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Every once in a while a book appears that we know is special, transformative in subtle ways, that will endure. This is Surfacing by @KathleenJamie, a book of quiet penetration, spanning millennia, out on 19th Sept. Here’s five reasons we think so... 
1) The writing is stunning. @Nicklezard wrote in the Guardian, “I wonder if I would actually kill to be able to write, and think, like this”, about Sightlines (Jamie’s last title). Surfacing is even better ...
2) The scope is wide: Jamie carries us from a Yup’ik village in Alaska where hunter-gatherer objects spill from the thawing tundra, to a vast Neolithic site beneath the sand dunes of an Orkney island, to the borders of Tibet and a journey made at the time of Tiananmen Square...
