Essays & non-fiction
Essays, criticism, travel, philosophy, history and journalism.
Landmark works
- 1932 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- 1986 Watchmen by Alan Moore
- Utopia by Thomas More · read free
- 1962 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- 2005 The Constant Gardener by John le Carré
- 1995 His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
- 1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
- 1929 A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
- Parkinson's law by C. Northcote Parkinson
- 2012 The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
- 1839 Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens · read free
- 1644 Areopagitica by John Milton · read free
- 1840 The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens · read free
- 1992 Fatherland by Robert Harris
- 1844 Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens · read free
- 1954 The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
- 1962 Island by Aldous Huxley
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore
- 2004 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- 2003 Bartimaeus Sequence by Jonathan Stroud
- 2003 The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
- 1992 Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
- 1793 Political Justice by William Godwin
- 1811 The Necessity of Atheism by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- History of a Six Weeks' Tour by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- 1908 Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson · read free
- 1978 1985 by Anthony Burgess
- 2004 The Golem's Eye by Jonathan Stroud
- 1860 Unto This Last by John Ruskin · read free
- 1890 News from Nowhere by William Morris · read free
Writers
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Charles Dickens1812–1870 · English novelist and social critic (1812–1870) -
J. K. Rowling1965 · English author (born 1965) -
Virginia Woolf1882–1941 · English modernist writer (1882–1941) -
H. G. Wells1866–1946 · English writer (1866–1946) -
John Milton1608–1674 · English poet and civil servant (1608–1674) -
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822 · British Romantic poet (1792–1822) -
Mary Shelley1797–1851 · English writer (1797–1851) -
Aldous Huxley1894–1963 · viva el completo (1894–1963) -
Thomas More1478–1535 · English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535) -
Samuel Johnson1709–1784 · English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784) -
Mary Wollstonecraft1759–1797 · English writer and intellectual (1759–1797) -
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936 · English author and Christian apologist (1874–1936) -
Alexander Pope1688–1744 · English poet (1688–1744) -
John Ruskin1819–1900 · English writer and art critic (1819–1900) -
W. H. Auden1907–1973 · British-American poet (1907–1973) -
Aleister Crowley1875–1947 · English occultist (1875–1947) -
John le Carré1931–2020 · British novelist and spy (1931–2020) -
E. M. Forster1879–1970 · English novelist (1879-1970) -
Stephen Fry1957 · British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist -
William Morris1834–1896 · textile designer, artist, writer, printer (1834–1896) -
Philip Pullman1946 · English author -
Anthony Burgess1917–1993 · English writer and composer (1917–1993) -
Robert Graves1895–1985 · English poet and novelist (1895-1985) -
Alan Moore1953 · British comic book author (born 1953)
And 147 more
- Evelyn Waugh (1903)
- Jerome K. Jerome (1859)
- John Henry Newman (1801)
- William Godwin (1756)
- Elizabeth Gaskell (1810)
- Ted Hughes (1930)
- Samuel Butler (1835)
- Martin Amis (1949)
- Frederick Forsyth (1938)
- Thomas De Quincey (1785)
- Edward Lear (1812)
- Rebecca West (1892)
- Charles Lamb (1775)
- Erasmus Darwin (1731)
- Nick Hornby (1957)
- George Meredith (1828)
- John Berger (1926)
- Maria Edgeworth (1768)
- Susanna Clarke (1959)
- Daniel Defoe (1660)
- Peter Ackroyd (1949)
- W. S. Gilbert (1836)
- Antony Beevor (1946)
- Robert Conquest (1917)
- Daniel Tammet (1979)
- Lucy Hawking (1969)
- Jilly Cooper (1937)
- Bruce Chatwin (1940)
- Margaret Drabble (1939)
- E. P. Thompson (1924)
- Walter Pater (1839)
- Stephen Spender (1909)
- Leigh Hunt (1784)
- Harriet Taylor Mill (1807)
- Kwame Anthony Appiah (1954)
- Stephen Baxter (1957)
- Max Beerbohm (1872)
- Polly Samson (1962)
- Warren Ellis (1968)
- C. Northcote Parkinson (1909)
- Colin Wilson (1931)
- Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915)
- Antonia Fraser (1932)
- Thomas Nashe (1567)
- Sabine Baring-Gould (1834)
- James Herbert (1943)
- Owen Barfield (1898)
- Thomas Love Peacock (1785)
- Roland Penrose (1900)
- Jonathan Miller (1934)
- Martin Lings (1909)
- Dan Abnett (1965)
- Jasper Fforde (1961)
- Charlie Higson (1958)
- Ian Stewart (1945)
- James Anthony Froude (1818)
- Kenneth Tynan (1927)
- Kim Newman (1959)
- Joan Aiken (1924)
- Robert Hugh Benson (1871)
- Carole Cadwalladr (1969)
- R. C. Sherriff (1896)
- Kay Burley (1960)
- Fanny Cradock (1909)
- William Michael Rossetti (1829)
- Hari Kunzru (1969)
- Frederick Rolfe (1860)
- John Gribbin (1946)
- Rachel Johnson (1965)
- Clemency Burton-Hill (1981)
- Edward Bond (1934)
- Hall Caine (1853)
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840)
- Zoë Heller (1965)
- Geoff Dyer (1958)
- Alex Comfort (1920)
- Frances Trollope (1780)
- James P. Hogan (1941)
- T. E. Hulme (1883)
- Norman Lebrecht (1948)
- V. S. Pritchett (1900)
- Brian Stableford (1948)
- William Roscoe (1753)
- Sacheverell Sitwell (1897)
- David Thomson (1941)
- Colin Thubron (1939)
- Walter Besant (1836)
- P. C. Wren (1875)
- Tahir Shah (1966)
- Guy Walters (1971)
- Colin Greenland (1954)
- Rana Dasgupta (1971)
- Derek Humphry (1930)
- Christopher Caudwell (1907)
- A. P. Herbert (1890)
- Helen Maria Williams (1759)
- E. V. Lucas (1868)
- Jonathan Bate (1958)
- Eliza Lynn Linton (1822)
- A. L. Rowse (1903)
- Arthur Morrison (1863)
- Tom Wintringham (1898)
- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (1708)
- Stephanie Merritt (1974)
- Robert Smythe Hichens (1864)
- Philip Gibbs (1877)
- Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810)
- Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912)
- Adam LeBor (1961)
- Geoffrey Scott (1884)
- Henry Hart Milman (1791)
- Eleanor Smith (1902)
- Tim Jeal (1945)
- Bruno Maddox (1969)
- Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1834)
- Sophia McDougall (1979)
- William Woodruff (1916)
- Ada Chesterton (1869)
- Clement King Shorter (1857)
- James John Garth Wilkinson (1812)
- Maggie Alderson (1959)
- Clement Scott (1841)
- Katharine Glasier (1867)
- Henry Sutherland Edwards (1828)
- Guy Thorne (1876)
- C. E. Bechhofer Roberts (1894)
- William Martin (1772)
- Gordon Bowker (1934)
- Richard Cabut (1960)
- Irving Wardle (1929)
- Douglas Blackburn (1857)
- William Davenport Adams (1851)
- Zadie Smith (1975)
- Bernard Cronin (1884)
- John Alfred Langford (1823)
- George William Rusden (1819)
- Hilary Lofting (1881)
- William Thomas Goodge (1862)
- Arthur Locker (1828)
- Robert Harris (1957)
- Jonathan Stroud (1970)
- Matt Haig (1975)
- Paul J. McAuley (1955)
- John Birmingham (1964)
- Margie Orford (1964)
- Erin Kelly (1976)
- Emma Forrest (1976)