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The Color of Smoke

Sweeping us into the world of the roma as fascism gathers force and the Holocaust looms on the horizon, The Color of Smoke is a thoroughl...

How Proust Can Change Your Life

Whatever the merits of Proust's work, even a fervent admirer would be hard pressed to deny one of its awkward features: length. A novel i...

Men Explain Things To Me - And Other Essays

Rebecca Solnit's essay 'Men Explain Things to Me' has become a touchstone of the feminist movement, inspired the term 'mansplaining', and...

The Seven Basic Plots - Why We Tell Stories

This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small numbe...

There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness - And Other Thoughts on Physics, Philosophy and the World

'A joy of a book - enriching, illuminating, eclectic and far from a conventional science read' Richard Webb, New Scientist Books of the Y...

Orwell on Truth

George Orwell (1903¿1950) is one of England's most famous writers and social commentators. He is the author of the classic political sati...

The Iliad

The Iliad has had a far-reaching impact on Western literature and culture, inspiring writers, artists and classical composers across the ...

The Fairy Tellers - A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales

Fairy-Tales are not just fairy-tales: they are records of historical phenomena, telling us something about how Western civilisation was f...

Wissenschaft weltoffen 2022 - Facts and Figures on the International Nature of Studies and Research in Germany and Worldwide

This publication compiles and analyses the latest data on the international nature of studies, research and universities from Germany and...

Last Words - Poetry & Readings

This collection brings together verses that mark the last moments of life, the passing of one stage to another. At a time of grief, we of...

Blurb Your Enthusiasm - An A-Z of Literary Persuasion. A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets

A dazzling dictionary of book blurbs, filled with writing tips, literary folklore and publishing secrets

The Lost Spells

Beautiful books make unforgettable gifts. This pocket-sized treasure is the perfect present for fans of nature, language and rich artwork...

The Color of Smoke

Sweeping us into the world of the roma as fascism gathers force and the Holocaust looms on the horizon, The Color of Smoke is a thoroughl...

Passing

The powerful, thrilling, and tragic tale about the fluidity of racial identity that continues to resonate today, with an introduction by ...

Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists - A Book of Bookish Lists

Who had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonaut...

Introduction to Translation and Interpreting Studies

A unique and balanced combination of translation and interpreting studies, edited and written by leading voices in the fields In Introduc...

Reading Poetry - A Complete Coursebook

Reading Poetry offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to the art of reading poetry. Discussing more than 200 poems by more than 100 ...

Masters of British Comic Art

An informative and entertaining story of British comics art, taking in the cartooning of the nineteenth century, the rise of "2000 AD" an...

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed T...

Romanticism

Romanticism was a revolutionary intellectual and artistic movement which generated some of the most popular and influential texts in Brit...

The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie

Rushdie is a major contemporary writer, who engages with some of the vital issues of our times: migrancy, postcolonialism, religious auth...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

A Christmas gift edition of Simon Armitage's translation of the ancient Arthurian legend, with revised text and colour illustrations from...

The New Frontier - Reflections From the Irish Border

The New Frontier is a landmark publication of writing from the Irish Border, a chorus of voices from some of the island's greatest writer...

Recipes from the World of H.P Lovecraft - Recipes inspired by cosmic horror

Edward Lear

James Williams's account, the first book-length critical study of the poet since the 1980s, sets out to re-introduce Lear and to accord h...

East Side Voices - Essays celebrating East and Southeast Asian identity in Britain

A first-of-its-kind essay anthology that showcases the brightest East and Southeast Asian voices in Britain today, on a broad range of su...

Orations, Volume II - Orations 18-19: De Corona, De Falsa Legatione

Demosthenes (384-322 BCE), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatnes...

Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition)

This is a collection of all 37 of Shakespeare's comedies, tragedies and historical plays in a leatherbound edition. Also features his com...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

The novel is modernism's most vital and experimental genre. In this Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of r...

How Plato Writes - Perspectives and Problems

Plato is a philosophical writer of unusual and impressive versatility. His dialogues not only engage in argument but also abound in alleg...

Demand the Impossible - Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination

Although published in 1986, Demand the Impossible was written from inside the oppositional political culture of the 1970s. Reading works ...

