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What Time Is It?

John Berger

• Hardcover | Engels
• Visionary thinker John Berger and Turkish artist Selçuk Demirel came together for the last time to create this precious little volume about time. What... Lees meer

The William Hazlitt Essay Prize 2013 the Winners

Michael Ignatieff, Sameer Rahim, Andrew O'Hagan, J. T. Barbarese, Leslie Jamieson, Belle Boggs

• Hardcover
• More than 700 essays were submitted for the 2013 William Hazlitt Essay Prize, covering a vast range of subjects. Lees meer

Essays on the Self

Virginia Woolf, Joanna Kavenna

• Hardcover | Engels | Classic Collection
• Woolf's fine character studies of several authors, among them Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who 'seems not a man, but a swarm, a cloud, a buzz of words, da... Lees meer

Grumbling at Large

J.B. Priestley

• Hardcover
• A delightful and unusual selection of Priestley's essays, drawing on five decades of his writing. Lees meer

Modern Buildings in London

Ian Nairn

• Hardcover | Engels
• "Without any doubt, London is one of the best cities in the world for modern architecture. But it is also one of the biggest cities in the world, and ... Lees meer

On Dolls

Kenneth Gross

• Hardcover | Engels
• Some of the greatest thinkers and writers of our age meditate on play and the mysteries of inanimate life. This unusual literary collection contains w... Lees meer

My Katherine Mansfield Project

Kirsty Gunn

• Hardcover | Engels
• In 2009, Kirsty Gunn returned to spend the winter in her hometown of Wellington, New Zealand, also the place where Katherine Mansfield grew up. In thi... Lees meer

Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier

Jon Day

• Paperback
• Cyclogeography lifts the lid on the hidden world of Cycle Couriers, the 'solitary creatures of the underworld' Includes interviews with Iain Sinclair,... Lees meer

Found and Lost

Alison Leslie Gold

• Hardcover | Engels
• A luminous memoir from the Holocaust writer, Alison Leslie Gold, told through a series of letters to the living and the dead. Alison Leslie Gold is be... Lees meer

A Strange Life: Selected Essays of Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott

• Hardcover | Engels
• Collected together for the very first time, witty and wide-ranging essays from the celebrated author of Little Women . Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) i... Lees meer

Pilgrims of the Air: The Passing of the Passenger Pigeons

John Wilson Foster

• Hardcover | Engels
• This is a story of a scarcely credible abundance, of flocks of birds so vast they made the sky invisible. It is also a story of a collapse into extinc... Lees meer

Sauntering

Duncan Minshull

• Hardcover | Engels
• For all those yearning for European journeys, our new title Sauntering offers salve for the soul. The anthology features sixty writers - classic and c... Lees meer

Still Life With a Bridle

Zbigniew Herbert

• Hardcover | Engels
• In these sixteen essays, the poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert brings the Dutch 17th century alive: the people, as they bid crippling sums of money f... Lees meer

Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment

A J Lees

• Hardcover | Engels
• A fascinating account by one of the world's leading neurologists of the profound influence of William Burroughs on his medical career. Lees relates ho... Lees meer

Smoke

John Berger

• Hardcover | Engels
• A pictoral essay by the great art critic, novelist and long-time smoker, John Berger, and Turkish writer and illustrator Selçuk Demirel. "Once upon a ... Lees meer

Junkspace with Running Room

Rem Koolhaas, Hal Foster

• Hardcover | Engels
• In Junkspace (2001), architect Rem Koolhaas itemised in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is here updated... Lees meer

All That is Worth Remembering

William Hazlitt

• Hardcover | Engels | Classic Collection
• There was a time, not long ago, when academic fashion forsook the Essay; that tide has long turned Lees meer

Tiny Feet: A Treasury for Parents

• Hardcover | Engels
• An eclectic showcase of the most influential writing about children from the past four hundred years. Children are a wonder, a blessing, a miracle, an... Lees meer

Things I don't want to know

Deborah Levy

• Hardcover | Engels | Living autobiography | nr. 1
• 'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinking about the sheer egoism of a female writer. Even t... Lees meer

Attention!

Joshua Cohen

• Hardcover
• You've paid money for this book, or you have family or friends who don't mind your borrowing or who gift books like this. You are being attentive beca... Lees meer

Questions of Travel

Lavinia Greenlaw

• Hardcover | Engels
• Poet and novelist Lavinia Greenlaw's poetic reflections on William Morris's Icelandic Journal , one of the overlooked masterpieces of travel literatur... Lees meer

Wandering Jew

Dennis Marks

• Hardcover | Engels
• Joseph Roth, best known as the author of the novel The Radetzky March and the nonfiction work The Wandering Jews , was one of the most seductive, dist... Lees meer

Journey to Armenia

Osip Mandelstam

• Hardcover | Engels
• The last published work of a great poet who wrote a few lines attacking Stalin and was shortly thereafter exiled to Siberia where he died near Vladivo... Lees meer

You & Me

Susan Greenfield

• Paperback
• You and Me offers a fascinating look at the relationship between identity and neuroscience in the age of social media. Written in a smart, conversatio... Lees meer