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The Jhalak Prize shortlists 2024
New & Noteworthy
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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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- The Hour of the Predator : Encounters with the Autocrats and Tech Billionaires Taking Over the World
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- da Empoli, Giuliano
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- The Einstein of Sex : Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin
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- Brook, Daniel
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- This Might Surprise You : A Breast Cancer Story
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- Gullen, Hayley
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- Wild for Austen : A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane
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- Looser, Devoney
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- You Had to Be There : An Odyssey Through Noughties London, One Night at a Time.
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- Harsh, Jodie
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- Art Work : On the Creative Life
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- Mann, Sally
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- Women Who Dared : From the Infamous to the Forgotten
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- ed. by Ben Fletcher-Watson; Jo Shaw
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- Greyhound
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- Pocock, Joanna
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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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- The Edge of Silence : In Search of the Disappearing Sounds of Nature
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- Ansell, Neil
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- The World Within
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- Stagg, Guy
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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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- The Quality of Love : Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century
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- Bankes, Ariane
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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