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'I am with you always, even unto the end of the world ...' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind hi...

Review Obscure, indecent and brilliant. -- Virginia Woolf While Hope Mirrlees is remembered as a fine and remarkable novelist, it has been forgot...

About the Author Hanif Kureishi was born and brought up in Kent. He read philosophy at King's College, London. In 1981 he won the George Devine Aw...

It's the other people around you, says Michael Frayn, who make you what you are. So he would like to say a brief word, looking back on life from hi...

'I cannot recommend it highly enough.' Caitlin Moran 'Brims with compassion and wit.' Cathy Rentzenbrink 'Absolutely blew me away.' Jo Brand ...

Review Excellent . This sharp, tense, clever novel, still readable and relevant all these years later, is a testament to changing social attitudes...

Linda France's tenth collection is galvanising, comprising poems written from, and into, the fabric of the sixth mass extinction. Here, beginnings ...

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 ...

We heal people. That's what we do here. We are a kinship. Gill has returned home to the north coast of Northern Ireland determined to speak to her...

Product Description Michael Hofmann's poems have been widely admired, notably for their gift of compressed and vividly pointed reportage, and...

*Featured in The Times' 'Best Books of the Year So Far'* What do you do when you realise you have everything you think you've ever wanted but stil...

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...

In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Poet Owen Sheers has given voice to those...

Product Description A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning authorTo the cool of the Simla hills comes a reluctant Dr McNab, with his wife and ...

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

Review A master stoyteller ... In this deceptively sad novel, he simply uses a science-fiction framework to throw light on ordinary human life, th...

All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century af...

'A huge book, an immense book. Such adventure and variety, such industry, such subjugation of self.' Michael Hofmann, TLS Heaney not only translat...

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

Inspector Archie Penrose invites Josephine Tey down to his family home in Cornwall so she can recover from the traumatic events depicted in "An Exp...

The classic of literary criticism from one of the world's greatest novelists. In seven independent, but closely related chapters, Milan Kundera pr...

Michael Hofmann is renowned as one of our most brilliant critics and translators; that he is also regarded as among our most respected poets - 'one...

George was born into a world of village cricket matches and fox-hunting, but his failing income and the onset of war threatens his way of life. A t...