Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

'Utterly fascinating' Daisy Goodwin, Sunday TimesBenjamin Franklin took daily naked air baths and Toulouse-Lautrec painted in brothels. Edith Sitwe...

Joan Didions savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state ...

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'It was at the time when I was wandering around hungry in Kristiania, that strange city no one leaves before it has set its mark on them...' Hung...

The book considers the importance of plants in Tolkien's conception of Middle-earth. It develops the theme that Middle-earth is our own world - and...

'Who possesses me will possess all things, But his life will belong to me...' Raphael de Valentin, a young aristocrat, has lost all his money in t...

Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature...

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Facets of Wuthering Heights is a collection of essays by one author concerned to throw critical light on several different facets of Emily Brontës ...

A fascinating collection of essays on literary subjects ranging from Daniel Defoe to Samuel Beckett by a Nobel and Booker Prize-winning writerLate ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'This is my kind of history: carefully researched but so vivid that you are convinced Lucy Worsley was actually there at...

The perfect Father's Day giftTolkien's One Ring, at the centre of one of the greatest fantasy tales ever told, is an undeniably iconic and powerful...

William Faulkners provocative and enigmatic 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, is widely acknowledged as one of the most important English-languag...

Through the novels of Englands foremost woman writer, we explore the Regency world at the time of the Napoleonic wars, its manners, fashion and sty...

'Muse, tell me of a man: a man of much resource, who was made to wander far and long, after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy. Many were the me...

The inspiration for the annual Pleasure of Reading Prize A charming and revealing collection of essays from some of our best-loved writers about t...

THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Completely fascinating, authoritative and intriguing' William Boyd'The big bang of Bond books... Beautiful, bri...

The definitive biography of the undisputed giant of English literature, a man whose own true history has long been hidden behind the fictional worl...