Essays, Anthologies, Letters & Prose

A follow-up to the wildly successful What My Mother and I Don't Talk About, this "moving and deeply relatable" (Qian Julie Wang, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Country...

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"These stories remind us that food is not just fuel, nor is travel just movement," writes Bryant Terry in his introduction. "They are acts of remembrance, resistance, and connection." The...

In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors-including Alice Walker,...

Translated by David McLintock and introduced by Hugh Haughton. An extraordinary collection of thematically linked essays, including THE UNCANNY, SCREEN MEMORIES and FAMILY ROMANCES. Leonardo da Vinci fascinated Freud primarily...

A friendship is a filiation we choose. It holds love and laughter; it can extend our sense of the possible. Moved to honour a form of relation often subordinated to...

Daring essays on democracy, history and the nation state by one of China's leading twentieth-century intellectuals The power, anger and fluency of Liang Qichao's writings make him one of the...

'Keep Moving speaks to you like an encouraging friend reminding you that you can feel and survive deep loss, sink into life's deep beauty and constantly make yourself new' Glennon...

From actor, comedian, co-creator of Marcel the Shell , and New York Times bestselling author of Little Weirds Jenny Slate, a wild, soulful, hilarious collection of genre-bending essays depicting the...

Once upon a time, there was a tower on a hill, beyond the dark trees, somewhere north. An octagonal tower on two levels: glass upstairs and stone below, beneath a...

'Responsible but not beholden; substantial as well as symbolic; sympathetic but not pandering; political but not proscriptive: there's not an awful lot of wiggle room there, but it's the space...

A blazingly intelligent first collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief. With these pieces on politics, photography, travel, history and...

In The Soul of London (1905) Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) gives a vivid impression of the excitement and challenge of the greatest city of modern times.In its evocation of the...

After Virginia Woolf's death most of the manuscript of "Women and Fiction" was given by Leonard Woolf to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, where, until its rediscovery by the author, it...

BY THE WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM 2023 *Includes additional material* A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and black life and death from one of the...

A New York Times Notable Book A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A Boston Globe and LitHub Best Book of the Year When "The Fourth State of Matter,"...

Extraordinary essays from one of the century's finest writers WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL MOORCOCK Angela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time- a...

Giuliano Da Empoli's The Hour of the Predator is a timely and incisive examination of the shifting power dynamics in global politics, where traditional governments find themselves increasingly outmatched by...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Relive the delusional fever-dream of the modern era. 'Thank f*ck for Marina Hyde: the most lethal, vital, screamingly funny truth-teller of our time.' - PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE...

If we are lucky, in our lives, our friendships will be rich and varied. They will be shared with those with two legs, with four legs, with whiskers or clean...

89 Words, published in 1985, is an expanded version of the dictionary of sorts that readers encountered in The Art of the Novel, and comprises a fascinating and rigorous interrogation...

We live in a world where strongman politics are rising; neo-liberalism has hollowed out political parties; and corporations have undermined democracy. Ordinary voters feel helpless to effect change, resulting in...

This collection of writing from prison, including autobiography, letters and poems, will include new pieces by Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy currently under 'protective...

'The character of the everyday has always been repetitive and veiled by obsession and fear', wrote Henri Lefebvre in 1987. Drawing on his mid-twentieth century 'critique of everyday life', a...

Following on the widely-read The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues , which explored how museums are changing through conversations with today's generation of museum directors, New York-based author and...

Tony's pieces are an absolute tonic. That's because Tony himself is full of such palpable energy, empathy, a relentless ear for hilarity and irony, and most importantly boundless curiosity. The...

Taking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the female body could be - as incarnated by trailblazing Black...

The September edition of Meanjin includes Georgia Blain on life-writing, Joseph Pearson on Don Watson's American Journeys in light of the USA primaries, and Mel Campbell on buying a leather...

The very best of Eleanor Roosevelt's historic newspaper column, for the first time in a single volume-a dazzling diary of her life and times. Recently named "Woman of the Century"...

'This Is the Door is a work of piercing grace, philosophical wisdom and rare emotional power. By tracing the history of her own body and spirit, as well as studying...

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Before marrying Igor Stravinsky in 1922 in Paris, the arts patroness Vera Arturovna Sudeikin-Stravinsky (1888-1982) was already known as the "Muse of the Muses" in what had been the bohemian,...

Presenting a collection of the writings of Mario Vargas Llosa, this book takes a journey through time, through books, and through different geographical locations, plotting the intellectual biography of one...

The Soviet Union is falling apart, day by day. The Caucasus looks like another version of the Middle East, with Armenians and Azerbaijanis killing one another over religion and bits...

More than just a book, A Time of Living Graciously is a celebration of life's rich tapestry, woven with threads of loving kindness and wisdom. Brigid Lowry's insights into ageing...

A hilarious, delightfully subversive essay collection from Laci Mosley, host of the award-winning "Scam Goddess" podcast, about the frauds, cons, and schemes that make up our world-and how the scammer...

A powerful new anthology of feminist voices throughout history and from around the world The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing selects writing from across time and throughout the world, creating...

New to the Penguin Pocket Hardbacks series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound editions Writing in an age when the call for the rights...

In following the format of the series, this book traces the connection between the life and writing career of Virginia Woolf. An upbringing of male domination and bouts of depression...

A newly discovered piece by the author of Mrs Dalloway, Carlyle's House and Other Sketches marks the first publication of one of Virginia Woolf's very early notebooks. Recently unearthed from...

Fascinated by word play, Leonardo created a series of riddles, cleverly disguised as apocalyptic prophecies and fantasies. The 'solution' to each of these inspired sayings - often simply the image...

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Gore Vidal called him the century's "greatest English-language critic". Anthony Burgess hailed him as "our best literary critic". Now, at last, all of Pritchett's best literary essays are collected here...

"Long may he continue to divert us, " said "The New York Times" Book Review on its front page of Robertson Davies

Spanning the years in which Virginia Woolf penned her classic novel The Waves and worked on Flush , the nonfiction pieces in this fifth volume provide further insight into Woolf's...

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Sport has always played a large part in British social life. In this selection, ranging from John Donne to John Arlott, Vernon Scannell, himself a former boxer and lifelong devotee...

This is a collection of essays, charting five critical decades in the history of Czechoslovakia. Ivan Klima was a witness to the horrors of Nazi occupation, to the Stalinist regimes...