Literature & Literary Studies

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

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 woman's defiant fight to write.' Observer Being categorised as black and female does not constrain my writing. Writing assures me that I am mor...

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...

'"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...

Review If hope were an object, it would be Alex Dimitrov's Love and Other Poems ― NPR Love and Other Poems has felt like a long-awaited remedy ― ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 New York Times Bestseller 'Within two pages, nature writing feels different and fresh and new ... This book demands we find the eyes to see and ...

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 ...

Discover a world of intrigue and adventure in this captivating novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat. With its rich characters and unex...

The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a ne...

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. ...