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‘Revisiting this selection of diaries and essay-reviews from the London Review of Books is restorative, an extended spa treatment that stretches tired brains and unkinks the usual habitual responses w …
‘Will Self may not be the last modernist at work but at the moment he’s the most fascinating of the tradition’s torch bearers.’ New YorkFrom one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working tod …
Ever since The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien was first published in 1937 the popularity of the vast, imaginative world he created has only increased over time. What is about Middle-Earth and the characters …
Ever since The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien was first published in 1937 the popularity of the vast, imaginative world he created has only increased over time. What is about Middle-Earth and the characters …
‘Castillo’s How To Read Now took my breath away. Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively funny’ Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize -winning author of Less’I gasped, shouted, and holler-laugh …
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‘Every essay in this book is magnificent… Mesmerizing.’ New York Times’How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,’ writes Susan Orlean. Since the age …
***Published in honour of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, The Platinum Queen presents seven decades of world history through the words of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch: over 256 exquisitel …
When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her so …
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Astonishing. Luminous. A book about being human.She I Dare Not Name is a compelling collection of fiercely intelligent, deeply intimate, lyrical reflections on the life of a woman who stands on the th …
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A Book of the Year in The Times & Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Spectator, Irish Times and TLS. ‘Superb’ Daily Mail, ‘Book of the Week”Brilliant’ The Times, ‘Book of the Week”[A] vivid, detailed account …
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Sunday Times bestsellerAnd Yet… gathers the previously uncollected essays of the late Christopher Hitchens into a final volume of peerless prose from one of the great thinkers of our times.Christoph …
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A Sunday Times BestsellerChristopher Hitchens (1949-2011) was a matchless writer, debater and humanist. Throughout his life he shone the light of reason and truth into the eyes of charlatans and hucks …
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The test of this kind of book is for the reader to be able to open it anywhere and be drawn into the argument; it’s a test that Hitchens passes time and time again… He can be devilishly funny, but h …
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In this sweeping collection of essays, reportage and criticism, Hitchens’ polemical talents at their most fearsome.”I did not, I wish to state, become a journalist because there was no other ‘professi …
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Vicki Hastrich takes the reader on a stunning voyage through her writer’s life and across her chosen patch: the private byways of Brisbane Water, north of Sydney, where she has spent much of her life. …
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France and the United States have long shared a special relationship, defined both by occasional puzzlement and endless fascination. François Busnel, one of France’s most prominent literary critics, s …
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