The Essays

Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost

The Advancement of Learning

Lectures on Don Quixote

New Atlantis and Selections from the Sylva Sylvarum

What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved

The Wisdom of the Ancients

Discursive “Renovatio” in Lope de Vega and Calderón: Studies on Spanish Baroque Drama

Forms of Hypocrisy in Early Modern England

Essays, Civil and Moral & the New Atlantis by Francis Bacon: Aeropagitica & Tractate of Education by John Milton, Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne

Don't Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems

Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More: Utopia / Francis Bacon: New Atlantis / Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines

Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing: The powerful memoir from the beloved star of Friends

Discourses and Selected Writings

A Heart That Works: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER as heard on R4's Desert Island Discs

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings: The internationally bestselling classic

The Myth of Sisyphus

Politics and the English Language

Men Explain Things to Me: And Other Essays

Few More Words: That says a lot