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...
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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A walking guide to this historic London neighbourhood, uncovering its countercultural roots.
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...
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,...
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...
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. ...
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...
Written in the wake of the Paris attacks on November 13, 2015, Gila Lustiger examines the deep-rooted motives behind the attacks, the rise of antisemitism in the banlieues, and the profound flaws at t...
A new anthology of Dostoevsky’s remarkable work ‘A Writer’s Diary’. Brilliantly introduced by Rosamund Bartlett, distinguished scholar and writer, The Diary stands revealed as the work of ...
The Paradoxal Compass is both historical narrative and environmental manifesto. Morpurgo compares our own tipping point with the ‘great unsettling’ faced by the Elizabethans more than four centuri...
Out of print since 1968, this is a unique guidebook from the late, great architectural writer, Ian Nairn. Illustrated with the author’s black and white snaps of the city, Nairn gives his readers an ...
John Berger, art critic, novelist and long-time smoker, joins forces again with Turkish writer and illustrator Selçuk Demirel. This charming pictorial essay reflects on the cultural implications of s...
We live in a world of docu-drama, in which the 'real life' story is held in higher regard than fiction. Where does that leave the imagination? Five writers grapple with reality and fiction, and the al...
In his latest collection of essays, author, physician and humanist philosopher Raymond Tallis meditates on the wonder of human consciousness, free will, reality, God and eternity.
In this extraordinary memoir, neuroscientist Andrew Lees explains how William Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and troubled drug addict, played an unlikely part in his medical career.
In this collection of hard hitting essays by Roger Scruton each 'confession' reveals an aspect of the author's thinking that his critics would probably advice him to keep to himself. Scruton challenge...
In this lyrical essay, Gunn explores the ideas of home and belonging – and of her own deep connection to a place where every flower and gatepost seems embroidered with the memory of some story or an...
Cyclogeography is an essay about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and a portrait of London seen from the saddle. The bicycle enables us to feel a landscape, rather than just see it, and in the ...
In this revealing collection of personal essays, renowned essayist, Phillip Lopate, shares his unique view on the big subjects of parenthood, marriage, sex, friendship, and ‘the nail parings of dail...
This is a story of the rapid and brutal extinction of the Passenger Pigeon, once so abundant that they 'blotted out the sky', until the last bird died on 1st September 1914. It is also an evocative st...
These essays show the late, great architectural critic Ian Nairn, writing about cities and towns as a whole rather than as collections of individual buildings.
In this light-hearted essay, James Fenton describes a hundred plants he would choose to grow from seed. A happy, stylish, thought-provoking exercise in good principles.
Volume II brings together the best essays from the last decade.
A selection from the best of n+1, a Brooklyn-based magazine of politics, literature and culture, n+1 is leading the generational struggle against laziness and cynicism.
A dazzling meditation on the philosophical, scientific, and historical roots of attention, an attempt to pin down this elusive state of being.
'Things I Don't Want to Know' is a unique response to George Orwell from one of our most vital contemporary writers. Taking Orwell's famous list of motives for writing as the jumping-off point for a s...
The nation-state has refused to shuffle off the stage of history. Why? With what implications? This collection of essays is a first attempt to restore it to its rightful place: at the heart of the peo...
In Junkspace, architect Rem Koolhaas itemised in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is here updated and twinned with Running Room, a fresh response from a...
Francis Bacon was one of the iconic figures of modern art, a painter who transformed the way we see and experience the human body. Mirroring Bacon’s famous triptychs, Jonathan Littell’s three essa...
Blending confessional criticism and anthropological autobiography, David Shields explores the power of literature to make life endurable. How Literature Saved My Life chronicles the author’s chara...
John Banville introduces a selection of Hubert Butler's masterful essays on Europe to a new audience.
An essential selection of Hubert Butler's essays on Ireland which cover the great issues of the day - partition, censorship, religion, nationalism.
In the Second World War, a million tonnes of bombs were dropped by the Allies on Germany. Sebald's classic essay explores the consequences for the German people.
The essays and reflections in this collection explore the seriousness of play and the mysteries of inanimate life.
