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On Dogs
An Anthology
Inbunden, 2019
200 kr
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This entertaining anthology offers an array of writers past and present expressing their thoughts about dogs. With an introduction by actor, producer and dog-lover Tracey Ullman.Dogs throughout history have enjoyed a special relationship with humankind, and our favourite four-legged creatures …
Changing My Mind
Häftad, 2025
150 kr
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A new book from one of our most acclaimed writers.‘We always believe that changing our mind is an improvement, bringing a greater truthfulness to our dealings with the world and other people. It puts an end to vacillation, uncertainty, weak-mindedness. It seems to make us stronger and more mature. …
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World
Essays
Av Barry Lopez
Häftad, 2023
159 kr
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An ardent steward of the land, fearless traveller and unrivalled observer of nature and culture, Barry Lopez died after a long illness on Christmas Day in 2020. The previous summer, a wildfire had consumed much of what was dear to him in his home and the community around it – a tragic reminder of …
Threshold and the Ledger
Av Tom McCarthy
Häftad, 2025
127 kr
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A timely exploration of Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann by Booker-shortlisted author Tom McCarthy.Since her untimely death in 1973, Ingeborg Bachmann has come to be regarded as one of the twentieth century’s most important writers. Unpacking a single Bachmann poem, novelist Tom McCarthy latches …
I Remember
Av Joe Brainard
Inbunden, 2013
212 kr
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Joe Brainard's I Remember is a cult classic, envied and admired by writers from Frank O'Hara to John Ashbery and Edmund White. As autobiography, Brainard's method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each prefaced by the refrain 'I …
Music Lessons
Seven Composers and What They Taught Me
Inbunden, 2026
208 kr
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From the bestselling author of the award-winning How Shostakovich Changed My Mind comes a new book about the cathartic power of music.For critic and composer Stephen Johnson, there have been moments when music has confronted him with life-changing insights. Some of these have been hard to accept, …
Globetrotting
Writers Walk the World
Inbunden, 2024
212 kr
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Following on from the huge success of Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walking and Sauntering: Writers Walk Europe, Duncan Minshull brings together over fifty walker-writers who have travelled the world’s seven continents.With contributions from Edith Wharton, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin, …
On the Couch
Twenty Extraordinary Personalities, from Picasso to Putin
Häftad, 2026
173 kr
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In the late 1800s, Sigmund Freud began to develop radical theories about sexuality, dreams and childhood experiences. Not only were his ideas revolutionary, but they also initiated a new discipline with various – often competing – schools of thought.In this groundbreaking book, Andrew Jamieson …
Junkspace with Running Room
Inbunden, 2013
214 kr
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In Junkspace (2001), architect Rem Koolhaas itemises in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is here updated and twinned with Running Room, a fresh response from architectural critic Hal Foster.'The manifesto is a modernist mode, one that looks to the …
Blind Corners
Essays on Photography
Inbunden, 2025
212 kr
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The debut collection of essays from one of Britain's most celebrated photographers.For many years, photographer Michael Collins had wondered what exactly it was that he found so mysterious and compelling about photography. In this series of linked pieces, Collins offers a reappraisal of …
Confessions of a Heretic
Inbunden, 2021
174 kr
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Confessions of a Heretic is a collection of provocative essays by the late social commentator and polemicist Roger Scruton (1944-2020). Each “confession” reveals aspects of the author’s thinking that his critics would probably have advised him to keep to himself. In this selection, covering …
Questions of Travel
William Morris in Iceland
Inbunden, 2011
212 kr
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Morris's intimate journals, written for a friend, unconsciously explore questions of travel, noting his reaction to the idea of leaving or arriving, to hurry and delay, what it means to dread a place you've never been to or to encounter the actuality of a long-held vision. Poet Lavinia Greenlaw …
Cataract
Av John Berger
Inbunden, 2011
212 kr
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What happens when an art critic loses some of his sight to cataracts? What wonders are glimpsed once vision is restored? In this impressionistic essay written in the spirit of Montaigne, John Berger, whose treatises on seeing have shaped cultural and media studies for four decades, records the …
My Prizes
Inbunden, 2011
196 kr
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Completed in 1980 but published here for the first time, My Prizes is an accounting - prize by prize, blow by blow - of the background and circumstances of reception of nine literary prizes that Thomas Bernhard was awarded between 1963 and 1980, followed by some of the speeches he delivered on …
Noriko Smiling
Inbunden, 2011
212 kr
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‘Late Spring, directed and co-written by Yasujirō Ozu, was released in 1949, which makes it an old film, or a film that has been new for a long time…’ So begins this remarkable essay in narrative reconstruction. Film-critic, novelist and essayist Mars-Jones gives a virtuoso performance as the lost …
Humiliation
Inbunden, 2011
200 kr
