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The Faber Book of Reportage
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Novelist as a Vocation: An exploration of a writer's life from the Sunday Times bestselling author
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. A unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In...
Surfacing
Author: Kathleen Jamie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize, 2019 Under the ravishing light of an Alaskan sky, objects are spilling from...
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...
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...
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...
Parzival
Author: Wolfram Eschenbach Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the re-creation and completion of the story left...
Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian writers on the home, identity and culture they know
Author: 0 Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to...
Earth Time: Essays
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The Last Intellectuals: Essays on Writers and Politics
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Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown
Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 'Our greatest living satirist' Sunday Times 'The most screamingly funny living writer' Mail on Sunday From the bestselling and award-winning author...
Golden Chersonese
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Reckoning
Author: V (formerly Eve Ensler) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Memoir of the Season The work of a lifetime from the Tony Award-winning, bestselling...
Confabulations
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Picador New Writing
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Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography Through Essays
Author: Claire Messud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Arranged in three parts, Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens with Claire's most personal...
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments
Author: Aimee Nezhukumatathil Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 A New York Times Bestseller 'Within two pages, nature writing feels different and fresh and new ... This book demands we...
Lost Laysen
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The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker
Author: Jelani Cobb Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison,...
The War with Hannibal: The History of Rome from its Foundation Books 21-30
Author: Livy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 In The War with Hannibal, Livy (59 BC-AD 17) chronicles the events of the Second Punic War between Rome and...
Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings
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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...
Granta 33: What Went Wrong?
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She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good
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Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells: The Best of Early Vanity Fair
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The Tummy Trilogy: American Fried / Alice, Let's Eat / Third Helpings
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Author: Calvin Trillin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In the 1970s, Calvin Trillin informed America that its most glorious food was not to be found at the pretentious restaurants...
Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Ursula K. Le Guin has won or been nominated for over 200 awards for her fiction, including the Hugo,...
AZADI: Fascism, Fiction & Freedom in the Time of the Virus
Author: Arundhati Roy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 With fascism on the march once more, this is an urgent dispatch from one of the great writers and intellectuals of...
Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art
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Life with a Capital L: Essays Chosen and Introduced by Geoff Dyer
Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A selection of D H Lawrence's writings on art, morality and obscenity, edited & selected by Geoff Dyer....
LRB Diary for 2024: 52 Ways of Thinking about Kafka
Author: LRB Diary Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 90 Working through Kafka would seem to be an irresistible temptation or maybe even a rite of passage for every kind of...
On Animals
'Every essay in this book is magnificent... Mesmerizing.' -New York Times'How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,' writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of...
Bear Woman: The brand-new memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling
For readers of Rachel Cusk, Lisa Taddeo and the essays of Zadie Smith, Bear Woman is a beautifully wrought memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling authorsA beautifully written and astonishing...
The Celestial Realm: SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER
"Phil doesn't like physical affection. She doesn't love you because you don't exist. She doesn't care if you have something important coming up. A busy week, a daunting appointment, a...
Generation Lockdown Writes: A collection of winning entries from the
April 2020: the country is deep in the first lockdown as a result of coronavirus. Young people are left rootless, without school or friends and isolated at home. In this...
What are We Doing Here?
New essays by the Orange and Pulitzer Prize winning author of GILEAD, HOME and LILA. In this collection, Marilynne Robinson, one of today's most important thinkers - admired by President...
LRB Diary for 2024: 52 Ways of Thinking about Kafka
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Monet's Table: The Cooking Journals of Claude Monet
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Walden or Life in the Woods
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On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain
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Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don't Want to Forget to Remember - the New York Times bestseller from the Gilmore Girls star
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All the Things Left Unsaid: Confessions of Love and Regret
NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'A beautiful book of great tenderness, love of life, and wisdom' JOSEPH O'CONNORFor almost fifty years, Michael Harding has been crafting words in a bid to express himself...
A Black Girl in the Middle: Essays on (Allegedly) Figuring It All Out
'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...
Grief is for People: A Memoir
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What Makes Us Human?: 130 answers to the big question
A dazzling insight into what gives meaning to our life and to us as a species.What makes us human? From Carlo Rovelli on the particles of dust that make us,...
What Makes Us Human?: 130 answers to the big question
A dazzling insight into what gives meaning to our life and to us as a species.What makes us human? From Carlo Rovelli on the particles of dust that make us,...
March of the Lemmings: Brexit in Print and Performance 2016-2019
'A true genius of comedy' - Grayson PerryAs a Metropolitan Elitist Snowflake, Stewart Lee was disappointed by the EU referendum result of 2016. But he knew how to weaponise his...
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...