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The Threshold and the Ledger
The Threshold and the Ledger

Tom McCarthy

A timely exploration of Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann by Booker-shortlisted author Tom McCarthy, appearing on the eve of Bachmann’s centenary year.

Blind Corners: Essays on Photography
Blind Corners: Essays on Photography

Michael Collins

In this series of linked pieces, photographer Michael Collins offers a reappraisal of photographic genres, and reveals what it is about photography that is so enduringly fascinating.

The Catastrophe Hour: Selected Essays
The Catastrophe Hour: Selected Essays

Meghan Daum

From the acclaimed author of The Unspeakable and The Problem with Everything comes a new collection of unputdownable essays.

Changing My Mind
Changing My Mind

Julian Barnes

In this engaging and erudite essay, critically acclaimed writer Julian Barnes explores what is involved when we change our minds: about words, about politics, about books; about memories, age and time.

Outrage
Outrage

Ian Nairn

Acclaimed critic Ian Nairn’s masterpiece, reissued for the first time since 1955 with an introduction by Travis Elborough, Outrage is a searing critique of urban sprawl, or ‘Subtopia’.

The Penalty Kick: The Story of a Gamechanger
The Penalty Kick: The Story of a Gamechanger

Robert McCrum

A tale of sportsmanship, chance and obsession, The Penalty Kick by Robert McCrum explores both the addiction of risk, and a doomed father-son relationship that could have been torn from the pages of a late-Victorian novel, inspired by the edgy, ruthless and egalitarian spirit of Northern Ireland.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Crime
What We Talk About When We Talk About Crime

Jennifer Fleetwood

In What We Talk About When We Talk About Crime, criminologist Jennifer Fleetwood examines seven infamous crime stories to make sense of the modern confessional impulse, including Howard Marks’s outlandish autobiography Mr Nice, Shamima Begum’s controversial Times interview, Prince Andrew’s disastrous Newsnight appearance and Myra Hindley’s unpublished prison letters.

Globetrotting: Writers Walk the World
Globetrotting: Writers Walk the World

Following on from the huge success of Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walking and Sauntering: Writers Walk Europe, in Globetrotting: Writers Walk the World, Duncan Minshull brings together over fifty walker-writers who have travelled the world’s seven continents.

Lewis Carroll’s Guide For Insomniacs
Lewis Carroll’s Guide For Insomniacs

Lewis Carroll

In Lewis Carroll’s Guide for Insomniacs are collected a splendid variety of puzzles, rhymes, limericks and calming calculations guaranteed to keep you entertained as you search for the elusive rabbit-hole of a good night’s sleep.

A Strange Life – Selected Essays of Louisa May Alcott
A Strange Life – Selected Essays of Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott is best known as the author of Little Women. But she was also a noted essayist who wrote on a wide range of subjects, including her father’s failed utopian commune, life as a Civil War nurse and her experience as a young woman sent to work in service to alleviate her family’s poverty. Blending gentle satire with reportage and emotive biography, these essays show Alcott to be one of the sharpest wits in American literature.

Modern Buildings in London
Modern Buildings in London

Ian Nairn

First published in 1964, Modern Buildings in London is a celebration of the city’s post-war architecture by the famously untrained critic Ian Nairn. Written ‘by a layman for laymen’, Nairn’s take on 260 buildings that were instantly recognisable as ‘modern’ includes descriptions of classic designs such as the Barbican, the former BBC Television Centre, as well as schools, ambulance stations, car parks and even care homes.

Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays

Barry Lopez

An urgent final work from the award-winning author whose writing, fieldwork and mentorship inspired generations of writers and activists. With an introduction by Rebecca Solnit that speaks to Lopez’s keen attention to the world, including its spiritual dimensions, Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World opens our minds and sounds to the important of being wholly present to the beauty and complexity of life.

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