Square Haunting by Francesca Wade
'Outstanding. I'll be recommending this all year.' Sarah Bakewell'A beautiful and deeply moving book.' Sally Rooney'I li...
Intimations : Six Essays
"Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of reflective essays by one of the most clear-sighted ...
Conditional Citizens
The acclaimed, award-winning novelist--author of The Moor's Account and The Other Americans--now gives us a bracingly pe...
Memorial Drive
"In Memorial Drive, Natasha Trethewey has transformed unimaginable tragedy into a work of sublimity. There's sorrow and ...
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
One of the New York Times' 20 Books to Read in 2020 "Unforgettable...Behind her brilliantly witty and uplifting message ...
Very Good Lives
In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the firs...
Mom and Me and Mom
'In the first decade of the twentiety century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.' So begins...
Why be Happy when You Could be Normal?
The shocking, heart-breaking - and often very funny - true story behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. In 1985 Jeanette...
Black Milk by Elif Shafak
An acclaimed Turkish novelist's personal account of balancing a writer's life with a mother's life. After the birth of...
Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens traces his journey from a Portsmouth military family to Balliol College, and a career as a public i...
Nothing to Be Frightened Of
"I don’t believe in God, but I miss him." So begins Julian Barnes’s brilliant new book that is, among many things, a...
Brother, I'm Dying
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyA National Book Award FinalistA New York Times Notable...
Shakespeare: The World as Stage
William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but h...
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? I...
The Mitford Girls
THE MITFORD GIRLS tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are ...
Cider with Rosie
At all times wonderfully evocative and poignant, Cider With Rosie is a charming memoir of Laurie Lee's childhood in a re...
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Published in Their Entirety for the First Time, Sylvaia Plath's journals provide an intimate portrait of the writer who ...
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST - one of the mo...
Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham Linc...
A Moveable Feast
The first thing to say about the 'restored' edition so ably and attractively produced by Patrick and Sean Hemingway is t...
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau is considered one of the leading figures in early American literature, and Walden is without doubt h...
Unreliable Memoirs
Before James Frey famously fabricated his memoir, Clive James wrote a refreshingly candid book that made no claims to be...