The Kraus Project
A great American writer’s confrontation with a great European critic – a personal and intellectual awakening.
Literary reference works
Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 -1962 (Text Only): text-only edition
The second volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Farther Away
The new book of articles and opinion from Jonathan Franzen, author of ‘Freedom’ and ‘The Corrections’.
The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters
Carefree, revelatory and intimate, this selection of unpublished letters between the six legendary Mitford sisters, compiled by Diana Mitford’s daughter-in-law, is alive with wit, passion and heartbreak.
Extreme Metaphors
A startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J.G. Ballard’s greatest interviews.
Mortification: Writers’ Stories of their Public Shame
A collection of stories from some of the world’s greatest writers about their own public humiliation.
One on One
101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, told by Britain’s funniest writer.
George Eliot: The Last Victorian (Text Only)
This highly praised biography is the first to explore fully the way in which her painful early life and rejection by her brother Isaac in particular, shaped the insight and art which made her both Victorian England’s last great visionary and the first modern.
The Opposite of Fate
An unbearably moving, intensely passionate, deeply personal account of life as seen through the eyes of one of America’s best-loved novelists.
In Pursuit of the English
By turns, an unsparing and joyous account of life in a postwar London rooming house by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.
Farther Away
The new book of articles and opinion from Jonathan Franzen, author of ‘Freedom’ and ‘The Corrections’.
On Cats
A collection of charming and celebrated writings about cats, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World: Text only edition
On the same day that his wife gave birth to twins, Anthony Doerr received the Rome Prize, an award that gave him a year-long stipend and studio in Rome…
The Lost Diaries
The Lost Diaries is a wide-ranging anthology of the world’s greatest diarists, each of them channelled onto paper through the considerable psychic force that is Craig Brown.
One on One
101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, each 1,001 words long, and with a time span stretching from the 19th century to the 21st.