Essais, caractéristiques, critique littéraire

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR UK NATURE WRITING Alone on a remote mountaintop one dark night, a woman hears a my …

This volume contains a newly-edited cache of over 30 manuscript essays on a diverse range of topics and descriptions. …

 »Not all lost cities are real, but this one was. » The extraordinary story of Alexander the Great »s lost city, and a quest to unravel one of the most captivating mysteries in ancient history.  »Su …

 »Deeply moving … A triumph » Justin Webb  »What might, in other hands, have been simply macabre becomes peculiarly mesmerising » Craig Brown, The Mail on Sunday Ten seconds before my father »s de …

Examine the social and cultural impact of basketball on America at the amateur and professional levels! Basketball in America: From the Playgrounds to Jordan’s Game and Beyond is a pioneering analysi …

Lonely Planet: The world »s leading travel guide publisher A collection of great travel writing by authors from around the globe, including original stories set in Scotland, Thailand, Malaysia, Moldo …

This book of original essays explores three important areas in comparative literature and history and in cultural studies: the boundaries between history and fiction;women as writers and subjects; an …

Finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism  »Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring … highly intelligent, furiously funny » Sunday Times  »Funny, …

 »Speckled with anecdotes, insights and surprises. It is great fun – and utterly timely » Sunday Times  »Standage writes with a masterly clarity » New York Times  »The product of deep research, gre …

"The Future of the Women’s Movement" by Helena M. Swanwick is a thought-provoking essay advocating feminism, women’s rights, and social change. Swanwick, a prominent figure in the suffrage …