Literature & Literary Studies

Product Description Discover Shakespeare's life and works in this fascinating three-dimensional pocket guide.Bring the Bard's works to life i...

Review This eye-opening account... is an epic, continent-spanning story that reaches right into the present. ― History Revealed 'Dickie's book ac...

Six glorious plays by Alan Bennett, collected together for the first time in this celebratory box set. Forty Years On premiered at the Apollo Theat...

Product Description Ireland's greatest and most influential poet: Yeats's poems express both powerful personal feelings and something of the whole...

WITH A FORWARD BY J. G. BALLARD In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and w...

In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated m...

Review It is the current Poet Laureate who has done the most to bring medieval poetry to contemporary audiences . . . in its own eccentric way...

Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually. Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us. In this s...

Product Description Written against the backdrop of global crisis, Nikita Gill's new collection Where Hope Comes From shines a light into the dar...

I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable, what shall-...

Since prehistory, dogs have served as man's best friend, giving us loyalty, assistance and boundless inspiration. Dogs offer comfort and amusement...

About the Author Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for t...

T.S. Eliot - editor, poet, critic and publisher - was the greatest poet of his generation. The winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, virtu...

Amazon Review Sylvia Plath churned out her final poems at the remarkable rate of two or three a day, masterworks Robert Lowell describes as writte...

Product Description DISCOVER THE AMAZING POWER OF POETRY TO MAKE EVEN THE MOST F**KED UP TIMES FEEL BETTER A beautiful little book of short, simp...

Product Description The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller'Gorgeous.' Glennon Doyle'Sharp observations on modern womanhood.' Sunday Times'E...

"District and Circle offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground." In this powerful collection, Nobel Laureate S...

Commissioned by the BBC, and described by Dylan Thomas as 'a play for voices', UNDER MILK WOOD takes the form of an emotive and hilarious account o...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE? Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on livi...

A new, updated edition including new speeches from Queen Elizabeth II and John Boyega in the year 2020. This collection of extraordinary speeches ...

Review The joy of Burnside's poems - and part of what makes them moving - is that he does know and never stops registering the ways in which b...

When the New York Public Library announced in October 1968 that its Berg Collection had acquired the original manuscript of The Waste Land, one of ...

What does it mean to feel truly alive? Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he c...

For the second half of his long life, Christopher Logue (1926-2011) - political rebel, inventor of the poster poem, pioneer of poetry and jazz - ...

Product Description As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol o...

Product Description The definitive edition of Dylan Thomas's five published volumes of poems: 18 POEMS, TWENTY-FIVE POEMS, THE MAP OF LOVE, DEATHS...

A rich collection of Dylan Thomas' best-loved poems and stories, such as PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG DOG, and pieces he wrote for radio and m...

Siegfried Sassoon is one of the First World War poets whose poetry has defined a generation. He published most of his war poetry in "The Old Huntsm...

Selected Poems 1968-2014 offers forty-five years of work drawn from twelve individual collections by a poet who 'began as a prodigy and has gone on...

'I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of tro...

The View from the Cheap Seats draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman...

When Simon Armitage burst on to the poetry scene in 1989 with his spectacular debut Zoom!, readers were introduced to an exceptional new talent who...

The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath, written between 1956 and her death in 1963, in the Pulitzer Prize-winning edition of Plath's iconic poetry.

Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these recor...

'And just like that, like a simple neighbourhood event, a miracle is taking place.' 'If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be ab...

About the Author Robert Macfarlane is the author of Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, The Old Ways and Landmarks. Mountains of the Mind won ...

This exquisite gift-book contains over a hundred poems, chosen by creator of the bestselling The Poetry Pharmacy, William Sieghart, and illustrated...

About the Author EMMA SMITH is professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford University. She has published widely on Shakespeare and other early dram...

Product Description Jessica Lack introduces fifty pioneering modern and contemporary art movements born out of political engagement, decolonizati...

Product Description Canvas crunch time! Whose impasto impresses the most? Was Monet the greatest painter, or does Manet's brushwork beat them all...

Review Langston Hughes, for me, was always the poet of the people. -- Claudia Rankine The poet laureate of Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance -- L...

The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 draws from every stage of the poet's storied career. Here are examples of his very earliest work, like 'In My...

Alan Ayckbourn's masterly Season's Greetings offers a seriously entertaining look at the misery and high jinks of an average family Christmas. The ...

This collection of the work of one of the greatest modern poets was first published in America in 1954. The Collected Poems was prepared by Stevens...

In this, his first volume of original verse since the award-winning "Landing Light", Don Paterson is found writing at his most memorable and direct...