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This seminal book, Eliot's first collection of literary criticism, appeared in London in 1920, two years before The Waste Land. It contains some of...

Edward Mendelson has significantly expanded his authoritative, chronological ordered edition of Auden's Selected Poems (first published in 1979), a...

Product Description The first volume of Alan Ayckbourn's collected work contains his morality plays from the 1980s. It includes the plays A Chorus...

A play translated by Tom Stoppard which premiered at the Wyndham's Theatre, October 2005. Storyline - it's 1959 and three veterans from the first w...

In this entertaining and always stimulating collection of seven essays, Kundera deftly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of t...

Thomas Wyatt (1503?-1542) was the first modern voice in English poetry. His poetry holds a mirror to the secret, capricious world of Henry VIII's c...

Tickets, merchandise, money, drugs. All are just a phone call away. H is a Manc, Ray is a Scouser. They service the needs and exploit the chaos of ...

Review Tom Bissell's book is consistently fascinating about the stories that crept as inexorably as lichen over a gravestone around the people clo...

A train hits a snow drift in the frozen Cleveland Hills. In the process of clearing the line a body is discovered, and so begins a dangerous case f...

Review The richly detailed evocation of the period, which gives The Janissary Tree such an authentic feel, is combined with a playful humour and a...

Celebrated children's writer Hans Christian Andersen arrives, unannounced, for a stay at Gad's Hill Place in the Kent marshes - home to Charles Dic...

About the Author Ruth Padel was born in London in 1947 and educated at Oxford. She lived several years in Greece and worked as a Greek scholar...

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, Oscar's sweet but disastrou...

The Prime Minister and his cabinet have been assassinated and England's most treasured writers are being murdered one by one. Back at the universit...

This collection of Szymborska's work reveals her to be concerned with the unglamorized actualities of the human condition. She is one of a generati...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions ...

**SOLDIER SAILOR - THE NEW NOVEL BY CLAIRE KILROY - IS AVAILABLE NOW** 'Captivating' Irish Times 'Revealing and elegant' Financial Times 'Masterfu...

About the Author David Hare has written over thirty stage plays and thirty screenplays for film and television. The plays include Plenty, Pravda (...

Fifteen years ago Una and Ray had a relationship. They haven't set eyes on each other since. Now, years later, she's found him again. Blackbird pr...

What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behaviour of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups abo...

NOW A MAJOR NEW NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Sartaj, the only Sikh inspector in the whole of Mumbai, is used to being identified by his turban, beard a...

TWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Beautif...

About the Author Martin Crimp was born in 1956. His play Attempts on Her Life (1997) established his international reputation. His other work for ...

The Big Chapel was shortlisted for the 1971 Booker Prize and winner of 1971 the Guardian Fiction Prize. It is a novel about a man, a family and a t...

In 1845 Captain Sir John Franklin led a large, well equipped expedition to complete the conquest of the Canadian Arctic, to find the fabled North W...

The letters between Vera Brittain, author of Testament of Youth, and Winifred Holtby, author of South Riding, tell the story of an extraordinary fr...

Sparks fly when an occult expert and a disgraced archeologist become enemies-with-benefits in this steamy romance from Rosie Danan, bestselling aut...

'A sharp-eyed and tender novel about human connection' (PAULA HAWKINS) from the bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend 'A m...

Georgia Harrison's story as you've never heard it before. Explosive and inspiring, Georgia reveals the truth behind the headlines: the shocking tru...

'Animal lovers will delight' Ann Granger 'A real treat . . . I loved it. Cats, dogs, murder and a credible and relatable heroine' Barbara Nadel W...

'A fascinating story of courage, doubt and defiance across three generations' SARAH WATERS 'A fierce and beautiful book' EDMUND DE WAAL 'Heartfel...

From the bestselling author of A Shed of One's Own, a very funny memoir about being 60. Marcus Berkmann's funny, instantly recognisable descriptio...

A brilliant and addictive collection of brand-new essays on modern culture - from 'the pre-eminent and most widely read critic of her generation' T...

One of the most enchanting books about cats ever written, Minka and Curdy describes the adventures - and misadventures - of two very different kitt...

'Beautiful, moving, profoundly imaginative in itself - this book is as entertaining as it is relevant and practical' ALAIN DE BOTTON 'Anyone who h...

Review A book that goes a long way to take the mystery out of effective communication ― Independent on Sunday We all know what we want, and this ...

We talk about the weather a lot. It exasperates, confounds and on occasion delights us. Our national conversation is dominated by the weather, but ...

Most organisations today strive for goals such as employee diversity, inclusive leadership and younger and fresher ideas. But how do we get there? ...

Radio 4 Book of the Week In the Ukrainian city of Poltava stands a building known as the Rooster House, an elegant mansion with two voluptuous red...

'Original, thought-provoking and a joy to read' Tim Harford Winner of best smart thinking book (Business Book Awards) and a Guardian best books of...

A psychic desperate to escape her destiny-and a killer-finds her future in the coastal town of Burning Cove. . . Prudence Ryland thought reinventi...

From the No. 1 international bestselling author, film producer and Wattpad platform icon Anna Todd - the continuation of her bestselling love story...

For you, I was a chapter-a good chapter maybe, or even your favorite chapter, but, still, just a chapter-and for me, you were the book.' Judith Whi...

In the hilarious new novel in the best-selling Detective Varg series, Ulf Varg will need to resolve both a sensitive crime and his own delicate dil...

Review I raced through this enthralling story of three very different American women living in the same small expat community in Hong Kong. One de...