Beautifully written, with flashes of dark humour throughout what is a shocking, heartbreaking memoir, Ootlin tells the story of Fagan’s childhood in care. The winner of the 2025 Gordon Burn prize, this is an astonishing story of survival.

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Kehnel’s wonderfully original study will transform your attitude towards the medieval period. She shows how sustainability was central to the medieval approach to life and that they “knew the limits of our planet better than we do now”. @profilebooks.bsky.social

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Jacobsen’s deeply researched book is a minute-by-minute account of how nuclear war could happen today. As gripping as any thriller, she shows the horrific reality of nuclear war and the threat it poses to the very survival of human life on our planet.

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Rob Jackson has a dream: to restore Earth’s atmosphere to pre-industrial greenhouse gas levels. In this important book, he makes a compelling case for methane removal & shows how change can and must happen, in order to reduce global temperatures.

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Jacobsen’s deeply researched book is a minute-by-minute account of how nuclear war could happen today. As gripping as any thriller, she shows the horrific reality of nuclear war and the threat it poses to the very survival of human life on our planet.

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Historian of medicine, Helen King, tells the story of women’s bodies using four body parts. She draws on a lifetime of research on the subject & its implications for women. The result is a remarkably rich scientific & cultural survey. @profilebooks.bsky.social

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Really fascinating - glad you liked the review!

By the way, have read The City and the World? It might be something you could write about…

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Historian of medicine, Helen King, tells the story of women’s bodies using four body parts. She draws on a lifetime of research on the subject & its implications for women. The result is a remarkably rich scientific & cultural survey. @profilebooks.bsky.social

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Braw’s timely study charts the rise of globalisation from the optimism of the late 1980s to the current realism. A pacy & human story, it weaves economics and history into a compelling geopolitical narrative of the last three decades. @yalebooks.bsky.social

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