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On the Good Life
Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one...
The Book of the Courtier
Author: Baldesar Castiglione Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In The Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldesar Castiglione, a diplomat and Papal Nuncio to Rome, sets out to...
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A new translation of Calvino's influential last work Italo Calvino was due to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton lectures...
Essays
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this...
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951
Author: Lord John Julius Norwich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper) 'This...
Accounts of China and India
Author: Abu Zayd al-Sirafi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 124 The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed the establishment of a substantial network of maritime trade across the Indian Ocean, providing...
A Hundred and One Nights
Author: Bruce Fudge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantment and wonder Translated into English for the very first time, A Hundred and...
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time
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Having and Being Had
Author: Eula Biss Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A timely and arresting new look at affluence by a consistently surprising writer. "My adult life can be divided into two...
The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving and (Sometimes) Leaving San Francisco
Author: Gary Kamiya Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Capturing an ever-changing San Francisco, 25 prolific writers tell their stories of living in one the most mesmerising cities in the...
The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret
Author: Alathea Fitzalan Howard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 **SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **A...
Dreaming Too Loud
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Literary Melbourne: A Celebration of Writing and Ideas
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The Oxford Book of Exploration
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The Needle's Eye: Passing Through Youth
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Author: Fanny Howe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 A meditation on time, violence, and chance by "one of America's most dazzling poets" (O, The Oprah Magazine) Fanny Howe's The...
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
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Author: Ellen Ullman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal...
How Proust Can Change Your Life
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Texas
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England Your England: Notes on a Nation
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Ranging from an expedition down a coal mine to a chastening experience of colonial rule in Burma, and from...
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003
Author: Sir Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Funny, barbed and moving ......
Experience
Author: Martin Amis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now. Experience, the book of his...
Between Eternities: and Other Writings
Author: Javier Marias Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An exhilarating, far-ranging collection of non-fiction writing from the internationally acclaimed author of A Heart So White and The...
Citizen: An American Lyric
Author: Claudia Rankine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The critically acclaimed exploration of mounting racial aggressions in 21st century daily life and in the media In this...
Essays
Author: Michel Montaigne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Reflections by the creator of the essay form display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing...
The Keillor Reader: Looking Back at Forty Years of Stories: Where Did They All Come From?
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Author: Garrison Keillor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Stories, monologues, and essays by Garrison Keillor, founder and host of A Prairie Home Companion The first retrospective from...
Phaedrus
Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue...
Granta 145: Ghosts
Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Margaret Atwood, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Julian Barnes, Roberto Bolano, Jeffrey Eugenides, Nadine Gordimer, Nick Hornby, Kazuo Ishiguro, Han Kang,...
How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate
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Author: Paolo Giordano Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 'The literature of the time after begins here' EVENING STANDARD 'A jolt of brevity and simplicity' THE TIMES 'In...
Essays
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A collection of Orwell's major essays, in a stunning new cover look for his great works These essays, reviews...
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France,...
Maxims and Reflections
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) would jot down his...
Italian Journey 1786-1788
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe...
Guide to Greece: Central Greece
Author: Pausanias Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Written in the second century AD by a Greek traveller for a predominantly Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is...
Selected Political Speeches
Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Amid the corruption and power struggles of the collapse of the Roman Republic, Cicero (106-43BC) produced some of the most...
Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose
Author: Matthew Arnold Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate critic of Victorian England, Matthew Arnold condemned an industrial society in 'bondage...
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Author: Peter Abelard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. Through their...
Granta 160: Conflict
Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each issue of Granta turns the attention of the world's...
The Ancient Fable: An Introduction
Author: Niklas Holzberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 We are all familiar with the moralizing animal tales ascribed to Aesop. Described as fiction that conveys truths, fables can be...
In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People
Author: Muhammad al-Tunisi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 430 A merchant's remarkable travel account of an African kingdom Muhammad al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants trading...
The Wicked Wit of Oscar Wilde
Author: Maria Leach Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 A celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult with this collection of his most...
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators
Author: Martin Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating...
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion. Mostly drawn...
Homo Irrealis
Author: Andre Aciman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In Homo Irrealis Andre Aciman explores what the present tense means to artists who cannot grasp the here and now. Irrealis...
The Gifts of Reading
Author: Robert Macfarlane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 With contributions by: William Boyd, Candice Carty-Williams, Imtiaz Dharker, Roddy Doyle, Pico Iyer, Robert Macfarlane, Andy Miller, Jackie Morris, Jan Morris,...
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker
Author: Jelani Cobb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 848 A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates,...
Common Ground: Issues That Should Bind and Not Divide Us
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Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings
Author: Reyna Grande Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 ""Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the immigrant experience in America."" -Publishers Weekly "[These...
Kiss Me, Chudleigh
Author: William Cook Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Auberon Waugh has been compared to Jonathan Swift. He was an outrageous satirist who slaughtered whole herds of sacred cows and...