Sebald, an empty street in Italy, Cavafy, St Petersburg, Alexandria, Eric Rohmer, Proust and Pessoa: Aciman's essays roam through time, imagination, place and memory.
An excellent anthology by a baker's dozen of contemporary writers, including Juliet Annan, Daisy Johnson, Laura Freeman as well as established food writers.
Another themed anthology from Daunt Newest in the Daunt Books series (At the Pond, In the Kitchen), this brings together essays from various Sandoe's luminaries (Penelope Lively, Francesca W... read more
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
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
The author moved to Japan aged 21, immersing herself in language and culture with such success that she is now a literary translator. Her route there was by no means straightforward; this bo... read more
The poet was also well known as a witty and acerbic critic of art; his focus here are Delacroix and Ingres in particular, and the pursuit of the ideal. A new addition to the colourful 'Exphr... read more
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
A work of self-investigation by a remarkable and versatile writer, which explores why an artist would respond to the world without being invited to do so. Essays about voice, finding it and ... read more
A clever and playful reworking of Wagner's 'Ring' that brings in the financial crisis of 2008; originally conceived as a libretto for the Berlin Opera.
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
OL gets under the skin of a dozen glamorous but stifled figures: Susan Sontag, Christopher Isherwood, Nina Simone... With a sympathetic eye, she explores the conditions needed to cultivate... read more
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
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
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
A delicious anthology of ambling, strolling, pausing, looking, thinking... A feast that combines Joseph Roth and Rebecca Solnit, George Sand and Werner Herzog, Joseph Conrad and Kate Humble,... read more