Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature

Novelist Fiona McGregor'snew book, Buried Not Dead, is a collection of essays on art, literature and performance, sexuality, activism and the life of the city. It features performance artists, writers, dancers, tattooists and DJs, some of them famous, like Marina Abramovic and Mike Parr, while ot...

Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? How can we live on our planet? Is it true? And is it fair? What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism? In over 50 pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humou...

A whole year's worth of linguistic curiosities, just waiting to be discovered. Within these pages you might leap back in time, learn about linguistic trivia, follow a curious thread or wonder at the web of connexions in the English language.: 1 January quaaltagh (n.) the first person you meet on ...

Cairn (n.): a marker on open land, a memorial, a viewpoint shared by strangers. As she reached her 60th year, the acclaimed author and poet Kathleen Jamie turned to a new form of writing: personal notes, prose poems, micro-essays, fragments. In her new book they are arranged together like the sto...

Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.