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Signs & Wonders

Signs & Wonders by Warner, Marina (Paperback )

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From one of our most original, inspired and admired cultural critics: a superb retrospective collection of Warner's finest essays on mythology, politics, religion, fairy tale, war, society, language and literature. Since the early 1970s, when Marina Warner reported from Vietnam and America, in read more...
 
Collection, The

Collection, The by Ackroyd, Peter (Paperback )

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A fascinating anthology of Peter Ackroyd's journalism, lectures, short stories and miscellaneous writing During the 1970s and the early 1980s Peter Ackroyd wrote countless book reviews and articles for the Spectator , on literature, film and a number of social and cultural issues. The Collection read more...
 
Stranger Shores

Stranger Shores by Coetzee, J M (Paperback )

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A superb collection of essays by the only author to win the Booker Prize twice J. M. Coetzee is, without question, one of the world's greatest novelists. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-nine pieces on books, writing, photography and the 1995 Rugby World Cup in read more...
 
Hell And Back

Hell And Back by Parks, Tim (Paperback )

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A superb new collection of essays from one of Britain's finest writers From Svevo, Saba and Joyce in Trieste to Borges, Rushdie and psychopathology, Tim Parks' new collection of essays confirms his mastery of the essay form. Other subjects include Saramago, Sebald, Seth, Henry Green, Christina read more...
 
Inimitable Jeeves, The

Inimitable Jeeves, The by Wodehouse, P G (Paperback )

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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun..." "He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more..." "She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten read more...
 
Journals Vol II

Journals Vol II by Fowles, John (Paperback )

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A major literary landmark: the second volume of one of the most extraordinary journals of our time. The first volume of John Fowles's Journals ended with him achieving international literary renown after the publication of The Collector and The Magus , and leaving London behind to live in a remote read more...
 
Letters Of Martha Gellhorn, The

Letters Of Martha Gellhorn, The by Moorehead, Caroline (Paperback )

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Selected and edited for publication: the letters of Martha Gellhorn, feisty war correspondent and outspoken wife of Ernest Hemingway. Her letters are racy, revealing and unfailingly entertaining. Martha Gellhorn was one of the most extraordinary of all female war correspondents. Her letters have read more...
 
Flourishing

Flourishing by  Isaiah, Berlin (Paperback )

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Flourishing is the first volume of a keenly awaited edition of the marvellously readable and entertaining letters of the most famous English intellectual of the last century. Life is not worth living unless one can be indiscreet to intimate friends,' wrote Isaiah Berlin to a correspondent. read more...
 
Roots Of Romanticism, The

Roots Of Romanticism, The by  Isaiah, Berlin (Paperback )

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These lectures represent Berlin at his best: quick-minded, erudite, witty and profound, and, above all, exciting. To read this book is to feel the force of living thought coming white-hot from the forge of a superb mind.' John Banville, Irish Times The Roots of Romanticism at last makes available read more...
 
Illuminations

Illuminations by  Walter, Benjamin (Paperback )

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A now legendary collection of seminal essays by one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. The literary-philosophical works of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) rank among the most quietly influential of the post-war era, though only since his death had Benjamin achieved the fame and read more...
 

 


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