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Author of How Fiction Works James Wood has long established himself as the leading critic of his generation. With The Fun Stuff , he confirms his preeminence not only as...

This anthology of Latin American essays has been collated to reflect the intellectual, critical and self-reflexive side of the Latin American mind while retaining the features which distinguish the area's...

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...

Meditations is the title of a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy. Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the Meditations in...

The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter 2 December...

The million-copy international bestseller from Korean sensation Taewoan Ha 'Never give up Your every moment is meaningful' In Every Moment Was You , Taewoan Ha reflects on the little things...

A pioneering treatise on cooperation and reciprocity, from the major anarchist thinker 'Don't compete! - competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid...

The book titled The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde by the author Oscar Wilde. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including the work of Chretien de Troyes, Gottfried von Strassburg, Beroul and Sir Thomas Malory, this illustrated retelling of the story of King...

A little-known classic from one of the great French writers of the 20th century Starting in 1970, Jean Genet-petty thief, prostitute, modernist master-spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps...

This collection of Aldous Huxley's letters, essays from magazines, and broadcasts reveals the full range of his involvement in the social and political crises of the period between the wars....

Bruce Chatwin was, in his life as in his art, forever in search of the extraordinary, the exotic and the unexpected. In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories,...

Roberto Bolano is most widely known for his groundbreaking novels and irreverent poetry, but as he became increasingly famous he found himself in great demand as a writer of non-fiction....

Suppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature. It is both an experiment in the attentive form of the essay -...

Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly scholarly, In the Dark Room explores the question of how memory works emotionally and culturally. It is narrated through the prism of...

What do you do with death and dying when they can no longer be pushed to the outer limits of your lived experience or dismissed from your conscious mind? How...

The internet is no longer new, it is part of our everyday lives, and as a commonplace, we rarely take time to contemplate what we have made together. In these...

"An intellectually vivid and curious collection that refuses to find simple answers to its complex questions."-NPR Books We Love "T his book is a rare comfort, a companion . ....

'We're mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae; in a flash, we can...

'We're mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae; in a flash, we can...

There are few writers about whom opinions diverge so widely as Anthony Powell, whose Dance to the Music of Time sequence is one of the most ambitious literary constructions in...

Described both as a practical rule-book containing timeless precepts for the diplomat and as a handbook of evil, this work of great originality--based on first-hand experience--provides a remarkably uncompromising picture...

In this posthumous collection of thought-provoking essays-many published here for the first time-Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and bestselling author David McCullough affirms the value of history, how we can be guided...

We recognize the philosophy of the original Americans as coming from the earth we walk on, from those who preceded us. As we read the wisdom of these peoples, it...

This is a selection of short extracts from the writings of Kahlil Gibran, the Lebanese poet, philosopher and artist, whose masterpiece, "The Prophet", is amongst the most famous works of...

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game. Any schoolchild can smell the rat in the adage. Everybody knows a game is not worth watching...

Through the tide of hormones ebbing and flowing my body, and the little runnels of blood and the sour tang of my breasts, I lay awake, listening, and thinking of...

In nearly half a century, Frederick Palmer reported on more different armies in action than any other journalist. Using Palmer's wartime notebooks and photographs, this book re-creates the journalist's journey...

This is an annotated translation of al-Tahtawi's "Takhlis al-Ibriz fi Talkhis Bariz", an Arabic account of a visit to Paris by a Muslim from the Near East. Its author, a...

The celebrated American food writer M.F.K. Fisher pays tribute to that most delicate and enigmatic of foods: the oyster. She tells of oysters found in stews and soups, roasted, baked,...

India is familiar ground for Granta , having devoted two classic issues to the country, though much has changed since the last dispatch, published on the cusp of the Modi...

89 Words, published in 1985, is an expanded version of the dictionary of sorts that readers encountered in The Art of the Novel, and comprises a fascinating and rigorous interrogation...

This volume collects forty essays, articles, reviews, and columns that were originally published in the Philippines Free Press, Asia-Philippines Leader, National Midweek, Philippine Graphic, and other journals.Jaime Cardinal Sin's campaigns...

Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery - Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman's long awaited first original book, a kaleidoscopic study of...

A wild night outdoors with Bill Buford. A football tradition with Nathaniel Rich. A jog around the reservoir with Mark Helprin as he "protects" Jacqueline Onassis from imagined harm. The...

The book titled Watermark by the author Joseph Brodsky. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Tacitus' Annals of Imperial Rome recount the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus up to the death of Nero in AD 68. With clarity...

"A NEW LITERARY HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA" IS A MAJOR RE-EVALUATION OF THE LITERATURE OF AUSTRALIA WRITTEN BY LEADING AUTHORITIES IN THEIR FIELD, ALL WRITINGS WITH A DESIRE TO COMMUNICATE THEIR...

A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Pull up a chair, pour some eggnog, and enjoy the Christmas spirit with friends... From the wind-swept, snowy ranges of Wyoming to Florida beaches...

This account describes the daily struggles of women under the Marxist regime in the former republic of Yugoslavia. It contains 19 essays, comprising reportage through personal experience by Croatia's leading...

If we are lucky, in our lives, our friendships will be rich and varied. They will be shared with those with two legs, with four legs, with whiskers or clean...

In this fascinating collection, Jenny Erpenbeck meditates on the disappearance and impermanence of things. Whether recalling the demolition of familiar places, the loss of a friendship, or a change in...

The book titled Jeff Nuttall's Wake on Paper: A Keepsake Anthology of the Life, Work by the author Jeff Nuttall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

The book titled In the South Seas: Marquesas, Paumatus and Gilbert Islands by the author Robert Louis Stevenson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

In a career spanning 60 years and thousands of paintings, Auguste Renoir ensured that his art communicated a sense of happiness and contentment. Through his sense of colour, he transformed...

First published in 1893, this fascinating collection of writings reveal Whistler's thoughts on the late 19th-century Aesthetic movement, of which he was the presiding genius. It includes both his own...