Literature & literary studies

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 ...

'This is something rarer: funny and truthful, goodhearted, spiky, full of surprises. I loved every minute... there are stunning political moments.....

Review 'Future generations will get a sharp-toothed profile of life in the U.S. for the past decade and a half from the works of Sam Shepard.' Tim...

Book Description Rebecca Lenkiewicz's version of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts, or Those Who Return, premiered at the Arcola Theatre, London, in a co-...

During the 1920s, Scottish poetry, personified by Hugh MacDiarmid, asserted its independence, denying the claim made by T. S. Eliot that all signif...

Talking About Detective Fiction is a celebration of the best in crime writing through the ages from P.D. James, the world's pre-eminent crime write...

Tony Harrison's sixth collection includes a foreword by Lee Hall. The book contains Harrison's translation of Euripides's Hecuba, which inaugurated...

The great detective writer Georges Simenon escaped France at the end of World War Two, and arrived in the USA to start again. With his American wif...

ONE OF STYLIST'S BEST NEW BOOKS FOR 2020 'This is an unforgettable book.' Roxane Gay Meditations on the terror of love; tips for getting your di...

And she grew to be a girl, my daughter. Sing a song, Mary. Sing for grandma and Granda. Sing. The ties that bind can never be broken. For Sal, they...

A superb collection of plays by award-winning writer Moira Buffini.

Product Description 'Set in a desolate motel room on the edge of the Mojave desert, the play has something of the timeless universality of a Greek...

"Another Time" was the first volume that Auden published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939. It was dedicate...

Sophie and Calliope have never been to school. Their mum ran away from home when she was seventeen to join the New Age movement and the girls were ...

Product Description Through a stony and inhospitable landscape ride a pair of attendant lords, cloaked and hatted against the cold. In this screen...

Review Read Irby because she understands the mutinies of the body. She understands suffering and uncertainty, and is wildly, seditiously funny on ...

With the success of has first two films, In The Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, writer-director Neil LaBute has been hailed as a fir...

It's another normal day at a small-town station, where a handful of passengers are waiting for the stopping train. Thomas Hudetz, the well-liked st...

In a peaceful Norfolk village, three people are seeking happiness. But as the harvest moon fills and the party begins, ancient forces are brought t...

Anxiously awaiting the return of his new wife, Adolph finds solace in the words of a stranger. But comfort soon turns to destruction as old wounds ...

I'm a killer I told you I told you that all along You were the dummy to believe I could ever be anything else Two teenagers fall in love on Long I...

About the Author Marilynne Robinson, author of Housekeeping, Gilead, Home, Lila and Jack, is the winner of the Hemingway PEN award, the Pulitzer P...

Product Description A restaurant. Two curved banquettes. It's a celebration. Violent, wildly funny, Harold Pinter's new play displays a vivid zest...

This second collection of Martin Crimp's work brings together four remarkable plays.

O Positive is the long-awaited debut collection of poetry from Joe Dunthorne, and it has all the appeal of his widely acclaimed fiction. Adopting...

In this impressive debut, Nick Laird explores the sharp edge of relationships, from the intimacy of lovers to the brutality of political violence. ...

You're only the greatest person ever invented and he's some boy who's probs never had a conversation with a side of the sun before - but like Let's...

Twenty years after their frontman, John, walked off stage for good, the ironic rock band Riflemind are set to get together again. For John, a reuni...

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 Stephen Spender, the son of a journalist, was born in London in 1909. He was educated at University College, Oxford, where he ...

Review A heady celebration of the act of theatre. ― Guardian Makes you grateful to be alive. ― Independent Riotously enjoyable. You will fall in...

Product Description A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse contains the Old English texts of all the major short poems, such as 'The Battle of Maldon', 'Th...

Review The complex connections between memory and personal identity that are cruelly exposed in cases of brain damage; the tensions between our in...

sit on the deck - have a few drinks put the world to rights - and watch working-class protestants burn some tyres and sticks and shout some shit - ...

Product Description Tennis Whites and Teacakes brings together the best of Betjeman's poetry, private letters, journalism and musings to present a...

Discover the captivating world of literature with this compelling book that promises to take you on an unforgettable journey. Whether you're a seas...

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. Ea...

Wendy Cope's most recent collection, her first since Serious Concerns in 1992, extends her concern with the comedy of the examined life ('the way w...

About the Author Barbara Kingsolver's books of fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction are widely translated and have won numerous literary awards...