The violent racism of the American South drove Wayne Flynt away from his home state of Alabama, but the publication of 'To Kill a Mockingbird', Harper Lee's classic novel about courage, community and equality, inspired him to return in the early 1960s and craft a career documenting and teaching A...

In 1935, Henry Miller set off from his adopted residence, Paris, to visit his home country, America. Filled with vivid impressions and scandalous reflections, and including an entertaining sketch of his journey, via steamer, back to France, this is a comic and exuberant portrait of both the autho...

Although Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, 'God willing, strike sparks off each other...

In 1953, Burroughs began an expedition into the jungles of South America, ostensibly to find yage, the fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon. But Burroughs also cast his eye over the local regimes to record trademark vignettes of political and psychic malaise. The book was completed by the addition o...

Helene Hanff's true story of her 20 year correspondence with London bookseller, Frank Doel, is a charming and bittersweet tale of two people united by a love of books. From her apartment in New York, Helene sends Frank her 'wishlist' of first editions and is delighted to receive such quietly effi...

Told in a series of letters in '84 Charing Cross Road' and then in diary form in the second part 'The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street', this true story has touched the hearts of thousands.