Prose: Non-Fiction

A new selection of essays from Michael Hofmann - one of our most exceptional critics of contemporary literature. 'Superb and invigorating.' Nichola...

A hero of mine, a moral as well as literary giant Simon SchamaAmos Oz, the internationally acclaimed author of A Tale of Love and Darkness and Juda...

From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: twelve of his most controversial non-fiction pieces form this collection on the theme of freedom. Ranging from...

A great American writers confrontation with a great European critic a personal and intellectual awakening. Karl Kraus: satirist. Controv...

What is pretentiousness? Why do we despise it? And more controversially: why is it vital to a thriving culture? In this brilliant, passionate essay...

A timely and nuanced book that sets the author's experience as a nursing home volunteer during the pandemic alongside the wisdom of five great thi...

*A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND EVENING STANDARD*Twelve bytes. Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocati...

A New Statesman essential non-fiction read of 2021'Everybody should read [this]' StylistBlackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intang...

''''It was a tiny incident in itself, but it gave me a better glimpse than I had had before of the real nature of imperialism - the real motives fo...

An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking...

__________________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERStop searching for the answers - and start delighting in the questions with Pandora Sykes, co-host of ...

With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and he...

The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works'James Wood is a close reader of genius... ...

I must die as I lived, beyond my means. Arguably the most quoted man in history, and certainly in his day, this enormous miniature collection is fi...

Haare Williams grew up with his Tuhoe grandparents on the shores of Ohiwa Harbour in a te reo world of Tane and Tangaroa, Te Kooti and the old test...

A Times book of the year A Guardian book of the year MagnificentThe Times Dazzling New Statesman It filled ...

From acclaimed poet and New Yorker writer Cynthia Zarin comes a deeply personal meditation on two cities, Venice and Romeeach a work of art, both a...