Literature & literary studies

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

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

Product Description The Forward Book of Poetry is the indispensable annual guide to contemporary poetry. In bringing together the best new work pu...

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

WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO POETRY PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE POETRY...

Moscow, 1987. As the cold war begins to thaw, an extraordinary reunion takes place between one of the great novelists of the twentieth century, Gra...

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 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...

Let others sing of war and a hero buffeted by fate. I sing of marriage and a marriage bed, and the endurance of love. With an introduction by the ...

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

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 ...

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

The Times Best Literary Non-fiction Books 2021 - 'a super yarn' 'Rick Gekoski's encyclopaedic knowledge of rare books is matched only by the enthu...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating' Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad 'Recalls the work...

'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams' is one of the most well-known and repeated lines of poetry ever written. Less haunting, but still so...

'Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!' Robert Burns Robert Burns, poet and lyricist, also known as Rabbie Burn...

'To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour' William...

Tennyson was one of the true great Victorian poets - much of his work is known throughout the world: 'Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do a...

Selected by Seán Hewitt as a Granta Book of the Year In trailblazing poet, essayist, teacher and activist June Jordan's poems, love is a vision of...

Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world's best-loved books. Careless People tells the true story behind F. Scot...

Review The most lethal, vital, screamingly funny truth-teller of our time. Thank fuck for Marina Hyde. -- Phoebe Waller-Bridge As witty as it is ...

Review Any of the finely drawn characters in Karachi Vice could be the subject of an entire book - placed beside each other they form a tapestry t...

Product Description A selection of the most provocative, incendiary, and brilliant pieces from one of America's most significant left-leaning jour...

"A beautiful, beguiling journey to the ultimate queer utopia" - Olivia Laing "Clued-up but insatiably thirsty, poignant, packed with literary intr...

A New York Times Bestseller 'Within two pages, nature writing feels different and fresh and new ... This book demands we find the eyes to see and ...

Review "Brings together a wonderful array of poets whose linguistic flair and wide-ranging perspectives excite, inspire and challenge in equal mea...

Review "An ambitious, thought-provoking, diverse collection of imaginings. I laughed, I cried" -- WILL DEAN "A fascinating and rich collection" ―...

A collection of poetry witnessing celebrations both private and public, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS. 'A brilliant writer, a...

'A brilliant and beautiful book which wrestles with the scope and ache of lineage, the origin and myth and making of ourselves' - Rachel Long, auth...

Richard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. As Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church he put principle ov...

Dylan Thomas was a romantic and controversial figure; a poet who lived to excess and died young. An inventive genius with a gift for both lyrical p...

'Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, mo...

Review Gripping ... A remarkable achievement -- Llewelyn Morgan ― TLS This ambitious and successful translation is probably the best version of t...

Product Description 'The greatest literary scholar of his generation' (Independent) explains how the history of the Elizabethan era is the backdro...

Review A vital and timely introduction to some of the best books I've ever read. Perfectly curated and filled with brilliant literature. -- Nikesh...

Review John Hegley is to potatoes what Wordsworth has been to daffodils ― Observer Comedy's poet laureate ― Independent The Peter Kay of poetry ...

Review Insightful, engaging and based on superb scholarship, lightly worn -- Mark Viney ― New Scientist Erudite and engaging ― Nature He has hit...

Fascinating, incisive, intelligent and never afraid of being controversial, Elaine Showalter introduces us to more than 250 writers. Here are the f...

Product Description The title-sequence of David Harsent's new collection of poems, Legion, offers a report from an unnamed war, in which various i...

Book Description A powerful interrogation of consciousness and psychology from the highly-acclaimed playwright behind Rosencrantz and Guildenstern...

Review Theatre at its best. ― The Sunday Times A stickily complex moral tale that will leave you debating long after the defendant's fate is seal...

Review 'A charming collection of essays recounting a suburban girl's adventures in the big city' -- Vogue 'A winsome kiss-and-tell' -- The Observ...

We're opposites, even though we came from the same, she's nuttin like me, an that shames me. Teenagers Muna and Iqra catch the same school bus. The...

About the Author Florian Zeller is a French novelist and playwright. He won the prestigious Prix Interallié in 2004 for his third novel, Fascinati...

From the Back Cover During the Vietnam War, Kurt Vonnegut, after surviving the horrors of Dresden as a POW during World War II, would lose his tem...

Review If hope were an object, it would be Alex Dimitrov's Love and Other Poems ― NPR Love and Other Poems has felt like a long-awaited remedy ― ...

Review In this brilliant new collection, Chang continues her exploration of memory and mourning. These are impeccable, precise poems, sometimes sh...