An entertaining history of literary London during the Second World War focusing on Peter Watson & Cyril Connolly's Horizon magazine, but also including the Woolfs, Dylan Thomas, Julian McLar... read more
As well as a bestselling novelist, Hustvedt has lectured on neuroscience, psychoanalysis and philosophy at scientific conferences across the world. This new essay collection draws both on he... read more
OL gets under the skin of a dozen glamorous but stifled figures: Susan Sontag, Christopher Isherwood, Nina Simone... With a sympathetic eye, she explores the conditions needed to cultivate... read more
An understanding and enquiring look at the demon drink and what it enables certain writers to achieve, and at what cost: Patrick Hamilton, Jean Rhys, Charles Jackson, Malcolm Lowry, Dylan Th... read more
First collection of the KOV's essays to be published in English. Wide-ranging - many subjects are northern, but not all - with his characteristic concentration on the navel. What would the C... read more
The director of the Bodleian includes some of the US president's deleted tweets in an historical survey that ranges from the Library of Alexandria to the Windrush papers. The surprise is tha... read more
Women and goddesses of Greek mythology are held up to close scrutiny by the sharp-eyed Haynes, who looks at both their origins and at their subsequent recastings. Lively and intelligent, fr... read more
For having considered God and himself he will consider his neighbor. Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Eliot and Gorey, Smart and now Gray consider the cat, and her relationship to those useful human... read more
Humane and witty ruminations on science, history, philosophy and politics by the bestselling physicist: Dante's universe, Nabokov's butterflies, Einstein's errors, etc.