Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature

The worst thing about men taking over the cooking of fancy food in restaurants is that every dish now arrives covered in ejaculant, all those drizzles and foam and schmeers... Things Are Against Us is the first collection of essays from Booker Prize-shortlisted author Lucy Ellmann. It is everythi...

Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life. With wit, clarity and calm brilliance, she considers how the writer must stake claim to that contested territory and shape it to her need.

"Kei Miller explores the silences in which so many important things are kept. Miller examines the experience of discrimination through this silence and what it means to breach it - 'to risk words, to risk truth; and through the body and the histories those bodies inherit' the crimes that haunt th...

Giving formal presentations can be stressful. But there's another type of communication that is far more crucial to our success: those spur-of-the-moment, critical situations when we have to contribute without a script. A high-pressure discussion at work, a job interview, small talk at a networki...

The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordinary career. Each phase of his wandering life is included, from a precocious essay written while still at Cambridge in ...

Following the publication In My Mind's Eye, her acclaimed first volume of diaries, a Radio 4 Book of the Week in 2018, Jan Morris continued to write her daily musings. From her home in the North West of Wales, the author of classics such as Venice and Trieste cast her eye over modern life in all ...