The author is a medical doctor and a poet: this book is both a meditation on art and life and a collection of snippets about the history of medicine. Written over twenty years, it moves effo... read more
H is for hawk-eyed: Helen MacDonald follows her sensational memoir with a collection of essays about the world around her.
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This is a journey as imaginative and cerebral as it is physical: Lees, now an eminent neurologist, used to frequent the Liverpool docks as a child, with his father, and watch the ships unloa... read more
An anthology of essays about reading, by outstanding writers: as well as Macfarlane and Boyd, there are pieces by Chigozie Obioma, Max Porter, Madeleine Thien, Candice Clarty-Williams, Phili... read more
An excellent anthology by a baker's dozen of contemporary writers, including Juliet Annan, Daisy Johnson, Laura Freeman as well as established food writers.
An English translation of Ernaux's memoir about her father and life in small-town France, first published in 1984: a counterpart to 'A Woman's Story' published in English last year. Both are... read more
Humane and witty ruminations on science, history, philosophy and politics by the bestselling physicist: Dante's universe, Nabokov's butterflies, Einstein's errors, etc.
An updated edition of Barnes's acclaimed essays on artists - mostly French - that includes 7 new ones. Gericault, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Morisot, Fantin-Latour, Cezanne, Degas, Cassatt, ... read more
First collection of the KOV's essays to be published in English. Wide-ranging - many subjects are northern, but not all - with his characteristic concentration on the navel. What would the C... read more
With considerable humility, this book is subtitled "In Which Four Russians Give a Masterclass on Writing, Reading and Life". Actually it's the brilliant Saunders' work, distilled from decade... read more