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OLD FOOD explores mass consumption, both physical and digital, through our relationship with food. Artfully rendering humanity's insatiable appetite into pungent yet enthralling prose, Atkins portrays a world permeated with empty signifiers, replete with content yet increasingly devoid of meaning.

Legendary music critic Penman reaches for a vanished moment in musical history when cultures collided and a certain kind of cross-generational and "cross-color" awareness was born in these essays exploring the work of James Brown, Charlie Parker, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Steely Dan, and Prince.

A mesmerizing exploration of the natural world and depression, this edition will appeal to fans of nature writing, and of Robert Macfarlane and Helen Macdonald.

The processes of writing and reading are reflected on powerfully as authorial voices drift in and out, with references to the work of Garcia Marquez, Auster, Wittgenstein and Duras throughout, in this exciting experiment from the author of "Nocilla Dream".

A young but already-renowned sculptor in 1506 is invited by the Sultan of Constantinople to build a bridge over the Golden Horn where predecessor Leonardo da Vinci's plans have been rejected. From the author of "Compass".

Blending personal memoir with reportage, SURRENDER is a narrative nonfiction work on the changing landscape of the West and the scavenger, rewilder and ecosexual communities, inspired by a two-year stay in Montana.

In her new novel, Hesselholdt delves into the world of the enigmatic American photographer, Vivian Maier (1926-2009), whose unique photographic body of work only reached the public by chance. The novel comprises multiple voices: Vivian's, her mother's, one of the children she looked after, and her parents.

Jean-Baptiste del Amo is one of France's most exciting and ambitious young writers. ANIMALIA is his fourth publication but is his first to be published in English. It follows the story of a family of pig farmers from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century.

Capturing with a miniaturist's brush the unfolding demands of family, fortune, personal ambition, ideology, and desire, A TERRIBLE COUNTRY is a compelling novel about ageing, radical politics, Russia at a crossroads, and the difficulty - or impossibility - of actually changing one's life.

The critically acclaimed American novelist and journalist's non-fiction is mined for its most powerful moments and arranged towards a statement on the rewards of sustained attention at odds with the frenetic pace of politics, culture and commerce. Touches on subjects diverse as Bernie Sanders, Thomas Pynchon, Aretha Franklin and the closing of Ringling Brothers over thirty essays and forty short interludes.

The emotional and cultural workings of memory are considered in this collection of essays, through the lens of the author's attempts to cope with the passing of both parents while on the cusp of adulthood following a breakdown several years later. Reissued for the first time since publication in 2005, this is an erudite, informed and deeply personal record of facing one's own sense of loss.

Translated by Megan McDowell. A collection of chronicles and literary essays that outline Zambra's particular theory of reading.

A debut novel which provides a portrait of modern urban life in a coming-of-age story.

A lucid account of the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth.

Follows the memories of a young woman that have been brought about by her walks along the rivers of Europe and elsewhere, that she has encountered over the course of her life.

A propulsive, incendiary novel about faith, race, class, and what it means to have a home, from Joshua Cohen, 'a major American writer' (NEW YORK TIMES).

A selection of 20 of the best pieces of original writing published in "The White Review" - a London-based magazine of art and literature founded in 2011.

A novel by a Danish author, translated by Paul Russell Garrett, structured as a series of monologues centred around Camilla, her husband Charles, and their circle of friends. Explores everyday life and the weight of the past.

An examination of the essay as a literary form, from the author of "The Great Explosion".

FLIGHTS, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk's most ambitious to date. It interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. From the seventeenth century, we have the story of the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected and drew pictures of his own amputated leg. From the eighteenth century...