Essays & Collected Non Fiction
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In Praise of Shadows
Junichiro Tanizaki
Read more ▸ Order ▸Staff Picks
In the twentieth century’s foremost meditation on Japanese aesthetics, novelist Junichiro Tanizaki argues for...
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Misfits
Michaela Coel
Read more ▸ Order ▸A Personal Manifesto
From the brilliant mind of the creator and star of I May Destroy...
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How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart
Florentyna Leow
Read more ▸ Order ▸How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart is a collection about the ways in which heartbreak can...
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Run Towards the Danger
Sarah Polley
Read more ▸ Order ▸Confrontations with a Body of Memory
Sarah Polley’s work as an actor, screenwriter and director is...
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A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf
Read more ▸ Order ▸A Room of One’s Own is Virginia Woolf’s most powerful feminist essay, justifying the need...
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Dog Hearted
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Read more ▸ Order ▸Essays on Our Fierce and Familiar Companions
From Carl Phillips asking how wildness is tamed, to...
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Porn: An Oral History
Polly Barton
Read more ▸ Order ▸- How do we talk about porn?
- Why it is that when we do talk about porn,...
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Yorkshire
David Stuart Davies
Read more ▸ Order ▸A Literary Landscape
A gorgeous book to dip into and savour the rich literary heritage of...
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This Woman’s Work
Various
Read more ▸ Order ▸Essays on Music
This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinead...
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The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing
Hannah Dawson
Read more ▸ Order ▸The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing rounds up the voices of women from across history...
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The Fragile Earth
David Remnick
Read more ▸ Order ▸Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change
A classic collection of the New Yorker’s most...
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The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century
Jessica Vincent
Read more ▸ Order ▸A Celebration of Outstanding Travel Storytelling from Around the World
Travel writing matters. Explore the world...