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Drawing on forty years reporting from the environmental front-line, Pearce offers us enlightening, hopeful stories from across the planet, and suggests further action. A salve for those in d... read more

Despite It All: A Handbook for Climate Hopefuls

Fred Pearce

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Originally delivered as the 1993 Reith lectures, these essays argue that it is the job of intellectuals to speak truth to power.

Representations of the Intellectual

Edward W. Said

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Essays on art, film, writing, poetry, modernity, cultural politics etc.

Paying Attention: Collected Essays

Lynne Tillman

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A short, critical essay on free speech, surveillance, authoritarianism and propaganda.

Ai Weiwei on Censorship

Ai Weiwei

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Sleek, engaging, rigorous and intriguingly Freudian writing on the ambivalence at the heart of our impulse to 'enjoy' life. From the much-loved author of such masterworks as On Kissing, On T... read more

The Life You Want

Adam Phillips

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Ice-cool essays pairing famous women - Winehouse and Holiday; Crawford and Fonda et al - that picks up the echoes between their life and image. Snow is very good on fame, greed, desire and ... read more

It’s Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me ...

Philippa Snow

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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World

David Graeber

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Palestine is Everywhere

Skye Arundhati Thomas

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The Site of Memory

Toni Morrison

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First collection of her essays. Her subjects range from literary investigations into shame to travel memoir and political writing.

Attention

Anne Enright

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Essays on vanishings and impermanence - of places, people, rituals, objects - by this fine novelist who won the International Booker a couple of years ago with Kairos.

Things That Disappear: Reflections and Memories

Jenny Erpenbeck

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Essays from five decades.

Putting Myself Together

Jamaica Kincaid

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Variations on the Czech-French writer's most visited themes: language, exile, translation and Soviet and Western attitudes to Czech culture. A slim re-issue.

89 Words followed by Prague, A Disappearing Poem

Milan Kundera

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A selection of some of Le Guin's pieces examining the social and political power of storytelling, and how it can help us navigate the world - stories as lifelines to truth, understanding and... read more

Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books

Ursula K. Le Guin

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With an introduction by Yiyun Li, this selection brings together Montaigne's profound and inquisitive essays on life, death, and how to live... Also cannibals.

What Do I Know? Essential Essays

Michel De Montaigne

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Very present, tense cultural criticism: a discursive set of essays on what has recently captured the writer's attention - from Tár to Celia Paul, and the shifting political terrain on eithe... read more

Dead and Alive

Zadie Smith

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Laing sat for Joffe in 2016 and the two have been exchanging ideas ever since. The upshot is this good-looking book, nicely produced in a linen cover, of over 100 paintings by Joffe with ten... read more

Painting Writing Texting

Chantal Joffe

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A collection of the great cook's essays from two decades of making and sharing sensational food.

Around the Table: 52 Essays on Food & Life

Diana Henry

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Reflections on friendship through music, poetry and broader personal experience.

On Friendship

Andrew O'Hagan

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Hisham was invited to give this year's lectio magistralis at the Gregor von Rezzori Prize 2024, in the church of Santa Croce in Florence. Sandoe's is proud to publish his essay based on that... read more

To Know and To Know Not

Hisham Matar

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A short, illustrated rumination on the work of Edvard Munch through nineteen paintings and drawings. It's as if we're looking over the acclaimed novelist's shoulder as she looks intently at ... read more

So in the Spruce Forest

Ali Smith

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The Akadine Press was a book club in the US, who published this handsome edition of Nancy Mitford's classic in blue cloth. In very good condition; no dust jacket, as issued.

Noblesse Oblige

Nancy Mitford

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A microscopic book - no larger than of a packet of cigarettes. Collects her essays on mass media, popular culture and art into 200 or so tiny pages. Pieces on Francis Bacon, Annie Ernaux, Ki... read more

Snow Business

Philippa Snow

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Part of the Frick Diptych series, in which a work from their collection receives a pair of critical responses: an essay from a Frick curator and a contribution from a contemporary artist or ... read more

Goya’s the Forge

Hisham Matar

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A provocative, personal series of essays looking at the encroachment of technology - AI, Twitter, Google et al - on our autonomy, independence and privacy. But it's SO convenient...

Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age

Vauhini Vara

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An enquiry into the history of unruly noise, by a genius.

The Gender of Sound

Anne Carson

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A collection of non-fiction from the great novelist and sardonic chronicler of climate change.

Wild Fictions

Amitav Ghosh

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A reissue of Woolf's seminal text with the original cover, designed by her sister, Vanessa Bell, for the Hogarth Press.

A Room of One’s Own

Virginia Woolf

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Essays by the modernist photographer, in a slim, clothbound hardback. Some illustrations.

Blind Corners

Michael Collins

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The lingering presence of nature and an ancient world inside our homes as well as carefully cultivated around them: William Morris's tendril wallpaper, mazes, sacred groves and the fete cham... read more

The Green Fuse: Essays in Making Sense of Gardens

Peter Dale

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Recent essays by the author of Orwell's Roses, Wanderlust and others.

No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain ...

Rebecca Solnit

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Following visits to Dakar, Columbia and Palestine, the American novelist and critic explores in a series of essays how we are shaped by the stories we tell ourselves (or one another).

The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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It seems scarcely credible that these essays should have remained unpublished for so long.

Silent Catastrophes: Essays in Austrian Literature

W. G. Sebald

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Essays on how art should/does engage in politics, and how the changing forms of our visual culture respond to capitalism. .

Those Passions: On Art and Politics

T. J. Clark

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Sixteen essays celebrating literature, and exploring a life lived alongside books.

Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays

Elisa Gabbert

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One of ten clothbound editions that this excellent publisher has produced to celebrate their first decade. A run of one thousand copies, with signed and numbered book plates.

Essayism Trilogy

Brian Dillon

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