Essays & Collected Non Fiction
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No Authority: Writings from the Laureate for Irish Fiction
Anne Enright
Read more ▸ Order ▸In three urgent pieces of non-fiction Anne Enright explores speech and silence in the lives...
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On Drinking
Charles Bukowski
Read more ▸ Order ▸The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for...
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On the High Wire
Philippe Petit
Read more ▸ Order ▸In this poetic handbook, written when he was just twenty-three, the world-famous high-wire artist Philippe...
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Incidental Inventions
Elena Ferrante
Read more ▸ Order ▸“This is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me.”
With these...
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Faces: Profiles of Dogs
Vita Sackville-West & Laelia Goehr
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘It must be a nuisance to go through life with a Father Christmas moustache like...
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The Hero
Lee Child
Read more ▸ Order ▸What makes a hero? Who better to answer than Lee Child!
In his first work of...
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Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read
Virginia Woolf
Read more ▸ Order ▸Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia...
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In Praise of Shadows
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Read more ▸ Order ▸A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki’s wise and evocative essay on Japanese...
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Essays
Lydia Davis
Read more ▸ Order ▸From the International Man Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Can’t and Won’t’ and ‘The End of...
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Letters to the Earth: Writing to a Planet in Crisis
Various, introduced by Emma Thompson
Read more ▸ Order ▸How can we begin to talk about what is happening to the world? We are...
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Above Average at Games
P.G. Wodehouse
Read more ▸ Order ▸As Wodehouse’s biographer Frances Donaldson observed, it was vitally important to the boy Plum that...
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The Creeping Plague Of Ghastly Facadism
The Gentle Author
Read more ▸ Order ▸A humour analysis of facadism in London – why it is happening and what it...