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This Wound Is a World
Univ of Minnesota Pr

This Wound Is a World

Billy-ray Belcourt

This poetry collection reconnects the body, desire, pain, and colonial memory of a queer Indigenous man through a voice that is both prayerful and critically alert. It opens personal wounds onto the structures of the world and offers love and sex as forms of resistance toward the future.

The Long Call (Two Rivers, 1)
Minotaur Books

The Long Call (Two Rivers, 1)

Ann Cleeves

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! NOW A BRITBOX SERIES STARRING BEN ALDRIDGE AND PEARL MACKIE The Long Call from Ann Cleeves—bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows—introduces the first in the stunning Matthew Venn series. “In Matthew Venn, Ann has created a complex, daring, subtle character.” —Louise Penny "Matthew Venn is a keeper. A stunning debut for Cleeves’ latest crimefighter."—David Baldacci In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his estranged father’s funeral takes place. On the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too. Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death. The case calls Matthew back to the people and places of his past, as deadly secrets hidden at their hearts are revealed, and his new life is forced into a collision course with the world he thought he’d left behind.

Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass
Picador

Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass

Darren Mcgarvey

Drawing on his own experience of growing up in poverty, the author traces a reality shaped by institutions, prejudice, and arguments about personal responsibility. Blending memoir and social criticism, the book probes the roots of inequality and anger in modern Britain.

Cow and Company
India Viking

Cow and Company

Parashar Kulkarni

Set in colonial India, this work interweaves a business built around a cow with the absurdities of community life. Social order is shaken from both commercial and religious angles.

Par les routes (Prix Femina 2019)
Gallimard

Par les routes (Prix Femina 2019)

Sylvain Prudhomme

Sacha, a writer, settles in a small town in southern France and runs into the old friend he once pushed away, known as the hitchhiker. Through the lives of a man who keeps leaving, the family that waits for him, and the narrator drawn into their orbit, the novel tests the boundaries between freedom, friendship, and love.

Les cinq sens
Grasset

Les cinq sens

Serres-M

A philosophical essay that revisits the relationship between the five senses and knowledge through the modern body.

Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la meme facon
Editions de l'Olivier

Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la meme facon

Jean-Paul Dubois

Paul Hansen, serving a sentence in a Canadian prison, looks back over his life. His pastor father, his cinema-owning mother, his work in a residence, and his life with a pilot partner accumulate into a quiet account of loss, tenderness, and the anger that brought him to confinement.