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A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered...

Containing two years of missives from live events held in Indonesia, the USA, the UK and Ireland,Airmailis the first international anthology in the Women of Letters series. Women of Letters...

'As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones...' So begins the titular essay in Natalia...

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is now generally recognized as one of the most original and influential thinkers of this century. In Britain and the United States in particular, he has acquired...

"Rolling Stone" is one of the most influential rock magazines in the world, and over the last 25 years it has published some of the most innovative, powerful and evocative...

The articles in this unique collection represent a decade of writing by Aboriginal historian and activist Jackie Huggins. These essays and interviews combine both the public and the personal in...

"Writing an essay is like catching a wave," posits guest editor Ariel Levy. "To catch a wave, you need skill and nerve, not just moving water." This year's writers are...

William Shawn once called The Talk of the Town the soul of the magazine. The section began in the first issue, in 1925. But it wasn't until a couple of...

Living at a time of religious strife and the decline of the intellectual optimism that had begun in the Renaissance, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) expressed in his writings both...

Stephen Jay Gould's writing remains the modern standard by which popular science writing is judged. Ever since the last 1970s, his monthly essay in Natural History and his full-length books...

Interviews with one of the world's most stimulating creative talents Audiences internationally have been thrilled and moved by such remarkable and personal works as Robert Lepage's The Dragon's Trilogy, Needles...

The Best Australian Essays showcase the nation's most eloquent, insightful and urgent non-fiction writing. The Best Australian Essays showcase the nation's most eloquent, insightful and urgent non-fiction writing. In her...

From the legendary Pentagon Papers whistleblower and anti-war activist-a posthumous collection of Daniel Ellsberg's previously unpublished writings that offers a window into his courageous life, work, and most deeply held...

From global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher, comes Lee Child's first-ever autobiographical collection. From global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher, comes Lee Child's first-ever autobiographical collection. On Monday...

The book titled King Arthur: Hero and Legend by the author Richard W Barber. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A new, wise and warmly funny work of memoir from bestselling novelist Sebastian Faulks 'A wise and heartfelt piece of writing' THE TIMES 'Witty' INDEPENDENT 'Wry and reflective . ....

Gilmore Girls hit our screens in 2000 and has been our autumn obsession ever since. There's a reason that Vogue calls it ' the quintessential autumn girl show' and that,...

Selections from the letters, memoirs, autobiography and fiction of the World War I. Edmund Blunden, Vera Britain, Oskar Kokoschka, Hasek, Paul Klee and Hemingway are among the contributors to this...

'An exquisitely-written, generous, funny, thoughtful book about the everyday joys of being alive. I love it.' Dolly Alderton 'J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th...

What can a scrap of embroidery tell us about how to live? How can the past help us imagine unconstrained lives when not all traces remain? To explore these questions,...

Leading Australian writers respond to the challenges of 2020, to create a vital cultural record of these extraordinary times. 2020 began with firestorms raging through the country, followed by floods,...

FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022 Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize for Non-Fiction 2023 'This is one of...

It takes a particular kind of man, writes Howard Jacobson, to want an embroidered polo player astride his left nipple. Occasionally, when I am tired and emotional, or consumed with...

'Growing up in Queens, I didn't know being named Shenequa was considered "ghetto" or uncouth. It was only later in life that I realized I was being judged by a...

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...

The book titled An Instinct for the Kill by the author Antonella Gambotto. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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...

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...

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,...

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...

The second in a major two-part anthology uncovering the rich reality of life for queer men in London, from the end of the Second World War to decriminalization in 1967...

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...