**The instant Sunday Times bestseller**What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts?Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting …
Taking inspiration from classic authors from Jane Austen to Thomas Hardy, Williams shines a light on our societyââ?¬â?¢s changing views of the rural and industrial landscapes in …
Features 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 'The Task of the Translator' and 'Theses on the Philosophy of History', as well as essays on Kafka, storytelling, …
A fascinating and wonderfully readable deconstruction of the countless myths that have grown up around the Brontes. Since 1857, hardly a year has gone by without some sort of …
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the secret history of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy …
In the space of a single generation, three eighteenth-century writers - Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding - invented an entirely new genre of writing: the novel. …
Kafka's letters to Felice Bauer were written between 1912 and 1917, during which time they were twice engaged to be married. This complex relationship, which coincided with a …
He is troubled with gout and debt, but for now is preoccupied with a younger man on a barren shore - Robinson Crusoe, for which he will principally be remembered. Several miles …
Examines the motivations behind the extremes in Jean Genet's life and writing. Striving to separate the facts from the myths surrounding one of the century's strangest and most …
