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Surfacing
Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize, 2019Under the ravishing light of an Alaskan sky, objects are spilling from the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village to its hunter-gatherer past. In...
Calm the F**k Down
The latest no-f**ks-given guide from July 2017 New York Times bestselling author of the international sensation The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k, Get Your Sh*t Together, and You...
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
'Required reading.' - Cosmopolitan'This should be read as a sacred text. Here, you will bear witness to a perpetual salvation song.' - Jason ReynoldsRemember that moment when you first encountered...
No Judgement: On Being Critical
A brilliant and addictive collection of brand-new essays on modern culture - from 'the pre-eminent and most widely read critic of her generation' The Times Included as a 2024 highlight...
The Story Smuggler
'Some smuggle cigarettes, others alcohol - or weapons.Our contraband, being invisible, is more dangerous.Our contraband is undetectable by scanners.What we carry as concealed excess baggage is stories.'In this exquisite literary...
Oppositions: Selected Essays
'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought...
Oppositions: Selected Essays
'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought...
The Amis Collection: Selected Non-fiction
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In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: Womanist Prose
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Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling
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From the internationally best-selling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, a spellbinding journey into the secrets of his art--the narratives that have shaped his vision, his experience of writing,...
The Waltz of Reason: The Entanglement of Mathematics and Philosophy
"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here," Plato warned would-be philosophers. Mathematician Karl Sigmund agrees.In The Waltz of Reason, he shows how mathematics and philosophy together have shaped our...
Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests-from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to...
Bob Feller's Little Black Book of Baseball Wisdom
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The Black Joy Project
Featuring 117 full-color photos and eight breathtaking essays on a force that fuels Black life all around the globe, this is Humans of New York meets The Black Book"A patchwork...
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...
The Best American Food Writing 2023
Author: Mark BittmanFormat: Paperback, 140mm x 210mm, 454g, 208 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 "Excellent....Taken as a whole, the volume moves beyond food's sensory pleasures to investigate it...
Flowers and Fruit
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Arguably
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Author: Christopher HitchensFormat: Paperback, 140mm x 215mm, 850g, 816 pagesPublished: Atlantic Books, United Kingdom, 2012Shortlisted for the 2012 Orwell Prize'As soon as we abandon our own reason', wrote Bertrand Russell,...
Niklas Maak: Server Manifesto: Data Center Architecture and the Future of Democracy
Author: Niklas MaakFormat: Paperback, 120mm x 190mm, 170g, 64 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022If data is the greatest collective treasure of a digital society, basic material for business and politics:...
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
Author: Annie ProulxFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 190g, 208 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'Magnificent' Guardian'Remarkable ... A compact classic!' Bill McKibben'I learned...
Great Words: Speeches That Shaped Australia
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023
Author: Carl ZimmerFormat: Paperback, 140mm x 210mm, 454g, 272 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that...
The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times
Author: Michelle ObamaFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 269g, 336 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024In her bestselling follow-up to the worldwide phenomenon Becoming, Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and...
The Best American Essays 2023
Author: Vivian GornickFormat: Paperback, 140mm x 210mm, 454g, 304 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 In her introduction to this year's The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick...
The Literature Machine: Essays
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Life After Politics: New Ideas For The C21st
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The Common Reader: Second Series (Collins Classics)
Author: Virginia WoolfFormat: Paperback, 111mm x 178mm, 160g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed,...
Andras Szanto: Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects
Author: Andras SzantoFormat: Paperback, 120mm x 190mm, 320g, 288 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2023Following on the widely-read The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues, which explored how museums are changing...
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth About Globalization, Corporate Cons, and High Finance Fraudsters
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On Hate
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The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus
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But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films
Author: Kristen Lopez Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 For film buffs and literature lovers alike, Turner Classic Movies presents an essential guide to 52 cinema classics and the literary...
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
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The Living Novel
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Cabot Wright Begins
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Before My Time
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Leopold Bloom: A Biography
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The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet
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The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath
Author: Leslie Jamison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as...
My Russia: War or Peace?
In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what...
Labor Essays 1997: Renewing and Revitalising Labor
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Immanuel
Author: Matthew McNaught Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 248 In Immanuel, winner of the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize Matthew McNaught explores his upbringing in an evangelical Christian community in...
Unattached: Empowering Essays on Singlehood
Author: Angelica Malin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 The single positivity movement is here, and this book, curated by award-winning entrepreneur, podcaster and Editor-In-Chief of About Time Magazine, Angelica...
Mary Mackillop's Sisters
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Pleasure of Thinking
Author: Wang XiaoboFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 170g, 224 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024The dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestseller in...
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
Author: Glory Edim Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Required reading.' - Cosmopolitan 'This should be read as a sacred text. Here, you will bear witness to a perpetual salvation...
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
Author: Annie Proulx Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 'Magnificent' Guardian 'Remarkable ... A compact classic!' Bill McKibben 'I learned something new...
GIRL: On Black Womanhood and Belonging
Author: Kenya Hunt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Powerful, intelligent and vital - one of the year's must-reads' Hannah Nathanson, Features Director, ELLE Featuring contributions from Candice Carty-Williams, Jessica...