Literature & literary studies
Homo Irrealis
Andre Aciman
Format: Paperback
The bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with this collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works.
Rome
Various
Format: Paperback
'Fresh and diverting, informative and topical without being slight or ephemeral [...] This supremely well-edited combination of current affairs, journalism, commentary, and fun facts is perfect for our pause-button moment.' - Australian Financial Review, Best Books of the Year
In the Margins. On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein
Format: Hard Cover
Reflections on reading and writing from the author of My Brilliant Friend.
Living and Dying with Marcel Proust
Christopher Prendergast
Format: Hard Cover
A lifetime's reading of Proust's masterpiece.
Wanderlust
Rebecca Solnit
Format: Paperback
A reissue of the profound and meandering modern classic about the historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers, their routes and the act of walking itself.
In the Margins
Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein
Reflections on reading and writing from the author of My Brilliant Friend.
Granta 157: Should We Have Stayed at Home?
Format: Paperback
In 1984 Granta published its first issue devoted to travel writing. Nearly forty years after that genre-defining volume, a new generation of writers from around the globe offers a new vision of what travel writing can be.
A Hitch in Time
Christopher Hitchens
Format: Hard Cover
An outstanding collection of some of the best pieces that Christopher Hitchens wrote for the London Review of Books.
Oppositions
Mary Gaitskill
Format: Hard Cover
A collection of provocative and searchingly analytical essays by the author of Bad Behavior, This is Pleasure, and Lost Cat.
Allegorizings
Jan Morris
Format: Hard Cover
Published one year on from her death, at the age of ninety-four, Jan Morris' Allegorizings is the final despatch from one of the greatest chroniclers of the Twentieth Century.
