The Victorian artist and activist William Morris travelled to Iceland in search of an answer to the problem of how to live.
Osip Mandelstam's meditation on eight months spent in Armenia in 1930
In this lyrical essay, Gunn explores the ideas of home and belonging - and of her own deep connection to a place where every flower and gatepost seems embroidered with the memory of some story or another.
Cyclogeography lifts the lid on the hidden world of Cycle Couriers, the 'solitary creatures of the underworld', and the strange or illicit contents of... Læs mere
In this extraordinary memoir, neuroscientist Andrew Lees explains how William Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and troubled drug addict, played an unlikely part in his medical career.
These essays reveal different and lesser known aspects to Oscar Wilde Wilde has always had the power to capture the public imagination like no other author
Woolf responds passionately to those writers - past, present - who deal honestly with the reader, who express their own variations on the 'I am I' - the selective vision of the finite self.
This delightful anthology rounds up the most memorable walker-writers, from country hikers to urban strollers, from the rationalists to the truly outlandish. All of... Læs mere
This latest collection of walking literature from Notting Hill Editions celebrates the allure of the Continent.
A New York Times-bestselling author's personal examination of how the experiences, art, and disabilities of Frida Kahlo shaped her life as an amputee
A selection of essays, stories, and poems on cats by writers from across the ages, introduced by Margaret Atwood.
A curated selection of chilling ghost stories from world literature, introduced and edited by broadcaster Stephen Johnson.