Literature & Literary Studies

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...

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

Julia Copus' poems bring humanity and light to some of our most intimate and solitary moments, repeatedly breathing life into loss. In two previous...

First published in 1968, this companion volume to the "Collected Shorter Poems" was compiled by W.H. Auden to bring together six of his longer poet...

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

The second volume of Harold Pinter's collected work includes The Caretaker. The Caretaker It was with this play that Harold Pinter had his first m...

A modern verse play about the search for meaning, in which a psychiatrist is the catalyst for the action. An authentic modern masterpiece (New York...

Do you want to know why Beckett has become a figure of such continuing influence and importance in the theatre? Are you studying his plays and look...

Cruel and Tender. "A mordantly knowing modernisation of Sophocles's Trachiniae...The approach here manages to be at once lethally level and capable...

These poems report on worlds both robust and delicate, from boisterous pub-bluff to the oxygen bubble of an exquisite underwater spider. Whether si...

This new collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward prize-winning Rain in 2009, is a series of forty sonnets. Some take a more tradi...

Galileo's wife, a young woman dying of radium poisoning, the first dog in space, a strangely obsessed concert pianist, an early beneficiary of plas...

The second half of Andrew Motion's new collection returns to the sequence begun in Laurels and Donkeys, completing a body of work recognised by the...

What happens within us when we read a novel? And how does a novel create its unique effects, so distinct from those of a painting, a film, or a poe...

New essays by the Women's Prize and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gilead, Home and Lila. In this collection, Marilynne Robinson impels us to act...

The Rivered Earth contains four libretti written by Vikram Seth to be set to music by Alec Roth - together with an account of the pleasures and pai...

The arrangement of these Selected Poems demonstrates the consistency of Christopher Logue's vision as it matured through a varied career. He publis...

New Selected Poems 1988-2013 provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Togethe...

In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Poet Owen Sheers has given voice to those...

That saying? Behind every famous man . . . ? From Mrs Midas to Queen Kong, from Elvis's twin sister to Pygmalion's bride, they're all here, in Caro...

Please note that the individual books listed below, as per their original ISBN and cover image, will be dispatched together as a collective set. T...

'A national treasure' Daily Express To mark and celebrate National Hedgehog Awareness Week, Pam Ayres has written a less-than-fond farewell from p...

With an insistent emphasis on the early role of women as authors and artists and illustrated with over fifty colour plates, Hidden Hands is an impo...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Now includes ELEVEN new columns and a whole THREE new prime ministers. Relive the delusional fever-dream of the moder...

The story of Lear, the old chieftain, who divides his kingdom among his three daughters is the most terrifying tragedy ever written. Shakespeare’s ...

Death in the Afternoon is Ernest Hemingway's definitive contemplation on the history, culture, and spectacle of Spanish bullfighting. Viewing it no...

These Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett is part of a landmark publishing project to publish edited and corrected texts of all of Beckett's works.

Love in a Life, Andrew Motion's sixth volume of poetry, marks a conspicuous development in the work of the founder of the modern Narrative School. ...

'In a series of chapters built round poems by a number of writers including himself...Ted Hughes explores, colorfully and intensively, themes such ...

Winner of both the Queen's Gold Medal and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, James Fenton has given readers some of the most memorable lyric verse o...

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

See? All we need is... a map and... some kind of plan. This overcoat is neutral darling, neither Bolshevik nor Menshevik. Just essence of Prole. ...

Product Description Edward Thomas wrote most of his poems during active service in World War I - poems which search for the true self, and affirm ...