Prose: Non-Fiction

Sitting down to write a book about his hero D.H. Lawrence, Geoff Dyer finds himself compelled to write about anything else. He is in fact compelled...

On 21 November 2007, the city of Kolkata came to a rude, screeching halt as a virulent mob of religious fanatics took to the streets. Armed with a ...

Journey through the imagined islands of history.  Gathered in this book are over twenty islands that have decidedly human origins, whether they ar...

'One day there is life . . . And then, suddenly, it happens there is death.'So begins Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood, T...

'Man defines himself by his deeds - and what kind of image of man do we see in the mirror of our present times?' The poet and dramatist Friedrich S...

Perversely, but perhaps appropriately, Aidan Higgins--one of the few contemporary writers worthy of comparison with Beckett and Joyce, now celebrat...

This is an anthology of saints with classic prose complemented by over 85 works of art by world-famous artists. Every picture tells the story and i...

A revised illustrated edition of this landmark 1988 biography of one of the great women of Irish history, and Europes first elected female politician.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BARBELLION PRIZE 2021 'A manifesto for recalibrating' DAILY MAIL 'I cant think of many books where the reader feels so passion...

'Amusing, charming, stimulating, urbane' - THE TIMES 'Revelatory' - GUARDIAN 'Restores Clive Bell vividly to life' - Lucasta Miller _____________...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's revelatory look inside the sinister world of private spies.A spy story like no other.Private spies are the in...

From rebels to writers, athletes to astronauts, join Kate Fox takes on an entertaining and eye-opening journey through the lives of t...

Does modernity trample on tradition, or can it in fact be a vehicle for the sacred?How can one determine whether an interpretation is legitimate, a...

Gathers together Hogg's writing for magazines beyond ScotlandBeginning with the short story 'The Long Pack', first published in a London miscellany...

I believe every sunrise and I remember the smell of wet grass, the color of robins, and rustle of leaves on the big oaks that outlive nations, all ...

Better known in 1882 as a cultural icon than a serious writer, Oscar Wilde was brought to North America for a major lecture tour on Aestheticism an...

Set in the backdrop of the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, this book recollects Taslima Nasrin's early years. From her birth on a holy day to th...

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the poetry and prose of Matthew ...

Skelligs Haul is a generous compilation of Michael Kirbys prose and poetry, appealing for his simple, elegant style, his knowledge of unique local ...

An invigorating history of the arguments and cooperation between America and Britain as they divided up the world and an illuminating exploration o...