Literature & literary studies

Product Description The poems of How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) find breath and lightness in the common business of living. Barbara Kin...

The Late Sun asserts a balance between memorialisation of the recently dead and celebration of the vitality of the living. Early in the collection ...

Join the hopeful, resilient residents of 'The Jungle', the refugees and volunteers from around the globe who gather at the Afghan Café. They're jus...

For this new edition, first published in 1971, Ted Hughes augmented his original selection of Shakespeare's poems and dramatic speeches and complet...

Sylvia Plath was one of the most gifted and innovative poets of the twentieth century, yet serious study of her work has often been hampered by a f...

'The prolific master of suburban mayhem has still got his mojo.'Evening StandardTime of My Life'One of Mr. Ayckbourn's most virtuosic experiments i...

Review Obscure, indecent and brilliant. -- Virginia Woolf While Hope Mirrlees is remembered as a fine and remarkable novelist, it has been forgot...

About the Author Paul Muldoon is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, including Moy Sand and Gravel, for which he received the 2003 Pulit...

Murder in the Cathedral, written for the Canterbury Festival in 1935, was one of T. S. Eliot's first dramatic achievements, and it remains one of t...

'A dazzling pyrotechnical feat that combines Wildean pastiche, political history, artistic debate, spoof reminiscence, and song-and-dance in marvel...

The History Boys by Alan Bennett is a hilarious drama that follows an unruly bunch of bright, funny boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at un...

'Keep Moving speaks to you like an encouraging friend reminding you that you can feel and survive deep loss, sink into life's deep beauty and const...

Since her suicide in 1963 at the age of 30, Sylvia Plath has become a strange icon. This book addresses why this is the case and what this tells us...

Product Description A winged, headless goddess from the third century; a gigantic tube of toothpaste; a tribal mask; a Buddha of solid gold - ...

Product Description The long-awaited first collection of poems from an influential young poet.A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY WILD CARD CHOICEComic Timi...

Product Description 'One of the key feminist texts' GuardianThe Descent of Woman is a pioneering work, the first to argue for the equal role ...

About the Author Kate Baer is a writer and poet based on the East Coast. She has been featured in publications such as Harper's Bazaar, Vogue....

Oscar Wilde's philosophy leads him on a path to destruction. "The Judas Kiss" describes two pivotal moments: the day Wilde decides to stay in Engla...

From the north-west midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight dates from the second half of the 14th century.Gawain,a knight in Arthur's court,take...

Review Gloriously trenchant, but never gimmicky, in these unsparing essays... insightful and revealing ― GuardianGaitskill has long been inter...

Product Description Tell, Mighty Wit, how the highest in forethought and, That tremendous plus, The Science, Saw off our panic and Globed vex...

Propertius' fourth book is his most challenging and innovative. It disrupts genre; dislocates time and order; and meditates on gender, perception a...

About the Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the University of Botoga and later worked as ...

While Jacob Polley's first collection, "The Brink", announced a poet of great promise, few readers will be prepared for a work of the mature and sl...

Jacket incorporates a photo of THomas Hardy and his second wife Florence, at Aldeburgh 1915

This collection of multi-authored essays not only refashions and revises critical understandings of the early modern dramatist Ben Jonson and his c...

"On Raftery's Hill": 'This is a play that howls to be seen; its courage is matched only by its dramatic power' - "Sunday Independent". "Ariel": 'An...

Ths volume contains all of Beckett's less-than-full-length works (or 'Dramaticules') for the stage, radio and television. Arranged in chronological...

Poems 1988-1998 is a compendium from Jo Shapcott's award-winning books Electroplating the Baby, Phrase Book and My Life Asleep. It reveals her to b...

In an illustrious career, David Harsent has published eight collections of poetry, from "A Violent County" in 1969 to "Legion", winner of the Forwa...

Product Description Set in the mysterious landscape of the bogs of rural Ireland, Carr's lyrical and timeless play tells the story of Hester Swane...

Laird's debut collection, "To a Fault" (2005), signalled the arrival of a significant new talent, "doing more, in its range and ambition", wrote De...

Chancellor Rieger is leaving office. But does leaving office necessarily mean that he, his mistress and his extended family have to leave the state...

Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since "Public Property" in 2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in w...

An international group of observers arrives in a West African country to oversee and rubber stamp its first democratic election. New voters queue i...

The Vaughans are all set to enjoy Christmas. Thomas has been promoted and Nora is delighted. Everything at last seems to be going right, until a vi...

Father David Anderton is assigned to a crippled Scottish town on the Ayrshire coast, where sectarianism is rife. He is a cultivated - if naive and ...

"Berlin/Wall": In two contrasted readings for the stage, David Hare visits a place where a famous wall has come down; then another where a wall is ...

How a certain Jewish family mourns a dead patriarch. The term is 'sitting Shiva' (mourning for seven days), when friends and relatives commiserate,...

But I can hear them speaking like magpies, And they mean to thieve his life, The Lord's anointed servant, They mean to kill God. Speaking Like M...

Widely celebrated as the author of the worldwide bestselling novels A SUITABLE BOY and AN EQUAL MUSIC, Vikram Seth is also a highly acclaimed poet ...

Since his debut, Nil Nil, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993, Don Paterson has lit up the poetry scene in the U.K. His dazzlin...

Jamie McKendrick's sixth collection starts from the far flung ('out there' is the nothing - or the something - of outer space), ascertaining the mo...

This fourth collection of Brian Friel's work contains: The London Vertigo (after Macklin) (1992); (January) A Month in the Country (after Turgenev)...

Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet "Laurels and Donkeys", on Armistice Day 2010), drawing...

This second collection of Brian Friel's work contains: The Freedom of the City (1973); Volunteers (1975); Living Quarters (1977); Aristocrats (1979...