Hilarious stories from a country practice, Dr Sparrow spares no blushes in his excellent memoir

Illustrations and cartoon wizardry,

Contraptions is the best possible introduction to the work of one of Britain's great comic talents

John Spurling takes you on a magical journey through the men and women of Greek myth

Out this month

From the author of the ‘assertiveness bible’ A Woman in Your Own Right, a yearbook of daily insights to strengthen and inspire women

In Britain at Play we collect the finest of William Heath Robinson’s studies of the unique British character

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Can you really speak with the dead?

William Jackson Crawford is a man of science and a sceptic, but one night with everyone sitting around the séance circle, voices come to him – seemingly from beyond the veil – placing doubt in his heart and a seed of obsession in his mind. Could the spirits truly be communicating with him or is this one parlour trick gone too far?

The Spirit Engineer is a haunted, twisted tale of power, paranoia and one ultimate, inescapable truth…

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