Read A Room of One's Own

One June day in London, a party and a shell-shocked veteran; Woolf's stream of consciousness.

A Hebridean summer house before and after the war; the "Time Passes" section.

One is not born but becomes a woman; de Beauvoir's 1949 foundation of feminism.

A woman shut in a nursery for a rest cure starts reading the wallpaper and finds a figure creeping behind the pattern.

Pessoa's assistant bookkeeper Bernardo Soares and his fragments; the anti-novel of Lisbon.

John Berger on how oil painting and advertising teach us to look; the BBC series as a book.

James Baldwin's two essays of 1963 on race and religion in America.

A spectral dog on Dartmoor and the most famous Holmes novel of all.