Standish O’grady 
Standish O’grady 
Selected Essays and Passages

In 1625 Lady Eleanor Davies” life took a dramatic turn when, by her account in 1641, a 'Heavenly voice’ told her 'There is Ninteene yeares and a halfe to the day of Judgement, and you as the meek …

Quite simply, this book is a work of genius – Matthew Parris, The Spectator An absolutely extraordinary book a huge collage and anthology of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspaper reports, trial …

Susan Sontag’s third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative and hugely influential works she explores some of the most …

As writers strongly committed to the Reformation, Anne Lock Prowse and Elizabeth Russell translated works which they believed were doctrinally useful for their Protestant readers. Lock translated …

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 ”Deeply poetic.” CAROLINE LUCAS MP ”A masterpiece of storytelling.” NICK MAYHEW-SMITH ”Mary Colwell is a candle of …

How the modern world has understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter today The study of ancient Greek history has been central to the western conception of history since the Renaissance. The Mu …

John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on a funhouse hall-of-mirrors ride through the other side of America – to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the straggling refugees of MTV’s …

”Bracingly original” Kathryn Hughes, Guardian ”A mixture of travelogue, local history and reportage, Swamp Songs brims with evocative word sketches” Times Literary Supplement From Romney …

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA”S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023 A searing study of American poverty from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted The United States is the richest cou …

This is surely the most extraordinary book on food and eating ever published in the English language. Miss Pennell, who was a correspondent for the Pall Mall Gazette at the height of its amusement an …