Literature & literary studies

I'm older now. I'm stronger. How do you know I haven't sorted out some natural equilibrium all on my own? Maybe we should try it, just for a bit. ...

Review The answer lies in Breathnach's self-lacerating honesty and his skill in arranging fragments to create the momentum of a short story ... Ov...

About the Author Marianne Moore (1887-1972) was awarded the Bollingen Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for her Collected Poe...

Review The play is alive, endlessly curious, inventively staged. A rousing look at 60 years of sexual identity. ― Guardian Wife is a play for tod...

Product Description Andrew Motion's prose memoir In the Blood (2006) was widely acclaimed, praised as an act of magical retrieval and a hymn to fa...

Review It's the mix of instant familiarity and timeless depth that gives The Brothers Size such a charge... a taut, compassionate fable of fra...

About the Author Polly Stenham's plays include That Face (Royal Court and the Duke of York's), for which she was awarded the 2008 Critics' Circle ...

About the Author Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in 1975 and lives in Berlin and New York. His novels and plays have won numerous prizes, i...

Review Electrifying... This four-hour epic of ambition and power is a sinewy reworking of Aeschylus that explodes into a cacophonous climax. ― Gua...

Review Brilliantly funny, with lines that we will, I hope, be quoting for years to come and several show-stopping vignettes. Bennett is still naug...

Product Description After opening to sometimes bewildered reviews at the National Theatre in 1978, David Hare's wildly ambitious play Plenty ...

Underwood Lane - the winter sun hangs like a suppurating boil glued to a giant sheet of dirty asbestos above the blackened tenements that rear up f...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 CHRISTOPHER EWART-BIGGS MEMORIAL PRIZE 'An outstanding evening, a landmark play, a thoroughly deserved five stars . . . O...

Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 1997. 'Carr's harrowing play has the scale and anguish of myth, and the immediacy of a contemporary ane...

I love fire. Fire is the colour of genius. In this audacious new work, Edna O'Brien gives voice to the women who were central to the life of James...

If the politicians cannot save Russia, then we businessmen must. We have not just the responsibility but the duty to become Russian heroes. 1991. ...

A contemporary thriller with ancient roots, by the winner of the Most Promising New Playwright 2024 award (OffWestEnd). The bark creeps up my body...

Review Extraordinarily effective ― Robert McCrum, The Observer A brilliant writer ― Spectator George Mackay Brown really does possess the magici...

'Some smuggle cigarettes, others alcohol - or weapons. Our contraband, being invisible, is more dangerous. Our contraband is undetectable by scanne...

If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. From The Soldier to Anthem for Doome...

'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways' Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit and conscience. She was also a woman who wrote t...

'McSweeney is one of our most dynamic poets' Nick Ropatrazone, The Millions 'I've never read anything by Joyelle McSweeney that wasn't totally exc...

'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...

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness - between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves - from National Book Critics Circle Aw...

'Will Burns is a soulful English poet of the kind we don't make enough of' Max Porter In his beautiful, evocative new collection, Natural Burial G...

'A beautifully written gem of a book, both inspiring and poignant.' Elton John 'Incisive and heart-rending.' Richard E Grant Sarah Standing is a ...

NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'A beautiful book of great tenderness, love of life, and wisdom' JOSEPH O'CONNOR For almost fifty years, Michael Harding ha...

In the highly anticipated follow-up to LVOE: Poems, Epigrams & Aphorisms, three-time New York Times bestselling author Atticus is inviting read...

'There's never been a more honest or raw memoir . . . and it may just save lives' Daily Mail 'Funny, fascinating, compelling . . . also a wonderfu...

From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets...

In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough abo...

In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough abo...

"I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed." —William Shakespeare Arm yourself with this volume from the Knickerbocker ...

Do you want to write a poem? This book will show you ‘how to grow your own poem’… Kate Clanchy has been teaching people to write poetry for more th...

This book brings together for the first time Ben Lerner's three acclaimed volumes of poetry, along with a handful of newer poems, to present a deca...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING AND THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY New in paperback: an exhilarating, moving...

Not a Novel is the best of Jenny Erpenbeck's non-fiction. Moving and insightful, the pieces range from personal essays and literary criticism to re...

*Donna Ashworth's new book Wild Hope is out September 2023* FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF I WISH I KNEW A book for the passionate a...

Discover GROWING BRAVE, Donna Ashworth's new book, coming September 2024 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND FROM THE AUTHOR OF WILD HOPE 'A little c...

About the Author Rebecca Solnit is author of, among other books, Call Them By Their True Names, The Mother of All Questions, Men Explain Things to...

Life Lessons from Literature is a must for all bibliophiles, providing a concise and highly accessible bucket list of must-read books that teaches ...