Literature & Literary Studies

Winter takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists and thinkers who helped shape a new and modern...

'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...

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...

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

Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic Michiko Kakutani shares 100 personal, thought-provoking essays about books that have mattered to her and tha...

Product Description Playing Jane Austen is the original dramatisation of Jane Austen's work. The collection was first published in 1895 as Duo...

"Her final collection as Poet Laureate, a frank, disarming and deeply moving exploration of loss and remembrance in their many forms. Presented in ...

Books; reading, collecting and the physical housing of them has brought the book-lover joy - and stress - for centuries. Fascinated writers have tr...

James Joyce is one of the most famous--and controversial--writers of the twentieth century. The myth of his difficulty has discouraged many readers...

Simon Weinberg is dead. And, on a November morning, six people gather at his funeral - brothers and a sister, lovers and in-laws. Mourning allows t...

Review A virtuoso global study of how nations were formed and constitutions written upends the familiar narrative at every turn ... As with al...

About the Author Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian poet and playwright, was one of the shapers of modern theatre, who tempered naturalism with a...

Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives. How do we live fully? How do we...

‘A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed’ FINANCIAL TIMES ‘This is Shakespear...

June has a terrible secret. Gash has an outrageous plan. Leah is open to possibilities. And Joy is drinking to forget. When June's best friends un...

God is on fire - his fever is plague. All that was sweet is spilt and gone. The people of Thebes look to Oedipus to lift a terrible curse from the...

This seminal book, Eliot's first collection of literary criticism, appeared in London in 1920, two years before The Waste Land. It contains some of...

Product Description The first volume of Alan Ayckbourn's collected work contains his morality plays from the 1980s. It includes the plays A Chorus...

A play translated by Tom Stoppard which premiered at the Wyndham's Theatre, October 2005. Storyline - it's 1959 and three veterans from the first w...

In this entertaining and always stimulating collection of seven essays, Kundera deftly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of t...

Tickets, merchandise, money, drugs. All are just a phone call away. H is a Manc, Ray is a Scouser. They service the needs and exploit the chaos of ...

Celebrated children's writer Hans Christian Andersen arrives, unannounced, for a stay at Gad's Hill Place in the Kent marshes - home to Charles Dic...

About the Author Ruth Padel was born in London in 1947 and educated at Oxford. She lived several years in Greece and worked as a Greek scholar...

The Prime Minister and his cabinet have been assassinated and England's most treasured writers are being murdered one by one. Back at the universit...

This collection of Szymborska's work reveals her to be concerned with the unglamorized actualities of the human condition. She is one of a generati...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions ...

Fifteen years ago Una and Ray had a relationship. They haven't set eyes on each other since. Now, years later, she's found him again. Blackbird pr...

What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behaviour of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups abo...

About the Author Martin Crimp was born in 1956. His play Attempts on Her Life (1997) established his international reputation. His other work for ...

About the Author Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 by Faber & Faber an...

An adaptation by the Poet Laureate of Racine's play of the same name. Phedre burns with passion for Hippolytus, her stepson. His father, Theseus, i...