Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St. Ives Artists: Bernard Leach | 1997 | Edmund de Waal | Buy |
| 2 | New Ceramic Design | 2000 | Edmund de Waal | Buy |
| 3 | The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family’s Century of Art and Loss | 2010 | Edmund de Waal | Buy |
| 4 | The Pot Book | 2011 | Edmund de Waal | Buy |
| 5 | Cy Twombly - Photographs | 2012 | Edmund de Waal | Buy |
| 6 | Edmund de Waal | 2014 | Edmund de Waal | Buy |
| 7 | The White Road: Journey Into an Obsession | 2015 | Edmund de Waal | Buy |
| 8 | Edmund de Waal Library of Exile | 2020 | Edmund de Waal | Buy |
| 9 | Letters to Camondo | 2021 | Edmund de Waal | Buy |
Edmund de Waal’s non-fiction spans more than two decades and covers subjects from ceramic history to family memoir to photography. His early works, including St. Ives Artists: Bernard Leach (1997) and New Ceramic Design (2000), established his expertise in the world of ceramics. The Hare With Amber Eyes (2010) brought him to a much wider audience with its compelling story of family, loss, and survival told through a collection of small Japanese carvings.
The White Road (2015) continued de Waal’s exploration of material culture, following the story of porcelain from China to Europe to America. Letters to Camondo (2021) is a meditation on another family’s story, written as a series of letters to a historical figure. Throughout his non-fiction, de Waal returns to the same questions: how objects hold memory, how families pass things on, and what gets lost along the way.