Prose: Non-Fiction

''I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial.''A selection of the most insightful maxims and reflections from one of Germany''s grea...

A dark, troubling vision of life in the desert, defined broadly; of mountain lions and drug kingpins, Mexican hopes and Indian feuds.Los Angeles Ti...

At its best, Red Line can read like an original synthesis of Peter Matthiessen and William Burroughs . . . a brave and interesting book. David Rief...

Rekha Shetty's journey for the last 23 years have proved that innovation is a science. The art of the imagination can be implemented by the structu...

Edited by Darren Ambrose and with a foreword by Simon Reynolds, this comprehensive collection brings together the work of acclaimed blogger, writer...

Discussion presented by a narrator (an epileptic) which includes his personal experiences with a life-time of temporal lobe epilepsy, a selection o...

In this enchanting miscellany, Galchen notes that literature has more dogs than babies (and also more abortions), that the tally of children for ma...

Where are the snows of yesteryear. And the speedballs I useta know? Well, I guess its time for my Ovaltine and a long good night. In 1996...

Although corporations have been around for well over half a millennium, corporate governance as a distinctive field of study and specialization is ...

Inspired by the surreal accounts of the explorer and ''man of a million lies'' Marco Polo, Imaginary Cities charts the metropolis and the imaginati...

In the summer of 2009, Miranda July was struggling to finish writing the screenplay for her much-anticipated second film. During her increasingly l...

The only available critical selection of the works of Andrew Lang in 2 volume set. This is the first critical edition of the works of Andrew Lang, ...

'Because of his baldness and hairiness, he announced it was a capital offence for anyone either to look down on him as he passed or to mention goat...

**Longlisted for the ALCS Gold Non-Fiction Dagger** **Longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2022** Haunting lingers in th...

Around the world, countries and companies are setting net-zero carbon emissions targets. But net-zero is a term that conveniently obscures multiple...

A wry, intelligent, and unputdownable look at class and national identity today. Alberto Prunetti arrives in the UK, the twenty-something-year-old ...

A TIMES BEST COMEDY BOOK OF 2021 'The funniest man in the world has written the funniest book in the world.' DAVID WALLIAMS'A brilliant insight in ...

'Almost nothing in life is only what it seems.'Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary life, witness...

Not a Novel is the best of Jenny Erpenbeck's non-fiction. Moving and insightful, the pieces range from personal essays and literary criticism to re...

LONGLISTED FOR THE JAMES CROPPER WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON CONSERVATION. How should we restore nature and species, and why does it matter? W...

Delve into the lives and work of some of the worlds great writers with this intriguing collection of correspondence.   There is much to discover in...

In this authoritative, accessible study, historian Suzanne Schneider examines the politics and ideology of the Islamic State (better known as ISIS)...