Literature & literary studies

Review One of the most musical and psychologically acute playwrights. --Financial Times Product Description Yasmina Reza's award-win...

Product Description Since the publication of Walter de la Mare's first edition of his poems in 1920, Edward Thomas has gradually come to be recogn...

Rainer Maria Rilke's 55 Sonnets to Orpheus remain a testimony to a writer whose significance other poets continue to testify to. Don Paterson's tra...

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 & Fabe...

I am scared, that once this war is over, and I am sent home, that you won't be here. That you will have left. Leonard and Violet, young, restless ...

About the Author Timberlake Wertenbaker's plays include New Anatomies (ICA, London, 1982), Abel's Sister (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, 1984),...

Moscow, 1938. A dangerous place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom. Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents, stalked by s...

About the Author Penelope Skinner's plays include The Village Bike (Royal Court Upstairs; 2011); The Sound of Heavy Rain (Paines Plough/Crucible T...

Product Description A tragedy of maritime decline, Bound follows the fortunes of six trawlermen from Devon as they embark on one final voyage...

About the Author Michael Wynne was born and brought up in Birkenhead. His first play, The Knocky, was performed at the Royal Court Theatre: it was...

When they called saying your body had been found, I had one immediate thought. I remember thinking that maybe now I'd be free. Sam hasn't spoken t...

'I have been thinking I might go berserk.' When Claire, a priest, survives an atrocity she sets out on a quest to answer the most difficult questi...

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 ...

Review Highly intelligent, deeply moving poems that provide a new lens through which to consider grief. -- Sarah Crown ― Guardian This is powerfu...

Review Hofmann's is one of the definitive bodies of work of the last half-century, as redolent of the mood, mores and matter of its time as any th...

A version of Sophocles' Philoctetes that tells of the wounded hero marooned upon an island by the Greeks during the Siege of Troy. As the conflict ...

"After two elegiac comedies about the decline of old England, Mr Bennett has now written a gorgeously vulgar but densely plotted farce that is a do...

Review 'Eimear McBride is a writer of remarkable power and originality.' --Times Literary Supplement 'An instant classic.' --Guardian 'Unflinching...

Product Description we're still ourselves when we lieJoan and Tom have been married for nearly thirty years. Tara lies alone while Peter work...

Something's up with Maggie. She's rattling around in the house on Hope Place that she's lived in all her life. Her brothers and sisters flew the ne...

About the Author William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was one of the most influential of the Romantic poets. He grew up in the Lake District, and was ed...

About the Author ALAN BENNETT has been a leading dramatist since Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His works for stage and screen include Talking He...

Review Teju Cole hits it out of the park over and over in Known and Strange Things, his essay collection on photography, travel, race and being. I...

Review A debut of extraordinary structural flair and adroitly devastating emotional power... A terrific feat of imagination and vividly marshalled...

Review A magnificent chamber play by one of the few major playwrights in our language. Quite unlike his "social" trilogy [Racing Demon, Murmuring ...

About the Author ALAN BENNETT has been a leading dramatist since Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His works for stage and screen include Talking He...

Review Tender, heartbreaking play... a piece that quietly sounds the depths of social and cultural divisions. ― Financial TimesThis is a revel...

About the Author Moli�re (1622-73) was born Jean Poquelin, the son of a prosperous upholsterer of Paris. His father was attached to the service of...

French billionaire Orgon, relocated to Los Angeles with his family, has fallen under the spell of Tartuffe, a radical American evangelist. So compr...

Review Dazzling... Lee Hall's adaptation of Paddy Chayefsky's 1976 film makes this look like a prescient, urgent text. It lands with messianic...

About the Author David Jones (1895-1974) was born in Kent. In 1915, then an art student, he went to war with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, where he f...

About the Author David Jones (1895-1974) was born in Kent. In 1915, then an art student, he went to war with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, where he f...

Product Description 'That crown which he set on his lifetime's effort.' Ted Hughes Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T. S. Eliot's ...

Review The foremost representative of British drama in the second half of the twentieth century. ― Swedish Academy citation on awarding Harold Pin...