1.
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF UNICORNS
(Chris, Lavers.)
THE WANDER-
ING MIND
WHAT THE
BRAIN DOES
WHEN YOU’RE
NOT LOOKING
MICHAEL C.
CORBALLIS
Singular Travels, Campaigns
and Adventures of
Baron Munchausen
By R. E. Raspe and Others With an introduction by
John Carswell With illustrations by Gustave Doré
Roland
Barthes
The
Pleasure
of the
Text
Translated by Richard Miller
“[A] brilliant, genre-refuting book.”
– San Francisco Chronicle
REBECCA
SOLNIT
author of
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
An New York Times Notable Book
The
Faraway
Nearby
“A deeply moving account of why we create.”
– The American Scholar
“Raymond Carver territory. And shattering each story is the luminous, the
terrifying, the Lovecraftian otherness that reveals what it really feels like to
be alive in this moment in time.” – Maureen F. McHugh (After the Apocalypse)
NORTH AMERICAN
LAKE MONSTERS
STORIES
Nathan Ballingrud
MODERN ‘He uses language like an anatomist uses a scalpel
CLASSICS to lay bare the innermost secret of that strangest
of species, the human being’ W. G. Sebald
Javier Marías
Dark Back
of Time
eight propositions
PRIMERS
The Thinking
Hand
Existential
and Embodied
Wisdom in
Architecture
JUHANI
PALLASMAA
STEAL “Beautiful.”
-Chris Anderson
Curator of the TED
Conference
LIKE AN
ARTIST
10 THINGS NOBODY TOLD YOU ABOUT BEING CREATIVE
AUSTIN KLEON
UNDER THE
COVERS
AND BETWEEN THE
SHEETS
The inside story behind classic characters,
authors, unforgettable phrases,
and unexpected endings
C. ALAN JOYCE
& SARAH JANSSEN
QUIET
The Power of Introverts
in a World That Can’t
Stop Talking
SUSAN CAIN
From the bestselling author of Wanderlust and The Faraway nearby
REBECCA SOLNIT
A FIELD GUIDE
TO GETTING
LOST
‘Radical, humane, witty, sometimes
wonderfully dandyish, at other times,
impassioned and serious’
Alain de Botton
THE
OOPSATOREUM
INVENTIONS OF HENRY A. MINTOX
POWERHOUSE MUSEUM, SYDNEY
SHAUN TAN
THE ALPHABET
VERSUS
THE
GODDESS
The Conflict Between Word and Image
AUTHOR OF SEX, TIME, AND POWER
LEONARD SHLAIN
“Bold and fascinating” – The Washington Post Book World
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Travels through the paintbox
COLOUR
VICTORIA FINLAY
‘Packed with stories, anecdotes and adventures. A full
rainbow … as vivid as the colours themselves’ Express
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