A Hitch in Time
Christopher Hitchens‘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 …
Genre: Language & Literature
On Animals
Susan Orlean‘How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,’ writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of six, when Orlean wrote and illustrated a book called Herbert the Nea …
She I Dare Not Name
Donna WardRRP: £14.99
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 …
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
A. N. WilsonRRP: £9.99
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 …
And Yet…
Christopher HitchensRRP: £10.99
A Sunday Times bestsellerChristopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of ou …
For the Sake of Argument
Christopher HitchensRRP: £12.99
The global turmoil of the late 1980s and early 1990s severely tested every analyst and commentator. Few wrote with such insight as Christopher Hitchens about the large events – or with such discernmen …
Love, Poverty and War
Christopher HitchensRRP: £12.99
Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays showcases the Hitchens’ rejection of consensus and cliché, whether he’s reporting from abroad in Indonesia, Kurdistan, Iraq, North Korea, or Cuba, or when hi …
Night Fishing
Vicki HastrichRRP: £12.99
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. …
Three Little Truths
Eithne ShortallRRP: £8.99
**AN IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER**___________________________’Funny, endearing, mysterious and outrageous, this book is wildly entertaining and hugely enjoyable.’ Liz NugentOn this street, no secret is saf …
America
Francois BusnelRRP: £12.99
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 …
She Speaks
Yvette CooperRRP: £7.99
A powerful celebration of brilliant speeches by women throughout the ages, from Boudica to Greta Thunberg.’A treasure trove of trailblazers…’ Cathy NewmanLooking at lists of the greatest speeches of …
The Case of the Vanishing Blonde
Mark BowdenRRP: £14.99
Six captivating true-crime stories, spanning Mark Bowden’s long and illustrious career, cover a variety of crimes complicated by extraordinary circumstances. In The Case of the Vanishing Blonde, the v …
Life Sentence
Carl WilliamsRRP: £14.99
In 2007 Carl Williams was convicted of three murders and sentenced to 35 years’ jail. Yet his role in the Melbourne Gangland Wars went far beyond a handful of killings, however brutal, and had made hi …
All the Lives We Ever Lived
Katharine SmythRRP: £9.99
Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf’s modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she sha …
Autumn in Venice
Andrea di RobilantRRP: £9.99
National Geographic Traveller’s the best books on European cities, 2019In the autumn of 1948 Hemingway was approaching fifty and hadn’t published a novel in nearly a decade. He travelled for the first …
The Destiny Thief
Richard RussoRRP: £9.99
A master of the novel, short story and memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Everybody’s Foolnow gives us his very first collection of personal essays, thoughts on writing, reading and living.I …
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