Plays, Prose, Literary Theory

Author: Bruce Norris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Clybourne Park spans two generations fifty years apart. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bedroom at a bargain...

Author: William Styron Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 Including significant previously uncollected material, My Generation is the definitive gathering of the fruits of this beloved writer's five decades of...

Author: Professor of Political Science Joshua Cohen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 "Attention reveals a fresh, vital literary voice as it covers seemingly every imaginable...

Author: William H Gass Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 928 Throughout his career, William Gass relentlessly pushed at the boundaries of language, celebrating the music of the sentence and the...

Author: Terence Cave Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Montaigne (1533-92) is commonly regarded as an early modern sceptic, standing at the threshold of a new secular way of thinking....

Author: Amanda Lovelace Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry collection in four parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, and you. The first three sections...

Author: Talia Schaffer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 In Communities of Care, Talia Schaffer explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary groups that coalesce around someone in...

Author: Roy Foster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 The Tablet, Best Books of the Year Open Magazine's Best Books of 2020 A vivid and original account of one of...

Author: Sarah Hart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart's lightness of touch and passion for both...

Author: Prof. Eric Rasmussen (USA) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 816 Developed in partnership with The Royal Shakespeare Company, this is the first edition for over a hundred years of...

Author: Deb Olin Unferth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 200 "Deb Olin Unferth's stories are so smart, fast, full of heart, and distinctive in voice--each an intense little thought-system going...

Author: William Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Long neglected as the first American novel, Mr. Penrose narrates the adventures of a British youth who flees an...

Author: Professor Nick Groom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Ever since The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien was first published in 1937 the popularity of the vast, imaginative world he...

Author: Liam McIlvanney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 The Good of the Novel is a collection of specially commissioned essays - edited by Ray Ryan and Liam McIlvanney -...

Author: Sally Potter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Orlando is Sally Potter's bold, unsentimental re-working of Virginia Woolf's classic novel in which an innocent aristocrat journeys through 400 years...

Author: Cathy Sweeney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'Jaw-droppingly good' Sinead Gleeson 'Funny, poetic, heart-chilling' Graham Norton 'Terrific' Jenny Offill 'Marvellous' Kevin Barry 'Takes your breath away' Observer 'Unlike...

Author: Lyse Doucet Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 "My pen is the wing of a bird; it will tell you those thoughts we are not allowed to think, those...

Author: Joan Anim-Addo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Vital and timely ... Perfectly curated and filled with brilliant literature' Nikesh Shukla These are the books you should read. This...

Author: Mary Jacobus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 On Belonging and Not Belonging provides a sophisticated exploration of how themes of translation, migration, and displacement shape an astonishing range...

Author: Joseph Farrell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book...

Author: Michael Chabon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning...

Author: Bretman Rock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 "This book is hilarious and that bitch made me laugh out loud."-Chelsea Handler A chaotically joyous collection of essays from one...

Author: Dr. Andrew Bomback (Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the...

Author: Russell Banks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A collection of short stories from the contemporary American master whom the New York Times declared "the most compassionate...

Author: Henri J. M. Nouwen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'When I write I think deeply about my friends, I pray for them, I tell them my emotions and...

Author: Jon Sutherland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Where does Victor Frankenstein dig up his body parts? Is the monster a fan of Goethe? How does the monster die?...

Author: Ferdinand von Schirach Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Cool, meticulously crafted and mordantly amusing' Irish Times 'A chilling insight into a flawed justice system' Daily Mail A young...

Author: Ferdinand von Schirach Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'The stories are cool, meticulously crafted, pithy and mordantly amusing . . . [an] extremely powerful book. Highly recommended' Irish...

Author: Matthew McNaught Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 248 In Immanuel, winner of the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize Matthew McNaught explores his upbringing in an evangelical Christian community in...

Author: Martin Puchner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Reading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this...

Author: 'Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 478 The Sword of Ambition belongs to a genre of religious polemic written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria...

Author: Yusuf al-Shirbini Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 465 Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One,...

Author: Yusuf al-Shirbini Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One,...

Author: Harry Hill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A TIMES BEST COMEDY BOOK OF 2021 'The funniest man in the world has written the funniest book in the world.'...

Author: William Cook Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Auberon Waugh has been compared to Jonathan Swift. He was an outrageous satirist who slaughtered whole herds of sacred cows and...

Author: Susan Vreeland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Girl in Hyacinth Blue tells the story of an imaginary painting by Vermeer, and the aspirations and longings of...

Author: Yu Hua Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From the celebrated author of To Live, one of China's most famous contemporary writers--a stunning collection of stories, selected from the...

Author: Vaddey Ratner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 This "novel of extraordinary humanity" (Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing) from New York Times...