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Essays on London provide an acute and perceptive insight into early twentieth century city life. Including profound meditations on the rhythm of life on Oxford Street and the consumerism that drives it, vivid descriptions of the epic cathedrals that pave the streets and the place of religion in contemporary society, and an intimate sketch of a charming woman who is a Londoner to her core, these eloquent snapshots of the city are told with Woolf’s trademark intimacy and self-awareness.

Brought to you by Penguin. **SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER** This book is about learning to live. Echoing Socrates' statement that the unexamined life not worth living, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws on his twenty-five years of work and more than 50,000 hours of conversations to form a collection of...

Dismissed by a bored author at a book signing, a betrayed young man named David Sedaris made a vow. Someday, when it was his turn at the table, he’d connect with his readers. The experience has been even more revealing than he’d hoped.In this hilarious and perceptive essay, the celebrated humorist reflects on the unusual patterns of forced socialization between author and audience, and the obligations and sometimes surprising returns of not-so-chance encounters with strangers: jokes, secrets, insights, and even charity.

“Refreshingly candid...Niazi is telling her story in medias res, inviting readers to figure the whole mess out with her—and in this era of gentle-parenting TikToks and general advice oversaturation, that feels like a gift.” —Emma Specter, Vogue Channeling the subversive and sharp-eyed...

A wide-ranging selection of George Orwell's essays, written in the clear-eyed, passionate and uncompromising style that has earned him a reputation as one of Britain's greatest writers.

Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young, attractive but impoverished New Yorkers. They are in love and decide to marry, but realise their chances of happiness are slim without the wealth and society that their more privileged friends take for granted. Nick and Susy agree to separate when either encounters a more eligible proposition.

You'll be wincing in recognition and scratching your head in incredulity, but like Marian herself you won't be able to stop laughing at the sheer delightful absurdity that is modern life - because each and every one of us is clearly making it up as we go along. She has wonderful and tickling words of advice for those fast approaching 50.

The collection of 10 absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter. In recounting his patients' dilemmas, Yalom not only gives us a rare and enthralling glimpse into their personal desires and motivations but also tells us his own story as he struggles to reconcile his all-too-human responses with his sensibility as a psychiatrist.

Barbara Kingsolver has entertained and touched the lives of legions of readers with her critically acclaimed and bestselling novels The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams, and Pigs in Heaven. In these twenty-five newly conceived essays, she returns once again to her favored literary terrain to explore...

In the 1960s and early '70s, the most prominent, vocal cultural movement was the New Left: a movement that condemned America and everything it stood for: individualism, material wealth, science, technology, capitalism.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. The breakout book from "the funniest writer in America"--not to mention an official...

10万部突破のべストセラー漫画『生きのびるための事務』、ついに原作テキスト版が書籍化！あなたに足りないのは、才能や能力や運ではなく、《事務》でした。
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『老いの福袋』で大人気、ヒグチさん（９０歳）が悩み事に答えます！　人生１００年時代のお金、人間関係、介護、生きがいなど――の難問をスッキリ解決！　読めば面白くてためになる一冊。

等身大の言葉たちが疲れた頭にじんわり染みて、きつく絡まった思考回路がほろほろとほどけていく――宇垣美里さん（解説より）思ってた未来とは違うけど、これはこれで、いい感じ。疲れた心にじんわりしみこむエッセイ66篇。私だってモデルサイズ／「女子アナ」が勝利するとき／私の私による私のためのオバさん宣言／コンプレックスと欲のバランス／

今日もなんとか生きていくのだ！体のことに親のこと、仕事のことに友人のこと、中年の毎日にはいろいろあるけれど。大人を励ますごほうびエッセイ。思っていた「五十歳女性」とはなんか違う。馬車馬のように働き、ストレス発散はドラッグストアでの無駄遣い、休日はプロレス観戦に血道を上げ、夫も子どももいないのに常にバタバタの日々――。

ヒグチさん（９１歳）が愉快な日常を実況中継！　ふわっところんで顔面5色事件、まさかのがん治療、役立つ食卓メモ術、お転婆少女時代の思い出……。ヨタヘロ期をご機嫌に生きるヒントがつまった痛快エッセイ。≪黒井千次氏との同級生対談収録≫＝＝ベストセラー『老いの福袋』の著者、待望の最新作＝＝

---------“老いるショック”を笑い飛ばそう！--------人生後半は思いがけないことの連続です。すぐに息が切れる、立ち上がるのもひと仕事、転んで骨折……加齢現象という未知との遭遇は、前向きに老いを迎え撃つ大冒険の始まり。介護や認知症、老後のお金など、年とともに増えるさまざまな不安は笑ってはねのけましょう。

New York Times–bestselling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman presents a unique Audio Companion for Chuck Klosterman X, in which he contextualizes and reads from the collection of his best articles and essays, providing both a fascinating tour of the past decade and an ideal...

*National Bestseller* "This is a funny and beautiful book. What a little bastard." --Russell Brand "Every paragraph is like doing a shot with a friend. A double." --Caitlin Moran Joel Golby's writing for Vice and The Guardian, with its wry observation and naked self-reflection, has brought him a...

High heels, movie deals, wagon wheels, shoes, reviews, having the blues, builders, babies, families and other calamities... Many think that Marian leads a glitzy life of limos, television, and showbiz parties - but she would argue that she spends the majority of her life writing alone, wearing her PJs, and eating bananas with a laptop on a pillow in front of her. Under the Duvet is a wide collection of her journalism and stories, all personal, closely observed, and painfully funny...