Essays & Collected Non Fiction
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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...
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Reading Room: A Year of Literary Curiosity
Ian Sansom
Read more ▸ Order ▸This is a playful and provocative collection of 365 extracts sourced from the British Library’s...
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Decline and Fail: Read in Case of Political Apocalypse
John Crace
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘Optimism, mojo, complete bollocks. That’s what the country is crying out for.’
There is now only...
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On Dogs
Tracey Ullman
Read more ▸ Order ▸Dogs throughout history have enjoyed a special relationship with humankind, and our favourite four-legged creatures...
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10 Voyages Through the Human Mind
Catherine de Lange
Read more ▸ Order ▸The third in a series of books in association with the Royal Institution on their...
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March of the Lemmings
Stewart Lee
Read more ▸ Order ▸Brexit in Print and Performance 2016-2019
As a Metropolitan Elitist Snowflake, Stewart Lee was disappointed by...
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What Happened?
Hanif Kureishi
Read more ▸ Order ▸Comic, dark and insightful, ‘What Happened?’ is Hanif Kureishi’s new collection of essays and fiction....
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Pursuit: The Balvenie Stories Collection
Alex Preston (Editor)
Read more ▸ Order ▸What is it to pursue a goal, to strive for an ideal, to follow a...