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Aesthete of Gordon Square

Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism

By Mark Hussey

H Kumarasingham

Power to the Printers

The Gun, the Ship and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World

By Linda Colley

Eric Ormsby

Wars of Words

The Rise of the Arabic Book

By Beatrice Gruendler

Bill Bell

The Skull in the Hall

The Author’s Effects: On Writer’s House Museums

By Nicola J Watson

Cosmo Landesman

Make or Break

A N Wilson

Stars & Saints

David Robey

The Chinese Box

Reflections on The Name of the Rose

By Umberto Eco (Translated by William Weaver)

Miles Donald

Loony Tunes

Moon Palace

By Paul Auster

Henry Hitchings

Grammar Schooling

First You Write a Sentence: The Elements of Reading, Writing… and Life

By Joe Moran

Amanda Craig

The Frightful Toil

The Practice of Writing

By David Lodge

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Mum’s the Word

Writers and Their Mothers

By Dale Salwak (ed)

Paul Richardson

Man of Sixty-Two Words

The Art of the Novel

By Milan Kundera

David Pryce-Jones

Loitering with Intent

Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Spark

By Alan Taylor

Tim Ashley

She Made History More Interesting

Enchantress: Marthe Bibesco and Her World

By Christine Sutherland

Joanna Kavenna

The Long & Short of It

Essayism

By Brian Dillon