*New & Notable Adult Nonfiction - July Highlights*

Published this month and new to the collection

Updated July 14, 2025
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Homework: A Memoir
Dyer, Geoff.
Moving, atmospheric, truthful, perceptive and hilariously funny -- I loved it: a piece of our English history, the story of a vanished time, which feels close at hand but thoroughly gone. What a story. What a great story' - TESSA HADLEY In Homework, Geoff Dyer reflects on his childhood and...
A marriage at sea : a true story of love, obsession, and shipwreck
Elmhirst, Sophie
Paper Book
**WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION AWARD 2024** **A Guardian, Observer, Economist & Waterstones Best Book of 2024** ** A Financial Times BEST SUMMER READ** 'One of those very special books that makes you put everything on hold so...
The CIA book club : the secret mission to win the Cold War with forbidden literature
English, Charlie
Paper Book
'Entertaining and vivid... This is a gripping account of an intriguing and little-known Cold War moment' OBSERVER 'Reads like a thriller' THE SUN The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. For...

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