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Curzon's Persia

By George Nathaniel Curzon, P. King

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

By Joan Didion

Sydney Smith

By Alan Bell

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

By Samuel Brittan

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

By Guillermo Gmez-Pea

The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000

By Martin Amis

A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel

By Tom Phillips

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

By Roger Kimball, Hilton Kramer

Banana Sunday: Datelines from Africa

By Chris Munnion

The Guardian Columns 1998-2000

By Julie Birchill

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

By Charles Krauthammer

Here and Now: Letters 2008-2011

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

Character Parts

By Mortimer, John

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

By Michael Peel

The Princess Diarist

By Carrie Fisher

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

By Benjamin Britten, Dr Donald Mitchell, Philip Reed

In the Darkroom

By Susan Faludi

The Law of Delay: Interviews and Outerviews

By C. Northcote Parkinson

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

By Damon Young

Look Alive Out There: Essays

By Sloane Crosley

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

By Ed Wright

In The Kitchen: Essays on food and life

By Yemisi Aribisala, Joel Golby, Daisy Johnson, Rachel Roddy, Ruby Tandoh

Granta 156: Interiors

By Sigrid Rausing

The English Renaissance: An Anthology of Sources and Documents

By Kate Aughterson

Reflections on the Revolution in France (English Library)

By Edmund Burke

Meditations (Classics)

By Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, Aurelius, Marcus, Staniforth, Maxwell

A Reader on Reading

By Alberto Manguel

Island Landfalls: Reflections from the South Seas

By Robert Louis Stevenson, Jenni Calder

La chambre du traducteur

By Leyris, Pierre, Cournut, Berengere

Mad Monkton and Other Stories

By Wilkie Collins, Professor Norman Page