Literature & Literary Studies

Among the poems that open Night, David Harsent's follow-up to his Forward Prize-winning collection "Legion", is a startling sequence about a garden...

A guy walks into a bar ...From here the story could take many turns. A guy walks into a bar and meets the love of his life. A guy walks into a bar ...

"The North Ship", Philip Larkin's earliest volume of verse, was first published in August 1945 and reissued in 1966 by Faber. The introduction, by ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE T S ELIOT PRIZE 2020 'Out of personal history, out of the history of an enduringly fractured nation, and out of the deep histo...

Ezra Pound was born in 1885 in Hailey, Idaho. He came to Europe in 1908 and settled in London, where he became a central figure in the literary and...

An exclusive and detailed collection of Dylan Thomas' poems, stories and broadcasts, featuring a bold new livery in celebration of the Dylan Thomas...

Writers and artists across the centuries, from Chaucer to Ian McEwan, and from the creator of the Luttrell Psalter in the 14th century to John Pipe...

"Letters to Milena" captures the remarkably raw, brilliant, and agonizingly vulnerable correspondence between Franz Kafka and his translator, Milen...

Product Description Alice Walker, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning modern classic, The Color Purple, returns with a poetry collection that is...

Product Description Japanese Haiku has been a much-loved form of poetry for many centuries. Composed of 17 syllables, it can convey the essence of...

The three arts of poetry, calligraphy and painting are regarded in China as the Triple Excellence, and they are brought together here in a beautifu...

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

Praised for his verbal inventiveness, image-making power and almost pagan metaphysics, Dylan Thomas's poems are visions of creation and morality.

Product Description Through a stony and inhospitable landscape ride a pair of attendant lords, cloaked and hatted against the cold. In this screen...

Product Description For fans of the Bard comes a deluxe box set of our three classic Shakespeare mini books: Shakespeare: The Bard's Guide to ...

About the Author Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. A recipient of numerous prizes a...

The Second World War has shaped the modern world more than any other single event. This generous and haunting selection of English-language and tra...

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

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

"It is a cold day in Ireland, the 26th of December; frost lies thick on the blackthorn. A man walks the just-waking village, banging on every door,...

Grammy Award–nominated, platinum-selling musician Halsey is heralded as one of the most compelling voices of her generation. In I Would Leave Me If...

FOLLOW-UP TO THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER INCLUDING LETTERS FROM: Jane Austen, Richard Burton, Helen Keller, Alan Turing, Albus Dumbledo...

A Daily Telegraph, Times, Evening Standard, TLS and Spectator Book of the Year. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize. Edward Lear is well-loved for hi...

"Genius... It is miraculous to read these pieces... You must read The Best of Me." --Andrew Sean Greer, New York Times Book Review A New York Times...

`When I was at primary school, my teacher asked if any of us had heard of Charles Dickens. I was amazed she knew his name, because, until that mome...

Product Description Published in association with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, The Quest for Shakespeare's Garden traces the origins of garde...

‘One of the greatest writers of our time.’ Toni Morrison ‘You Don’t Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding of Hurston … her words m...

A dazzling tragicomic tale from the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 'Anyone reading Kundera's books is unlikely to for...

Product Description Seamus Heaney's poetic career has been one of constant development and expansion, and his place among the world's greatest lit...

A collection of six plays by the Irish playwright, Brian Friel.

This volume contains Harold Pinter's first six plays, including The Birthday Party. The Birthday Party Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding h...

This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the vivid and surprising twelve-line poems entitled "Squarings", shows he is ready to re-ima...

Product Description Wallace Stevens is for many readers the supreme poet of twentieth century America, his unique voice combining meditative specu...

The classic of literary criticism from one of the world's greatest novelists. In seven independent, but closely related chapters, Milan Kundera pr...

About the Author Anton Chekhov, Russian dramatist and short-story writer, was born in 1860, the son of a grocer and the grandson of a serf. After ...

*Donna Ashworth's new book Wild Hope is out September 2023* FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF I WISH I KNEW A book for the passionate a...

WINNER OF THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2023 What does it mean to have 'heritage', and how do we perform or undo it? In these daring and sonorous poems,...

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

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

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