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'Peerless.' Daily Telegraph 'Sprinkled with magic.' Observer 'Full of mischief, romance, fun and kindness.' The Times Soldier, journalist, histo...

Product Description A piano prodigy reeling from the death of his younger sister flees to New York City. Taking uneasy refuge in books, he reinven...

Review 'Time - what it is, how it shifts, what happens when we lose our grip on it - is at the heart of Lavinia Greenlaw's new collection . here's...

Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nigh...

Review "Collins encourages wildness. She strips her poems of context, which invites readers to collaborate and imagine with her.... Who Is Mary Su...

Based on his critically-acclaimed BBC Radio 3 programme The Listening Service, in which Tom Service takes an idea on an ear-opening and mind-expand...

No school. No THANKS. No. NO. NO! Laura Dockrill's inimitable style of poetic rap is brilliantly suited to this romp through the house and round a...

Product Description From the beginning, the poet was a wanderer, a storyteller, an imaginer of bridges between worlds. Zaffar Kunial is just such ...

About the Author Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The 2018-21 Laureate for Irish Fiction, his novels have twice won the Costa Book of t...

Review It's really hard for me to overestimate how important [Rose's] work has been for me . . . I don't feel like that about very many writers. -...

Review O'Donoghue's poems are an object lesson in how to write poetry that matters. The new collection confirms him as one of the most lyrical, am...

And the Internet has democratised overly. But you know what? People love hierarchy. It infuriates them but it makes them horny. It's gold dust. An...

Why be healthy when the world is so sick? From the author of Perfidious Albion, a darkly comic and profoundly affecting novel about resistance, rad...

Welcome to After Fame - an ambitious and resonant engagement with the epigrams of the Roman poet Martial, which completes the loose trilogy of Sam ...

Review A masterpiece of evocation, it conjures up its imaginary island with superb fullness and immediacy. . . it's as a magnificent panorama of t...

WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE THE STARS? 'Look at a satellite image of the Earth. Where it was once as dark as night, it is now lit up like a Christmas tr...

'[Armitage] blended his down-to-earth, often flippant demeanor with a brilliantly understated, original and captivating address, which never straye...

Product Description When Simon Armitage burst on to the poetry scene in 1989 with his spectacular debut Zoom!, readers were introduced to an excep...

Love is just sex. And sex is just chance. And chance is just timing. And free will. Come on It beats swiping right. When B spills coffee down A's ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE 2021 POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION 'Jack Underwood has developed an utterly clear lyric that rebukes mor...

Review Heartwarming ― The Richmond and Barnes Magazine If you don't believe in fairytale endings you might want to think again. This is a classic...

Review Frolic and Detour is a perfect title: there's plenty of both in this new collection from Ireland's most ingenious poet . . . A treat. -- Tr...

The definitive account of the first rise and fall of Boy George and Culture Club, and British pop music in the 1980s. NEW EXPANDED EDITION, WITH A...

In this, er, 'unique' illustrated potted history of the human race, Twitter icon James Felton uses his inimitable brand of banter to unveil the sly...

'Very funny, moving and heartwarming' BOB MORTIMER 'A bollockbuster!' ADAM BUXTON If we are cowardly, we are told to grow some If we're brave, we...

'What guts. What attitude! These are the immortals I wish I'd learned about at school.' OLIVIA COLMAN Channel the feminist power of mythical godde...

'[Lippman] only seems to be getting better.' Entertainment Weekly 'A first-rate collection.' Booklist FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SUNBURN AND D...

Review Wonderful . . . This is a book of discovery that speaks of music as a life force, that urges us to live our lives through music. It highlig...

For forty uninterrupted years, Robert Moses was the most powerful man in New York. Though never elected to office, he manipulated those who were th...

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

Review Engaging and accomplished... Boakye's text, enriched by Smart's striking images, is perfectly judged for young readers ― Guardian Jeffrey ...

An original and profound portrait of contemporary Britain told through the testimonies of its inhabitants. SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRI...

Review Very few poets, living or otherwise, can combine high-speed wit, tongue-twisting alliteration and dizzying rhyme with the kind of insight t...

'Where most of us can barely trace our own footprints in the mass of moments that are the stuff of experience, numerous and storyless as grains of ...

Review 'I is a Strange Loop is a play that plays with ideas, concepts, abstractions andrelationships that are, usually, hidden from the sight of o...

The beloved Sergeant Cribb series by Peter Lovesey The spiritualist movement has captivated a segment of Victorian London: manifestations, the occ...

'I don't know where to stop praising Benny and this amazing book...' - HEATHER MORRIS, The Tattooist of Auschwitz 'This book...is the stuff folk t...

About the Author Sophie Green is an author and publisher who lives in Sydney. She has written several fiction and non-fiction books, some under ot...

THE FEEL GOOD NOVEL OF THE YEAR 'I loved this funny, heartwarming read' Libby Page The Patron Saint of Plumbing is not answering Nino Speranza's ...

'A completely extraordinary autobiography. One that reads like the most outlandish, beguiling fiction but that is - amazingly - all true' - William...

Review 'These remarkable essays invite us to look long and hard at our own interior landscapes, and to negotiate exterior ones with as much grace ...

Selected and arranged by the author, and featuring a foreword by revered record producer Glyn Johns, The Weakness In Me presents the lyrics of Joan...

Review 'Wallace's excellent, riveting play is an absorbing story of love, lust and loyalty.' ― Daily Telegraph 'A poetic and deeply tender look a...

The poems collected in Tribute: Three Commemorative Poems were composed by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage for three significant royal occasions. 'The...

I wish there could be a day where families came together and just said it all to each other. Because then everyone would know it all, and there'd b...

I love fire. Fire is the colour of genius. In this audacious new work, Edna O'Brien gives voice to the women who were central to the life of James...

I am honoured to meet you. You are, as they say, a man after my own heart. And you have lifted mine. My heart, that is. Two men, together, on the ...

Review 'It is Murphy's caustic opinions which make this book ...Dervla Murphy is a free-thinking traveller, at once a romantic and a realist, extr...