Literary essays

A vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of colour, sharing the experiences, cultural traditions and convictions that have shaped them and their work.

'Last year I lost my cat Gattino. He was very young, at seven months barely an adolescent. He is probably dead but I don't know for certain.' So begins Mary Gaitskill's stunning long essay, the closest thing she has written to a memoir, about a lost cat and a pair of adopted children. In this sea...

In 'Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know', the author turns his incisive gaze to three of Ireland's greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce, and their earliest influences: their fathers.

Using case studies, Sacks examines the effects of impairment and incapacity of neurological function such as loss of speech and loss of memory, and looks at the relationship between the brain and the mind.

Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, teacher and activist, she moved from the margins to centre stage, taking her place in the spotlight at last. Her jour...

Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, teacher and activist, she moved from the margins to centre stage, taking her place in the spotlight at last. Her jour...

This is a collection of essays on feminism, from one of the most original public intellectuals writing today.

Migraine is an age-old - the first recorded instances date back over two thousand years - and often debilitating condition, affecting a 'substantial minority' of the population across the globe. In this book, Oliver Sacks offers at once a medical account of its occurrence and management; an explo...

Michaela Coel, BAFTA-winning actor and writer of breakout series 'I May Destroy You' and 'Chewing Gum', makes a compelling case for radical honesty. Drawing on her unflinching Edinburgh Festival MacTaggart lecture, 'Misfits' recounts deeply personal anecdotes from Coel's life and work to argue fo...

Michaela Coel, BAFTA-winning actor and writer of breakout series 'I May Destroy You' and 'Chewing Gum', makes a compelling case for radical honesty. Drawing on her unflinching Edinburgh Festival MacTaggart lecture, 'Misfits' recounts deeply personal anecdotes from her life and work to argue for g...