Non-Fiction Books

Product Description Edward Thomas wrote most of his poems during active service in World War I - poems which search for the true self, and affirm ...

A revolutionary voice in English verse, and a much loved and celebrated lyric poet.

John Clares verse is a celebration of country life. Clare ended his life in an asyum, yet his work expresses an innate wisdom and a profound unders...

Product Description New Anatomies, Grace of Mary Traverse, Our Country's Good, Love of a Nightingale & Three Birds Alighting on a Field Book ...

War Music collects the first three volumes of Christopher Logue's account of Homer's Iliad.

Medieval discourses of masculinity and male sexuality were closely linked to the idea and representation of work as a male responsibility. Isabel D...

In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries the Inns of Court and fashionable London taverns developed a culture of clubbing, urban socia...

A common literary language linked royal absolutism to radical religion and republicanism in seventeenth-century England. Authors from both sides of...

This volume is a much-needed new selection of Seamus Heaney's work, taking account of recent volumes and of the author's work as a translator, and ...

Don Paterson is not only one of our great poets, but also an esteemed authority on the art of poetry. The Poem is a treatise on the art of poetry i...

A collection of six plays by the Irish playwright, Brian Friel.

An anthology of schemes, stories and ideas which people have dreamt of as Utopia. Provides a picture of the hopes and desires of the age in which e...

In 1956 John Osborne's Look Back in Anger changed the course of English theatre. This volume includes some of the early plays which launched his ca...

This second collection of John Osborne's dramatic work includes The Entertainer, The Hotel in Amsterdam, West of Suez and Time Present. 'A lifelo...

Steven Berkoff is probably the most theatrical artist working in theatre today. This second collection of his plays is now available in the contemp...

A new edition of the first volume of the collected plays of Steven Berkoff. It includes East, West, Greek, Sink the Belgrano!, Massage, Lunch, The ...

'An exultant night - a man in total command of his talent.' Observer 'The most intense expression of compressed violence to be found anywhere in Pi...

A magnificent, semi-autobiographical sequence from a Nobel Prize-winning poet, Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men: Camille Pissa...

April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain ...Published ...

Product Description Towards the end of his life the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) wrote nearly four hundred poems in French - notably...

Composed towards the end of the first millennium, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is one of the great Northern epics and a classic of European literat...

It was with this play that Harold Pinter had his first major success, and its production history since it was first performed in 1960 has establish...

A young lawyer's involvement in her first case leads her through a criminal justice system - police, courts and prisons - which is cracking at the ...

In 1956 John Osborne's Look Back in Anger changed the course of English theatre. 'Look Back in Anger presents post-war youth as it really is. To ha...

A modern verse play about the search for meaning, in which a psychiatrist is the catalyst for the action. An authentic modern masterpiece (New York...

How do you fight without hate? Racing Demon reveals the struggle of four clergymen to make sense of their mission. David Hare's play opened at the ...

Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and the humiliating job in his father's grocery shop, with his fr...

How Ms. Poopay Dayseer, a twenty-first century Specialist Sexual Consultant, while peddling her 'services' to an elderly hotel room client unexpect...

Kid gives us one of the liveliest poetic voices to have emerged in the last ten years. Simon Armitage's inspired ear for the demotic and his abili...

"There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature," raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right. She has been nom...

'Believe me, my young friend, there is absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In them or out of them, it doe...

Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the ...

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...

From his home in a West Yorkshire village proverbially associated with cuckoos, Simon Armitage has been probing the night sky with the aid of a pow...

Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocl...

Product Description 'These poems delight in a wily, mischievous, nonchalant negotiation between the affections and attachments of Muldoon's own ch...

From the Publisher We are pleased to announce the publication of eleven more titles into the new typographic look. The specifications for the book...

Do you want to know why Beckett has become a figure of such continuing influence and importance in the theatre? Are you studying his plays and look...

About the Author Christopher Reid is the author of many books of poems, including A Scattering (winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award 2009), ...

Whether you are a professional actor looking for fresh audition pieces, an amateur in search of competition-worthy monologues, or a student in need...

Product Description Love in a Life, Andrew Motion's sixth volume of poetry, marks a conspicuous development in the work of the founder of the mode...

Terza rima, the form of this poetry, provides the author with the structure for his own meditation on the afterlife, Disenchantments. Other poems a...

This book consists of two long poems. "Lines of Desire" tells the story of an individual in crisis, under cruel pressure both from past and present...

This is Hughes's version of Alcestis - the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die...

Lochhead's Cuba is written for a cast of 20, plus extras. It traces the decline of a friendship between two girls who decide to mount a school prot...

No one has recognised Reade Collins in the street for over a decade. Suddenly everyone seems to know who he is again - things are looking up. But t...

The Value of Something is Never its Price. In a trading town on the banks of the river, penniless Larisa is desperate to marry and escape heartbrea...

'I'm taking your eyes', he'd say, 'and keeping them safe.' 'I'm taking your ears and keeping them safe.' Ciara's father Mick kept her as his hidden...