Literature & Literary Studies

Richard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. As Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church he put principle ov...

Review John Hegley is to potatoes what Wordsworth has been to daffodils ― Observer Comedy's poet laureate ― Independent The Peter Kay of poetry ...

Product Description The title-sequence of David Harsent's new collection of poems, Legion, offers a report from an unnamed war, in which various i...

Review Theatre at its best. ― The Sunday Times A stickily complex moral tale that will leave you debating long after the defendant's fate is seal...

We're opposites, even though we came from the same, she's nuttin like me, an that shames me. Teenagers Muna and Iqra catch the same school bus. The...

The Late Sun asserts a balance between memorialisation of the recently dead and celebration of the vitality of the living. Early in the collection ...

'Keep Moving speaks to you like an encouraging friend reminding you that you can feel and survive deep loss, sink into life's deep beauty and const...

Product Description The long-awaited first collection of poems from an influential young poet.A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY WILD CARD CHOICEComic Timi...

About the Author Kate Baer is a writer and poet based on the East Coast. She has been featured in publications such as Harper's Bazaar, Vogue....

Product Description Tell, Mighty Wit, how the highest in forethought and, That tremendous plus, The Science, Saw off our panic and Globed vex...

Propertius' fourth book is his most challenging and innovative. It disrupts genre; dislocates time and order; and meditates on gender, perception a...

While Jacob Polley's first collection, "The Brink", announced a poet of great promise, few readers will be prepared for a work of the mature and sl...

Jacket incorporates a photo of THomas Hardy and his second wife Florence, at Aldeburgh 1915

This collection of multi-authored essays not only refashions and revises critical understandings of the early modern dramatist Ben Jonson and his c...

Ths volume contains all of Beckett's less-than-full-length works (or 'Dramaticules') for the stage, radio and television. Arranged in chronological...

Poems 1988-1998 is a compendium from Jo Shapcott's award-winning books Electroplating the Baby, Phrase Book and My Life Asleep. It reveals her to b...

Product Description Set in the mysterious landscape of the bogs of rural Ireland, Carr's lyrical and timeless play tells the story of Hester Swane...

Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since "Public Property" in 2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in w...

An international group of observers arrives in a West African country to oversee and rubber stamp its first democratic election. New voters queue i...

Father David Anderton is assigned to a crippled Scottish town on the Ayrshire coast, where sectarianism is rife. He is a cultivated - if naive and ...

"Berlin/Wall": In two contrasted readings for the stage, David Hare visits a place where a famous wall has come down; then another where a wall is ...

Jamie McKendrick's sixth collection starts from the far flung ('out there' is the nothing - or the something - of outer space), ascertaining the mo...

Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet "Laurels and Donkeys", on Armistice Day 2010), drawing...

Tom Paulin's first collection since "The Road to Inver" in 2004, "Love's Bonfire" sets poems about early life and marriage beside up-to-the minute ...

"To a Fault", Nick Laird's debut collection, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize; "On Purpos...

Christopher Reid's new collection is a quartet of works for voice, opening with the brisk and brightly coloured monologue of Professor Winterthorn ...

The Faber poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T. S. Eliot who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Si...

Seidel is the great controversialist of American poetry. Dubbed a 'transgressive adventurer,' a 'demonic gentleman,' a 'triumphant outsider,' a 'gr...

'Crimp has treated Moliere the way Moliere had treated Plautus: he has seized on the timeless core of the story and recast it with wit and respect....

"Look We Have Coming to Dover!", the remarkable debut by Daljit Nagra, marked the arrival of a thrilling new voice in poetry and won the Forward Pr...

This book brings together subtle and moving meditations on exile and belonging, travel and home, and honours many friends and loved ones along the ...

In his eleventh full-length collection, Paul Muldoon reminds us that he is a traditional poet who is steadfastly at odds with tradition. If the poe...

Harry wants to leave an Inheritance for his sons. So, going against life-long political convictions, he joins the property-owning class. Then the e...

My God, Russian soldiers being shot with Chinese bullets. Sometimes the world is so beautiful. 1981. As the Soviet army burns its way through Afgha...

Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in "Her Book: Poems 1988-1998", revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically...

Now we have a family, a rivalry, a purpose. A writer and his wife sit together in their garden. They are surrounded by a lifetime's work; their hom...

Christopher Reid's new collection is a quartet of works for voice, opening with the brisk and brightly coloured monologue of Professor Winterthorn ...

Imagine a world where the Stephen Lawrence Case and the Hillsborough. Disaster never made it to court. Since 2012 the government has made sweeping ...

Listen, girls, if we stick together there's no ways we'll even get to the second round...Young, lost and out of control, a bunch of Catholic school...

I'm an award-winning business woman. I'm happily married with two beautiful daughters and I still fit in the same size-ten dress suit I did fifteen...

A high-ranking government minister with a colourful past is sent on a diplomatic mission to Istanbul. When his trip ends up in a bar room brawl, he...

It's risky work, handlin' men, my lass. For when a woman builds her life on men, either husbands or sons, she builds on summat as sooner or later b...

Meeting the British is Paul Muldoon's fifth collection of poems. They range from an account of the first recorded case of germ warfare, through a m...

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in Engli...

This is a critical and historical interpretation of 'Oriental' influences on American modernist poetry. Kern equates Fenollosa and Pound's 'discove...

Kenyan dramatist and novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o is a hugely influential African writer respected not only for his creative work but also for his cr...

As the author of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne has been established as a major writer of the nineteenth century and the most prominent ch...