Prose: Non-Fiction
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Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
Patrick Radden KeefeCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue...
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Selected Essays (Collins Classics)
George OrwellCurrent price €4.36Original price €5.25HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. When I was about sixteen I suddenly discovered the joy of ...
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A Room of Ones Own (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)
Virginia WoolfCurrent price €9.56Original price €10.99Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JEANETTE WINTERSONWhat conditions are necessary for the creation of w...
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Pilgrims Progress
John BunyanCurrent price €8.54Original price €8.90With an Introduction by Professor Stuart Sim.John Bunyan was variously a tinker, soldier, Baptist minister, prisoner and writer of outstanding narr...
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
John KoenigCurrent price €17.76Original price €18.50A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but dont have the ...
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A Dictionary of Sources of Tolkien: The History and Mythology That Inspired Tolkien''s World
David DayCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50The spellbinding world of Middle-earth is full of beasts and battles, heroes and heroines, and the struggle between good and evil.In this dictionar...
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In the Margins. On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
Elena FerranteCurrent price €14.78Original price €16.99Elena Ferrante has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy - and the world. THE SUNDAY TIMES A delightful collection of original ess...
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Joan DidionCurrent price €13.00Original price €14.99Joan Didions savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state ...
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Notes of a Native Son
James BaldwinCurrent price €14.78Original price €16.99'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story'James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him...
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A Heart That Works: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Rob DelaneyCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99In this memoir of loss, acclaimed writer and comedian Rob Delaney grapples with the fragile miracle of life, the mysteries of death, and the questi...
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Our Place in Nature: Selected Writings
Pan MacmillanCurrent price €13.91Original price €15.99With the natural world increasingly under threat, Our Place in Nature explores one of the most topical issues of our day; our appreciation of natur...
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Art Essays: A Collection
University of Iowa PressCurrent price €26.09Original price €29.99Art Essays is a passionate collection of the best essays on the visual arts written by contemporary novelists. This vibrant and diverse selection i...
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Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By
David MitchellCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'A delight!' Zoe Ball, BBC Radio 2'Very entertaining.' Irish Times**From UKIP surge to Brexit shambles, horsemea...
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Jane: A Murder
Maggie NelsonCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the Un...
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The Rings of Saturn: (Vintage Voyages)
W.G. SebaldCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Encountering an eccentric cast of characters along the way, Sebald confronts the frailty of human existence as he voyages along the Suffolk coast o...
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Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki
Kamo no ChomeiCurrent price €14.78Original price €16.99These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. In the short memoir ...
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Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Margo JeffersonCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022 Shortlisted for the Rathbones F...
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Reasons to Stay Alive
Matt HaigCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE?Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on livin...
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Chasing the Scream: The inspiration for the feature film The United States vs Billie Holiday
Johann HariCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE INSPIRATION FOR THE FEATURE FILM THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY 'Screamingly addictive' STEPHEN FRY 'Super...
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Fame
Andy WarholCurrent price €4.20Original price €5.25'Good b.o means good box office. You can smell it from a mile away'The legendary sixties New York pop artist Andy Warhol's hilarious and insightful...
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Piers of the Homeless Night
Jack KerouacCurrent price €5.94Original price €6.99'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...'Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat wri...
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Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton€29.50One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, ...
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The Naked Don''t Fear the Water: A Journey Through the Refugee Underground
Matthieu AikinsCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50In 2016, a young Afghan driver and translator named Omar makes the heart-wrenching choice to flee his war-torn country, saying goodbye to Laila, th...
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The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier
Ian UrbinaCurrent price €14.99Original price €15.99'Just incredible' Naomi Klein'Gripping and shocking...with the pace of a thriller' The TimesA New York Times bestseller, The Outlaw Ocean is a rive...
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South and West: From A Notebook
Joan DidionCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99From one of the most important chroniclers of our time, come two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks writings that...
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Both Flesh And Not
David Foster WallaceCurrent price €13.11Original price €15.99Both Flesh and Not combines David Foster Wallace''s best-loved essays with work never before published in the UK.Beloved for his brilliantly discer...
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The Collected Schizophrenias
Esme Weijun WangCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99'Dazzling ... in her kaleidoscopic essays, memoir has been shattered into sliding and overlapping pieces ... mind-expanding' The New York Times Boo...
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Late Essays: 2006 - 2017
J.M. CoetzeeCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50A fascinating collection of essays on literary subjects ranging from Daniel Defoe to Samuel Beckett by a Nobel and Booker Prize-winning writerLate ...
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
George SaundersCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PICKED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, IRISH TIMES, SPECTATOR, TLS, NEW STATESMAN, MAIL ON SUNDAY, I PAP...
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This Little Art
Kate BriggsCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggss This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, off...
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Homo Irrealis
Andre AcimanCurrent price €14.78Original price €16.99The bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with this collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, a...
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I Remain in Darkness WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Annie ErnauxCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99A powerful meditation on ageing and familial love, I Remain in Darkness recounts Annie Ernaux's attempts to help her mother recover from Alzheimer'...
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Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love
Haruki MurakamiCurrent price €14.80Original price €18.50The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet and shares photos of his extensive unique personal T-shirt collection. Haruki Murakami's ...
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Feel Free: Essays
Zadie SmithCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM 2019From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Changing My M...
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Happening WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Annie ErnauxCurrent price €14.39Original price €14.99In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: understanding that her pregnancy will mark h...
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The Illustrated World of Tolkien: An Exquisite Reference Guide to Tolkien''s World and the Artists his Vision Inspired
David DayCurrent price €31.99Original price €39.99The perfect Father's Day giftTolkien's works have inspired artists for generations and have given rise to myriad interpretations of the rich and ma...
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In Other Words
Jhumpa LahiriCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99_______________ 'A passionate love letter to language and to Italy ... a bold and quirkily engaging self-portrait' - Lee Langley, Spectator 'A wr...
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George MacDonald
C. S. LewisCurrent price €14.78Original price €16.99An 365-day anthology of readings from one of the most influential writers of all time, George MacDonald, compiled by CS Lewis himself. Ma...
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Studji Estetiċi Letterarji
Josette Attard€10.00Literary Aesthetic Studies Din l-antoloġija tinkludi studji li mhux biss jirreferu għax-xogħlijiet letterarji ta’ xi kittieba kontemporanji Maltin,...
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Life Lessons from Remarkable Women: Tales of Triumph, Failure and Learning to Love Yourself
Stylist MagazineCurrent price €14.18Original price €17.50THE PERFECT GIFT FOR THE REMARKABLE WOMAN IN YOUR LIFE! If you could share one lesson from your life with every woman, what would it be?Stylist mag...
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The Quotable Winston Churchill: A Collection of Wit and Wisdom
Running PressCurrent price €9.56Original price €10.99This tiny tome featuring a faux leather binding with embossed type and illustration is filled with Winston Churchill's biography, his most inspirat...
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The incident of the Mysterious Priest: And Other Stories
MR Raymond FenechCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50Current price €16.10Original price €18.50Save 13% -
Speeches That Changed the World
QuercusCurrent price €23.06Original price €26.50From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets...
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Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
Oscar WildeCurrent price €6.08Original price €6.99'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself'Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous bi...
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Through the Window: Seventeen Essays (and one short story)
Julian BarnesCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50In these seventeen essays (and one short story) the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner examines British, French and American writers who have meant most ...
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Attraversando il Bardo. Sgardi sull''aldila. Libro + DVD
Franco BattiatoCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50Current price €28.28Original price €32.50Save 13%