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Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by
"Full of heart and wisdom, Daughters of Latin America sheds a brilliant light on Latine and Caribbean women writers across time, space, languages, and genres."- World Literature Today Spanning time,...
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...
We All Come Home Alive: A Life in Shocks
'Profoundly affecting' GUARDIAN 'Extraordinary. It made me cry' MELISSA HARRISON 'Wise and beautifully written' SINEAD GLEESON 'Made me feel that I too was more alive' LUCY CALDWELL A life is...
Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life
Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness dives into his favourite subjects in Love That Story , a collection of heartfelt and entertaining essays. From experiencing heartbreaking grief to uncovering the...
The Vast Extent: On Seeing and Not Seeing Further
From the celebrated poet, novelist and memoirist, The Vast Extent is an ingenious constellation of "exploded essays" about light and image, seeing and the unseen. Each is a record of...
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
'I loved her ruthless, impatient thinking, her ferocious attention' Adam Thirlwell, New Statesman Books of the Year 2025 From one of the most talented young thinkers in the US, a...
We All Come Home Alive: A Life in Shocks
'Profoundly affecting' GUARDIAN 'Extraordinary. It made me cry' MELISSA HARRISON 'Wise and beautifully written' SINEAD GLEESON 'Made me feel that I too was more alive' LUCY CALDWELL A life is...
black girl, no magic: reflections on race and respectability
'This book is a glowing achievement by one of the best essayists of her generation' Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff 'Witty, fresh and full of life' Liv Little 'I can't recommend more highly......
Sing a Black Girl's Song: The Unpublished Works
I am gonna write poems til I die and when I have gotten outta this body I am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got...
Meanjin Vol 79, No 2
Author and essayist Lucia Osborne-Crowley examines the cost of intimacy for women in a world where men demand exclusive access to the closeness of their female partners, often without returning...
The Shorter Pepys
The 1660s represent a turning point in English history and for all the main events - the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Great Plague and the Fire of London -...
Griffith Review 56: Millennials Strike Back
Millennials have had bad press for a long time. Now they are fighting back, making their mark on a world that is profoundly different from the one their parents knew....
What Everyone Knows About Britain* (*Except The British)
'A rare writer with the courage to tell Britain some home truths about itself and where it's headed. A much needed book'. - Ian Dunt 'What Britain needs at the...
Sing a Black Girl's Song: The Unpublished Works
I am gonna write poems til I die and when I have gotten outta this body I am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got...
Vanity Fair's Women on Women
Looking back at the last thirty-five years of Vanity Fair stories on women, by women, with an introduction by the magazine's editor in chief, Radhika Jones Gail Sheehy on Hillary...
It's Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me: 'A brutal and
*A Book of the Year in the Telegraph and Dazed* 'A brutal and brilliant study of female celebrity ... a joy to read, fizzing with intelligence' Megan Nolan, Telegraph 'Wildly...
It's Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me: 'A brutal and
*A Book of the Year in the Telegraph and Dazed* 'A brutal and brilliant study of female celebrity ... a joy to read, fizzing with intelligence' Megan Nolan, Telegraph 'Wildly...
The Beloved: Reflections on the Path of the Heart
A selection of writings on love, marriage and the spiritual union of souls. For Kahlil Gibran, love was the supreme way of achieving self-realization and completeness as a human being....
The Storm: Stories and Prose Poems
The Storm gives definitive expression to many of Gibran's key themes: the injustice meted out to the poor and the weak; the beauties of nature needlessly destroyed by man; and...
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...
Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
One of Esquire's 20 Most Anticipated Books of 2025 One of Foreign Policy's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 One of Electric...
Is It Hot in Here (Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I
In this debut collection of essays, lists, musings, and quips, Zimmerman delicately walks the fine line between tear-jerking and knee-slapping, and does so with aplomb. Through this memoir-esque exploration of...
Oscariana
Published to follow the release of the new movie of Wilde's life, starring Stephen Fry, this collection displays Wilde's fabulous verbal dexterity. Based on two books published during his lifetime...
Greatly Exaggerated: Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
The book titled Greatly Exaggerated: Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain by the author Mark Twain. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Time's Echo: Music, Memory, and the Second World War
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE AND LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 'A work of extraordinary power, beauty and human feeling.' Sunday Times , History Book of the Year 'Profoundly...
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
The book titled And When Did You Last See Your Father? by the author Blake Morrison. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Young Man
In her latest work, Annie Ernaux recounts a relationship with a student thirty years her junior - an experience that transforms her, briefly, back into the 'scandalous girl' of her...
Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors
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...
Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman Aged 55 3/4
Enter the world of Susan Lilian Townsend - sun-worshippers, work-shy writers, garden-centre lovers and those in search of a good time all welcome. Over the last decade, Sue Townsend has...
The Disenlightenment: Politics, Horror, And Entertainment
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Great playwright and filmmaker, DAVID MAMET, just wrote an incredible new book, The Disenlightenment, Politics, Horror, and Entertainment . David is a special man...
On Reflection: Looking for Life's Meaning
In On Reflection Richard Holloway thinks back on some of the questions that have shaped his life, sharing the wisdom of poets, writers, musicians and artists he has encountered along...
On Reflection: Looking for Life's Meaning
In On Reflection Richard Holloway thinks back on some of the questions that have shaped his life. Here, then, are the big asks: is there a God? How can we...
An Inconvenient Place
What is a place? A place where things happened, horrible things, the traces of which have been erased? Ukraine, for a long time, has been filled with these 'inconvenient places'...
The Disenlightenment: Politics, Horror, And Entertainment
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Great playwright and filmmaker, DAVID MAMET, just wrote an incredible new book, The Disenlightenment, Politics, Horror, and Entertainment . David is a special man...
Granta 171: Dead Friends
Stop all the clocks: the spring issue of Granta - Dead Friends - brings vital figures from one's past momentarily back into focus. Eschewing dewy-eyed remembrances and dry obituaries, features...
Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
One of Esquire's 20 Most Anticipated Books of 2025 One of Foreign Policy's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 One of Electric...
Women in Dark Times
Women in Dark Times begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon; and film icon Marilyn Monroe. The story of these women, bound together by...
The Sealed Envelope: Toward an Intelligent Utopia
An award-winning author argues for the necessity of cultural critics and intellectuals to American democracy This incisive collection of essays investigates the moral imagination of modernism and our intellectual and...
A Forager's Life: A tender and spellbinding debut memoir
A memoir about belonging and motherhood, told through the author's lifelong passion for wild food When Helen Lehndorf moves to the city after a childhood living off the land in...
When the Facts Change: Essays, 1995-2010
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In an age in which the lack of independent public intellectuals has often been sorely lamented, the historian Tony Judt played a rare and valuable role, bringing together history and...
First Nations Writing: Meanjin 1977 to Today
"This is writing about us, by us", as selected by Jeanine Leane and Dan Bourchier. First Nations Writing: Meanjin 1977 to today captures the powerful Aboriginal and Torres Strait writers...
Now Read on
Another collection of Levin's journalism, the book includes articles on the transportation of large stone figures, without the aid of the wheel, on Easter Island, Peter Brook's production of "The...
The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought
In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing "Calvinism" and its creator Jean Cauvin from the...
The Burned Children of America
Zadie Smith introduces eighteen stories by the very best young American writers. Step forward Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Lethem, Matthew Klam, Myla Goldberg, Jonathan Safran Foer, Rick Moody,...
Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting
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...
My Life and Travels: An Anthology
An anthology of writings and photographs celebrating the outstanding contribution of one of the country's most distinguished and enduring travel writers, and the century's greatest living explorer. At the age...