Literature & Literary Studies

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...

Review "Wise and mesmeric, Unexhausted Time feels like a balm for mind and soul in difficult times." -- Mary-Jean Chan "Berry has a gift for iden...

Product Description Nil Nil, Don Paterson's first volume of poetry, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993 and heralded the arriv...

Subtitled "A tragicomedy in two Acts", and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', "En a...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'He's like an American Alan Bennett, in that his own fastidiousness becomes the joke, as per the taxi encounter, o...

Daljit Nagra possesses one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary English poetry. British Museum is his third collection, following his ele...

These poems report on worlds both robust and delicate, from boisterous pub-bluff to the oxygen bubble of an exquisite underwater spider. Whether si...

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...

In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follow...

'Lucid, calm, informed, directly helpful in trying to think about where we are now... The literature of the time after begins here' Evening Standar...

Matchbox Theatre presents a miniature sketch show: thirty dialogues and monologues by Michael Frayn, to be played in the smallest theatre in the wo...

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

Shakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works insp...

The Complete Poems is the only one-volume edition containing all of Emily Dickinson's verse. In this landmark edition, the editor, Thomas H. Johnso...

Review It's a work that is not only the definitive account of the times and its subject, but one that has come to define the writer himself. Jon S...

Life Lessons from Literature is a must for all bibliophiles, providing a concise and highly accessible bucket list of must-read books that teaches ...

From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets...

About the Author Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolita...

With poems from classic, well loved poets as well as innovative and bold modern voices, She Will Soar is a stunning collection and an essential add...

Review A collection of favourite half-remembered lines and phrases from school days ― The Times Featuring poets from Chaucer to Shakespeare, Aude...

More Letters of Note is another rich and inspiring collection, which reminds us that much of what matters in our lives finds its way into our lette...

Acclaimed historian Jenny Uglow brings us a fascinating and beautifully illustrated biography of Edward Lear, full of the colour of the age. Edwar...

A gorgeously illustrated and engaging guide to the world of art.Immerse yourself in the amazing world of art in this beautiful book with text by He...

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...

Warning: this anthology contains poems to enter the. bloodstream and rewild the spirit.As with all life on Earth, the climate emergency, species ex...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, winner of the Goldsmiths Prize, The Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction...

Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written...

About the Author Alice Oswald lives in Devon and is married with three children. Dart, her second collection, won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. H...

'There's never been a more honest or raw memoir . . . and it may just save lives' Daily Mail 'Funny, fascinating, compelling . . . also a wonderfu...

Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently ...

'The Calder valley, west of Halifax, was the last ditch of Elmet, the last British Celtic kingdom to fall to the Angles. For centuries it was consi...

From the notorious, bestselling author of ATOMISED: a scholarly love letter on the hugely influential and reclusive literary horror writer H.P. Lov...

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

Book of Longing is Leonard Cohen's astonishing new collection of poems, the first since Book of Mercy was published nearly three decades ago. Leon...

'Pedersen bends words like no-one else. There's a naughtiness, an innocence and surprising vulnerability in this collection. It's poetry to intoxic...

From Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho come 25 more bold and brave poems for children. These waltzing verses for reading aloud were wri...

From Kate Baer, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman, comes her much anticipated second full-length traditional poetry co...

Review Gripping ... A remarkable achievement -- Llewelyn Morgan ― TLS This ambitious and successful translation is probably the best version of t...

Review "The last word in love and despair . . . Full of youthful spark, beauty and romance . . . Elegantly and posthumously published . . . Leonar...

Review With such a champion as Beard to debunk and popularise, the future of the study of classics is assured ― Daily TelegraphShe's pulled of...

About the Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the University of Botoga and later worked as ...

This collection of poems presents us with fields of battle and fields of debate. It weaves between popular song and riddle, between haiku and dense...

Among the poems that open Night, David Harsent's follow-up to his Forward Prize-winning collection "Legion", is a startling sequence about a garden...

A guy walks into a bar ...From here the story could take many turns. A guy walks into a bar and meets the love of his life. A guy walks into a bar ...