Bestselling and award-winning authors share the secrets to their success, and the hard lessons they have learnt along the way.

Stunning account of conversations between these two great intellectuals of our time

Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a haunting record of a woman in the grips of love, desire and despair.

In A Girl's Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the summer of 1958, her first away from home, and recounts the first night she spent with a man.

One of the most highly acclaimed biographies of 2006 -- now published in paperback

An outstanding collection of some of the best pieces that Christopher Hitchens wrote for the London Review of Books.

In this inspiring love letter to reading and the life-changing power of literature, 35 writers share their all-time favourite books

The perfect gift for graduation! An inspiring, accessible and powerful collection of pieces of writing from William Shakespeare to L.M. Montgomery to Tim Minchin.

John Milton was celebrated and denounced in his own time both as a poet and as a polemicist. This edition of Milton's major prose works includes: Of Education, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates and the Divorce tracts, as well as the famous 1644 polemical tract on the opposing licensing and censorship, Areopagitica.

An enthralling tale of modern Manchester, told by a writer and journalist who has spent four decades reporting on the movers and the shakers of this unique city, from council leader Sir Richard Leese to Sir Alex Ferguson and Tony Wilson. -- .

An engaging, original and radical reassessment of J.R.R. Tolkien, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevant now than ever before.

"A brilliant selection . . . it is in short a voyage of discovery, an adventure and this the log of that voyage in the life of a probing and powerful writer." -Robert R. Kirsch, Los Angeles Times

A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road

Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces, a profoundly moving recounting of her mother's death.

New paperback of this incisive and intimate account of the life and work of the great poet Rilke,exploring the rich interior world he created in his poetry

From Boccaccio and Machiavelli through to Moravia and Tabucchi, from the Stil Novo to Divisionism, across centuries of history and intellectual movements, these essays will give English readers, and lovers of the Bel Paese and its culture, the lay of the literary land of Italy.

Travelling in search of atmosphere - a unique piece of travel writing weaving memoir, literature, art and psychogeography.