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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,...
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion....
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Author: Jia Tolentino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A Times book of the year A Guardian book of the year 'Magnificent'The Times 'Dazzling' New Statesman 'It filled...
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...
Sister Outsider
Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde The woman's place of power within each...
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...
We Should All Be Feminists
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 64 A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah' and 'Half of a...
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....
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...
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...
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 -...
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...
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Author: Susan Sontag Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation and Other Essays...
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...
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 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'...
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...
The Narrative of Trajan's Column
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished Taken from his Collection of Sand, these marvelous...
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...
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...
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...
News from Nowhere and Other Writings
Author: William Morris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Poet, pattern-designer, environmentalist and maker of fine books, William Morris (1834-96) was also a committed socialist and visionary writer,...
Little Faith
Author: Nickolas Butler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Lyle Hovde is at the onset of his golden years, living a mostly content life in rural Wisconsin with...
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about...
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....
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Penguin Classics relaunch After reading Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was "seized with a perfect convulsion of...
Conversations of Socrates
Author: Xenophon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist...
The Annals of Imperial Rome
Author: Cornelius Tacitus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome...
The Call of the Tribe: Essays
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that haveshaped the way he thinks and has...
Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire
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Author: Pankaj Mishra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A wide-ranging, controversial collection of critical essays on the political mania plaguing the West by one of the most important public...
Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction
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Author: Professor of Political Science Joshua Cohen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 "Attention reveals a fresh, vital literary voice as it covers seemingly every imaginable...
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,...
Boy: Tales of Childhood
Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Boy is Roald Dahl's extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life. 'An autobiography is a book a person...
Orwell's England
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 All of Orwell's brilliant writing on England and Englishness collected in a single volume Much of George Orwell's best...
Why Read the Classics?
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Why Read the Classics? is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest...
Orwell in Spain
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 An exhilarating collection of Orwell's writing on the Spanish Civil War The volume collects together Orwell's writings on his...
Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney
Author: Hermann Palsson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Written around AD 1200 by an unnamed Icelandic author, the Orkneyinga Saga is an intriguing fusion of myth, legend...
Natural History
Author: John Healey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Pliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology....
Wind, Sand and Stars
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Both a gripping tale of adventure and a poetic meditation, Antoine de Saint Exupery's Wind, Sand and Stars...
How to Read Now
Author: Elaine Castillo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 An exploration and manifesto investigating the power of reading - and our potential to become radically better readers in the world....
I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
Author: Jessi Klein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 An instant New York Times bestseller, I'll Show Myself Out is the eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author...