Literature & Literary Studies
Rain
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...
View full detailsUnexhausted Time
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...
View full detailsNil Nil
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...
View full detailsWaiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts (Faber Drama)
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...
View full detailsTheft by Finding: Diaries: Volume One
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...
View full detailsBritish Museum
Daljit Nagra possesses one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary English poetry. British Museum is his third collection, following his ele...
View full detailsThe Water Stealer (Faber Poetry)
These poems report on worlds both robust and delicate, from boisterous pub-bluff to the oxygen bubble of an exquisite underwater spider. Whether si...
View full detailsThe Two Worlds of Charlie F.
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...
View full detailsAeneid Book VI (Faber Poetry)
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...
View full detailsHow Contagion Works
'Lucid, calm, informed, directly helpful in trying to think about where we are now... The literature of the time after begins here' Evening Standar...
View full detailsMatchbox Theatre: Thirty Short Entertainments
Matchbox Theatre presents a miniature sketch show: thirty dialogues and monologues by Michael Frayn, to be played in the smallest theatre in the wo...
View full detailsTwenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
This stunning collection showcases the early genius of Chilean writer Pablo Neruda, widely regarded as the greatest and most prolific Latin America...
View full detailsIntroducing Shakespeare. A Graphic Guide
Shakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works insp...
View full detailsComplete Poems (Faber poetry)
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...
View full detailsEngland's Dreaming
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...
View full detailsLife Lessons from Literature: Wisdom from 100 Classic Works
Life Lessons from Literature is a must for all bibliophiles, providing a concise and highly accessible bucket list of must-read books that teaches ...
View full detailsSpeeches That Changed the World
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...
View full detailsCerys Matthews' Under Milk Wood
We are not wholly bad or good Who live our lives under Milk Wood And Thou, I know, wilt be the first To see our best side, not our worst. In this ...
View full detailsDuffy: The King of Christmas
About the Author Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolita...
View full detailsShe Will Soar
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...
View full detailsI Wandered Lonely as a Cloud... (I Used to Know That ...)
Review A collection of favourite half-remembered lines and phrases from school days ― The Times Featuring poets from Chaucer to Shakespeare, Aude...
View full detailsMore Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
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...
View full detailsMr Lear - A Life of Art & Nonsense
Acclaimed historian Jenny Uglow brings us a fascinating and beautifully illustrated biography of Edward Lear, full of the colour of the age. Edwar...
View full detailsA World Of Art
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...
View full detailsDuffy: Wenceslas - A Christmas Poem
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...
View full detailsPoetry Rebellion
Warning: this anthology contains poems to enter the. bloodstream and rewild the spirit.As with all life on Earth, the climate emergency, species ex...
View full detailsLong Take
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, winner of the Goldsmiths Prize, The Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction...
View full detailsMetamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka
Birthday Letters (Faber Poetry)
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...
View full detailsMemorial
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...
View full detailsWriting Home
Selected Poems of Thom Gunn
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing: The powerful memoir from the beloved star of Friends
'There's never been a more honest or raw memoir . . . and it may just save lives' Daily Mail 'Funny, fascinating, compelling . . . also a wonderfu...
View full detailsHuman Chain
Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently ...
View full detailsRemains of Elmet
'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...
View full detailsH.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
From the notorious, bestselling author of ATOMISED: a scholarly love letter on the hugely influential and reclusive literary horror writer H.P. Lov...
View full detailsWhen I Was A Child I Read Books
About the Author Marilynne Robinson, author of Housekeeping, Gilead, Home, Lila and Jack, is the winner of the Hemingway PEN award, the Pulitzer P...
View full detailsBook of Longing
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...
View full detailsThe Cat Prince
'Pedersen bends words like no-one else. There's a naughtiness, an innocence and surprising vulnerability in this collection. It's poetry to intoxic...
View full detailsCourage Out Loud: 25 Poems of Power (3) (Poetry to Perform)
From Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho come 25 more bold and brave poems for children. These waltzing verses for reading aloud were wri...
View full detailsAnd Yet
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...
View full detailsThe Aeneid
Review Gripping ... A remarkable achievement -- Llewelyn Morgan ― TLS This ambitious and successful translation is probably the best version of t...
View full detailsThe Flame
Review "The last word in love and despair . . . Full of youthful spark, beauty and romance . . . Elegantly and posthumously published . . . Leonar...
View full detailsConfronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations
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...
View full detailsOf Love & Other Demons
About the Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the University of Botoga and later worked as ...
View full detailsHorse Latitudes
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...
View full detailsNight
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...
View full detailsLet's Explore Diabetes With Owls
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 ...
View full details