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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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We Are Not Afraid

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...

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The Russian Soul: Selections from a Writer’s Diary

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 ...

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The Paradoxal Compass: Drake’s Dilemma

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...

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Nairn’s Paris

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 ...

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Smoke

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...

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Alchemy: Writers on Truth, Lies and Fiction

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...

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

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.

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Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment

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.

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