Two cheers because only Love deserves three… Forster – that great humanist and sublime prose stylist – advocated “curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race”. His essays, although written seventy years ago, are marvellously telling still – here are 25 of them. (There is a complete collection here).
Two Cheers for Democracy: A Selection
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While MG's early short stories have recently found acclaim as modern classics, she is less well known as a brilliantly perspicacious critic and essayist. This new selection of her non-fictio... read more
Oppositions: Selected Essays
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Midlife: Humanity’s Secret Weapon
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H is for hawk-eyed: Helen MacDonald follows her sensational memoir with a collection of essays about the world around her. NB Publication of this book has been delayed. Publishing sched... read more
Vesper Flights
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Erudite reflections on the history of the auroch, the Minotaur, the great auk and his own near death during the pandemic.