Prose: Non-Fiction

A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely ...

'Anti-Social is brutally honest, exceptionally funny and terribly sad - a scything indictment of broken 21st century Britain. I could not put it do...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city.'Brilliant...enchanting' E...

'Frances Stonor Saunders is one of those writers you read no matter what she writes. She is that good... This is family history at its best... the ...

Renowned, bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with postcards from decades on the road and incredib...

In the vein of Lebowitz's Netflix limited series, Pretend It's a City --The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together two of the famed author's bestsell...

Famed for having killed his cousin Alessandro, the Duke of Florence, in 1537, but also for writing accomplished literary works, including a comedy ...

One of the most important politics books of the year, To Obama is a record of a time when politics intersected with empathy. The real story of Oba...

In the ten years since its electrifying debut, Elizabeth Gilberts Eat Pray Love has become a worldwide phenomenon, empowering millions of readers t...

WITH AN AFTERWORD BY YOKO ONO AND ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHORJohn Lennon wrote the material collected in Skywriting by Word of Mouth durin...

Journalist, maverick, rebel and author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson offers another novel of American counterculture in Hell...

A Taste of Tagore brings together a selection of the magical poetry, elegant prose, prayers and contemplations of Rabindranath Tagore, India''s fir...

Voltaire (1694-1778), best remembered as the author of Candide, is one of the central actors -- arguably the defining personality -- of the Europea...

'The book is like the spoon: once invented, it cannot be bettered' - Umberto Eco.These days it is impossible to get away from discussions of whethe...

'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded'Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of pr...

New essays by the Women's Prize and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gilead, Home and Lila. In this collection, Marilynne Robinson impels us to act...