A spirited and stirring return to the poet’s boyhood and the town that made himThis autobiographical collection candidly explores Daljit Nagra’s experiences growing up from the sixties to the eighties in the predominantly white working-class...

Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400, composed by an anonymous master, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was rediscovered only 200 years ago, and published for the first time in 1839. One of the earliest great...

A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug'Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest' SARAH MILLICAN'Hollie McNish's words always sweep me away' GIOVANNA FLETCHER'Bold,...

A fully revised translation of the great collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry known as the Poetic Edda, containing the narratives of the creation of the world and the coming of Ragnarok, the Doom of the Gods. Gods, giants,...

Oscar Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the haunting elegy to his young sister and the...

With an Introduction by Emma Hartnoll. Initially a vivacious, outgoing person, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence. An undiscovered genius during her lifetime, only seven out of her total of 1,775 poems were...

With an Introduction by Paul Wright. ‘What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth’ So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection contains all of his poetry: the early work, which is often undervalued even...

Born to rule. Raised to deceive. The plot: overthrow a kingdom.The goal: world domination. The plan: marriage. Empress Margaraux has had plans for her daughters since the day they were born.Princesses Sophronia, Daphne, and Beatriz will be queens. And...

This beautiful hardback edition presents over 250 of Emily Dickinson's best-loved poems, featuring elegant cover embossing and beautiful illustrated page edges.A deeply personal collection of poetry, the raw emotion and mastery of Emily Dickinson's poems...

'A polyphonic exploration of memory, diaspora and sound' ROMALYN ANTE'A kaleidoscope of image and word-power . . . A vital addition to the canon' MAGGIE HARRIS'A work of rare formal daring and spiritual depth' PETER GIZZIFrom the T. S. Eliot...

Celebrated Spanish philosopher Jose Carlos Ruis brings the wisdom of great philosophers to life in this entertaining guide to sharpening our minds. The witty and empowering international bestseller from celebrated Spanish philosopher Jose Carlos Ruis:...

'What if she isn't happy - does she think men are happy in this world? Doesn't she know how lucky she is to be a woman?'The pioneering Betty Friedan here identifies the strange problem plaguing American housewives, and examines the malignant role...

He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by othersElectrifying essays on the history, complexity, diversity of a continent, from the father of modern African literature.

Who owns language? In Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas, Ngugi wa Thiong’o presents a series of essays that build on his vast wealth of work on language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity...

Memory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of Europe’s civil wars and the paradigmatic genocide, has shaped the Western political and moral imagination in the postwar era. Fears of its recurrence have been routinely invoked to justify...

'Candid, insightful, moving . . . a memoir, a chronicle of and commentary on America's abortive civil-rights movement' -The New York Times     In this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the experiences that shaped him as a writer and...

A revelatory account of the racist conspiracy theory that now pervades global politics – from the prize-winning author of the million-copy bestseller How To Be an AntiracistThroughout the world, authoritarian movements are radically reshaping...

~~ A special centenary edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic of American literature to mark one hundred years since the birth of Harper Lee ~~'Someone rare has written this very fine novel, a writer with the liveliest sense of life and the...

When Emil's father suggests he set aside his studies to help steady his cousin's life, the young neurosurgeon-in-training moves in with indifferent relatives in Stadmutter, an unfamiliar, deeply divided city at Africa's southern tip. There he is drawn to...

The wealthy and powerful few have dominated the many throughout most of human history. This is starkly visible now more than ever – today, the gulf between oligarchs and the average citizen is vastly larger than any gap that existed during European...