Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write - An Autobiography Through Essays (Messud Claire)(Paperback / softback)

Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write - An Autobiography Through Essays (Messud Claire)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of personal and critical essays on everything from childhood to womanhood, literature to visual arts and the relationship between form and meaning in

Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write (Messud Claire)(Paperback)

Against Amazon: And Other Essays (Carrin Jorge)(Paperback)

A history of bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letter--and, most urgently, a

Defying Hitler - A Memoir (Haffner Sebastian)(Paperback / softback)

An absolute classic of autobiography and history - one of the few books to explore how and why the Germans were seduced by Hitler and Nazism. 'If you have never read a book about Nazi Germany before, or if you have already read a thousand, I would urge you to read DEFYING HITLER. It sings with

Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities (Warner John)(Paperback)

An important challenge to what currently masquerades as conventional wisdom regarding the teaching of writing.There seems to be widespread agreement that--when it comes to the writing skills of college students--we are in the midst of a crisis. In Why They Can't Write, John Warner, who taught

Not That Bad - Dispatches from Rape Culture (Gay Roxane)(Paperback / softback)

An anthology of first-person essays which tackle rape, assault and harassment head-on, edited and with an introduction by bestselling author Roxane

Little Learning - The First Volume of an Autobiography (Waugh Evelyn)(Paperback / softback)

The author's childhood was warm, bright and serene. The Hampstead and Lancing schooldays which followed were sometimes agreeable, but often not. His life at Oxford - which he evokes in Brideshead Revisited - was essentially a catalogue of friendship. This title presents a portrait of his

How To Travel With A Salmon - and Other Essays (Eco Umberto)(Paperback / softback)

Tackling topics as diverse as the coffee pot from hell, eating on an aeroplane, how not to use a cellular phone and recognising porn movies, Umberto Eco guides us with all his customary wit and brilliance through the complexities of the modern

Work Suspended and Other Stories (Waugh Evelyn)(Paperback / softback)

Includes stories such as - 'Mr Loveday's Little Outing'; 'Cruise'; 'Period Piece'; 'On Guard'; 'An Englishman's Home'; 'Excursion in Reality'; 'Bella Fleace Gave a Party'; 'Winner Takes All'; 'Work Suspended'; 'Scott-King's Modern Europe'; 'Basil Seal Rides Again'; and 'Charles Ryder's

1985 (Burgess Anthony)(Paperback / softback)

In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwell's 1984 in one book. The first is a sharp analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, Burgess sheds new light on what he called 'an apocalyptic codex of our worst fears', creating a critique that is literature

Mountain Shadow (Roberts Gregory David)(Paperback / softback)

The first glimpse of the sea on Marine Drive filled my heart, if not my head. I turned away from the red shadow. I stopped thinking of that pyramid of killers, and Sanjay's improvidence. I stopped thinking about my own part in the madness. And I rode, with my friends, into the end of everything

Jasmine Throne (Suri Tasha)(Paperback / softback)

One is a vengeful princess seeking to depose her brother from his throne. The other is a priestess searching for her family. Together, they will change the fate of an empire. Imprisoned by her dictator brother, Malini spends her days in isolation in the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once the

Eating Fire - Selected Poetry 1965-1995 (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

The evolution of Margaret Atwood's poetry illuminates a major literary talent. Through bus trips and postcards, wilderness and trivia, she reflects the passion and energy of a writer intensely engaged with her craft and the world. In this volume, two previous selections, Poems 1965-1975 and Poems