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On Dogs: An Anthology

Visit our competition page to Win a Characterful Portrait of your Dog! Dogs throughout history have enjoyed a special relationship with humankind, and our favourite four-legged creatures contin...

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What Time Is It?

Visionary thinker John Berger and Turkish artist Selçuk Demirel came together came together for the last time to create this precious little volume about time.

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A Twitch Upon the Thread: Writers on Fishing

The best fishing writing is never only about fishing, and the writers collected in this anthology use angling as a way to write about love, loss, faith, and obsession.

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Walking and writing have always gone together. Think of the poets who walk out a rhythm for their lines and the novelists who put their characters on a path. But the best insights, the deepest and mos...

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Denial: The Unspeakable Truth

The Holocaust never happened. The planet isn’t warming. Vaccines cause autism. There is no such thing as AIDS. The Earth is flat. Kahn-Harris sets out not just to unpick denialists’ arguments, bu...

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Break A Leg: A Dictionary of theatrical quotations

AVAILABLE NOW ... 'The book is a joy, to be kept near at hand and to dip into at random. A must for any lover of the theatre.' - Breakaway Reviewers...

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Notting Hill: A Walking Guide

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

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How Shostakovich Changed My Mind

BBC music broadcaster Stephen Johnson explores the power of Shostakovich’s music during Stalin’s reign of terror, and writes of the extraordinary healing effect of music on sufferers of mental ill...

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A Roundabout Manner: Sketches of Life by W. M. Thackeray

This is the first ‘sampler’ which covers all of Thackeray’s versatile genius: his cartoons, his journalism, his carefully restrained sentimentality (much to Victorian taste), his cutting satire,...

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On Christmas: A Seasonal Anthology

A seasonal anthology of Christmas-themed writings to savour during the highs and lows of Christmas Day, introduced by Gyles Brandreth. This delightful book offers a diverse array of classic and conte...

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Found and Lost: Mittens, Miep and Shovelfuls of Dirt

Starting with supervision of her primary school's 'Lost and Found' depot, Gold charts her need to save objects, stories, and people - including herself - that she sensed to be on a road to perdition. ...

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Five Ways of Being a Painting and other Essays

This collection brings together the six international winners of the £20,000 Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize 2017. Contributors: William Max Nelson (winner), Karen Holmberg, Garret Keizer, Patrick...

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