Sunday Best
£20.00A collection of John Carey’s greatest, wisest, and wittiest reviews-amassed over a lifetime of writing
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On Freedom
£10.99So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom’s long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? ‘On Freedom’ examines such questions by tracing the concept’s complexities in four distinct realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate.
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How to Be Well Read
£10.99John Sutherland, the critic and professor of literature, personally selects his favourite 500 novels, and provides witty and informed essays about them. They include ‘War & Peace’, ‘American Psycho’ and ‘Charlie & The Chocolate Factory’.
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£10.99THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
‘An anti-fascist history lesson disguised as a novel’New York Times
‘Extraordinary’TLS
‘The novel Italy has been waiting for. A masterpiece’ Roberto Saviano
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Why We Read
£8.99Why read non-fiction? Is it just to find things out? Or is it for pleasure, challenge, adventure, meaning? Here, in seventy new pieces, some of the most original writers and thinkers of our time give their answers. From Hilton Als on reading as writing’s dearest companion to Nicci Gerrard on reading for her life; from Malcolm Gladwell on entering the minds of others to Michael Lewis on books as secret discoveries; and from Lea Ypi on the search for freedom to Slavoj Zizek on violent readings, each offers their own surprising perspective on the simple act of turning a page. The result is a celebration of seeing the world in new ways – and of having our minds changed.
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
£10.99George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he’s been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. Saunders approaches each of these stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. For the process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is as much a craft as it is a quality of openness and a willingness to see the world through new eyes.
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Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?
£10.99From Highgate Cemetery to the interior of a psychiatric hospital, from Tottenham Court Road to the icebergs of Antarctica, ‘Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?’ is a collective interrogation of the universal experience from a very particular psyche: original, opinionated – and mordantly funny.
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The Lighted Window
£25.00Homecoming, haunting, nostalgia, desire: these are some of the themes evoked by the beguiling motif of the lighted window in literature and art. In this innovative combination of place-writing, memoir and cultural study, Peter Davidson takes us on atmospheric walks through nocturnal cities in Britain, Europe and North America.
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Invisible Ink
£13.99Patrick Modiano explores the boundaries of recollection in his tenth book published by Yale University Press
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The New York Times Book Review
£38.00From the longest-running, most influential book review in America, here is its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years.
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Nature Writing for Every Day of the Year
£20.00A beautifully illustrated daily anthology that brings you the very best of nature writing from around the world and through the centuries, from Pliny the Elder’s Natural History to modern authors such as Helen Macdonald and Robert Macfarlane.