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Having and Being Had
Author: Eula Biss Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A timely and arresting new look at affluence by a consistently surprising writer. "My adult life can be divided into two...
Where the Past Begins: Memory and Imagination
Author: Amy Tan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic...
The White Album
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...
The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving and (Sometimes) Leaving San Francisco
Author: Gary Kamiya Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Capturing an ever-changing San Francisco, 25 prolific writers tell their stories of living in one the most mesmerising cities in the...
The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret
Author: Alathea Fitzalan Howard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 **SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **A...
Everywhere I Look
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Dreaming Too Loud
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The Oxford Book of Exploration
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The Needle's Eye: Passing Through Youth
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Author: Fanny Howe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 A meditation on time, violence, and chance by "one of America's most dazzling poets" (O, The Oprah Magazine) Fanny Howe's The...
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...
How Proust Can Change Your Life
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Hear the Train Blow: The Classic Autobiography of Growing up in the Bush: The Classic Autobiography of Growing up in the Bush
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Texas
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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...
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 ......
Experience
Author: Martin Amis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now. Experience, the book of his...
Between Eternities: and Other Writings
Author: Javier Marias Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An exhilarating, far-ranging collection of non-fiction writing from the internationally acclaimed author of A Heart So White and The...
Citizen: An American Lyric
Author: Claudia Rankine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The critically acclaimed exploration of mounting racial aggressions in 21st century daily life and in the media In this...
Essays
Author: Michel Montaigne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Reflections by the creator of the essay form display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing...
The Keillor Reader: Looking Back at Forty Years of Stories: Where Did They All Come From?
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Author: Garrison Keillor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Stories, monologues, and essays by Garrison Keillor, founder and host of A Prairie Home Companion The first retrospective from...
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
Author: Salman Rushdie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A collection of the finest essays by the 'Best of the Booker' winner, following on from his much-acclaimed STEP...
Love
Author: Stendhal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A timeless treatise on the unique power of human emotion, Stendhal's Love is translated by Gilbert and Suzanne Sale with...
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,...
The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Selection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions' (1891)-...
Maxims and Reflections
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) would jot down his...
Italian Journey 1786-1788
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe...
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
Author: Georges Perec Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Georges Perec (1936-82), author of the novel Life- A User's Manual, was one of the most surprising and enjoyable...
Guide to Greece: Central Greece
Author: Pausanias Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Written in the second century AD by a Greek traveller for a predominantly Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is...
On the Good Life
Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one...
Selected Political Speeches
Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Amid the corruption and power struggles of the collapse of the Roman Republic, Cicero (106-43BC) produced some of the most...
Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose
Author: Matthew Arnold Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate critic of Victorian England, Matthew Arnold condemned an industrial society in 'bondage...
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Author: Peter Abelard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. Through their...
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...
Granta 160: Conflict
Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each issue of Granta turns the attention of the world's...
The Ancient Fable: An Introduction
Author: Niklas Holzberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 We are all familiar with the moralizing animal tales ascribed to Aesop. Described as fiction that conveys truths, fables can be...
In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People
Author: Muhammad al-Tunisi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 430 A merchant's remarkable travel account of an African kingdom Muhammad al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants trading...
A Hundred and One Nights
Author: Bruce Fudge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantment and wonder Translated into English for the very first time, A Hundred and...
The Wicked Wit of Oscar Wilde
Author: Maria Leach Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 A celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult with this collection of his most...
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators
Author: Martin Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating...
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship
Author: Ann Patchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 From the bestselling author of The Dutch House, Commonwealth and Bel Canto, Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction and the...
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion. Mostly drawn...
Homo Irrealis
Author: Andre Aciman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In Homo Irrealis Andre Aciman explores what the present tense means to artists who cannot grasp the here and now. Irrealis...
The Gifts of Reading
Author: Robert Macfarlane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 With contributions by: William Boyd, Candice Carty-Williams, Imtiaz Dharker, Roddy Doyle, Pico Iyer, Robert Macfarlane, Andy Miller, Jackie Morris, Jan Morris,...
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker
Author: Jelani Cobb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 848 A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates,...
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the margin of my time
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