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Sydney Smith

By Alan Bell

Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth

By Ed Wright

Look Alive Out There: Essays

By Sloane Crosley

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays

By Damon Young

The Law of Delay: Interviews and Outerviews

By C. Northcote Parkinson

In the Darkroom

By Susan Faludi

Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten

By Benjamin Britten, Dr Donald Mitchell, Philip Reed

The Princess Diarist

By Carrie Fisher

What Everyone Knows About Britain* (*Except The British)

By Michael Peel

Character Parts

By Mortimer, John

Here and Now: Letters 2008-2011

By Paul Auster (New Directions), J M Coetzee (University of Cape Town)

Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics

By Charles Krauthammer

The Guardian Columns 1998-2000

By Julie Birchill

Banana Sunday: Datelines from Africa

By Chris Munnion

Counterpoints: 25 Years of The New Criterion on Culture and the Arts

By Roger Kimball, Hilton Kramer

A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel

By Tom Phillips

The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000

By Martin Amis

The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century

By Guillermo Gmez-Pea

Essays, Moral, Political and Economic: Hume Papers on Public Policy Volume 6 No 4

By Samuel Brittan

An Apology for Raymond Sebond (Classics)

By Montaigne, Michel, Screech, M., Screech, M., Screech, M.

Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38

By Chips Channon

Now Read on

By Levin, Bernard

Dangerous Company: The Consulting Powerhouses and the Companies They Save and Ruin

By Madigan, Charles, O'Shea, James

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats: Vol XII: "John Sherman" and "Dhoya"

By W. B. Yeats, Richard J. Finneran

Selected Writings

By Hildegard of Bingen, Mark Atherton

A Dr. Johnson Chronology: Chronologies-Reference

By Norma Page

Letter to My Younger Self: Inspirational Women

By Jane Graham, The Big Issue

Obedience, Struggle and Revolt

By David Hare

Curzon's Persia

By George Nathaniel Curzon, P. King

The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures

By Bill Ashcroft (University of New South Wales, Australia), Gareth Griffiths (University of West Australia, Helen Tiffin