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I Found This Shirt: Poems and Prose from the Centre

By Ian McMillan

Letters from an Extreme Pilgrim: Reflections on Life, Love and the Soul

By Jones, Peter Owen

Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War

By Ian Buruma

Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism

By JOHN UPDIKE

A Moment of War

By Laurie Lee

The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage

By Orwell, George

Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man

By Tim Allen

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