Literature: History & Criticism

With a new introduction by the authorPeter Jackson's film version of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy - and the accompanying Rings-relate...

A look at 100 inspiring novels that have left a significant mark on the world of literature and popular culture. ...

A fast-paced whirlwind of fantasy and mockery confined to a single room, The Alchemist offers a witty culmination of Jonson's experiments with city...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Uncover the theories behind Dame Agatha Christie's most thrilling mysteries: Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, The A.B.C. Murders, a...

This book explores the rich seam in Finnegans Wake of references to Ulster, to its geography, myth and history: a subject which has received relati...

A groundbreaking examination of ecological thought in medieval England. While the scale of todays crisis is unprecedented, environmental catastroph...

It's a cool July day. A young girl is tired of window-shopping in Oxford Street, when a white rabbit runs past her looking at his watch. Oh dear! O...

A metafictional novel about two intertwined stories of love that seek to perpetuate themselves in history.The Worst Thing of All Is the Light tells...

Poetry Projects to Make and Do, edited by Deborah Alma, The Emergency Poet, is a how to handbook of essays, prompts, advice, and ideas designed to ...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For a century, magazines were the autho...

What if we've been reading Jane Austen and romantic classics all wrong? A literary scholar offers a funny, brainy, eye-opening take on how our cont...

Sergio Chejfec is an admirable writer. Patti SmithCould anyone possibly believe that writing doesnt exist? It would be like denying the existence o...

In Case of Loss gathers the best of Lutz Seiler's non-fiction from last twenty-five years, revealing his essays to be different to, but on a par wi...

NOW WITH EXCLUSIVE BONUS MATERIALFrom author and scholar Michael Livingston, Origins of The Wheel of Time is an authorised exploration of the inspi...

'One of Britain's most celebrated contemporary novelists' Sunday TimesIn this probing series of exclusive interviews, Alistair Owen talks to Willia...

In this one-of-a-kind book, novelist and academic Nicholas Royle brings together two remarkably different creative figures: Enid Blyton and David B...

'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.' So begins this stunning portrait of ...

[A] page-turning story Times Literary SupplementEye-opening Michael BillingtonA detailed and highly compelling story that involves so much more t...

'FASCINATING' Guardian | 'WE LOVE THIS BOOK' Blackwells | 'THE BEST GIFT BOOK THERE IS' IndependentA GUIDE TO LIVING IN DARK TIMES, FROM PEOPLE WHO...

From the medieval bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive...