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Marian Keyes / Under the Duvet : Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities (Large Paperback)

From the acclaimed bestselling author of Sushi for Beginners and Angels comes a collection of personal essays on shopping, writing, moviemaking, motherhood and all the assorted calamities involved in being a savvy woman in the new...

Alan Clark / The Last Diaries, 1993 - 1999

The first two volumes of Alan Clark's were irresistible, irreverent, infamous, outrageous. This last volume is a fitting finale to the work of a man who has been described as 'the best diarist of his century'. The third volume begins in 1991 with Alan...

Simon Schama / Scribble, Scribble, Scribble

Wednesday brought a pungent sheepy smell emanating from the greyish lamb and barley soup my mother optimistically called 'Taste of the Garden of Eden'. Expel me, please. Haddock in the air? That would be Thursday. The faintest whiff of roasting garlic?...

Bei Dao / That I Can Open Midnight's Gate

This work contains twenty essays from the leading Chinese poet of modern times. Taken together, these essays form an intellectual travelogue, full of the exiled writer's observations of life and letters in cities such as Copenhagen, Johannesburg, New...

Ray , Sean O'Riain / Condemned: Letters from Death Row

Condemned:Letters from Death Rowby "Ray" and Seán Ó Riain is a collection of letters between a former Cork teacher and a death row inmate that develops into a unique friendship-one thatis in itself a subtle, rallying cry against an American...

Auberon Waugh / Will This Do

The only question left hanging in the air is the one which every journalist asks himself on submitting an article. It is also the one with which we may all eventually, in trembling hope, face our  -Will this do?' The question should rather How does...

Giles Smith / Midnight In the Garden of Evel Knievel - Sport on Television

Manchester United scooping the Treble; Schumacher barging Hill off the track; Tyson chewing Holyfield; Argentina beating England on penalties; Germany beating England on penalties; everybody else beating England on penalties . . . Name any one of the...

Moyra Davey / Index Cards ( Fitzcarraldo Editions)

In these essays, the acclaimed artist, photographer, writer, and filmmaker Moyra Davey often begins with a daily encounter—with a photograph, a memory, or a passage from a book—and links that subject to others, drawing fascinating and...

Jan Morris / In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary

'I have never before in my life kept a diary of my thoughts, and here at the start of my ninth decade, having for the moment nothing much else to write, I am having a go at it. Good luck to me.' So begins this extraordinary book, a collection of diary...

Jonathan Safran Foer / We are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

From the bestselling author of Eating Animals and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - a brilliant, fresh take on climate change and what we can do about it'Your burger isn't something you bought and paid for. It is a symbol of a...

Richard Girling / Greed

A timely polemic on how it drove our ancesters out of their caves but is now sending us careening towards our destruction.Selfishness and greed have been our tools of survival from the very beginning, ever since our earliest forebearers climbed down from...

Anke Richter / Cult Trip

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA leading journalist's intense, riveting and personal investigation into the worlds and minds of cults.At a new age festival in Byron Bay, Australia, German journalist Anke Richter is finding her spiritual awakening when she...

Yewande Biala / Reclaiming : Essays on Finding Yourself

I am more than enough, and I am perfect with all my imperfections.In 2021, Yewande Biala wrote a searing viral essay on the debilitating effects of having your name constantly mispronounced or changed.From the incredible response to the essay, it was...

Tom Wolfe / Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine

The Man Who Always Peaked Too Soon; The Truest Sport: Jousting with Sam and Charlie; The Commercial: A Short Story; The Intelligent Coed's Guide to America; The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening     All of our books are second hand, and...

Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992

The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and...

Boris Johnson / Have I Got Views For You - PB - 2004

A collection of Boris Johnson's newspaper commentaries from The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The Guardian and GQ magazine - commentaries on British politics from the Thatcher years through to the Blair years, the Serb-Croat-Bosnian-Kosovo wars,...

