As autobiography, Brainard's method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories ('every...

In this light-hearted book, poet and gardener James Fenton describes a hundred plants he would ch...

Taking a panoramic view from the days of Thucydides up to the present, Heffer analyses the motive...

Wayne Koestenbaum considers the meaning of humiliation in this eloquent work of cultural critique...

Introduced and edited by broadcaster Stephen Johnson, a curated selection of chilling ghost stori...

This delightful anthology offers an array of writers both old and new who have expressed their th...

A fascinating account by one of the world's leading neurologists of the profound influence of Wil...

Sixteen short essays on places as varied as Glasgow and Norwich, Llanidloes and Sheffield, by the...

A brand new collection of essays exclusively commissioned by Notting Hill Editions. Iain Sinclair...

'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not think...

The Victorian artist and activist William Morris travelled to Iceland in search of an answer to t...

Perec was a leading exponent of French literary surrealism who found humour - and pathos - in the...