The Writer And The World Av V. S. Naipaul

After a hiatus of seven years, V. S. Naipaul returned to fiction with A Way in the World, an exquisite meditation on rootlessness and belonging.

<p>In a wonderfully evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, Jan Morris - a constant traveller - has produced a unique portrait of the twentieth century. Ranging from New York to Venice, Sydney to Berlin,...

This collection of essays offers an intimate history of Austen's art and life told through objects associated with her personally and with the era in which she lived. Her teenage notebooks, music albums, pelisse-coat, letters and the portraits made...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.<i>Grave </i>takes a ground-level view of how burial sites have transformed over time and how they continue to change. As a cemetery...