Non-Fiction Books

"A to B" began as a poem about a journey: it became a journey in itself, a collection that travels through emotions and places, unfolding to the rh...

The poet Edwin Morgan has translated this French classic tragedy, with its measured and highly formal rhetoric, into a vigorous, specific idiom: a ...

The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commenta...

From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pr...

A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION Minsk, Lavinia Greenlaw's third collection, was shortlisted for the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Prize, the T. S. Eli...

Toby Martinez de las Rivas is regarded as one of the most distinctive voices to have emerged in recent times; to some, a modern-day William Blake. ...

This is the fifth volume to be published in the ongoing complete edition of Auden's works, under the editorship of Edward Mendelson. It includes th...

Here, now, listen, I'll tell you a tale ...Daffodils are in bloom as dawn breaks over the foothills of Ballycumber, ushering in hope for a new day ...

Liubov Ranevskya, a widowed landowner returns home more or less insolvent after five years abroad. Everything appears just as she remembers, but he...

On 15 September 2008, capitalism came to a grinding halt. As sub-prime mortgages and toxic securities continued to dominate the headlines well into...

"Kid" gives us one of the liveliest poetic voices to have emerged in the last ten years. Simon Armitage's inspired ear for the demotic and his abil...

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 ...

"A dark, elegiac play, studded with brutally and swaggeringly funny jokes." (Sunday Times). "A deeply poignant, raffishly comic, emotion-charged st...

It's Christmas Day in Stewarton and Irene Gordon's struggling to get in the festive spirit. Her eighteen-year-old daughter has just had a baby, her...

Kleinzahler's poetry is, as ever, concerned with permeability: voices, places, the real and the dreamed, the present and the past, colliding and in...

Includes the plays Incarcerator, Five Visions of the Faithful, Silence and Violence, The Last Days of Desire, The Biggleswades. With an Introducti...

In this 2001 book, John Peters investigates the impact of Impressionism on Conrad and links this to his literary techniques as well as his philosop...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL MOORCOCK Angela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time: a novelist of extraordin...

James Joyce is one of the most famous--and controversial--writers of the twentieth century. The myth of his difficulty has discouraged many readers...

Rich and original, vigorous and memorable, these 70 poems are selected from across Thomas' entire poetic career and from both his published and unp...

Ellida, claustrophobic and restless, swims in the sea every day. She loves her husband Dr Wangel but, ten years ago, promised herself to another ma...

Duck Macatarsney cares for her biker dad, Duke, whose MS is getting worse. Duke is a spliff-smoking (for medicinal reasons you understand), bike-ri...

From the acclaimed "HOW Series" of books Poetry can transform: How can a poem transform a life? Could poetry change the world? In How Poetry Can...

Edgeworth is regarded as a pioneer in the development of the regional novel and the use of vernacular language. This study investigates her attitud...

Product Description A classic book on two of English literature's most iconic characters. First published in 1953, this is one of the earliest and...

CELEBRATING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY, THE OFFICIAL NATIONAL POETRY DAY COLLECTION. CURATED AND INTRODUCED BY CERYS MATTHEWS. Tell Me the Truth About L...

Carol Ann Duffy has been a bold and original voice in British poetry since the publication of Standing Female Nude in 1985. Since then she has won ...

For new sweethearts and long-wed couples alike, poetry is the ultimate gift of love. The classic love poems gathered in this elegant volume capture...

From the author of the definitive biography of George Orwell, a captivating account of the origin and enduring power of his landmark dystopian no...

THE CONTROVERSIAL SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER. Candid, fearless and provocative - the author of American Psycho on who he is and what he think...

'Carol Ann Duffy is considered a top poet. But she deserves better. She deserves to outsell most of the novelists on your shelf ' Observer The eff...

When in 1999 I began writing for The New York Review of Books ... my stance became that of the ingenuous Martian who had just landed on a gorgeous ...

Why Chinese with Mike? Chinese with Mike is 100% new and breaks with traditional Chinese curricula. Mike's humour, mixed with his logical, step-by-...

Containing six award-winning plays by contemporary Irish writers, this is an exciting collection of the best writing to come out of Ireland in the ...

For over twenty years, people turned to A. A. Gill's columns every Sunday - for his fearlessness, his perception, and the laughter-and-tear-provoki...

Product Description "Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. The meticulously imagined universe of Shakespeare comes to life through the st...

'To say this series is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you bu...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

This is not a book about politics. It is a book about what makes us British, and what makes us European. Spend time with some of your favourite wr...

2014 marks the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of what many believed would be the war to end all wars. And while the First World War devastat...

'I was thinking; my mind was running at top speed, scanning and sorting my options. They ranged all the way from Dumb and Dangerous to Crazy, Evil,...

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 ...

This play is one of three sequential, self-contained plays which tell the story of some of the main actors in the drama of Russian radical oppositi...

In Remarkable People, Dan Walker, the host of BBC1's Breakfast, recounts inspiring stories of the courage and selflessness of people he has met thr...

In the winter of 1939 in the cold snow of no-man's-land, two loners met and began an extraordinary journey together, one that would bind them for t...

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About the Author Tova Feinman lives in Pittsburgh, and is a scientist by training. Tova studied chemistry as an undergrad, as well as biochemistry...

As Street Cat Bob and James spend a cold and challenging December on the streets together, James once more draws strength and inspiration from his ...