Notting Hill Editions: 14 books
A Eulogy for Nigger and Other Essays
The Second Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize Winners
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
This collection brings together the six international winners of the Notting Hill Editions £20,000 Essay Prize. From the coolly analytical to the impassioned winning entry 'A Eulogy for Nigger', these essays showcase the dazzling literary range of the form.
NOTTING HILL
A Walking Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
This bilingual guide to Notting Hill and Portobello Road is designed to take the curious wanderer through one of London's most bohemian districts. Through four themed walks, Julian Mash uncovers the history, culture, and little-known facts about this unique area. Featured photographs and hand-drawn...
Journey to Armenia
Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) was a Russian poet and essayist. He visited Armenia in 1930 and during his stay he was inspired to write an experimental meditation on the country and its ancient culture. This edition includes the companion piece Conversa
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) was a Russian poet and essayist. He visited Armenia in 1930 and was inspired to write an experimental meditation on the country and its ancient culture. Includes the companion piece Conversation About Dante. 'It takes its place among the outstanding masterpieces of twentieth century literature.' - Bruce Chatwin.
Alchemy
Writers on Truth, Lies and Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Five writers grapple with reality and fiction, and the alchemical process of turning life into art. As Iain Sinclair frames it in his luminous introduction, they try to explain the impulse to write 'by way of personal anecdote, revelation or hopeful punt in the dark.'
Grumbling at Large
Selected Essays of J.B. Priestley
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Priestley defined the essay as a 'prose masterpiece in miniature' and he expressed his thoughts on a diverse range of subjects from old age to his horror of conferences. Writing sometimes 'out of devilment' to shake up a complacent public, Priestley's essays reveal the singular voice of one of Britain's most distinguished writers.
The Russian Soul
Selections from A Writer's Diary by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Dosteovsky's immediate impulse for embarking on A Writer's Diary in 1873 was a desire to come into closer contact with his readers. Published in monthly instalments, it became a unique journalistic enterprise. Far more popular than his novels ever were, the Diary was Dostoevsky's favourite work. Brilliantly...
A Roundabout Manner
Sketches of Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Thackeray, author of the masterpiece Vanity Fair, was considered one of the finest writers of the Victorian heyday: Dickens was his closest rival. This anthology covers all of Thackeray's versatile genius: his sketches, journalism, essays, cartoons and fiction. With explanatory notes by Scholar and...
Road to Apocalypse
The Extraordinary Journey of Lewis Way
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
In the winter of 1811, Lewis Way had an epiphany on the road to Exmouth. From that moment the eccentric millionaire devoted himself to one goal: the return of the Jews to the Holy Land. This essay uncovers a forgotten life story, and reveals the strange roots of the American Christian Right's current support for the state of Israel.
DENIAL
The Unspeakable Truth
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
The holocaust never happened. The planet isn't warming. Vaccines harm children. The Earth is flat. Denialism comes in many forms, often dressed in the garb of scholarship. It's certainly insidious, but what if, as Kahn-Harris asks, it actually cloaks much darker, unspeakable, desires? If denialists...
The Paradoxal Compass
Drake's Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Morpurgo dramatizes the perilous hours during which Drake's Golden Hinde was stranded on a reef off the coast of Indonesia, and asks what was really at the heart of Drake's violent quarrel with Fletcher, the ship's chaplain. As the modern world continues to plunder the 'infinite store' of the earth's riches, Morpurgo explores how our abusive relationship with the natural world began.
The Mystery of Being Human
God, Freedom and the NHS
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Brilliant polymath Raymond Tallis tackles the big questions: Do we have free will? Can humanity flourish without religion? Will science explain everything? In a fierce polemic 'Lord Howe's Wicked Dream', Tallis exposes the corrupt politicians who are destroying the NHS and the values that have sustained it.
Pilgrims of the Air
The Story of the Passenger Pigeon
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
The story of the rapid and brutal extinction of the Passenger Pigeon, once so abundant that they 'blotted out the sky', until the last bird died on 1st September 1914. It is also an evocative story of wild America - the allure of its natural 'productions', its ruthless exploitation, and a morality tale for our times.
Words of Fire
Selected Essays of Ahad Ha'am
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Ahad Ha'am is mainly remembered as the 'father of cultural Zionism.' But these essays show him to be a major literary figure and an original thinker. His ideas have relevance today, both for confronting the future of Israel and Palestine, and for thinking about cultural pluralism in a democratic society.
by Gila Lustiger
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
In 2015 a terrifying new era began for Paris and the rest of Europe: the attack on the staff of Charlie Hebdo and the terrorist attacks on Paris on November 13 that left 130 people dead. The terrorists were born on French soil. In this award-winning essay, Lustiger explores the historical, social,...