Essays, Anthologies, Letters & Prose

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...

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"...

A completely revised edition of a respected & much-loved translation by Betty Radice The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs....

A carefully-selected collection of themed quotations to honour Shakespeare's legacy to the world on the 400th anniversary of the death of the most famous writer of all time. Find out...

'Water is life. Robert Macfarlane, in the marvellous catalogue - which also features writings by Elif Shafak, Rebecca Solnit and Ocean Vuong, among many others - proposes that the term...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated....

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...

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...

The book titled An Olive Schreiner Reader by the author Olive Schreiner. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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...

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...

"Funny and shrewd" ( The New York Times Book Review ) essays from China's most popular young troublemaker about growing up millennial and causing social and political scandal today. Han...

In this eloquent collection, award-winning writers from the United States, Canada, the UK and Australia describe a personal encounter with the natural world that moved them, enhanced their understanding of...

This is the first ever translation of a work by one of the most notorious figures of Renaissance Italy, followed by the fascinating account of Francesco Bibbone, Lorenzino's own murderer,...

A collection of some of Spike Milligan's most recent articles in which he brandishes his quill at a selection of his passions, frustations, interests and experiences, ranging from antiques to...

A wonderful and coherent selection from the writings of a great author This collection of V.S. Naipaul's essays, the first of two volumes, showcases a lifetime of intelligent and profoundly...

A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic - a personal and intellectual awakening. Karl Kraus: satirist. Controversialist. Forgotten voice of the early twentieth century. Jonathan Franzen: bestseller....

Laughter shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous laughteris an eruption from the unconscious that, like political resistance, poetry, orself-revelation, expresses a provocative, impish drive to burst...

In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne's annual conference in Paris. Standing up in front...

A deeply moving and revelatory reading experience, the essays collected in Portrait of an Island on Fire form a searing account of Mauritius at a crucial moment in its history....

In Dysphoria Mundi, Paul B. Preciado has written a mutant text assembled from essays, philosophy, poetry and autofiction that captures a moment of profound change and possibility. Rooted in the...

In his foreword to The Ways of Paradise, Peter Cornell presents this so-called found manuscript, the work of a now-deceased, obscure researcher who spent three decades in the National Library...

In Affinities, Brian Dillon explores images and artists he is drawn to or loves, and tries to analyse the attraction. What do we mean when we claim affinity with an...

In 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock travelled by Greyhound bus across the US from Detroit to Los Angeles. Seventeen years later, now in her 50s, she...

'Hough's conversational prose reads like the voice of a blues singer, taking breaks between songs to narrate her heartbreak in verse, cajoling her audience to laugh to keep from crying'...

Sue Wilson, young and Aboriginal, escapes her 'too-large, too-poor family in a too-small' north Queensland town for Logan City's frontier sprawl. Entering 'the mythic world of Work' she discovers that...

Old men and comets have been revered for the same reasons, said Swift - their long beards and their pretensions to foretell the future. And, in the case of old...

The latest no-f**ks-given guide from New York Times bestselling author of the international sensation The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k , Get Your Sh*t Together , and You...

Hope is at the heart of South Australia. More than any other state it has shaped its own destiny with large doses of vision and optimism. It has been less...

Six reveries from acclaimed writer Nicolas Rothwell ranging between subjects near and far, and worlds old and new. Quicksilver begins on a quiet day in contemplation of a lizard deep...

Uranus is the coldest planet in the solar system, a frozen giant named after a Greek deity. It is also the inspiration for Uranism, a concept coined by the writer...

The book titled Simply Wilde: Discover the Wisdom That is Stuart Wilde by the author Leon Nacson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The book titled Sketches by Boz by the author Charles Dickens. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The past, famously, is a foreign country - but in the twenty-first century, it's one in which we increasingly seek solace. No matter the relentless pace of technological innovation and...

A best-seller in hardback, this extraordinary collection of fourteen essays and other previously unpublished material will now be available in paperback edition to a wider readership. Vidal has an international...

The book titled The Pendulum Years by the author Bernard Levin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"You will devour these beautifully written-and very important-tales of honesty, pain, and resilience" (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls ) from...

Foreword by Fiona Wright When a whale washes up on the shore of a beach there is only one surety: it must explode. Sometimes a bystander, anticipating the inevitable, pokes...

Britain seen through the eyes of travellers from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution.

Translated by H.M. Bird With an Introduction by Tamsyn Barton. Suetonius, chronicler of the extraordinary personalities of the first dynasties to rule the Roman Empire, was the greatest Latin biographer....

Dryness, paleness, waking, sighing, despair, frenzy, death: love's repercussions can be dire indeed. Perhaps that is why Robert Burton devoted the largest part of his pioneering 17th-century psychological work, The...

Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Great playwright and filmmaker, DAVID MAMET, just wrote an incredible new book, The Disenlightenment, Politics, Horror, and Entertainment . David is a special man...

New edition of Tolkien's Tree and Leaf, illustrated for the first time by Pauline Baynes, which includes his famous essay, 'On Fairy-stories' and the story that exemplifies this, 'Leaf by...

In his new collection of essays Subhash Jaireth traverses the globe in an exploration of the personal and collective memory held within natural and built landscapes. His roving curiosity takes...