Prose & Letters

Virginia and her husband Leonard Woolf lived in Richmond-upon-Thames for ten years from the time of the First World War (1914-1924).

A fresh view of the life, work and wit of Jonathan Swift, the first of Ireland’s truly great writers, presented through his poetry, fiction, epigrams, social satires and personal letters.

The world has long considered China a juggernaut of economic strength, but since the global financial crisis, the country's economy has ballooned in size, complexity, and risk.

In a dazzlingly original work of non-fiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in - or spent time - in the greatest of American cities.

For over twenty years, people turned to A. A. Gill's columns every Sunday - for his fearlessness, his perception, and the laughter-and-tear-provoking one-liners - but mostly because he was the best. 'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age', as Lynn Barber put it.

Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Today they provide an incendiary portrait of the flash and dash and power brokering of the Excessive Eighties in New York and Hollywood.'A fabulous odyssey ... I read it in a mad frenzy' Stephen Fry'Hang on - it's a wild ride' Meryl Streep'Read the diaries and feel better about everything.

In over 30 essays, written over 20 years, one of the world's great story-tellers meditates on story-telling.

Written with candour and characteristic humour, Where the Past Begins takes readers into the idiosyncratic workings of her writer's mind, a journey that explores memory, imagination, and truth.

Alan Bennett's third collection of prose 'Keeping On Keeping On' follows in the footsteps of the phenomenally successfully 'Writing Home' and 'Untold Stories', each published ten years apart.

A testament to Francis Ledwidge, the man and poet. Edited by Tom French with an introduction by Gerald Dawe, A Bittern Cry includes essays and poetic contributions from Richard Ball, Eavan Boland, Gerald Dawe, Padraic Colum,Seán Dunne, Lord Dunsany, Peter Fallon, Tom French, Con Houlihan, Michael Longley, John McAuliffe, Thomas MacDonagh, Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Gunna, Gerard Smyth, Jessica Traynor, Brian Turner, Katharine Tynan, David Wheatley and Gareth Yore,