Essays, Journals, Letters & Other Prose Works Books

Contains the writings of John Peel, broadcaster of the Radio Show Home Truths .

Bubbling with gaiety and humour, these letters will delight Leigh Fermor and Mitford fans alike

Alistair Cooke was the greatest of all twentieth century reporters of life in America to the rest of the world. Published to celebrate the centenary of his birth, this book presents his writings on the events that shaped modern American history, from the end of the Second World War to the assassination of John Kennedy and of Bobby Kennedy.

Explores everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic, from freedom of the press to what patriotism really means.

Includes a selection of radio talks.

Presents an account of the author's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment.

Describes how a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city states united to repel the might of the Persian empire. Frequently giving rise to colorful digressions, this book blends fact and legend to offer a compelling Greek view of the world of the fifth century BC.

When Alistair Cooke retired in March 2004 and then died a few weeks later, he was acclaimed by many as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letters from America, which began in 1946 and continued uninterrupted every week until early 2004, kept the world in touch with what was happening in Cooke's wry, liberal and humane style. This selection, made largely by Cooke himself and ...

A collection of articles written by Stephen Fry for magazines, newspapers and radio, includes selected wireless essays of Donald Trefusis, the ageing professor of philology brought to life in Fry's novel The Liar and the best of Fry's weekly column for the Daily Telegraph .

For this treatise on statecraft the author drew upon his own experience of office under the turbulent Florentine republic, rejecting traditional values of political theory and recognizing the complicated, transient nature of political life.

A review on men and war, this book brings alive the terror of combat.

Helps you get yourself comfortable and shows you places like the Irish air-guitar championships, a shopping trip to Bloomingdales with a difference and Cannes with a chronic case of Villa-itis. This book offers knicker-politics, fake tans, sticky-out ears and love affairs both with make-up and Toblerones.

A selection from Susan Sontag's private diaries written in her youth and early adulthood. It features the young Sontag's complex self-awareness. It also shares in her encounters with the writers who informed her thinking.

'A uniquely charming and enticing journey through a remarkable life.' Stephen Fry With virtually all the letters in this volume previously unpublished - this is a revealing new insight into the private life of a legendary figure.

Contains essays, reviews and articles which illuminate the life and work of a man who created a literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to an art.

Presents the author's regular bulletins.

In 1935, a young woman wrote a letter to Nursery World magazine, expressing her feelings of isolation and loneliness. Women from all over the country experiencing similar frustrations wrote back. To create an outlet for their abundant ideas and opinions they started a private magazine, The Cooperative Correspondence Club .

A guide to the twentieth-century, illuminating the careers of many of its greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists and philosophers, such as Louis Armstrong, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust.

A treasury of selected quotations from one of the world's best-loved and best-selling writers and the author of The Alchemist.

Presents a collection ranging from lyrical autobiography to criticism of literature and culture, from humour to political analysis, from delicate evocations of the author's friendship with his daughter Ruya to provocative discussions of Eastern and Western art. This title also covers the author's high profile, court case.