Literature & literary studies

'The Calder valley, west of Halifax, was the last ditch of Elmet, the last British Celtic kingdom to fall to the Angles. For centuries it was consi...

From the notorious, bestselling author of ATOMISED: a scholarly love letter on the hugely influential and reclusive literary horror writer H.P. Lov...

Alan Ayckbourn's masterly Season's Greetings offers a seriously entertaining look at the misery and high jinks of an average family Christmas. The ...

Book of Longing is Leonard Cohen's astonishing new collection of poems, the first since Book of Mercy was published nearly three decades ago. Leon...

Review A flawless treat... The immaculate ingenuity and off-beam symmetry of the plotting is a thing of wonder. ― Independent Pitch-perfect... Pe...

Drawn from thirty years of work, this selection, made by the poet himself, gathers from the best of Jamie McKendrick's six acclaimed collections, i...

Review There is formal ingenuity even in the most apparently straightforward of pieces here, and part of the pleasure comes from the interaction o...

In this, his first volume of original verse since the award-winning "Landing Light", Don Paterson is found writing at his most memorable and direct...

The Hothouse was first produced in 1980, though Harold Pinter wrote the play in 1958 just before commencing work on The Caretaker. 'The Hothouse is...

Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these recor...

Linda France's tenth collection is galvanising, comprising poems written from, and into, the fabric of the sixth mass extinction. Here, beginnings ...

About the Author ALAN BENNETT has been a leading dramatist since Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His works for stage and screen include Talking He...

Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2017 The Noise of a Fly is the first collection from Douglas Dunn in sixteen years, and the first...

'Required reading.' - Cosmopolitan Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeli...

Discover a profound exploration of history and identity in this masterful poem that weaves together the visible and the unseen. With its circular n...

About the Author W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was born in Dublin and was educated in Ireland and England. He was instrumental in the development of a n...

Product Description Nil Nil, Don Paterson's first volume of poetry, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993 and heralded the arriv...

Review 'Outstanding . . . Scott's tone is sometimes splendidly, defiantly drama-queenly . . . This is the most impressive debut since Andrew McMil...

Review Heart-rending tour de force... Frozen is truly an outstanding play. ― Telegraph Affecting and thoughtful... Lavery examines matters with c...

A number of the poems in this collection by Michael Hofmann show him returning to the subject of his father, the German novelist Gert Hofmann, whos...

'One drink. And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again.' A quantum physicist and a beekeeper meet. They hit it off, or pe...

When the New York Public Library announced in October 1968 that its Berg Collection had acquired the original manuscript of The Waste Land, one of ...

From Kate Baer, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman, comes her much anticipated second full-length traditional poetry co...

'Please stop staring at me whilst I'm on the loo I simply want a peaceful poo.' In this uplifting, funny and giftable collection of poems, general ...

American poet Emily Dickinson is revered around the world, and influenced many feminist artists and writers. Her work is some of the best known and...

**A Book of the Year in The Times and The Sunday Times ** Trees are essential, for nature and for us. Yet we are cutting and burning them at such ...

'"For years afterwards the farmers found them - the wasted young, turning up under their plough blades." So run the blunt, grimly beautiful opening...

Product Description Michael Hofmann's poems have been widely admired, notably for their gift of compressed and vividly pointed reportage, and...

The central character of this play is Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who led an Irish and Spanish alliance against the armies of Elizabeth I in an a...

About the Author David Jones (1895-1974) was born in Kent. In 1915, then an art student, he went to war with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, where he f...

Review "Questlove's in-depth, witty, creative, personal, and authoritative musical history will keep people reading, listening, questioning, and m...

Product Description The Philosophers' Library features the most important philosophy manuscripts and books as stepping stones to take your through...

Discover what inspired Maeve Binchy's novels and short stories in this hugely enjoyable collection.'What this wonderful collection of her work for ...

WINNER OF THE COSTA POETRY AWARD POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION Fleche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used i...

Review 'Julia Copus's poems are acts of resistance. The material tests its own boundaries to become something new. She is not limited to - or ...

This anniversary edition celebrates fifty years since the original publication of Crow (1970) - the vital, shape-shifting collection by Ted Hughes....

Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was one of the best-loved English poets of the twentieth century, his verse admired by contemporaries including Thoma...

Product Description The plays in this collection reveal in combination the 'frivolous' and 'serious' aspects of Tom Stoppard's talent: his sense o...

POET LAUREATEA collection of commissioned, collaborative and occasional poems, demonstrating the range and influence of Armitage's writing outside ...

Review On the Edge is a superb book, painstakingly researched and brilliantly written. ― Irish ExaminerFerriter skilfully poses big questions ...

Review Eileen Myles' essential poetry is the hip kid leaning against their locker secretly burning with intensity, the smartest boy in the cla...

This revised third volume of Harold Pinter's work includes The Homecoming, Old Times, No Man's Land, four shorter plays, six revue sketches and a s...

Product Description One of the great Victorian poets, Tennyson's genius is expressed through the precision and delicacy of the language of his lyr...

Review Why Does The Word Exist? is more fun than a book this serious has any right to be. Holt has written a metaphysical page-turner and a tr...

Review With such a champion as Beard to debunk and popularise, the future of the study of classics is assured ― Daily TelegraphShe's pulled of...

Discover a world of intrigue and emotion in this captivating novel that explores the depths of human connection and the complexities of life. With ...

Siegfried Sassoon is one of the First World War poets whose poetry has defined a generation. He published most of his war poetry in "The Old Huntsm...

Subtitled "A tragicomedy in two Acts", and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', "En a...