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Bob Dylan

The Philosophy of Modern Song

Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of […]

Fiona Sampson

Starlight Wood

We think we know the Romantic countryside: that series of picturesque landscapes familiar from paintings, poems and […]

Philippe Sands

The Last Colony

After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determination. Supported […]

Matthew O'Brien

Beneath the Neon

Armed with a flashlight, tape recorder, and expandable baton, author Matt O’Brien explored the Las Vegas flood-control […]

Kevin Birmingham

The Most Dangerous Book – The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses

For more than a decade, the book now considered the most important novel in the English language […]

Patricia Highsmith

Her Diaries and Notebooks

Published for the very first time for the centenary of her birth, Patricia Highsmith’s diaries and notebooks […]

Ai Weiwei

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows

Hailed as “an eloquent and seemingly unsilenceable voice of freedom” by The New York Times, Ai Weiwei […]

David Graeber & David Wengrow

The Dawn of Everything

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike – either free and equal, […]

Harry Sword

Monolithic Undertow – In Search of Sonic Oblivion

Monolithic Undertow alights a crooked path across musical, religious and subcultural frontiers. It traces the line from […]

Cal Flyn

Islands of Abandonment

This is a book about abandoned places: ghost towns and exclusion zones, no man’s lands and fortress […]

Brandi Carlile

Broken Horses

Brandi Carlile was born into a musically gifted, impoverished family on the outskirts of Seattle and grew […]

Emilie Pine

Notes to Self

In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks to the business of living as a woman in the […]

Barack Obama

A Promised Land

In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of […]

Keith Williams

James Joyce and Cinematicity

Investigates how the cinematic tendency of Joyce’s writing developed from media predating film First comprehensive consideration of […]

Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan

Narrative Fiction

What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? […]