Jane Austen's Sanditon - With an Essay by Janet Todd

Sanditon is Jane Austen's last novel, left unfinished when she died. A comedy, it continues the strain of burlesque and caricature she wr...

The Kannada Mahabharata

The Kannada Mahabharata, known as Kum¿ravy¿sa Bh¿rata, is an innovative fifteenth-century retelling of the famous Mahabharata story cente...

The Swedish Art of Ageing Well - Life wisdom from someone who will (probably) die before you

This is a guide to a life well-lived. It is about the wonder of the everyday and the lessons that age brings. Wear stripes. Eat chocolate...

What Writers Read - 35 Writers on their Favourite Book

A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trus...

Hooked on Shakespeare - Crochet Projects Inspired by The Bard

15 projects featuring more than 30 step-by-step designs inspired by the works of William Shakespeare. This fabulous collection of creatio...

Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature - Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Others

For nearly two centuries readers all over the world have turned to the great canon of Russian literature. Love and death, war and peace, ...

Archy and Mehitabel

archy and mehitabel is a collection of humorous verses by Don Marquis, originally published from 1916 onwards in Marquis's newspaper colu...

On Dogs - An Anthology

A literary anthology on the varied and ineffable appeal of dogs as felt by humans in deep and various ways. Includes pieces from Vita Sac...

The Art of War

The iconic text in its original 13 short chapters printed unencumbered by notesThe text repeated, this time interspersed with selected ex...

Romanticism - 100 Poems

100 Romantic-era poems, both major and lesser-known, in English and translated from six languages, with an engaging introduction and notes.

How to Read and Why

Harold Bloom, one of the great literary critics and champion of written culture, asserts that we read in order to better understand and f...

Writers Who Changed History

This visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas. Writer...

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

'She is alive and active - we hear her voice and trace her influence even now' Virginia Woolf Writing in an age when the call for the rig...

You've Always Been Wrong

You've Always Been Wrong is a collection of prose and poetic works by the French writer Rene Daumal (1908-1944). A fitful interloper amon...

A Century of Poetry - 100 Poems for Searching the Heart

For all who appreciate great poetry, one of the world's best-loved Christian writers and poets reflects on 100 of his favourite poems and...

Geographical Imaginations - Literature and the 'Spatial Turn'

The book is aimed at providing a short introduction to the divergent ways in which space and place evince themselves in literature. With ...

Volume 3 of the Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz - Archetypal Symbols in Fairytales: The Maiden's Quest

The Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz Volume 3 turns to the Maiden's Quest within fairytales.

Orchid Muse - A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers

Orchids, the epitome of floral beauty, have long inspired poetry, adventure, art and scientific discovery. In Orchid Muse, historian and ...

Maus Now - Selected Writing

A richly illustrated book in which leading cultural critics, authors, and academics reflect on the radical achievement and innovation of ...

100 Books that Changed the World

A thought-provoking chronological timeline of the world¿s most influential books.

The Worlds of Dune - The Places and Cultures that Inspired Frank Herbert

The Worlds of Dune presents a deep dive into the many different strands of inspiration that Frank Herbert wove into Dune and its sequels ...

The Trojan Horse and Other Stories - Ten Ancient Creatures That Make Us Human

What makes us human? What, if anything, sets us apart from all other creatures? Ever since Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the answ...

The Poetry Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained

The perfect introduction to poetry, The Poetry Book offers a fascinating exploration of more than 90 of the world's greatest poetic works...

Selected Letters of Wilfred Owen

Accompanied by new notes and a new introduction, as well as previously redacted and omitted material, the new edition of Owen's Selected ...

Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Greatest Detective in the World

From the very first book publication in 1920 to the upcoming film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie's...

Adam Bede

Pretty Hetty Sorrel is loved by the village carpenter Adam Bede, but her head is turned by the attentions of the fickle young squire. His...

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Complete is the keyword here as this is the only edition currently available that contains all of Dickinson's poems. The works were origi...

How to Write About Africa

A trailblazing collection of writing from Binyavanga Wainaina's extraordinary life 'In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country....

Powers of Horror - An Essay on Abjection

Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the na...