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Taking a panoramic view from the days of Thucydides up to the present, Heffer analyses the motive...

Wayne Koestenbaum considers the meaning of humiliation in this eloquent work of cultural critique...

Introduced and edited by broadcaster Stephen Johnson, a curated selection of chilling ghost stori...

This delightful anthology offers an array of writers both old and new who have expressed their th...

A fascinating account by one of the world's leading neurologists of the profound influence of Wil...

Sixteen short essays on places as varied as Glasgow and Norwich, Llanidloes and Sheffield, by the...

A brand new collection of essays exclusively commissioned by Notting Hill Editions. Iain Sinclair...

In this light-hearted book, poet and gardener James Fenton describes a hundred plants he would ch...

'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not think...

The Victorian artist and activist William Morris travelled to Iceland in search of an answer to t...

Perec was a leading exponent of French literary surrealism who found humour - and pathos - in the...

Paris in the nineteenth century was a magnet for Europe's exiles, among them the Russian genius, ...

A famed British neurologist embarks on an expedition in Brazil to follow the trail of Percy Fawce...

Noriko Smiling breathes new life into Ozu's film, and film studies as a whole. There has never be...

The best fishing writing is never really about fishing, or never only about fishing, and the writ...

This humorous collection of quotations draws on plays, books, newspapers and tabletalk, with page...

A walking guide to this historic London neighbourhood, uncovering its countercultural roots.

A radical new take on one of humanity's most misunderstood periods of transition: the midlife cri...

An urgent - and final - work from the award-winning author of Arctic Dreams whose writing, fieldw...

The first anthology of Thackeray's varied writings as journalist and essayist. With explanatory n...

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being a...

Denialism - applied to the holocaust, global warming, the spherical nature of the Earth and other...

Detailing a remarkable journey to the heart of one of Europe's greatest literary figures, Marks p...

A delightful and unusual selection of Priestley's essays, drawing on five decades of his writing.

In this revealing collection of personal essays, renowned essayist, Phillip Lopate, shares his un...

Written in the wake of the Paris attacks on November 13, 2015, Gila Lustiger examines the deep-ro...

Cyclogeography is about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and also a portrait of London as ...

Originally published in the 1830s, Samuel Rogers' energetic, entertaining, and occasionally eye-p...

BBC broadcaster Stephen Johnson explores how Shostakovich's music took shape under Stalin's reign...

A gathering of artful essays by one of Poland's most translated post-war writers is here brought ...

Morpurgo unearths the stories behind the little-known key figures, Stephen Borough and John Davis...

An essay about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and a portrait of London as seen from a sa...

Richard Sennett has spent an intellectual lifetime exploring how humans live in cities. In this p...

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