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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...
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...
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...
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...
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 -...
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...
The Colossus of New York
Author: Colson Whitehead Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In a dazzlingly original work of non-fiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD recreates the exuberance, the...
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...
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'...
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...
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...
Letters of Note: Space
Author: Shaun Usher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 In Letters of Note: Space, Shaun Usher brings together fascinating correspondence about the universe beyond our planet, containing hopeful...
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,...
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...
The Jerilderie Letter
Author: Ned Kelly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Introduced by Alex McDermott 'I have been wronged and my mother and four or five men lagged innocent and...
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...
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...
In God's Hands: The Spiritual Diaries of Pope St John Paul II
Author: Pope St John Paul II Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The spiritual diaries of Pope St John Paul II - published for the first time ever...
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...
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....
Loud Black Girls: 20 Black Women Writers Ask: What's Next?
Author: Yomi Adegoke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay...
Nicholas Nickleby
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 One of the touchstones of the English comic novel, the Penguin Classics edition of Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby is...
Committed Writings
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A collection that includes some of Camus' most brilliant political writing This volume contains some of Camus' most powerful...
The Golden Flea
Author: Michael Rips Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 For decades the legendary Chelsea flea market sprawled over several blocks on the west side of Manhattan. Visitors would...
Shooting an Elephant
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A landmark collection of Orwell's writings, with a new Introduction by Jeremy Paxman 'Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing...
A Modest Proposal and Other Writings
Author: Jonathan Swift Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'Pray what is Man but a topsy-turvy Creature?' To ease poverty in Ireland by eating the children of the...
The Book of the Courtier
Author: Baldesar Castiglione Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In The Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldesar Castiglione, a diplomat and Papal Nuncio to Rome, sets out to...
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A new translation of Calvino's influential last work Italo Calvino was due to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton lectures...
Essays
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this...
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951
Author: Lord John Julius Norwich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper) 'This...
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023
Author: R. F Kuang Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 "Short stories have to accomplish a nearly impossible magic trick: to introduce a world often much stranger than our own...
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time
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Dreaming Too Loud
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Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
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Author: Ellen Ullman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal...
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003
Author: Sir Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Funny, barbed and moving ......
Phaedrus
Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue...
How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate
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Author: Paolo Giordano Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 'The literature of the time after begins here' EVENING STANDARD 'A jolt of brevity and simplicity' THE TIMES 'In...
Essays
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A collection of Orwell's major essays, in a stunning new cover look for his great works These essays, reviews...
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France,...