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The Nature of Middle-earth
Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 First ever publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's final writings on Middle-earth, covering a wide range of subjects and perfect for...
Meditations
Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Pocket Hardbacks - the new non-fiction series that combines the collectability of Clothbound Classics with the popular spirit of Great Ideas...
How Proust Can Change Your Life
Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'Dazzling' John Updike'What a marvellous book this is... de Botton dissects what [Proust] had to say about friendship,...
The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean
Author: Peter Burness Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 644 Australia's official First World War correspondent, Charles Bean, saw more of the Australian Imperial Force's actions and battles on the Western...
Bedside Companion for Book Lovers: An anthology of literary delights for every night of the year
Author: Jane McMorland Hunter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A glorious treasury of literary curiosities for every night of the year, Bedside Companion for Book Lovers contains an eclectic...
A Moveable Feast
Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for...
Prince Neptune: Poetry and Prose
Author: Cody R. Simpson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Conjuring vivid imagery and drawing from the four elements: earth, air, fire, and water, Prince Neptune presents poems...
Letters of Note: Grief
Author: Shaun Usher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In Letters of Note: Grief, Shaun Usher gathers together some of the most powerful messages about grief, from the...
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
Author: Zora Neale Hurston Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison 'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to...
Places I've Taken My Body
Author: Molly McCully Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Brown constellates the subjects that define her inside and out: a disabled and conspicuous body, a religious conversion, a missing...
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
Author: Hilary Mantel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of...
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia
Author: Vita Sackville-West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The radical, relatable, and playful love story between two extraordinary twentieth-century writers, revealed in selected letters and diary entries....
The Korean Kid: A Young Australian Pilot's Baptism of Fire in the Jet Fighter Age
Author: Rochelle Nicholls Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 340 A vicious civil conflict erupted on the Korean peninsula in 1950 and sucked 24 nations into a new round of fighting....
The Shelf
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Author: Phyllis Rose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Can you have an Extreme Adventure in a library? Phyllis Rose casts herself into the wilds of an Upper East Side...
Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction
Author: Lionel Shriver Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. 'This trenchant, unrepentant collection reminds...
Making Waves: Essays
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Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Spanning thirty years of writing, Making Waves traces the development of...
The Collected Dorothy Parker
Author: Dorothy Parker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in her poetry and...
The Decay of Lying
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life' The Decay of Lying includes two of Wilde's most comprehensive...
Postcards to Europe: The unique must-have collection
Author: Various Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From Paris to Prague, from the past to the present, authors and artists explore what Europe means to them -...
Had I Known: Collected Essays
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich (Y) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A self-proclaimed 'myth buster by trade', over her long-ranging career as a journalist and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich...
Things I Don't Want to Know: Living Autobiography 1
Author: Deborah Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 First instalment of Levy's essential 'living autobiography' trilogy - reissued to match the beautiful COST OF LIVING hardback Taking...
Real Estate
Author: Deborah Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Fearless and essential - the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography' Following the international...
Impossible Owls: Essays from the Ends of the World
Author: Brian Phillips Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating' Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad 'Recalls the work of John...
The Histories
Author: Herodotus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 The work that established the study of history in the western world, Herodotus's The Histories is a dazzling contemporary account...
Dear Mr Murray: Letters to a Gentleman Publisher
Author: David McClay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The publishing house of John Murray was founded in Fleet Street in 1768 and remained a family firm over seven generations....
Artists' Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney
Author: Michael Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Artists' Letters is a treasure trove of carefully selected letters written by great artists, providing the reader with a unique insight...
Where My Feet Fall: Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories
Author: Duncan Minshull Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Where can a walk take you? It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free...
The Cost of Living: Living Autobiography 2
Author: Deborah Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Dazzling, essential, unlike anything else published today - a memoir on modern womanhood, smashing through social expectations and making...
Notes of a Native Son
Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A breakthrough work of social and cultural criticism from one of the foremost intellectuals of his era Written during...
A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction
Author: Terry Pratchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Terry Pratchett in his own words - a collection of writing by the creator of Discworld, about his life,...
Pictures from Italy
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A delightful travelogue in the unique style of one of the greatest writers in the English language, the Penguin...
Messages from a Lost World: Europe on the Brink
Author: Stefan Zweig (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Stefan Zweig was a leading talisman of a united Europe of unfettered movement, of pro-active cultural exchange, humane decency and...
The Fame Lunches
Author: Daphne Merkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Daphne Merkin brings her signature combination of wit, candor, and penetrating intelligence to subjects that touch on every aspect of contemporary...
The Lives of the Saints: The Laureate Lectures
Author: Sebastian Barry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 From A Long Long Way, his Booker shortlisted novel about the Irish soldiers who fought for Britain during the First World...
Writers' Letters: Jane Austen to Chinua Achebe - The perfect Mother's Day gift
Author: Michael Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Delve into the lives and work of some of the world's great writers with this intriguing collection of correspondence. There is...
Aspects of the Novel
Author: E. M. Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel is an innovative and effusive treatise on a literary form that, at...
The Fire Next Time
Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'...
The Civil War
Author: Julius Caesar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Caesar's own account of his struggle with Pompey over leadership of Republican Rome A military leader of legendary genius,...
A History of My Brief Body
Author: Billy-Ray Belcourt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Dazzling collection of personal essays from internationally acclaimed First Nations Canadian writer Billy-Ray Belcourt, who mines his own personal...
Everywhere I Look
Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Everywhere I Look is a collection of essays, diary entries and true stories spanning more than fifteen years of...
Freeman's Love
Author: John Freeman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Day by day, tweet by tweet, it often feels like our world is run on hate. Invective. Cruelty and...
Under African Skies: Modern African Stories
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Author: Charles R Larson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Spanning a wide geographical range, this collection features many of the now prominent first generation of African writers and draws...
In the Heart of the Country: A Novel
Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A story told in prose as feverishly rich as William Faulkner's, In the Heart of the Country is...
In My Father's Court
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Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Like Isaac Bashevis Singer's fiction, this poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father...
My Generation: Collected Nonfiction
Author: William Styron Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 Including significant previously uncollected material, My Generation is the definitive gathering of the fruits of this beloved writer's five decades of...
Hold My Hand Wise words for mothers and daughters everywhere
Author: Antje Southern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his." Oscar Wilde A wonderful...
Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor
Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of THE BROKEN ROAD. Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick...
Poetics
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Essential reading for all students of Greek theatre and literature, Aristotle's Poetics remains equally stimulating for anyone interested in literature....