Literature & Literary Studies

Thom Gunn's The Man with Night Sweats shows him writing at the height of his powers, equally in command of classical forms and of looser, more coll...

The first collection of plays by Marina Carr introduces the work of a major new voice in playwriting. Low in the Dark 'One of the most exciting, n...

Finders Keepers is a gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays ...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions ...

Eliot's poetry has been charged with coldness, antisemitism, misogyny, elitism, prissiness. It is a poetry which invites or incites prejudice; how ...

The central character of Alan Ayckbourn's new play is Susan, a parson's wife, 'one of the most moving and devastating that he has created...' Robin...

Ezra Pound Selected Poems, 1908-1959

Product Description Marriage consists of two sequences of poems. The first is loosely based on the relationship between Pierre Bonnard and his mus...

Hear what I have to say about the cherry orchard, because it is mine. I say bring it down, tear it down. Smash it down and tear it down. Watch, wat...

With the same dazzling mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his novels he illuminates the art and artists who remain important to him and who...

This first collection of plays by Charlotte Jones includes her multi-award winning Humble Boy (Susan Smith Blackburn Award 2001, the Critics' Circl...

About the Author John Byrne was born in Paisley in 1940. He worked as a 'slab boy' at AFT Stoddard, the carpet manufacturers, before going to Glas...

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...

Moscow, 1938. A dangerous place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom. Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents, stalked by s...

About the Author Penelope Skinner's plays include The Village Bike (Royal Court Upstairs; 2011); The Sound of Heavy Rain (Paines Plough/Crucible T...

Product Description A tragedy of maritime decline, Bound follows the fortunes of six trawlermen from Devon as they embark on one final voyage...

About the Author Michael Wynne was born and brought up in Birkenhead. His first play, The Knocky, was performed at the Royal Court Theatre: it was...

When they called saying your body had been found, I had one immediate thought. I remember thinking that maybe now I'd be free. Sam hasn't spoken t...

'I have been thinking I might go berserk.' When Claire, a priest, survives an atrocity she sets out on a quest to answer the most difficult questi...

Review Highly intelligent, deeply moving poems that provide a new lens through which to consider grief. -- Sarah Crown ― Guardian This is powerfu...

Review Hofmann's is one of the definitive bodies of work of the last half-century, as redolent of the mood, mores and matter of its time as any th...

This third richly varied collection of plays by Marina Carr was published to coincide with the Royal Shakespeare Company's premiere of Hecuba at th...

Review 'Eimear McBride is a writer of remarkable power and originality.' --Times Literary Supplement 'An instant classic.' --Guardian 'Unflinching...

Product Description we're still ourselves when we lieJoan and Tom have been married for nearly thirty years. Tara lies alone while Peter work...

Something's up with Maggie. She's rattling around in the house on Hope Place that she's lived in all her life. Her brothers and sisters flew the ne...

Review Teju Cole hits it out of the park over and over in Known and Strange Things, his essay collection on photography, travel, race and being. I...

Review A magnificent chamber play by one of the few major playwrights in our language. Quite unlike his "social" trilogy [Racing Demon, Murmuring ...

About the Author ALAN BENNETT has been a leading dramatist since Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His works for stage and screen include Talking He...

About the Author Moli�re (1622-73) was born Jean Poquelin, the son of a prosperous upholsterer of Paris. His father was attached to the service of...

French billionaire Orgon, relocated to Los Angeles with his family, has fallen under the spell of Tartuffe, a radical American evangelist. So compr...

Review The foremost representative of British drama in the second half of the twentieth century. ― Swedish Academy citation on awarding Harold Pin...

Review The answer lies in Breathnach's self-lacerating honesty and his skill in arranging fragments to create the momentum of a short story ... Ov...

Product Description Andrew Motion's prose memoir In the Blood (2006) was widely acclaimed, praised as an act of magical retrieval and a hymn to fa...

About the Author Polly Stenham's plays include That Face (Royal Court and the Duke of York's), for which she was awarded the 2008 Critics' Circle ...

When you wake up in a cold sweat at night and you think someone is watching you, well it's me. I'm watching you. And that cold sweat on your body, ...

Underwood Lane - the winter sun hangs like a suppurating boil glued to a giant sheet of dirty asbestos above the blackened tenements that rear up f...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 CHRISTOPHER EWART-BIGGS MEMORIAL PRIZE 'An outstanding evening, a landmark play, a thoroughly deserved five stars . . . O...

I love fire. Fire is the colour of genius. In this audacious new work, Edna O'Brien gives voice to the women who were central to the life of James...

If the politicians cannot save Russia, then we businessmen must. We have not just the responsibility but the duty to become Russian heroes. 1991. ...

A contemporary thriller with ancient roots, by the winner of the Most Promising New Playwright 2024 award (OffWestEnd). The bark creeps up my body...