Caitríona Perry / In America. (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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Caitríona Perry / In America (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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Brian O'Connell / The Personals (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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Virginia Woolf / The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (Vintage Paperback)

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Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Pruse - HB 1967

Hardcover, published by MacGibbon & Kee UK, 1967. The first edition of the collected prose ( the misspelling of Pruse in the title is deliberate)  Lacks the original dustjacket, there is edgewear to the top and base of the spine externally,...

Carlo Gébler - A Cold Eye : Notes From a Shared Island 1989-2024 - PB - BRAND NEW

If the past is another country – what happens when we revisit it, one day a year? Carlo Gébler has done just that. Here is the story of Ireland – from the tail end of the Troubles to the Good Friday agreement, to the glory days of the...

John Quinn - My Education: Interviews - PB -1997

Published by Town House Dublin, in association with RTE, 1997.  Edited versions of the much acclaimed radio interviews broadcast between 1991 and 1996, from a wide range of contributors , from Noam Chomsky to Maureen Potter.     

Ted Hughes - Winter Pollen : Occasional Prose HB 1994 ( Edited by William Scammell )

The Paris Review - Issue 147 - Summer 1998

Russell Banks discusses Kerouac, Hollywood, and the Art of Fiction. An Oulipo Sampler. Stories by Scott Anderson, Rick Bass, and Michael Knight. Poems by Henri Cole, Czeslaw Milosz, and Patty Seyburn. large format paperback  

David Lee Clark ( Editor) / Shelley's Prose (Large Paperback)

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Alexander Chancellor / Some Times in America (Large Paperback)

America may no longer have a special relationship with Britain, but it still has one with Alexander Chancellor. Nurtured during the war on American food parcels and American musicals, he grew up in England believing the United States to be some kind of...

Anita Nair / Where the Rain is Born: Writings About Kerala (Large Paperback)

A combination of essays, short stories, poems and extracts from published works in both English and Malayalam, this anthology affords a tantalizing glimpse into the rich and varied layers of experience that Kerala has to offer.     All of our...

Hayden Carruth / Selected Essays and Criticism (Large Paperback)

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Andrew Whittaker / Bright Brilliant Days - Douglas Gageby & the Irish Times (Large Paperback)

A collection of appreciations and essays in honour of the Irish Times Editor - Douglas Gageby.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good...

Walter de la Mare - Pleasures and Speculations - HB - 1940

Hardcover, 1940, a collection of essays, literary criticism and essays on poetry and writing from the noted short story writer Lacks the origfinal dustjacket, a clean solidn copt in grey cloth covers, , titles in gilt to spine. Light edgewear, with...

ÉIRE-IRELAND - Irish Studies Quarterly - Winter 2000-2001 - History Culture & Literature

The Winter 2000-2001 issue of the noted Irish American published literary and historical journal - Éire-Ireland, published  by the Irish-American Cultural Institute Morristown NJ.   An interdisciplinary scholarly journal of...

Thomas Mallon / Rockets and Rodeos - & other American Spectacles : Essays(Hardback)

Essays discuss unique American cultural spectacles such as the Fourth of July, rodeo championships, the trial of a bank robber, the launch of the space shuttle Discovery, the fiftieth anniversary of Pearl Harbor, and a death row inmate.  1993,...

John Simpson / We Chose to Speak of War and Strife: The World of the Foreign Correspondent (Hardback)

From distinguished foreign correspondent John Simpson, a fascinating history of what it is to risk life and limb to bring home news of the troubled world.In corners of the globe where fault lines seethe into bloodshed and civil war, foreign...

Alan Rusbridger / Play It Again : An Amateur Against the Impossible (Hardback)

As editor of the "Guardian", Alan Rusbridger's life is dictated by the demands of the 24-hour news cycle. This means an average work day lasts over seventeen hours, and the average work week is seven days long. It is not the kind of job that leaves one...

Clive James / Cultural Amnesia (Large Paperback)

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Michael Frayn / The Human Touch : Our Part in the Creation of a Universe

What would that universe be like if human beings were not here to observe it? Would there be still be numbers, or scientific laws? Would the universe even be vast, without our tininess to give it scale?The author of award winning novels (such...

