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A Plea For Eros

By Hustvedt, Siri, Siri Hustvedt

Browse: Love Letters to Bookshops Around the World

By Ali Smith, Yiyun Li, Pankaj Mishra, Alaa Al Aswany, Michael Dirda

Through the Window: Seventeen Essays (and one short story)

By julian barnes

Creaturely And Other Essays

By Devin Johnston

The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism

By George Bernard Shaw

About Modern Art: Critical Essays 1948-96

By Sylvester, David

Travels Through Stuart Britain: The Adventures of John Taylor, the Water Poet

By John H. Chandler

101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life

By Droit, Roger-Pol

The White Review Writing in Translation Anthology

By Rosanna McLaughlin, Izabella Scott, Skye Thomas

Classical Literary Criticism

By D. A. Russell, Michael Winterbottom

Bees in Some Bonnets

By Lord Mancroft

The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan

By Kenneth Tynan, John Lahr

Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady

By Summerscale, Kate, Kate Summerscale

The Library Book

By Cleeves, Ann, Godin, Seth, Hill, Susan, Holland, Tom, Kohli, Hardeep Singh, Mangan, Lucy, McDermid, Val, MiƩville, China, Moran, Caitlin, Mosse, Kate, Myerson, Julie, Rai, Bali, Shriver, Lionel, Turner, Robin, Wire, Nicky, Anand, Anita, Bathurst, Bella...

On Reading, Writing and Living with Books (The London Library)

By Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Leigh Hunt, EM Forster, The London Library

Streams of Grace

By Tourville, Abbe De, Waterfield, Robin

Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections

By Alice Kimball Smith, Charles Weiner

The Greatest Adventure. The Balloonists' own epic tale of their round-the-world voyage.

By Piccard, Jones;, Bertrand, Jones, Brian

Unsettled

By Rosaleen McDonagh

Early Views of India: Picturesque Journeys of Thomas and William Daniell, 1786-94

By Mildred Archer

Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?: Essays

By Jenny Diski

Language and Literature: An Introductory Reader in Stylistics

By Ronald Carter

Let Me Tell You What I Mean

By Joan Didion

Victorian Women's Magazines: An Anthology

By Margaret Beetham, Kay Boardman

Literary Landscapes of the British Isles: A Narrative Atlas

By David Daiches, J.E. Flower

The Penguin John Lennon: John Lennon in His Own Write; a Spaniard in the Works

Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece

By Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Janet Lloyd

Through Connemara in a Governess Cart

By E.OE. Somerville, Martin Ross

L'aventure des langues en Occident

By Henriette Walter

Apologia Pro Vita Sua

By Cardinal John Henry Newman, William Oddie