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
Contributors incl. Susie Orbach and Merlin Sheldrake - who once grew mushrooms on a copy of his book Entangled Life, cooked and ate them, thus eating his words.
The literary fl?neur wanders amongst places and objects, images, film and ideas: a series of short, discursive essays that are the more brilliant for being unassuming.
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
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.
A first collection of essays and journalism from the novelist best known for We Need to Talk About Kevin. Free speech, identity politics and intellectual imprisonment are all grist to Shrive... read more
Those familiar with the exquisite vagaries that have come from the pen of this author (also known as Jack Robinson and Jennie Walker) will rejoice at these 99 paragraphs observing and enjoyi... read more