Literature & literary studies

Hugo Williams is rightly cherished for his inimitable fusion of autobiography and irony, and a technical glide that allows his writing to 'slip bac...

On 1 July 1916, the 36th (Ulster) Division took part in one of the bloodiest battles in human history, the Battle of the Somme. This enduring war p...

Two women wash up on a distant shore following a violent boating accident. Dazed by their experience, they look for a path home. But they discover ...

Discover the enchanting world of poetry with this new collection from a prizewinning poet and translator. Each poem invites you to explore profound...

'Exquisite' (New Yorker), 'breathtaking' (Los Angeles Times), 'baroque and moon-lit' (Boston Globe) - House of Lords and Commons enthralled readers...

'Lines off' is a term used for lines spoken from the wings of a theatre, or off-camera in a film. It was while Hugo Williams was out of circulation...

'Lines off' is a term used for lines spoken from the wings of a theatre, or off-camera in a film. It was while Hugo Williams was out of circulation...

Martin Crimp's Writing for Nothing collects texts written over the last thirty years. Included here are short plays, unmistakably the work of the i...

August Kleinzahler has earned admiration for his musical, precise poems that are grounded in the people, places and language among which he has liv...

This hex has festered, iss roots have been stuck for almost three decades. I've been oblivious but now I know. Thuh Lord has made it known. I can't...

Sometimes you crack. Sometimes you didn't mean to yell that. Sometimes you have to lay low until you've figured it out And sometimes, sometimes you...

Many of the poems in The Missing Months occupy the strange hiatus afforded by lockdown. They look forward as well as back, toying with possible fut...

About the Author BERNHARD SCHLINK was born in Germany in 1944. A professor emeritus of law at Humboldt University, Berlin, and Cardozo Law School,...

A SUNDAY TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR In this blistering anthology, poet, editor and DJ Kayo Chingonyi brings together a selection of except...

About the Author Jack's plays for the stage include Bunny (Underbelly, Edinburgh, 2010; Soho, 2011); 2nd May 1997 (Bush, 2009); When You Cure Me (...

The change will come. And it's not far away, I promise you that. Some figure will emerge from the dark screaming 'Get out of the way'. And not far ...

About the Author Andrew Motion was UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009, is co-founder of the online Poetry Archive, and has written acclaimed biogr...

If you think you know what it's like to be me you are seriously deluded. Is it appropriation to invent a voice - or is it an act of empathy? I...

Nothing cuts into us like the family knife. The Webster House. 1965. 1979. 1985. 1990. 2016. Death silences no one, least of all the dead. Se...

You took relationships as if they were the next train. Alex and Colin's stories flow like mist down the Thames, roll under Hammersmith Bridge, and...

We heal people. That's what we do here. We are a kinship. Gill has returned home to the north coast of Northern Ireland determined to speak to her...

I'm just very very horny. I don't know how else to put it. Saoirse Murphy moves from one chaotic world to another. From her Catholic school in Dub...

The perfect gift for Mother's Day! For those at any and all stages of motherhood. 'I read every single poem and wished that I'd had this book when...

Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kal...

In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Perhaps most significantly: what is Aberf...

Well yes and no. It's sexy, but pedestrian. Hieronymus Bosch in Smethwick. Hetty and I found a little alcove with our Sauvignon. Four couples gath...

So what have you got against gobby women running restaurants? El Barco is the newest tapas restaurant in fashionable Walthamstow Village, and it's...

Don Paterson's latest collection of poetry starts from the premise that the crisis of mid-life may be a permanent state of mind. Zonal is an experi...

We've got no money but we're still in Waitrose twice a day. Because going to Tesco just makes life not even worth living. Viv has lost a shoe. The...

'Powerful and profound' Deirdre Purcell 'A beautiful book of great tenderness, love of life, and wisdom learned the tough way' Joseph O'Connor Fo...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TED HUGHES PRIZE 2015 Tabard Inn to Canterb'ry Cathedral, Poet pilgrims competing for free picks, Chaucer Tales, track by trac...

'High-concept, formally daring, and sonically rich [...] What a tremendous gift to readers to witness a poetics balanced so deftly between intellec...

A speculative-poetic work from the Forward Prize-winning, T.S. Eliot shortlisted author of RENDANG. At the heart of Brother Poem is a sequence add...

This is the sixth, revised and enlarged edition of this well established Guide. It is designed to help the reader of Eliot's Selected Poems by iden...

The poems in Billy's Rain chart the course of a failed love affair: its secret joys and emotional pitfalls are explored with subtlety and irony. A ...

About the Author David Greig was born in Edinburgh. His plays include Europe, The Architect, The Speculator, The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the W...

Product Description A piano prodigy reeling from the death of his younger sister flees to New York City. Taking uneasy refuge in books, he reinven...

About the Author Jamie McKendrick was born in Liverpool in 1955. He is the author of six collections of poetry, including The Marble Fly (1997), w...

Midsummer's weekend in Edinburgh. It's raining. Bob's a failing car salesman on the fringes of the city's underworld. Helena's a high-powered divor...

About the Author Mick Imlah was born in 1956 and brought up near Glasgow and in Kent. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he taught...

Review 'One of the many achievements of This Rare Spirit is its rejection of that tired view of the poet as mouse that barely roared in favour of ...

Review This is mind-bending, it's ingenious and it's ethically challenging... A knotty, important and thought-provoking disputation about virtual ...

Review "Collins encourages wildness. She strips her poems of context, which invites readers to collaborate and imagine with her.... Who Is Mary Su...

Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nigh...

Review 'Time - what it is, how it shifts, what happens when we lose our grip on it - is at the heart of Lavinia Greenlaw's new collection . here's...

Review O'Donoghue's poems are an object lesson in how to write poetry that matters. The new collection confirms him as one of the most lyrical, am...

Product Description From the beginning, the poet was a wanderer, a storyteller, an imaginer of bridges between worlds. Zaffar Kunial is just such ...

About the Author Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The 2018-21 Laureate for Irish Fiction, his novels have twice won the Costa Book of t...