Essays, Anthologies, Letters & Prose

Every night when I turn the lights out in my sixteenth-floor living room before I go to bed, I experience a shock of pleasure as I see the banks of...

The Best Australian Essays 2009 presents a selection of the year's best non-fiction. With wonderful essays by Australia's finest writers, this diverse collection captures the year that was. Whether tackling...

Lang, Harpur and Deniehy were three of the most outspoken proponents of the Australian Republic in the mid-19th century. Their arguments - concise, powerful and balanced - are as relevant...

Can You Tolerate This? is a collection of twenty-one personal essays by Ashleigh Young. In this spirited and singular book, Young roams freely from preoccupation to preoccupation - Hamilton's 90s...

Polish director Tadeusz Kantor, who died in 1990 at the age of 75, is widely recognized as one of the most important theatre artists of this century. Critics have ranked...

A collection of essays on America by the author of London Fields, Money and Lionel Asbo. At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New...

Tony Thomas's Anthem of the Unwoke is a new portfolio of his trademark anti-woke essays. He skewers the climate crazies, the green/Left brainwashing and textbooks in schools, the Aboriginal industry,...

______________ 'A beautifully poised series of dialogues about literature, music and politics, and they're a testimony to the enormous gifts and courage of both men' - Tom Paulin, Guardian 'A...

The author of over 30 plays, including "The Castle", "Scenes from an Execution" and "The Possibilities", Howard Barker does not accept the theatrical conventions of what he terms "The Establishment...

The Norton Reader has introduced millions of writing students to the essay as a genre. First published in 1965, it is still the best-selling thematic reader--and the only thematic reader...

An anthology compiled by Richard Briers and his wife Anne. It is a celebration of the best that food, wine and good fellowship have to offer - from barbeques to...

On Lust and On Longing together for the first time. When On Lust was first published it caused a media sensation- Blanche d'Alpuget wrote of a pillar of society who...

How is AI changing the way we live and love? This is the hugely entertaining, eye-opening new book from the Sunday Times bestselling author. 'Joins the dots in a neglected...

Britain possesses a literary heritage which is almost unrivalled in the Western world. In this lavishly illustrated volume, the richness, diversity, and continuity of this tradition are explored by a...

The T 'ain B 'o Cuailnge , centre-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's nearest approach to a great epic. It tells the story of a...

'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...

Fifty tales from the annals of the 'Killing Times' when Bonnie Dundee carried out King Charles II's edict by hunting down and persecuting the Covenanters throughout Southern and Central Scotland....

In The Best Australian Essays 2014, Robert Manne assembles his picks of contemporary non-fiction writing. In The Best Australian Essays 2014, Robert Manne assembles his picks of contemporary non-fiction writing....

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 . ....

The revised edition of Grube's classic translation follows and furthers Grube's noted success in combining fidelity to Plato's text with natural readability, while reflecting the fruits of new scholarship and...

The sequel to Let Me Make Myself Plain. Catherine Cookson's previous collection of essays and poems, Let Me Make Myself Plain, was published in response to the enthusiastic reception of...

One of France's great Renaissance thinkers, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) invented the essay as a literary form. This compilation features the best of his brief, highly readable reflections on poetry,...

Through a collection of Archbishop Desmond Tutu's speeches, letters, sermons and off-the-cuff remarks, this book sketches the story of South Africa from 1976, when apartheid oppression was at its peak,...

Perfect for fans of Jia Tolentino and Chuck Klosterman, Y2K is a delightfully nostalgic and bitingly told exploration about how the early 2000s forever changed us and the world we...

'Is there some adventure out there that we are not having, some vividness, some wild pleasure, that we are not experiencing in our responsible, productive days? . . . We...

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...

In The Way the World Works, Nicholson Baker ranges over the map of life to examine what ails us, what eases our pain, and what gives us joy. Baker, recently...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A New York Times Bestseller A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year Pulitzer...

On March 13th, 1711, an article appeared in "The Spectator about Thomas Inkle, a young and aspiring English trader cast ashore in the Americas, who is saved from violenct death...

Perfect for fans of Jia Tolentino and Chuck Klosterman, Y2K is a delightfully nostalgic and bitingly told exploration about how the early 2000s forever changed us and the world we...

THE VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. From Make Good Art , the speech that went...

In this book, defence specialist and war correspondent Mark Urban explores covert operations against the IRA from the mid-1970s to the Loughgall shooting in 1987. Drawing on interviews with people...

Mary Barton(1848),subtitled 'A Tale of Manchester Life',is the first novel by Mrs Gaskell(1810-65).The entirely working-class cast of characters in this novel was then an innovation.The background story is Manchester in...

A collection of Bennett's diaries and essays, covering 2005 to 2015 Alan Bennett's third collection of prose, Keeping On Keeping On , follows in the footsteps of the phenomenally successful...

A passionate exploration of language, censorship, and exile by the celebrated Romanian writer Norman Manea "Manea demonstrates that he is an indispensable analyst of what it means to be a...

Award-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year. "This was the most...

Presents the story of Odysseus' return from the Trojan War to his homeland in a modern English translation.

'I laughed, I cried and then I laughed again' LENA DUNHAM 'Smart and funny ... reminds me of the best of Nora Ephron' GUARDIAN Writer, actor, and director Desiree Akhavan...

In her bestselling follow-up to the worldwide phenomenon Becoming, Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and insightful reflections to help us find inner strength; create and deepen relationships with others; and...