A sequence of illustrated essays on the late work of 19 artists including Titian, Gwen John, Bonnard, Morandi and Soutine that pursues themes of absence, mortality and season. By the author ... read more
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... read more
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
A collection of essays about both repair and despair in the face of the accelerating loss of biodiversity in the Anthropocene. Lloyd's research takes her from the Carpathians to Perthshire, ... read more
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
Five piercingly brilliant essays on stories from the margins, art, Black history, and the crossroads of Africa and Asia as well as with the West. First work of non-fiction by an author much ... read more
A collection of his journalism and essays on literature and writing, getting his typewriter fixed (presumably all modernists use typewriters, the better to make modernist metajokes), etc.
Linnaeus riding through Lapland; frost fairs on the Thames; courtship in the snow in Japan; Tove Jansson on her childhood; snippets of Beth Chatto. An anthology of wintry delights.
Quietism perhaps, rather than the silence of things not being talked about: the art of listening, of stilling the interior babble. By the writer, painter and traveller who set up the Travel ... read more
A collection of diary entries, essays and reflections from the American poet and scholar. Wang is one of the foremost writers on race, prisons and political surveillance. These writings - br... read more
An almanac-turned-essay collection of seasons, cities and people across the world - and closer to home - by the author of Wild. From Little Toller, a small publishing house that consistently... read more
This book of seven essays describes the Nobel laureate's intellectual journey from the "Marxism and Sartrean existentialism of my youth to the liberalism of my mature years." Adam Smith, Hay... read more
Iridescent, funny, subversive, endlessly surprising, sharp as a wind cutting in from the North Sea: many will know Barker's startlingly good writing from her only novel O Caledonia. Here are... read more
Conversational, elegant and subtle essays on art, literature, urban life in war-time Shanghai and Hong Kong by the admired Chinese-born American novelist, screenwriter and cultural critic. F... read more