Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

James Welch was one of the central figures in twentieth-century American Indian literature, and The Heartsong of Charging Elk is of particular impo...

The first full-length novel by Chinese author Can Xue to appear in English   Theres no other writer in China like Can Xue . . . strange, surreal, a...

In contrast to the classical detective story, the spy novel tends to be considered a suspect, somewhat subversive genre. While previous studies ...

Historical novels can be windows into other cultures and eras, but it's not always clear what's fact and what's fiction. Thousands have read Ba Jin...

Jane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels in the English language, as well as a smaller corpus of works unpublished in her day, including thre...

From Agatha Christie and Patricia Highsmith to Val McDermid and JK Rowling, After Agatha is an indispensable guide to women's crime writing over th...

*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'A simply wonderful book' PHILIPPE SANDS'Begin Again is that rare thing: an instant classic' PANKAJ MISHRA'Incredibl...

Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrne''s landmark bi...

What defines a modern short story is much more than a question of length. Despite the efforts of early pioneers like Edgar Allan Poe, the genre was...