Janine Di Giovanni / Ghosts by Daylight : A Memoir of War and Love

Janine and Bruno first fell in love as young reporters in the besieged city of Sarajevo. Years later - after endless phone calls, much of what the French call malentendu, secret trysts in foreign cities, numerous break-ups, three miscarriages,...

Celia Walden / Babysitting George (Hardback)

'So George Best walks into a pub...' Howls of laughter drown out the punch line, and for the first time since I heard the news of his death I smile. George would have liked that one. 2003. A Sunday in early August. Celia Walden, a young reporter,...

Tim Willis / Nigel Dempster & the Death of Discretion: The Life and Legacy of the World's Greatest Gossip (Hardback)

If there is any one person responsible for the birth of celebrity culture, it is the late, great gossip columnist Nigel Patton Dempster (1941-2007).From the early sixties to the mid-eighties as the editor of “Dempster’s Diary” on the...

Ciaran Carty / Intimacy With Strangers : A Life of Brief Encounters (Large Paperback)

Ciaran Carty draws upon a career involving many of the world’s leading writers, artists, actors and directors as they explore intimate concerns, ranging from love and rejection to the smallest physical sensations of pleasure and pain, and to the...

Tim Dowling / How To Be a Husband (Large Paperback)

  You'll never get divorced if you never get married. Not even your granny minds if you live in sin any more. And if you're single you can choose your curtains without somebody else butting in. So why bother with marriage? It can't just be an easy...

Issa Rae / The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl (Large Paperback)

I’m awkward—and black. Someone once told me those were the two worst things anyone could be. That someone was right. Where do I start?Being an introvert (as well as “funny,” according to the Los Angeles Times) in a world that...

Colum McCann / Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice (Hardback)

From the author of Thirteen Ways of Looking and TransAtlantic , a compassionate series of letters to young writers embarking on their careers, which grew out of the weekly advice McCann posts on his website.     All of our books are second...

Marc Maron & Brendan McDonald / Waiting for the Punch: Words to Live by from the WTF Podcast (Hardback)

From the beloved and wildly popular podcast WTF with Marc Maron comes a book of intimate, hilarious and life changing conversations with some of the funniest, and most important people in the world like you’ve never heard them before...

Gabrielle Union / We're Going to Need More Wine (Hardback)

In the spirit of Amy Poehler’s Yes Please, Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl, and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, a powerful collection of essays about gender, sexuality, race, beauty, Hollywood, and what it means to be...

Fay Weldon / Godless in Eden : A Book of Essays (Hardback)

A collection of journalism from a topical and entertaining author.A cornucopia of a book, Godless in Eden brings together a selection of lectures and essays contributed to newspapers, magazines and books over recent years, revised for this volume, and...

Tony Benn / Free At Last! Diaries 1990-2001 (Hardback)

This volume brings Tony Benn’s Diaries up to date, covering events from the Gulf War to the rise of New Labour, the attacks on the World Trade Center and the war in Afghanistan.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not...

Tom Engelhardt / The World According to Tomdispatch: America In The New Age of Empire (Large Paperback)

Tomdispatch.com has established itself as the go-to blog for contemporary US politics, and the favored website for leading commentators; its powerful, no-holds-barred essays resonate throughout the global online media. This comprehensive volume offers...

Charles Kuralt / Charles Kuralt's American Moments (Large Paperback)

The beloved late journalist offers a collection of short studies of some of the colorful, fascinating, and extraordinary characters he met during his joyous odyssey into the heart of America. Reprint.     All of our books are second hand, and...

Tracey E. Dils / You Can Write Children's Books (Large Paperback)

An author and editor of children's books guides the budding author from book idea to sales, explaining how to write, edit, and submit works for publication     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in...

Sorcha Pollak / New to the Parish (Large Paperback)

An inspiring chronological timeline of personal stories of migration, New to the Parish takes us on a journey across the globe – from Cameroon to Myanmar, Poland to New York, Nigeria to Venezuela, Iraq to Syria – and back home again...