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Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism
John Updike
 
Presents a collection of essays, poems and short stories. This book includes a collection of the author's best gossip.
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Sidewalks
Sidewalks (Paperback)
Valeria Luiselli
 
A dazzling follow-up to Faces in the Crowd, this collection of series of literary peregrinations around the margins of metropolitan life demonstrates Valeria Luiselli's equal virtuosity as a writer of...
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Politics and the English Language
George Orwell
 
Includes all issues such as political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. This title offers an essay on style.
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Living, Thinking, Looking
Siri Hustvedt
A dazzling collection of essays by the bestselling author of What I Loved - thought-provoking, engaging, illuminating reflections on what it means to be human.
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Pulphead: Notes from the Other Side ...
John Jeremiah Sullivan
 
Takes us on a funhouse hall-of-mirrors ride through the other side of America - to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the straggling refugees of...
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Both Flesh and Not
David Foster Wallace
 
Previously uncollected non-fiction, including the essay considered by many to be his finest, 'Federer Both Flesh and Not'.
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The Education of a British-protected...
Chinua Achebe
 
Gives us a portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria and inhabiting its 'middle ground', interrogating both the author's happy memories of reading English adventure stories in secondary school and...
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Kurt Vonnegut: Letters
Kurt Vonnegut
 
Includes the letter the twenty-two-year old Vonnegut wrote home immediately upon being freed from the German POW camp; wry dispatches from Vonnegut's years as a struggling writer; letters to...
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The Total Library: Non-fiction,...
Jorge Luis Borges; Eliot Weinberger;...
 
Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction...
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Arguably
Arguably (Paperback)
Christopher Hitchens
 
For forty years, Christopher Hitchens was at the epicentre of the battle of letters in Britain and America. This blockbuster volume is the the most comprehensive collection of his writings...
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The Revolt of the Pendulum: Essays...
Clive James
 
The further thoughts of Clive James.
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Arguably: Selected Prose
Christopher Hitchens
The best of 40 years of writing on politics, literature and religion from the finest English essayist since George Orwell.
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Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose
Ted Hughes; William Scammell
 
A collection of prose pieces by the Poet Laureate, on literary matters and on writers as diverse as Emily Dickinson, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Walter de la Mare, T.S. Eliot, Wilfred...
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Johnson's Life of London: The People...
Boris Johnson
 
London is special. For centuries, it has been amongst the greatest cities of the world. But a city is nothing without its people. This sparkling new history of London, told...
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris
 
A brilliant, savage, hilarious new collection of writings from David Sedaris - it's as if Garrison Keillor's evil twin meets Woody Allen'
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How to be Alone
How to be Alone (Paperback)
Jonathan Franzen
 
Passionate, independent-minded nonfiction from the international bestselling author of 'The Corrections'.
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