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The lives of people both famous and obscure are filled with moments when their dirty laundry sees daylight. At such times we witness the reversibility of success, of prominence, but also come to terms viscerally with our own most vulnerable selves. We cannot stop watching the scene of shame, …
Things I Don't Want to Know
A Response to George Orwell's Why I Write
Av Deborah Levy
Inbunden, 2013
172 kr
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Things I Don't Want to Know is a unique response to George Orwell from one of our most vital contemporary writers. Taking Orwell's famous list of motives for writing as the jumping-off point for a sequence of thrilling reflections on the writing life, this is a perfect companion not just to …
Nairn's Towns
Av Ian Nairn
Inbunden, 2017
196 kr
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A new edition of Britain's Changing Towns (1967), introduced, edited and updated by Owen Hatherley.These essays show Nairn writing about cities and towns as wholes rather than as collections of individual buildings. In each of them, there are several things happening at once - assessments of …
Cyclogeography
Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier
Av Jon Day
Inbunden, 2015
200 kr
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Cyclogeography is an essay about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and a portrait of London seen from the saddle. The bicycle enables us to feel a landscape, rather than just see it, and in the great tradition of the psychogeographers, Day attempts to depart from the map and reclaim the …
My Katherine Mansfield Project
Av Kirsty Gunn
Inbunden, 2015
200 kr
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When novelist Kirsty Gunn received a Randell Fellowship from the British Academy and Carnegie Foundation in 2009 she returned to New Zealand to spend the winter in Wellington, near the childhood home of Katherine Mansfield, the writer to whom she'd always felt most connected. In this lyrical essay, …
Beautiful and Impossible Things
Selected Essays of Oscar Wilde
Av Oscar Wilde
Inbunden, 2018
200 kr
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This new selection of essays by Oscar Wilde show-cases the varied aspects of his genius. For Pearson, the biographer, the essays and dialogues illustrate the many faces of Wilde's extraordinary character: wit, romancer, talker, lecturer, humanist and scholar. The ideas expressed remain remarkably …
Mentored by a Madman
The William Burroughs Experiment
Av A.J. Lees
Inbunden, 2016
200 kr
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In this extraordinary memoir, neuroscientist Andrew Lees explains how William Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and troubled drug addict, played an unlikely part in his medical career.Lees draws on Burroughs' search for an addiction cure to discover a ground-breaking treatment for shaking palsy, and …
Thus Spake Zarathustra
A New Translation by Michael Hulse
Häftad, 2022
161 kr
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In Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nietzsche conducts his protagonist through his great journey of life - the quest for meaning, and fulfilment, and for a way to live with the knowledge of death. In this faithful new translation by Michael Hulse, Zarathustra is revealed in all his bold and ironic …
How Shostakovich Changed My Mind
Inbunden, 2020
192 kr
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BBC broadcaster Stephen Johnson explores how Shostakovich's music took shape under Stalin's reign of terror. Johnson writes of the healing effect of music on sufferers of mental illness and tells of how Shostakovich's music lent him unexpected strength in his struggle against bipolar …
Nairn's Paris
Av Ian Nairn
Inbunden, 2017
187 kr
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‘About one third of this book is discovery, in the sense that I came upon the sites by accident or by following a topographical hunch. There must be many more, and all you need for the search is the ability to turn off the main road, switch on your antennae and respond. Good luck.’ Ian NairnOut of …
Questions of Travel
William Morris in Iceland
Häftad, 2021
126 kr
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Morris's intimate journals, written for a friend, unconsciously explore questions of travel, noting his reaction to the idea of leaving or arriving, to hurry and delay, what it means to dread a place you've never been to or to encounter the actuality of a long-held vision. Poet Lavinia Greenlaw …
Found and Lost
Mittens, Miep, and Shovelfuls of Dirt
Inbunden, 2017
153 kr
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In this haunting memoir, Alison Gold gives a luminous account of key moments in her life that brought her to be the writer she is.Alison Leslie Gold is best known for her works that have kept alive stories from the time of the Holocaust, stories of courage and survival - most famously her Anne …
On Christmas
Inbunden, 2017
200 kr
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A seasonal anthology of Christmas-themed writings to savour during the highs and lows of Christmas Day.This delightful book offers a diverse array of classic and contemporary writers who have expressed their thoughts about Christmas over the centuries - with joy, nostalgia and dazzling wit.Includes …
Notting Hill
A Walking Guide
Av Julian Mash
Inbunden, 2018
170 kr
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A walking guide to this historic London neighbourhood, uncovering its countercultural roots. A delightful English/Japanese pocket-size guide to London's most popular district. Through four walks London writer Julian Mash uncovers the history, culture and fascinating characters that have made …
Beneath My Feet
Writers on Walking
Inbunden, 2018
196 kr
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“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness.” —Søren Kierkegaard Duncan Minshull has always walked and in the last twenty years has made use of it by writing and publishing books on the subject. He has described …
