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Russia. A beautiful country estate. The mid-nineteenth century. A handsome new tutor brings reckless, romantic desire to an eccentric household. Ov...

There's a pyjama-clad woman from Brum, She's a mostly-happy (sometimes-snappy) mum, She's written some verse - it's a little perverse - and she hop...

Tennyson experienced at first hand the all-pervasive nature of celebrity culture. It caused him to retreat from the eyes of the world. This book de...

Using postmodern theory, The Practice of Quixotism explores eighteenth-century women's texts that use quixote narratives, which typically demand th...

Combining literary analysis with a practical introduction to interdisciplinary literary geography, Literary Geograp hie s examines key elements of ...

This book examines professional literary criticism by Romantic-era British women to reveal that, while developing a conscious professionalism, wome...

'Required reading.' - Cosmopolitan 'This should be read as a sacred text. Here, you will bear witness to a perpetual salvation song.' - Jason Reyno...

"It is a cold day in Ireland, the 26th of December; frost lies thick on the blackthorn. A man walks the just-waking village, banging on every door,...

Beginning with the King's Cook, who is preparing a sumptuous Christmas Pie, Wenceslas takes us to a medieval feast. The lords and ladies are at the...

One of Oprah Magazine's Ten Best Books of 2017 A TIME Magazine Best Paperback of 2017 Publishers Weekly's Ten Best Poetry Collections of Spring ...

Iain Banks is celebrated as a novelist and science fiction writer. It is less well known that his first published work was the poem '041', in New W...

'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age' Lynn Barber 'A golden writer' Andrew Marr A. A. Gill was rightly hailed as one of the greatest...

'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age' Lynn Barber 'A golden writer' Andrew Marr A. A. Gill was rightly hailed as one of the greatest...

'Someone recently said to me, in reference to my poetry podcast, that you'd think poetry would be more popular than ever, in the twenty-first centu...

In this sweeping collection of essays, reportage and criticism, Hitchens' polemical talents at their most fearsome. "I did not, I wish to state, b...

Hugo Williams' new collection summons the poet's past selves in order of appearance, as in an autobiography, showing in poems as clear as rock pool...

Crocodiles and obelisks are ancient symbols of empire. The poems in Jamie McKendrick's astonishing new collection sift the debris of power and rang...

What if i'm not funny though - what if i go out there and i'm not funny Steve Johnston, guided and inspired by his girlfriend, is a small-time come...

This enthralling play considers the relationship between the private life and public work of the composer Leo' Janacek, the passion he felt for a m...

From a creative crisis to a dissatisfied editor, and from a bizarre twist of fate to an untimely death, behind each unpublished book lies a unique ...

The full range of Blakes Romantic poetry-joyful and sorrowful, childlike and complex-illustrating his original and prophetic vision.

About the Author W. H. Auden was born in York in 1907 and brought up in Birmingham. His first book, Poems, was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber i...

Above all don't use the word good as though it meant something in evolutionary science. Hilary, a young psychology researcher at a brain-science in...

Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to su...

Welcome to our war "The Two Worlds of Charlie F" is a soldier's view of service, injury and recovery. Moving from the war in Afghanistan, through t...

Len Platt charts a fresh approach through one of the great masterpieces of twentieth-century literature. Using original archival research and detai...

T. S. Eliot is not only one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; as literary critic and commentator on culture and society, his wr...

It's not just that rich people don't know what they've got. They don't even know what they throw away. India is beginning to prosper. But beyond th...

'So far as the young were concerned,' Orwell wrote of Britain in the years after the Great War, 'the official beliefs were dissolving like sandcast...

Simon Armitage's new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. ...

How far would you go for love? For art? What would you be willing to change? Which price might you pay? Such are the painful questions explored by ...

'Not just good for school children, but great by any standard' - Phillip Pullman Oxford Spires Academy is a small comprehensive school with 30 lan...

"Her final collection as Poet Laureate, a frank, disarming and deeply moving exploration of loss and remembrance in their many forms. Presented in ...

This collection features perhaps Dylan Thomas' best-known poem, 'Fern Hill' - a profoundly melancholic and wistful meditation on former times; set ...

Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle over that foundational power. Women, people of colour and non-straight...

'Where are we to begin? How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasure from what we read?' Pub...

Do you know... Which famous author died of caffeine poisoning? Why Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was banned in China? Who was the first Bri...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR POETRY The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered ...

Fires is the best introduction to the full range and humanity of Carver's writing. It contains four essays, including a moving memoir od his father...

When The Orators was originally published in 1932 it was described by Poetry Review as 'something as important as the appearance of Mr Eliot's poem...

This collection of poems from Wendy Cope reveals a softer lyrical voice, also present in her earlier books, but here given more room to develop in ...

This is a new one-volume edition of this classic sequence of sea novels set in the early nineteenth century, about a voyage from England to Austral...

This study focuses on ways in which Statius' epic Thebaid, a poem about the civil war between Oedipus' sons Eteocles and Polynices, reflects the th...

And what does sorry mean? Nothing really. It's just a word. It's what people say when it's too late. It's a sorry little stick of a word. Slick wit...

- What were you in life? - In life, as you put it, I was a schoolmaster. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on th...

Electric Light travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world, revisiting the poet's childhood: rural electrification ...

"Down at the Front, on a cold winter's night in 1914, amidst the worst war the world had ever seen, an inexplicable silence spread from man to man....

Product Description This second volume of plays by David Hare contains work from the 1970s and 1980s which confirmed him as one of the major conte...