Diaries, Letters & Journals

'A beautiful, compelling memoir. ... Father and Son is an exquisite, sometimes lunatic tension between powerful emotions and carnage on one side, a...

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023'A beautiful, compelling memoir . . . Father and Son is an exquisite, sometimes lunatic tension between powerful emot...

'This small-sized book has immense power. Marvel at the clarity and fire.' Zadie Smith'Jam-packed with insights you'll want to both text to your fr...

VULTURE'S BEST MEMOIR OF THE YEAR 2023A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023When Shane McCrae was eighteen months old, he was removed from his ...

This volume of letters by Charles Burney, the first to be published since 1991, runs from 1794 to 10 January 1800, beginning with his recovery from...

The Tony Award-nominated writer of Tales of the Allergists Wife and the long-running hit Off-Broadway play Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, and a Sundanc...

This volume brings together a range of miscellaneous short texts by Voltaire, mostly undated and principally manuscript fragments. From thoughts on...

Benjamin Hoffmanns Posthumous America examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French writers of the eighteenth a...

In this engaging and fascinating exchange of personal letters, two of the most influential gardeners of all time compare notes on successes and fai...

'Do you want me to talk to you of our love? There are no words, however eloquent, to express all the passion, all the fire, all the madness contain...

Benjamin Hoffmanns Posthumous America examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French writers of the eighteenth a...

Emilie Davis was a free African American woman who lived in Philadelphia during the Civil War. She worked as a seamstress, attended the Institute f...

The first-ever volume of the photographs of German writer W.G. Sebald, exquisitely designed to shed new light on his creative process, as it chroni...

This new, select edition of Wilfred Owen's letters provides a fresh understanding of the poet's life in his own words. Wilfred Owen's fame as one ...