A cult classic. As autobiography, Brainiard's method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories as they rose to the surface of his consciousness.
The European dream was meant to unite us. It would bring peace, prosperity, freedom and democracy. It has failed. This incisive, clear-sighted and pugnacious essay shows why.
A gathering of artful essays by one of Poland’s most translated post-war writers. Poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert takes an intriguing look at the cultural, artistic, and aesthetic legacy of 17th-...
A fascinating look at the relationship between identity and neuroscience in the age of social media. Greenfield looks at the ways in which technology impacts our brains and sense of identity.
Mars-Jones gives a virtuoso performance as the lost figure of the film explainer, drawing out a host of meaning from the reticence of Yazijuro Ozu's classic Japanese movie Late Spring.
In 1811 eccentric millionaire Lewis Way had an epiphany on the road to Exmouth. From that moment he devoted himself to one goal: the return of the Jews to the Holy Land, revealing a forgotten life sto...
In this revealing ‘psycho-geography’, Dennis Marks makes a journey through the eastern borderlands of Europe to uncover the truth about Roth’s lost world. The result is a riveting and involvin...
Endlessly surprising and entertaining, Humiliation is an essay-in-fragments unlike any other you will read on the human condition. With a disarming blend of personal reflection and cultural commen...
Taking a panoramic view from the days of Thucydides up to the present, Heffer analyses the motive forces behind the pursuit of power, and, explains in a beautiful argument why history is destined to r...
At once a travel narrative, an allegorical journey, a withering comment on State-Building, a humanist philosophy of life, a preparation for death and a prophecy of resurrection (both for Armenia and f...
My Prizes is a brilliantly mordant memoir of the background and circumstances of nine literary prizes awarded to Austrian novelist and enfant terrible, Thomas Bernhard, between 1963 and 1980, followe...
A poet and banker who knew everybody, Samuel Rogers (1763-1865) was a brilliant recorder of things said by his famous and powerful contemporaries, from Edmund Burke to Talleyrand, from Charles James F...
The great Victorian William Morris was fascinated by Iceland, which inspired him to write one of the masterpieces of travel literature. Poet Lavinia Greenlaw follows in his footsteps, combining excerp...
The French critic Roland Barthes has guru status among literary theorists. This private diary opens the door onto his strange personal world, recording, day-by-day, the impact of bereavement as he s...
Sennett explores displacement through two vibrant historical moments: mid 19th-century Paris and the Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice - uncovering surprising consequences.
What happens when cataracts rob an art critic of his sight?
Prize-winning author Jonathan Keates has a secret passion: collecting vintage guidebooks. These Victorian volumes contain an entire archeology of cultural loss and longing as Keates takes us on a poig...
Thoughts of Sorts is a unique collection of philosophical riffs on Georges Perec's obsession with lists, puzzles, catalogues, and taxonomies.
The essays of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, the 16th-century French philosopher, are an obvious addition to the Notting Hill Editions 'Classic Collection' due to the masterful balance of intellectual kn...
A delightful selection of Priestley’s essays, drawing on five decades of his writing. Priestley defined the essay as a ‘prose masterpiece in miniature’ and understood that to perfect the form, t...
This new selection of essays by Oscar Wilde, introduced by Gyles Brandreth, show-cases the varied aspects of his genius.
Ahad Ha'am (the pen name of Asher Ginzberg) is mainly remembered as the 'father of cultural Zionism'. But there was much more to the man and his thought. These essays, laced with a withering wit, show...
Six outstanding essays from the Winners of the 2015 Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize. Adam Mars-Jones describes the winning essay in the foreword to the collection, published in the bespoke Notting H...
The first in the NHE Classic Collection - selected writings from celebrated essayists throughout time Why read Hazlitt today? Because no one celebrates better than he did the imaginative power of...
The essays in this collection are, of course, not merely concerned with the self. Woolf does also discuss the rights of women, the revolutions of modernity, the past, present and future of the novel. ...
In May 2013, Notting Hill Editions announced an annual literary prize for the best essay in the English language, open to anyone in the world, of between 2,000 and 8,000 words, published or unpublishe...
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