Prose: Non-Fiction
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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 €19.79Original price €21.99An 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 €6.29Original 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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Walden: 150th Anniversary Edition
Henry D. ThoreauCurrent price €12.59Original price €13.99One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone i...
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Oliver SacksCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador BooksIf a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self himself...
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The Road to Wigan Pier
George OrwellCurrent price €14.88Original 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 €15.75Original price €17.50The 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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Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm
Jeremy ClarksonCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Pull on your wellies, grab your flat cap and join Jeremy Clarkson in this hilarious and fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the infamous Diddly S...
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Theft by Finding: Diaries: Volume One
David SedarisCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'He's like an American Alan Bennett, in that his own fastidiousness becomes the joke, as per the taxi encounter, or ...
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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 €16.65Original 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 €20.39Original 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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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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Outraged: Why Everyone is Shouting and No One is Talking
Ashley 'Dotty' CharlesCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99'The powerful new voice of her generation' The Times 'Funny, nuanced and wonderful' Jon Ronson A book that had me hollering, nodding and questio...
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In Conclusion, Don''t Worry About It
Lauren GrahamCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Advice for graduates and reflections on staying true to yourself from the beloved Gilmore Girls actress and New York Times bestselling author of th...
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The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User''s Manual
Ward FarnsworthCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Farnsworth beautifully integrates his own observations with scores of quotations from Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne and others. Thi...
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The Great Divorce (C. S. Lewis Signature Classic)
C. S. LewisCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99C.S. Lewiss dazzling allegory about heaven and hell and the chasm fixed between them is one of his most brilliantly imaginative tales, as he take...
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Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
Maria KonnikovaCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50No fictional character is more renowned for his extraordinary powers of mind than Sherlock Holmes. But what exactly is it that sets him apart as a ...
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Jane Eyre (Collins Classics)
Charlotte BronteCurrent price €10.19Original price €11.99HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little...
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Sous Chef: 24 Hours in the Kitchen
Michael GibneyCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50'A terrific nuts and bolts account of the real business of cooking as told from the trenches. No nonsense. This is what it takes' ANTHONY BOURDAIN'...
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They Can''t Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Hanif AbdurraqibCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50In a collection of essays published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others along with original, previously unreleased essays Han...
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The Anthropocene Reviewed: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
John GreenCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author J...
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