Literature & literary studies

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...

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

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

"The most popular English poet since Larkin." (Sunday Times). After more than a decade and following his celebrated adventures in drama, translatio...

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...

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

Since his precise, potent and subtle portraits of Northern Irish life first came to public attention in the 1970s, Tom Paulin has been an unmissabl...

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...

This fifth collection of Brian Friel's work contains: Uncle Vanya (after Chekhov) (1998); The Yalta Game (after Chekhov) (2001); The Bear (after Ch...

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

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...

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...

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

'Gub is unlike anything I have ever read. In a playful demotic that is exhilarating, hilarious and never forced, Scott McKendry makes magic of a Be...

"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,...

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...

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...

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...

This marks the first of five volumes collecting together the complete work of Brian Friel. The Enemy Within (1962) Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1...

In June 1948, the SS Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury, carrying with it the hopes and dreams of hundreds of young men and women from the Caribbean...

2014 marks the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of what many believed would be the war to end all wars. And while the First World War devastat...

Product Description Mixing cultural criticism, literary history, biography, and memoir in an exploration of Alice Walker’s critically acclaim...

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

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club, a profound and intimate exploration of the creative process and the intersections ...

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...

**SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020** From renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic, Mi...

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...