Ink in the Blood: A Hospital Diary
Just after ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ author Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker for ‘Wolf Hall’, she fell gravely ill. This is her remarkable hospital diary.
Literary reference works
Memories of Milligan
An arresting collection of interviews, collated by Norma Farnes, Spike Milligan’s close friend and longstanding agent, bringing to life the late, great Milligan in all his various guises.
Threepenny Memoir: The Lives of a Libertine
The extraordinary life and times of Carl Barat, Libertine.
Threepenny Memoir: The Lives of a Libertine: Unabridged edition
The extraordinary life and times of Carl Barat, Libertine.READ BY CARL BARAT!
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.
So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald
A fascinating collection of letters from the great English novelist – and prolific correspondent – Penelope Fitzgerald
Maps and Legends
A collection of essays on books and why they matter by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY and WONDER BOYS.
A House of Air
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEE
The previously uncollected occasional prose of a great English writer – full of wit, feeling and illumination.
So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald
A fascinating collection of letters from the great English novelist – and prolific correspondent – Penelope Fitzgerald.
Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers
A razor-sharp and achingly funny memoir of the men and movies that shaped one woman’s life…
Time Bites: Views and Reviews
Assembled here for the first time in book form are the very best occasional writings from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Harold Bloom, the doyen of American literary critics and author of The Western Canon, has spent a professional lifetime reading, writing about and teaching Shakespeare. In this magisterial interpretation, Bloom explains Shakespeare’s genius in a radical and provocative re-reading of the plays.
Moments of Truth: Twelve Twentieth-Century Women Writers
Accessible, jargon-free, and with her characteristic clear intelligence, Lorna Sage looks at the ways in which pre-war women writers, some famous, some less well known, invented themselves as authors in the face of the rigid conceptions of feminine creativity which prevailed at the time.
How to Read and Why
A new book by America’s leading literary critic on the uses of deep reading. Practical, inspirational and learned, How to Read and Why is Bloom’s manifesto for the preponderance of written culture.
The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
This edition marks the centenary of Oscar Wilde’s death, and is the most complete ever to appear. It contains over 1500 of his letters, and anyone unfamiliar with Wilde as a correspondent will find it packed with unexpected delights. This magnificent collection is a major publishing event.