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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023
Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022. "What's most compelling about a scientific...
Notes of a Native Son
A breakthrough work of social and cultural criticism from one of the foremost intellectuals of his era Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his...
Njal's Saga
'Njal's Saga' is the finest of the Icelandic sagas, and one of the world's greatest prose works. Written c.1280, about events a couple of centuries earlier, it is divided into...
Down and Out in Paris and London
Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute, in a stunning new cover look for his great works 'You have talked so often of going to...
A Short Guide to Towns Without a Past
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Best known for his existentialist novel The Outsider, set in French-occupied Algeria, Albert Camus was profoundly influenced by the landscapes, towns...
Green Hills of Africa
Hemingway's journal of a month on safari in East Africa. This is Hemingway's East African safari journal. 'All I wanted to do was get back to Africa' Green Hills of...
Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe: Frontline Adventures Linking Punk, Reggae, Afrobeat and Jazz
Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe collects the extraordinary output of Vivien Goldman from 1975 onwards; spanning a time when punk burnt its scalding flame to scorch our musical earth...
The Conquest of Gaul
Penguin Classics relaunch Between 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain. This is the record of his...
The Civil War
Caesar's own account of his struggle with Pompey over leadership of Republican Rome A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his...
The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath
Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible...
A History of My Brief Body
Dazzling collection of personal essays from internationally acclaimed First Nations Canadian writer Billy-Ray Belcourt, who mines his own personal history to reconcile the world he was born into with the...
Small Wonder: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women's Prize
Whether she is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, adolescence, genetic engineering, TV watching, the history of civil rights, or the future of a nation founded on the...
Real Estate: Living Autobiography 3
Fearless and essential - the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography' Following the international critical and commercial success of The Cost of Living, this final...
Gilmore Girls: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge: The Official Guide
Welcome to the ultimate TBR list! With meticulously researched book descriptions and hundreds of guided prompts and reading tips, The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge is an officially licensed, one-of-a-kind fan's...
Brave New World Revisited
'One of the most important books to have been published since the war' Daily Telegraph In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society...
The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose
New selection with introduction, suggestions for further reading, and full explanatory notes Selection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions'...
Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown
Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 'Our greatest living satirist' Sunday Times 'The most screamingly funny living writer' Mail on Sunday From the bestselling and award-winning author...
Nothing Compares to You: What Sinead O'Connor Means to Us
An intimate and evocative celebration of the life and legacy of music and political icon Sinead O'Connor, featuring writers including Neko Case, Sinead Gleeson, Rayne Fisher-Quann, Porochista Khakpour, and more....
Writing Home
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A Town Without Time: Gay Talese's New York
From legendary journalist Gay Talese, a collection of his greatest reporting on New York City. "Along with Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe and others, Mr. Talese has been acclaimed...
The Anatomy of Love
Dryness, paleness, waking, sighing, despair, frenzy, death: love's repercussions can be dire indeed. Perhaps that is why Robert Burton devoted the largest part of his pioneering 17th-century psychological work, The...
100 Diaries that Chronicled World Events
Oscar Wilde once wrote "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train." This book is your opportunity to discover a compendium...
Grief is for People: A Memoir
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A Few Rules for Predicting the Future
In strange and uncertain times, where better to turn than Octavia E. Butler? Her honest, wise and hopeful words are for anyone who wants to shape our future into something...
The Best Australian Essays 2009
The Best Australian Essays 2009 presents a selection of the year's best non-fiction. With wonderful essays by Australia's finest writers, this diverse collection captures the year that was. Whether tackling...
Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-
The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.'This trenchant, unrepentant collection reminds you that she's a brilliant writer... Order a copy in case she's...
Representations of the Intellectual
Are intellectuals merely the servants of special interests or do they have a larger responsibility? In these wide-ranging essays, one of our most brilliant and fiercely independent public thinkers addresses...
Conversations with Goethe
A witty introduction to the mind of Goethe, a classic in a new translation for the first time in 150 years Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was the world's most celebrated...
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
THE VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. From Make Good Art , the speech that went...
The Second Body
Every living thing has two bodies. To be an animal is to be in possession of a physical body, a body which can eat, drink and sleep; it is also...
The Thirteen Books of the Elements, Vol. 2
This is the definitive edition of one of the very greatest classics of all time - the full Euclid, not an abridgement. Using the text established by Heiberg, Sir Thomas...
Twenty Years A-Growing
Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the...