Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

While postcolonial discourse in the Caribbean has drawn attention to colonialisms impact on space and spatial hierarchy, Stanka Radovi asks both ho...

Faulkner''s Revision of Absalom, Absalom! is a study of the creative process as exemplified in one of the major achievements in twentieth-century f...

Can you really reinvent yourself? This enthralling biography of crime writer Anne Perry reveals more than her identity as teenage killer Juliet Hul...

In Milestones on a Golden Road, Richard King presentspivotal works of fiction produced in four key periods of Chineserevolutionary history: the civ...

'Unremittingly glorious. I and the world demand more and we shall thump our tin mugs on the table demanding it until we are satisfied.'Stephen FryL...

Providing an exhaustive compendium of publications by and citations about Alabama-born writer William March, William March: An Annotated Checklist ...

Since her debut in 1920 with The Mysterious Affair At Styles, Agatha Christie has become the chief proponent of the English village murder mystery....

'I wonder what will become of her!' So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful,and fallible heroine of ...

Described by Philip Pullman as 'the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkein', Alan Garner has been enrapturing readers with works li...

The enduring appeal of Jane Austens fiction is captured in this pocket-sized collection of quotations taken from her celebrated works. Th...

The Call of the Wild and White Fang, two American classics by Jack London, are presented together in this elegantly designed jacketed hardcover edi...

Discover over 300 seasonal book recommendations in the ultimate reading list for book lovers everywhere.-----'I will be giving this book to everyo...

'Magnificent.' Irish Times'Much to savour.' The Times'An event in Irish culture.' TLSThe collected letters of John McGahern, 'one of the greatest w...

''Making Darkness Light is an illumination'' Adam Phillips''His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and f...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love, Cathy Rentzenbrink's Dear Reader is the ultimate love letter to reading and to fi...

Back in print after two decades, Junglist tells the compelling, comic, stream-of-consciousness story of four young Black men coming of age among th...

Post-Unification Italy saw an unprecedented rise of the middle classes, an expansion in the production of print culture, and increased access to ed...

The cultural impact of J.K. Rowlings Harry Potter series transformed a generation of young people into readers and fans, who were able to interact ...

A lively exploration of the relation between the arrival of the novel, the literary form that uses life-as-a-journey as its master trope, and the t...