Essays, Anthologies, Letters & Prose

A richly enthralling and evocative account of King Arthur Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arthurian legend. Recounting Arthur's birth, his ascendancy...

Reflections by the creator of the essay form display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes....

From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes a transcendent collection of essays about the natural world **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'Thrilling dispatches from a vanishing world' Observer...

Hemingway's journal of a month on safari in East Africa. This is Hemingway's East African safari journal. 'All I wanted to do was get back to Africa' Green Hills of...

How do we take in the beauty of our planet while processing the losses? What trees can survive in the city? Which animals can survive in the wild? How do...

'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy' How can...

When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished Taken from his Collection of Sand, these marvelous essays are not great ideas in themselves but commentaries on great...

'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life' The Decay of Lying includes two of Wilde's most comprehensive - and witty - explorations of his aesthetic philosphy- 'The Decay...

Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute, in a stunning new cover look for his great works 'You have talked so often of going to...

With fascism on the march once more, this is an urgent dispatch from one of the great writers and intellectuals of our time 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'freedom' - is...

Enter Borges' timeless worlds, where the ideal and the abstract challenge reality; where philosophical paradoxes and endless possibilities abound, and wisps of dream and magic are layered in eternal reoccurrence....

Offering ancient wisdom on how to use skill, cunning, tactics and discipline to outwit your opponent, this bestselling 2000-year-old military manual is still worshipped by soldiers on the battlefield and...

Basho's beautifully-written and closely observed descriptions of his travels in Japan In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When...

Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attache to the...

A powerful meditation on ageing and familial love, I Remain in Darkness recounts Annie Ernaux's attempts to help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease, and then, when that proves futile,...

The Use of Photographyrecounts a passionate love affair between Annie Ernaux and the journalist and author Marc Marie, after the two met in January 2003. Ernaux had been receiving intensive...

Sheila Heti kept a record of her thoughts over a ten-year period, then arranged the sentences from A to Z. In the vein of Joe Brainard's I Remember and Edouard...

A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother's death 'shows the power of compassion when it...

Searingly political, extravagantly stylish dispatches from the margins by a queer Latin American icon, in English for the first time'When everyone who has treated him like dirt is lost in...

A vivid eulogy for London of the late 1970s and early 80s - the last years prior to the rise of the digital city.An elliptical, wildly atmospheric remembrance of the...

The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.'This trenchant, unrepentant collection reminds you that she's a brilliant writer... Order a copy in case she's...

Author: Marilynne Robinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Of Marilynne Robinson, Michael Arditti said that there is 'no contemporary novelist whose work I would rather read'. However she is...

THE VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. From Make Good Art, the speech that went viral,...

In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what...

'Some smuggle cigarettes, others alcohol - or weapons.Our contraband, being invisible, is more dangerous.Our contraband is undetectable by scanners.What we carry as concealed excess baggage is stories.'In this exquisite literary...

Author: Virginia WoolfFormat: Paperback, 111mm x 178mm, 160g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed,...

Author: Annie Proulx Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 'Magnificent' Guardian 'Remarkable ... A compact classic!' Bill McKibben 'I learned something new...

Author: James Marcus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 344 An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readers More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph...

Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 'Our greatest living satirist' Sunday Times 'The most screamingly funny living writer' Mail on Sunday From the bestselling and award-winning author...

Author: V.S. Pritchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 In unfailingly elegant prose, V. S. Pritchett provides a timeless distillation of the city of London and the London experience. He...

Author: Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 200 From Carl Phillips asking how wildness is tamed, to Esm Weijun Wang finding moments of stillness in the simple act...

Author: Donna Lu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Should we alter animals' DNA to save them from extinction? What secrets will old ice reveal to us about the Earth's...

Author: Lavinia Greenlaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The place I went to when I could not speak was also where my voice came from. Part memoir, part manifesto,...

Author: Sarah Gristwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 A captivating collection of extracts from women's diaries, looking back over four centuries to discover how women's experience - of men...

Author: Margo Jefferson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022 Shortlisted for the Rathbones...

Author: Michael Palin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful...

Author: Various Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 This Woman's Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn...

Author: Shaun Usher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 In Letters of Note: Dogs, Shaun Usher brings together a delightful collection of correspondence about our canine friends, featuring affectionate accounts...

Author: Jessi Klein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 An instant New York Times bestseller, I'll Show Myself Out is the eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi...

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today...

Author: Jia Tolentino Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A Times book of the year A Guardian book of the year 'Magnificent'The Times 'Dazzling' New Statesman 'It filled me with...

Author: Tove Jansson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 "I find myself talking to you about all the great joys, all the agonies, all my thoughts..." - Letter to Eva...

Author: Maggie Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Keep Moving speaks to you like an encouraging friend reminding you that you can feel and survive deep loss, sink into...

Author: Hilary Mantel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror...

Author: Lorrie Moore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'When in 1999 I began writing for The New York Review of Books ... my stance became that of the ingenuous...

Author: Samantha Irby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'This is an unforgettable book, the kind where the author unapologetically bares her heart and asks you to hold it tenderly,...

Author: Viv Groskop Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A lighthearted look at how to bring more humor, happiness, and joie de vivre into our lives through French literature Like...

Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Joan Didion's hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of...