Essays & Collected Non Fiction
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Artists’ Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney
Michael Bird
A treasure trove of carefully selected letters written by great artists, providing unique insight into...
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Rein Gold
Elfriede Jelinek
2004 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Elfriede Jelinek’s REIN GOLD reconstructs the events of Wagner’s...
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
George Saunders
From the New York Times-bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth...
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Having and Being Had
Eula Biss
‘My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts,’ Eula Biss writes, ‘the time...
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Lucifer Over London: A Guide to the Adopted City
London, a city of constant transition, transaction, translation. London does not exist; London is a...
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Imagined Spaces
Kirsty Gunn
Our everyday senses supply only a small fraction of what we actually perceive – the...
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Granta 153: Second Nature
Isabella Tree
‘Never has there been a greater need for writers who can communicate about the environment...
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The Assassin’s Cloak
Irene Taylor
An Anthology of the World’s Greatest Diarists
‘A diary is an assassin’s cloak which we wear...
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Is Capitalism Broken?
Yanis Varoufakis
‘We need to organise politically to defend the weak, empower the many and prepare the...
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Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections
Jenny Erpenbeck (Y)
Not a Novel gathers together the best of Jenny Erpenbeck’s non-fiction. Drawing from her 25...
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March of the Lemmings
Stewart Lee
‘A true genius of comedy’ Grayson Perry As a Metropolitan Elitist Snowflake, Stewart Lee was...
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Citizens of Everywhere: Searching for Identity in the Age of Brexit
Peter Gumbel
In 1939, with Europe on the brink of war, Peter Gumbel’s grandparents fled Nazi Germany...