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Lively, well-argued essays on the role of fairy tales in our culture now. Far from outgrowing them, the world needs these stories as much as - if not more than - ever. .

Once upon a Time There Was Truth: or, Why We Need Fairy Tales ...

Jack Zipes

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Wodehouse At The Wicket: A Cricketing Anthology

P.G. Wodehouse

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Significant Others

frank r jagoe

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Selected Poems and Essays

Alice Meynell

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Cut-glass observations of her life by the author of Bertie, May and Mrs Fish, her wartime memoir. Bingley's career began as a trainee at MI5 before marriage to a poet and a life in the US. S... read more

Ways of Telling

Xandra Bingley

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A rich collection of stories, essays and memoir by a writer who has been at the centre of the literary world for an exceptionally long time - her first novel, The Millstone, won the John Lle... read more

The Great Good Places

Margaret Drabble

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The Hungarian's speech to the Swedish Academy is a free-wheeling, looping gem, about angels, humankind, degradation, rebellion, hope and not-hope.

Enough About Angels: The Nobel Lecture

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

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A selection of Le Guin's essays, written in old age.

No Time to Spare

Ursula K Le Guin

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Drawing on indigenous cosmologies and anthropology, Le Guin posits the existence and usefulness of a 'yinward' approach to life, rather than the 'yangward' drive towards Utopian progress tha... read more

A Non-Euclidean View of California as A Cold Place to Be ...

Ursula K Le Guin

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Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes Of A Native Son

James Baldwin

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In Case of Loss

Lutz Seiler

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Daddy Issues

Katherine Angel

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The Cosmic Oval

Ella Finer

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Total Eclipse

Annie Dillard

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Granta 174: Therapy

Thomas Meaney

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The latest in PVA's platter of pocket-sized essay collections non-fiction (on Music, Film and The Animal World), with writing by Lynne Tillmann, Niven Govinden and other monumental figures.

As if nothing could fall: Essays on monuments

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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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