July Birthday Series

'He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to h...

A Profound and Timeless Masterpiece of Intellect and Spirit In the remote, intellectual Kingdom of Castalia, the scholars of the Twenty-Third Centu...

"Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink... I read Vogue, and I'm ...

"I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe... I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or u...

This stunning collection showcases the early genius of Chilean writer Pablo Neruda, widely regarded as the greatest and most prolific Latin America...

Hermann Hesse's Demian is a profound literary masterpiece that explores the tumultuous journey of youth, dualism, and spiritual awakening. It follo...

Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis remains one of the most chillingly visceral portraits of human isolation and social alienation ever put to page. Th...

Selected by Seán Hewitt as a Granta Book of the Year. In trailblazing poet, essayist, teacher and activist June Jordan's poems, love is a vision of...