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Vesper Flights: The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of H is for Hawk
Author: Helen Macdonald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes a transcendent collection of essays about the natural world...
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...
Shooting an Elephant
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A landmark collection of Orwell's writings, with a new Introduction by Jeremy Paxman 'Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing...
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...
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...
The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Selection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions' (1891)-...
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...
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...
Hear the Train Blow: The Classic Autobiography of Growing up in the Bush: The Classic Autobiography of Growing up in the Bush
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Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
Author: Georges Perec Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Georges Perec (1936-82), author of the novel Life- A User's Manual, was one of the most surprising and enjoyable...
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...
Dreaming Too Loud
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Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time
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Everywhere I Look
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The White Album
Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Joan Didion's hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of...
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...
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...
Where the Past Begins: Memory and Imagination
Author: Amy Tan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic...
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...
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
Author: Salman Rushdie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A collection of the finest essays by the 'Best of the Booker' winner, following on from his much-acclaimed STEP...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
True Stories: Complete Short Non-Fiction
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The Rebel
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Translated by Anthony Bower With an Introduction by Oliver Todd 'A conscience with style' V.S. Pritchett The Rebel (1951)...
The Collection
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 During the 1970s and the...
The Makers of Rome
Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 An intriguing document giving insight into the founders of the Roman republic These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and...
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,...
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the margin of my time
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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...
In Full View
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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...
De Profundis and Other Prison Writings
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A new selection of the powerful and moving letters and poems Wilde wrote in prison, edited with an introduction...
More Big Questions: Paul Davies in Conversation with Phillip Adams
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The Literature Machine: Essays
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'Brilliant...a feast' Guardian 'This brilliant collection of essays should be a feast for his admirers, as well as for...
The Sixteen Satires
Author: Juvenal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of...
The Rings of Saturn: (Vintage Voyages)
Author: W.G. Sebald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Encountering an eccentric...
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...
12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love
Author: Jeanette Winterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 *A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND EVENING STANDARD* Twelve bytes. Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny...