On Purpose: Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life
Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives.
Literary reference works
The World According to Joan Didion
An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigorous interrogation and beautiful style.
The World According to Joan Didion
An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigourous interrogation and beautiful style.
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship
From the bestselling author of The Dutch House, Commonwealth and Bel Canto, Winner of The Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Pen/Faulkner Award.
The World of Wolf Hall: A Reading Guide to Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies
‘Your whole life depends on the next beat of Henry’s heart’
Ahead of the release of The Mirror & the Light, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall Trilogy, revisit two of the most celebrated novels of our time.
Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood.
Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces: Unabridged edition
Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood.
Essential Bukowski: Poetry: Unabridged edition
‘The best poet in America’ Jean Genet
‘He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels’ Leonard Cohen
The definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark
Essential Bukowski: Poetry
‘The best poet in America’ Jean Genet
‘He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels’ Leonard Cohen
The definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark
Then Again: Travels in search of my younger self
For fans of Lorna Sage and Paula Fox, a unique memoir from Irma Kurtz, the acclaimed author of ‘The Great American Bus Ride’ and internationally renowned agony aunt.
Pop Sonnets: Shakespearean Spins on Your Favourite Songs
‘One of the very best collections of pop songs written in the style of William Shakespeare that I’ve read so far this year!’ ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic
‘Ever wonder what Taylor Swift and Beyoncé would sound like in iambic pentameter? We hadn’t either, but now we can’t get enough’ TIME
‘Amazing’ Buzzfeed
The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life
A working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great (and downright terrible) literature in this laugh-out-loud memoir.
The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life
A working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great (and downright terrible) literature in this laugh-out-loud memoir.
An Encyclopaedia of Myself: Unabridged edition
LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014
‘A symphonic poem about postwar England and Englishness … A masterpiece’ Financial Times
An Encyclopaedia of Myself
LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014
‘A symphonic poem about postwar England and Englishness … A masterpiece’ Financial Times
Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
Raymond Williams’ seminal exploration of the history of meaning of some of the most important words in the English language.