Literature & literary studies

From the earliest times poets have spoken out against the horrors of war - many dying on the battlefields on which they wrote. This extraordinary ...

This collection of poems, from 1972 to 1990, is selected from "A State of Justice", "The Strange Museum", "Liberty Tree" and "Seize the Fire". This...

An Englishman, an Irishman and an American are locked up together in a cell in the Middle East. As victims of political action, powerless to initia...

This is a collection of three history plays, each displaying the sparkling muscularity of language that marks Berkoff out as one of the foremost wo...

Product Description This new Selected Poems offers an ordered retrospective of the fertile career of Derek Walcott, spanning six decades and drawi...

The Forward Book of Poetry is the indispensable annual guide to contemporary poetry. In bringing together the best new work published in the UK and...

You're Moses. Napoleon. Beyonc�. Let's get this image right. Asiya Rao standing defiantly against the influx of illegals. The bold, refreshing an...

'Beneath the folk rhythms and the lyrical simplicities, Nichols's poems preach disquiet' OBSERVER 'Not only rich music, an easy lyricism, but also...

Review Owen Sheers' evocative one-hander paints a fascinating picture of Keith Douglas and places his breathtaking poetry centre-stage ― Guardian ...

Happy Days was written in 1960 and first produced in London at the Royal Court Theatre in November 1962. WINNIE: [ . .] Well anyway - this man Sho...

1962: A public school on the South Downs. John Blakemore is a solitary boy who finds it impossible either to understand or adapt to the ways of the...

This second collection of work by Tom Stoppard contains his radio plays, which complement (and sometimes prefigure) his work for the stage. The vol...

He has an affinity with the violence, the balance, the ritual, the grace and the power. He is indestructible. Beautiful Burnout is about the sou...

Product Description 'Betrayal is a new departure and a bold one . . . Pinter has found a way of making memory active and dramatic, giving an audie...

Hugo Williams is rightly cherished for his inimitable fusion of autobiography and irony, and a technical glide that allows his writing to 'slip bac...

On 1 July 1916, the 36th (Ulster) Division took part in one of the bloodiest battles in human history, the Battle of the Somme. This enduring war p...

'The most popular English poet since Larkin.' Sunday Times After more than a decade and following his celebrated adventures in drama, translation,...

Review Three Poems . . . travels light, illuminated yet never shackled by scholarship, and investigates the way life does - and does not - revise ...

Two women wash up on a distant shore following a violent boating accident. Dazed by their experience, they look for a path home. But they discover ...

Discover the enchanting world of poetry with this new collection from a prizewinning poet and translator. Each poem invites you to explore profound...

'Exquisite' (New Yorker), 'breathtaking' (Los Angeles Times), 'baroque and moon-lit' (Boston Globe) - House of Lords and Commons enthralled readers...

'Lines off' is a term used for lines spoken from the wings of a theatre, or off-camera in a film. It was while Hugo Williams was out of circulation...

'Lines off' is a term used for lines spoken from the wings of a theatre, or off-camera in a film. It was while Hugo Williams was out of circulation...

Martin Crimp's Writing for Nothing collects texts written over the last thirty years. Included here are short plays, unmistakably the work of the i...

August Kleinzahler has earned admiration for his musical, precise poems that are grounded in the people, places and language among which he has liv...

This hex has festered, iss roots have been stuck for almost three decades. I've been oblivious but now I know. Thuh Lord has made it known. I can't...

Sometimes you crack. Sometimes you didn't mean to yell that. Sometimes you have to lay low until you've figured it out And sometimes, sometimes you...

Many of the poems in The Missing Months occupy the strange hiatus afforded by lockdown. They look forward as well as back, toying with possible fut...

About the Author BERNHARD SCHLINK was born in Germany in 1944. A professor emeritus of law at Humboldt University, Berlin, and Cardozo Law School,...

A SUNDAY TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR In this blistering anthology, poet, editor and DJ Kayo Chingonyi brings together a selection of except...

About the Author Jack's plays for the stage include Bunny (Underbelly, Edinburgh, 2010; Soho, 2011); 2nd May 1997 (Bush, 2009); When You Cure Me (...

The change will come. And it's not far away, I promise you that. Some figure will emerge from the dark screaming 'Get out of the way'. And not far ...

About the Author Andrew Motion was UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009, is co-founder of the online Poetry Archive, and has written acclaimed biogr...

If you think you know what it's like to be me you are seriously deluded. Is it appropriation to invent a voice - or is it an act of empathy? I...

Nothing cuts into us like the family knife. The Webster House. 1965. 1979. 1985. 1990. 2016. Death silences no one, least of all the dead. Se...

You took relationships as if they were the next train. Alex and Colin's stories flow like mist down the Thames, roll under Hammersmith Bridge, and...

We heal people. That's what we do here. We are a kinship. Gill has returned home to the north coast of Northern Ireland determined to speak to her...

I'm just very very horny. I don't know how else to put it. Saoirse Murphy moves from one chaotic world to another. From her Catholic school in Dub...

The perfect gift for Mother's Day! For those at any and all stages of motherhood. 'I read every single poem and wished that I'd had this book when...

Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kal...

In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Perhaps most significantly: what is Aberf...

Well yes and no. It's sexy, but pedestrian. Hieronymus Bosch in Smethwick. Hetty and I found a little alcove with our Sauvignon. Four couples gath...

In this new selection from the poetry of Lawrence Durrell (the first for thirty years), Peter Porter has drawn on the full range of the published w...

So what have you got against gobby women running restaurants? El Barco is the newest tapas restaurant in fashionable Walthamstow Village, and it's...

Don Paterson's latest collection of poetry starts from the premise that the crisis of mid-life may be a permanent state of mind. Zonal is an experi...

We've got no money but we're still in Waitrose twice a day. Because going to Tesco just makes life not even worth living. Viv has lost a shoe. The...

'Powerful and profound' Deirdre Purcell 'A beautiful book of great tenderness, love of life, and wisdom learned the tough way' Joseph O'Connor Fo...