Prose: Non-Fiction

'One of the most dazzling luminaries of contemporary American fiction' Sunday Times 'The most commanding and exciting and inventive rhetorical virt...

Since 1961 James Reeve has been exhibiting and selling his paintings, first in Florence, then in Madrid. From 1974 onwards he has travelled widely,...

On September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers'' College went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. On route to a protes...

Just pick up a copy and set off. Youll be amazed at what youve missed. - Sir Michael PalinMARCH, 2020: A columnist watches as London locks down, fa...

'The most approachable and exhilarating Latin American writer of our times.' Robert McCrum, ObserverIn the past, culture was a kind of vital consci...

'Revisiting this selection of diaries and essay-reviews from the London Review of Books is restorative, an extended spa treatment that stretches ti...

Flayingly authentic and sensationally compelling one of the best books of the year. The Observer A book that few authors would have the courage to...

'Will Self may not be the last modernist at work but at the moment he's the most fascinating of the tradition's torch bearers.' New YorkFrom one of...

Today the ideal home remains a site of illusory ease, a space that can be wiped clean of the residues of living... In this radical and elegiac es...

Aurochs and Auks is a deeply moving and intelligent meditation on the natural processes of death and extinction, renewal and continuity. Prompted b...

During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation on our world. Now his ...