Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

This book provides a new account of the emergence of Irish gothic fiction in the mid-18th century. This new study provides a robustly theorised and...

WINNER OF THE HRF KEATING AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION CRIME BOOK 2018An entertaining history of British thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Ha...

A beautifully illustrated account of the letters and correspondence of Jane Austen. It has been said that Jane Austen the woman and Jane Austen the...

The formation of Saudi Arabia in 1932, with the unification of the two Kingdoms of the Hejaz and Nejd, not only unified parts of the Arabian penins...

Rich in evocative detail--from Paris cafés to Austrian chateaus, from the streets of Pamplona to the waters of Key West--The Ambulance Drivers tell...

He was born in the year Dr Johnson died, and died in the year A.E. Houseman and Conan Doyle were born. The 75 years of Leigh Hunt's life uniquely s...

'There is something holy about Georgetown at dusk. The Atlantic curling the shoreline . . .'The first adult novel from Grace Nichols, winner of the...

One of the most successful books ever published and the basis of one of the most popular and highly praised Hollywood films of all time, Gone With ...

Kafka's features, and that dreaded word, Kafkaesque, are known to millions who have never read serious literature. Generations of academics and cri...

I find myself talking to you about all the great joys, all the agonies, all my thoughts... Letter to Eva Konikova, 1946 Out of the thousands of le...

**2013 Edgar Awards nominee in Critical/Biographical** **2013 Anthony Award nominee in Best Critical Nonfiction** Join award-winning mystery edito...

'Deeply moving... This is a beautiful book.' TLS______________________________Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford University when she first rea...

Science fiction (SF) has existed as a popular genre for around 150 years. This book offers a survey of the genre from nineteenth-century pioneers t...

An unprecedented gathering of the correspondence of one of the great writers of the twentieth century, The Collected Letters of Flann OBrien presen...

Among professional storytellers whose works have been adapted for cinematic dramatization, mid-19th century English novelist Charles Dickens sta...

Winner of the 2014 Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society Having excavated the worlds earlie...