Prose: Non-Fiction

A charming memento of the Victorian era's literary colossus, The Daily Charles Dickens is a literary almanac for the ages. Tenderly and irreverentl...

'Modern Ukraine could do with some reporters as wise and humane as Teffi' Literary ReviewA new collection of Teffi's best autobiographical non-fict...

''Lyrical, moving and never self-pitying... a lovely book'' The Times''An extraordinary and powerful book, full of vitality'' Tristan GooleyI came ...

Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous i...

It was Rachel Signer's dream to be that girl: the one smoking hand-rolled cigarettes out the windows of her 19th-century Parisian studio apartment,...

These letters cover the activities of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac in the years that gave birth to the Beat Generation. Written most...

'Amis has no faults. He is clever, witty, ironical' GuardianWhat advice can one give a green young author? What purpose do literary prizes serve? W...

The selected poems and prose writings of Edward Thomas, with a Foreword from Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways'I have come to the borders o...

Did you know that the Italians invented the fork, and the English named the Dolomites? That you can't drink cappuccino after noon or buy coloured p...

Between 2010 and 2014 Lynn Jenner made several related emotional and intellectual investigations. Lost and Gone Away is the record of these: a fasc...

A unique literary journey through select critical moments in South African history, this collection of short stories opens in Sophiatown of the 195...