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What We've Been Reading: August 2025

Lighthouse Bookshop x Writers' Trust of Canada: Amplified Voices

Made in the kitchen: favourite food reads

JJ's top three of 2024

Mairi's top three of 2024

The Jhalak Prize shortlists 2024
New & Noteworthy

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- Art Work : On the Creative Life
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- Mann, Sally

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- The Finest Hotel in Kabul : A People’s History of Afghanistan
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- Doucet, Lyse

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- The Quality of Love : Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century
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- Bankes, Ariane

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- The Lost Flock : Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman’s Journey to Save Scotland’s Original Sheep
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- Cooper, Jane

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- Queer Latine Heroes : 25 Changemakers from Latin America and the U.S. from History and Today
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- Aguilar, Sofia

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- Night People : How to Be a DJ in ‘90s New York City
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- Ronson, Mark

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- Neverland : The Pleasures and Perils of Fandom
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- Kisuule, Vanessa

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- Storyteller : The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
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- Damrosch, Leo

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- Ways of Life : Jim Ede and the Kettle's Yard Artists
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- Freeman, Laura

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- Greyhound
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- Pocock, Joanna

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- Unschooled
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- Giles, Caro

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- Sea Marked : Throwing a Line to a Coastal Past
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- Cracknell, Linda

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- The Edge of Silence : In Search of the Disappearing Sounds of Nature
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- Ansell, Neil

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- The Parallel Path : Love, Grit and Walking the North
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- Ashworth, Jenn

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- Mother Mary Comes To Me
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- Roy, Arundhati

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- The Jackfruit Chronicles : Memories and Recipes from a British-Bangladeshi Kitchen
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- Ahsan, Shahnaz