Poetry

A bracing, vibrant reflection on the millennial condition, Cowboy interrogates paradigms of growing up and coming of age in the modern world, from the pressures of cohabiting to the ritual of rent-paying and beyond. Shortlisted for...

Time Will Tell is a collection of introspective poetry from bestselling author Courtney Peppernell. Come along and discover what it means to start inward and evolve into the version of yourself the universe knows you can be.From the bestselling...

In Late Shift at the Pickle Factory Mary Dickins presents the reader with an intensely crafted patchwork of stories, reminiscences, observations and whimsy. These poems are tender, sad, joyful, surreal and ridiculous and always characterised by...

Travelling from Andalusia to East Anglia, A Method, A Path is a passionate celebration of language, translation and the transmission of words across cultures, locations and time. Shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First...

'The Arctic' in Don Paterson's powerful new collection is the name of a bar frequented by the survivors of several kinds of apocalypse. The poems gathered here are as various as the clientele: elegies for the poet's musician father; tales of the love...

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 pride, power and female revenge.   There is something about Demi. When this boy is angry,...

The definitive collection of Tolkien’s classic “fairie” tales, in the vein of The Hobbit, illustrated by Oscar winner Alan Lee.The book is the perfect opportunity for fans of Middle-earth to enjoy some of Tolkien’s often...

Based on a true unsolved mystery and suffused with Mackintosh's deft use of dark atmospherics and gothic tone, Cursed Bread tracks a town gripped by macabre events and mass hysteria whilst uncovering the role of a simple baker's wife in the...

In Real Life: An Online Love Story is the first of its kind—a bilingual novel-in-poetry written by popular Spanish-language poet Leticia Sala. In Real Life is not only about a young Barcelona woman who finds romance online thousands...

A daring but necessary insight into themes of longing, home, bullying, loneliness, and mental health, I Must Belong Somewhere is a silver lining for anyone struggling.With her third poetry collection, I Must Belong...

r.h. Sin’s This Day Is Dark is a blistering case study of when red flags are mistaken for passion and love falls in the hands of the wrong people, as explored in his signature poetic voice.From New York Times bestselling...

Exploring themes of multilingualism and the post-colonial legacy as well as the microaggressions that stem from queerphobia and anti-Asian racism, Chan's second collection mines the push and pull of beauty and violence through a polyphony of poetic...

The epic made simple. The miracle in the mundane.One day, while browsing an antique store in Helena, Montana, photographer Tyler Knott Gregson stumbled upon a vintage Remington typewriter for sale. Standing up and using a page from a broken book he was...

She Must be Mad explores coming-of-age: the pain and beauty of love, the relief and the agony of turning from girl to woman, the isolation of an untethered mind and the power and subjugation of the body. Charly captures the formative experiences of...

This edition of master magician Aleister Crowley’s sly, witty, and instructive collection of paradoxes includes rarely published commentary by the author himself. Written by the famed English occultist Aleister Crowley, The Book of...

Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes...

An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy, published in Penguin...

Boasting utterly stunning colour artwork, this sumptuous edition of Stephen Fry's celebrated retellings of the Greek myths makes the perfect gift for all lovers of antiquity and great storytelling. No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as...

A splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature—featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka’s acclaimed biographerIn 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100 aphorisms, known as the Zürau aphorisms,...

'We go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves' -- Jeanette WintersonBeatrice and Benedick both claim they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing that each harbours secret feelings for the other, the pair begin...