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Daring to be a Teacher: Essays, Stories and Memoranda

By Richardson, Robin

The Inevitable Gift Shop

By Will Eaves

Human Relations and Other Difficulties

By Wilmers, Mary-Kay

Soil and Spirit: Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life

By Chaskey, Scott

Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being

By Beauchemin, Jean-Francois, Warriner, David

Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster

By Andrews, Helen

More "Ladies of Letters"

By Carole Hayman, Lou Wakefield, Sue Townsend

Plague, Fall, Exile And The Kingdom And Selected Essays

Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa

By Haruki Murakami, Seiji Ozawa, Jay Rubin

Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books

By Hilary Mantel

An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting

By Jane Collier, Katharine A. Craik

A Sentimental Journey

By Laurence Sterne, Paul Goring

The Consolations of Philosophy

By de Botton, Alain, Alain de Botton

To Hell With Culture: And other essays on art and society

By Herbert Read

Passagere du silence

By Fabienne Verdier

Letters from Iceland

By Auden, Louis, MacNeice, W.H.

How to Cure a Fanatic

By Amos Oz

More Dashing: Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor

By Patrick Leigh Fermor, Adam Sisman

Penguin Great Ideas : Why I Write

By Orwell, George

The Shorter Pepys (Penguin Classics S.)

By Pepys, Samuel, Latham, Robert

English Gothic Literature

By Derek Brewer

One-Way Street: And Other Writings

By Walter Benjamin, Edmund FN Jephcott, Kingsley Shorter, Susan Sontag

Granta 42: Krauts! (Granta (Viking))

By Buford, Bill

To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays

By Czeslaw Milosz, Milosz, Bogdana Carpenter

On Beauty and Being Just

By Elaine Scarry

Emerson: The Mind on Fire (Centennial Books)

By Richardson, Rd

Dead as Doornails: A Memoir

By Cronin, Anthony

Nine Gates

By Hirshfield

The Irish Literary Revival Movement

By Norman A. Jeffares

Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader

By Chris Kraus, Sylvere Lotringer (Foreign Agents editor)