Arts, Language & Literature
Discover The Artist’s Way by the Queen of Creativity Julia Cameron alongside acclaimed translator Emily Wilson’s Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea. From deep dives into the English language to the history of Black British music, our Arts, Language and Literature books are ideal for readers interested in cultural history, etymology and creative writing.
Finding Aladdin
Matthew Teller
A captivating tale of literary deduction, uncovering the legendary storyteller behind the Arabian Nights
Blasting Through Blocks
Julia Cameron
From the multimillion-selling author of THE ARTIST'S WAY, a week-by-week approach to uncovering and overcoming the creative blocks that get in ou…
Take Note
Andrew Hill
The lively and illuminating story of a vital tool that has powered the working world
The Wordspotter's Guide
Olivia Swarthout
An illuminating excavation of our linguistic origins from ancient times to the present day – the perfect Christmas gift for your favourite word nerd
Phrased and Confused
Eli Burnstein
Following Dictionary of Fine Distinctions, a stocking filler and witty guide to humanity's most iconic – and misunderstood – quotes
The Bookshop
Andrew Pettegree
A magisterial history of bookshops and booksellers by the author of The Library and The Book at war
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea
Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson reflects on the power of language to evolve our understanding of the past
Escaping Babylon
Jesse Bernard
How thirty years of Black music reshaped Britain, from 1989 to the present
The Prosperous Heart
Julia Cameron
From the internationally bestselling Queen of Creativity: guidance on building a life of spiritual wealth and abundance
A Shellshocked Nation
Alwyn Turner
A fresh and inventive social history of interwar Britain, from Armistice and the Spanish flu to the announcement of war
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions
Eli Burnstein
A charmingly illustrated and witty stocking filler for language lovers
Embers of the Hands
Eleanor Barraclough
A "brilliantly written, brilliantly conceived" (Tom Holland) history of the Viking Age, told through the everyday objects of ordinary people
The Artist's Way Toolkit
Julia Cameron
A powerful complement to the multimillion-copy-bestselling The Artist's Way, drawing on Julia Cameron's decades of distilled wisdom
All That Glitters
Orlando Whitfield
Welcome to the contemporary art world: a ruthless and glamorous arena, where the rewards are limitless – if you can pay the price.
Metamorphoses
Karolina Watroba
An original, inventive new biography of Franz Kafka – and his readers
Writing on the Wall
Madeleine Pelling
Hear the voices of the eighteenth century: an eye-opening new history of Britain's most tumultuous period, told through its graffiti
Interwar
Gavin Stamp
An authoritative survey of British buildings between the wars by the late Gavin Stamp – one of Britain's best-known architecture critics
Living the Artist's Way
Julia Cameron
The essential Artist's Way programme on guiding ourselves back to creativity
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary
Hana Videen
Welcome to the delightful and fascinating world of Old English animals
The Secret Life of John le Carré
Adam Sisman
The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carré was alive