Prose: Non-Fiction

George F. Will has been one of this country's leading columnists since 1974. He won the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1977. The Wall Street Journal once...

?Kate Fagan and her father forged their relationship on the basketball court, bonded by sweaty high fives and a dedication to the New York Knicks. ...

There are many youngsters growing up in rough areas of the UK who are not given the opportunities that they deserve. This appears to be more common...

There are many youngsters growing up in rough areas of the UK who are not given the opportunities that they deserve. This appears to be more common...

A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia Woolfs classic plea for aworld in which women are free to use their gifts. In this influentia...

Recognised now as one of the most important voices to emerge from Scotland's literary 'Renaissance' in the 1930s, the full extent of Nan Shepherd's...

These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatts essays introduce the writer to a new generation of readers. The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921...

Almost unknown during his lifetime, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky is now hailed as a master of Russian prose. His short stories and novels, unpublishabl...

In Dear Friend, you must change your life, we see some of the most fascinating thinkers in history at their most private and profound, reaching out...

We describe people who are consumed or devoured by ambition as if by a predator or an out-of-control inferno. Thinkers since deepest antiquity h...

Svetlana Boym was a prolific writer, a charismatic professor, a novelist, and a public intellectual. She was also a fiercely resourceful and reflec...

The long buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers to women covering war....

Almost two decades after writing his famous The Occult, Colin Wilson re-examined the whole spectrum of the mystical and paranormal, producing a gen...

First Place Winner in Non-Fiction from the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Part literary history, part personal memoir, Alice Brittan's bea...

Thomas Dai has never gone by his Chinese name, Nuocheng, fashioned from the Knoxville (Chinese: Nuokeshiweier) of his childhood and the Chengdu his...

I believe Im going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe Im going to die high off the people. I believe Im going to die a revolutiona...

'A Scout is a Friend to all' An amalgam of imperial myth, borrowed tips on health and hygiene, and object lessons in woodcraft, the 1908 text of R...

Idiosyncratic.Iconoclastic.Acerbic.Hilarious.The influence of Tom Hibbert's music writing across print, radio, TV and podcasts is incomparable. Fro...

From legendary journalist Gay Talese, a collection of his greatest reporting on New York City.Along with Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe and ...

'Remarkable and complex' GEORGE MCGAVIN A memoir and investigation exploring loss, community and the climate cris...

'Remarkable and complex' GEORGE MCGAVIN A memoir and investigation exploring loss, community and the climate cris...

A poetic new essay collection in which the symbols of the tarot brush up against life in a changing world. The Tarot de Marseille is a 16th-century...

'Read this important book' - The GuardianSeeking the truth behind organized crime in Naples, Roberto Saviano bravely brings to light the monstrous ...

Contributions by Ruth R. Caillouet, Mary C. Carruth, Nancy Dixon, Kathleen Downes, Edward J. Dupuy, Shari Evans, Paul Fess, Carina Evans Hoffpauir,...

A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and artThe Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects...

De Europa ist eine geographisch-historische Schrift des Humanisten und Papstes Enea Piccolomini/Pius II. (14051464). Inhalt des Werkes sind die Ere...

When, in 1927, Dorothy Parker became a book critic for the New Yorker, she was already a legendary wit, a much-quoted member of the Algonquin Round...

Caryl Phillips is one of the most respected writers of his generation. An award-winning author best known for his fiction, essays and stage plays, ...

Manuscript albums are oftentimes contradictory objects: ephemeral yet monumental, coherent yet inviting change. Collecting items made by others, ow...

In this volume of essays, eminent Jewish scholars from around the world present introductions to the different parts of the Bible for the wider pub...