This winter, take the time to reflect on an extraordinary year with this perfectly distilled set of essays from one of our wisest and most humane thinkersFrom the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth ... Zobraziť viac
This is Going to Hurt was the publishing phenomenon of the century, read by many millions, loved by at least fifty of them, and adapted into a major TV series. But it was only part of the story... Zobraziť viac
The place I went to when I could not speak was also where my voice came from... Zobraziť viac
A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic... Zobraziť viac
The real guide to pregnancy, birth and beyond.I'm assuming you've picked up this book because you're either curious about having kids, you're currently up the duff, or you're stumbling through the early days of parenthood with ... Zobraziť viac
Regarding the Pain of Others is Susan Sontag's searing analysis of our numbed response to images of horror... Zobraziť viac
Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere, and the 'insatiability of the photographing ... Zobraziť viac
A literary anthology of important and artful interpretations of the civil rights movement and the fight against white supremacy, past and present—including pieces by Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, ... Zobraziť viac
One of Stylist's Best Memoirs for Summer 2021'Unlike anything I've read . . . Remarkable.' Roxane Gay'A thing of great beauty.' Paris ReviewIn letters addressed to their friends, to members of their family - both biological and chosen - and to... Zobraziť viac
There is a reason why Stephen King is one of the bestselling writers in the world, ever. Described in the Guardian as 'the most remarkable storyteller in modern American literature', Stephen King writes books that draw you in and are impossible to... Zobraziť viac
A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun, based on her 2013 TEDx Talk of the same name.'I would like to ask that we begin to dream about and plan for a different world... Zobraziť viac
It was not long after Halloween when Stephen King received a telephone call from his editor. 'Why don't you do a book about the entire horror phenomenon as you see it? Books, movies, radio, TV, the whole thing.'The result is this unique combinatio... Zobraziť viac
An American masterwork in praise of nature, self-reliance, and the simple life"e;I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, whe... Zobraziť viac
Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing phenomenon of the century. It has been read by millions, translated into 37 languages, and adapted into a major BBC television series... Zobraziť viac
Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who ... Zobraziť viac
James Bond is, without doubt, the daddy of all literary spies... Zobraziť viac
In over fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. The roller-coaster period covered in the collection brought an end to the end of history, ... Zobraziť viac
Three years before he died, David Bowie made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life - a list that formed something akin to an autobiography... Zobraziť viac
Well, well, well. Look at you, ogling my book page....I presume if you're reading this it means you either need more encouragement to buy it or we used to date and you're trying to figure out if you should sue me or not... Zobraziť viac
Aleksandar Hemon grew up in a blissful Sarajevo, where his childhood was consumed by football, his adolescence by friends, movies and girls and where, as a young man, he poked at the pretensions of his beloved city... Zobraziť viac
