Notting Hill Editions imprint: 29 books

This collection brings together the six international winners of the Notting Hill Editions £20,000 Essay Prize. From the coolly analytical to the impassioned winning entry 'A Eulogy for Nigger', these essays showcase the dazzling literary range of the form.

A collection of essays by the winner and the five finalists of the prestigious Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize 2017 Covering an array of subjects, from the meaning of art to supermarket shopping, these pieces were chosen for their originality, literary style, and above all, their ability...

This bilingual guide to Notting Hill and Portobello Road is designed to take the curious wanderer through one of London's most bohemian districts. Through four themed walks, Julian Mash uncovers the history, culture, and little-known facts about this unique area. Featured photographs and hand-drawn...

Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) was a Russian poet and essayist. He visited Armenia in 1930 and was inspired to write an experimental meditation on the country and its ancient culture. Includes the companion piece Conversation About Dante. 'It takes its place among the outstanding masterpieces of twentieth century literature.' - Bruce Chatwin.

Five writers grapple with reality and fiction, and the alchemical process of turning life into art. As Iain Sinclair frames it in his luminous introduction, they try to explain the impulse to write 'by way of personal anecdote, revelation or hopeful punt in the dark.'

Priestley defined the essay as a 'prose masterpiece in miniature' and he expressed his thoughts on a diverse range of subjects from old age to his horror of conferences. Writing sometimes 'out of devilment' to shake up a complacent public, Priestley's essays reveal the singular voice of one of Britain's most distinguished writers.

Dosteovsky's immediate impulse for embarking on A Writer's Diary in 1873 was a desire to come into closer contact with his readers. Published in monthly instalments, it became a unique journalistic enterprise. Far more popular than his novels ever were, the Diary was Dostoevsky's favourite work. Brilliantly...

Thackeray, author of the masterpiece Vanity Fair, was considered one of the finest writers of the Victorian heyday: Dickens was his closest rival. This anthology covers all of Thackeray's versatile genius: his sketches, journalism, essays, cartoons and fiction. With explanatory notes by Scholar and...

In the winter of 1811, Lewis Way had an epiphany on the road to Exmouth. From that moment the eccentric millionaire devoted himself to one goal: the return of the Jews to the Holy Land. This essay uncovers a forgotten life story, and reveals the strange roots of the American Christian Right's current support for the state of Israel.

The holocaust never happened. The planet isn't warming. Vaccines harm children. The Earth is flat. Denialism comes in many forms, often dressed in the garb of scholarship. It's certainly insidious, but what if, as Kahn-Harris asks, it actually cloaks much darker, unspeakable, desires? If denialists...

Morpurgo dramatizes the perilous hours during which Drake's Golden Hinde was stranded on a reef off the coast of Indonesia, and asks what was really at the heart of Drake's violent quarrel with Fletcher, the ship's chaplain. As the modern world continues to plunder the 'infinite store' of the earth's riches, Morpurgo explores how our abusive relationship with the natural world began.

Brilliant polymath Raymond Tallis tackles the big questions: Do we have free will? Can humanity flourish without religion? Will science explain everything? In a fierce polemic 'Lord Howe's Wicked Dream', Tallis exposes the corrupt politicians who are destroying the NHS and the values that have sustained it.

The story of the rapid and brutal extinction of the Passenger Pigeon, once so abundant that they 'blotted out the sky', until the last bird died on 1st September 1914. It is also an evocative story of wild America - the allure of its natural 'productions', its ruthless exploitation, and a morality tale for our times.

Ahad Ha'am is mainly remembered as the 'father of cultural Zionism.' But these essays show him to be a major literary figure and an original thinker. His ideas have relevance today, both for confronting the future of Israel and Palestine, and for thinking about cultural pluralism in a democratic society.