Writers’ Picks: Friends of NHE choose their favourite three books

Browse these top-three selections from our authors and friends to inspire your next read. Remember, you can buy any three books and save £5. The discount will automatically be applied at checkout. If you need more inspiration, visit our Gift Helper for the best books based on interests.

Writers’ Picks

Robert McCrum’s
Top Three

My Katherine Mansfield Project by Kirsty Gunn

Brainspotting: Adventures in Neurology by A. J. Lees

Noriko Smiling by Adam Mars-Jones

Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth’s
Top Three

Grumbling at Large: Selected Essays of J. B. Priestley by J. B. Priestley

Essays on the Self by Virginia Woolf

Break A Leg: A Dictionary of Theatrical Quotations by Michèle Brown

Tracey Ullman’s
Top Three

Essays on the Self by Virginia Woolf

My Prizes by Thomas Bernhard

Found and Lost: Mittens, Miep, and Shovelfuls of Dirt by Alison Leslie Gold

Damian Barr’s
Top Three

Beautiful and Impossible Things: Selected Essays of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde

All That Is Worth Remembering by William Hazlitt

Drawn From Life: Selected Essays of Michel de Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne

Tom Broughton’s
Top Three

Nairn’s Towns by Ian Nairn

A Garden From A Hundred Packets of Seed by James Fenton

Cataract by John Berger

Roger Scruton’s
Top Three

How Shostakovich Changed My Mind by Stephen Johnson

The Russian Soul: Selections from a Writer’s Diary by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Mystery of Being Human: God, Freedom and the NHS by Raymond Tallis

Amanda Ross’
Top Three

Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier by Jon Day

Wandering Jew: The Search for Joseph Roth by Dennis Marks

Five Ways of Being a Painting and other Essays by William Max Nelson