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A crash course in twentieth century artistic endeavour - nothing short of a master class in high culture from one of the most discerning minds in contemporary British letters.

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Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by the award-winning essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling What I Loved and Booker Prize-longlisted The Blazing World.

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A passionate, eye-opening account of a state entangled in a complex and bloody past, as well as a love letter to a conflicted country.

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George Steiner, the eminent professor of English at Cambridge and Geneva universities, has outlined seven books he has never written, but has always wanted to write, in seven sections.

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The classic collection of essays from one of America's greatest modern writers.

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This is a single-volume collection of writings by Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), including a travel diary and over 250 haiku, an art form he raised to a level of simplicity and spiritual beauty. The book includes an introduction to Basho's life and work and an essay on the art of haiku.

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Jules Renard's Nature Stories is a deliciously whimsical classic from the era of the great French Postimpressionist painters.

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Nicotine is part-memoir, part-cultural history, written just after its author Gregor Hens has overcome the withdrawal symptoms from quitting smoking.

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Charles Dickens describes his time as an insomniac, when he decided to cure himself by walking through London in the small hours, and discovered homelessness, drunkenness, and vice on the streets. This collection of essays shows him as one of the greatest visionaries of the city in all its variety and cruelty.

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A brilliant and addictive collection of brand-new essays on modern culture - from the author of the acclaimed novel Fake Accounts and one of America's sharpest and most provocative literary critics

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Politics, war, sex, boxing, and the art of writing: an era s most controversial writer at his slashing and provocative best.

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A collection of thought-provoking stories and essays on the wisdom to be gleaned from asking (and answering) life's biggest questions.

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A glimpse into life in collaborationist France during the Second World War.

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The essential essay collection by one of Britain's most fascinating and acclaimed writers and artists, Alasdair Gray.

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To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africas most populous nation through words or images.

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A collection of essays, that casts a reflective eye on the author's experiences of early life in Russia and exile in America. With erudition, it explores subjects as varied as the dynamic of poetry, the nature of history and the plight of the emigre writer. It also includes a disastrous trip to Brazil, advice to students, and more.

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'Imagine Eula Biss as herself a vaccine against vague and incoherent thinking, as a booster to the acuity of your thought, as a thermometer taking the temperature of our ideas about purity, contagion, individuality, and community. This book is a magnificent piece of research and of writing.' - Rebecca Solnit

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In 1894 Laura Ingalls Wilder, with her husband and young daughter, left the drought-stricken farm in South Dakota and travelled to a new farm and a new beginning in the Ozarks. In this diary, Laura describes that trip, the towns passed and the people they met along the way.

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A playful and moving book of essays by a "born storyteller" (Seattle Times) who invites us into the miraculous and transcendent moments of the everyday

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Classic collection of Walter Benjamin's essay, including some of his most celebrated essays

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From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, 'a strikingly fresh cultural critic' (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between.

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A reissue of the only selection of Oscar Wilde's epigrams produced in his lifetime.