Literary Essays
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Conversations on Love: with Philippa Perry, Dolly Alderton, Roxane Gay, Stephen Grosz, Esther Perel, and many more
Natasha LunnCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50*THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'This book might just change your life' Sunday Times'Wise, wonderful, moving and brilliant... will leave your h...
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We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieCurrent price €9.65Original price €10.50A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. ...
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Create Dangerously
Albert CamusCurrent price €6.08Original price €6.99'To create today is to create dangerously'Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for tho...
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Essential Bukowski: Poetry
Charles BukowskiCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50The best poet in America Jean Genet He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels Leonard Cohen The definitive collection...
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Under the Duvet: Deluxe Edition - British Book Awards Author of the Year 2022
Marian KeyesCurrent price €14.78Original price €16.99Get comfortable, sink under the covers and dip into the hilarious Under the Duvet: Deluxe Edition for a behind-the-scenes glimpse into bestselling ...
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Notes on Grief
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieCurrent price €12.00Original price €15.99A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Y...
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The White Album
Joan DidionCurrent price €12.95Original price €14.50Joan Didions hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties. ...
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Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieCurrent price €10.43Original price €11.99From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today written as a letter ...
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The Hobbits of Tolkien: An Illustrated Exploration of Tolkien''s Hobbits, and the Sources that Inspired his Work from Myth, Literature and History
David DayCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99An entire race was born when J.R.R. Tolkien scrawled on a leaf, 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' From the invention of that single w...
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Notes on Camp
Susan SontagCurrent price €6.08Original price €6.99'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.'These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries...
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The Road to Wigan Pier
George OrwellCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50The Road to Wigan Pier is a book in two parts: the first half is Orwells description of working-class life in industrial communities of the north o...
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Burning Questions: The Sunday Times bestseller from Booker prize winner Margaret Atwood
Margaret AtwoodCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50In Burning Questions Atwood aims her constant curiosity and impish humour at our world and reports back to us on what she finds.In it she seeks ans...
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A Room of One''s Own
Virginia WoolfCurrent price €9.56Original price €10.99'But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction - what has that got to do with a room of one's own?'A Room of One's Own grew out o...
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Things I Don''t Want to Know: Living Autobiography 1
Deborah LevyCurrent price €15.45Original price €15.99The first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood. 'Unmissable. Like chancing upon an oasis, you wan...
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Praise of Folly
Desiderius ErasmusCurrent price €13.99Original price €14.50Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour...
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A Room of One''s Own: Annotated Edition
Virginia WoolfCurrent price €10.43Original price €11.99Based on lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of Ones Own is an extended essay about the p...
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Chronicles of a Liquid Society
Umberto EcoCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50Discover the final book from one of Europe's cultural giants.In this entertaining collection of essays about the modern world the celebrated author...
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The Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Fran LebowitzCurrent price €19.91Original price €23.99Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scors...
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The Cost of Living: Living Autobiography 2
Deborah LevyCurrent price €14.39Original price €14.99A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURYWINNER OF THE PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER 2020Following on from the critically acclaimed Things I Don't Want to Kn...
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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Alexander CheeCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50Shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Named a Best Book of 2018 by TIME, Washington Post, Entertainment We...
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Walden
Henry David ThoreauCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50Henry David Thoreau is considered one of the leading figures in early American literature, and Walden is without doubt his most influential book. P...
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Exercises in Style
Raymond QueneauCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50On a crowded bus at midday, Raymond Queneau observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately. When a seat is vacated, the first man a...
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The Future of War Crimes Justice
Chris StephenCurrent price €13.91Original price €15.99As the world grows increasingly turbulent, war crimes justice is needed more than ever. But it is failing. The International Criminal Court in the ...
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A Room of One''s Own
Virginia WoolfCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50In this extraordinary essay, Virginia Woolf examines the limitations of womanhood in the early twentieth century. With the startling prose and poet...
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