Literature & literary studies
Being a Writer
Travis Elborough, Helen Gordon and illustrated by Joey Guidone and Travis Elborough
Format: Hard Cover
An inspiring assemblage of wit, wisdom and hard-won practical advice from some of the world's greatest authors musing on the art of writing and how they came to define themselves as writers.
30-Second Shakespeare
Ros Barber
30-Second Shakespeare grapples with the world's most famous playwright. From what we know of his life, to the meanings of concepts and themes, and his enduring literary and linguistic legacy.
Blind Spot
Teju Cole, foreword by Siri Hustvedt
Format: Hard Cover
From the award-winning author of Open City, an innovative photographic project that explores how we see the world.
Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
Helena Kelly
Format: Paperback
An iconoclastic re-evaluation of one English Literature’s most celebrated novelists.
This Is Not a Border
edited by Ahdaf Soueif, edited by Omar Robert Hamilton
Format: Paperback
Writers from Michael Palin to Claire Messud, Michael Ondaatje to Richard Ford have spent a week crossing military checkpoints to perform literary events across Palestine. Their words are now collected in a breathtakingly original book of new writing
Dead Zone
Philip Lymbery
Format: Paperback
A tour of some of the world 's most iconic and endangered species, and what we can do to save them.
The Inky Digit of Defiance
Tony Harrison
Format: Hard Cover
A richly varied selection of Tony Harrison's provocative prose, taken from 50 years of writing, in the year that the great poet of page, stage and screen turns 80.
De Profundis
Oscar Wilde
Format: Paperback
The definitive edition of Wilde’s impassioned letter from Reading Gaol
Letter to a Young Writer (And You Too)
Colum McCann
Format: Hard Cover
From the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Let the Great World Spin and Transatlantic comes a passionate and practical book of advice, as essential for budding writers as Stephen King 's On Writing
