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Alice Munro's Miraculous Art is a collection of sixteen original essays on Nobel laureate Alice Munro's writings. The volume covers the entirety of Munro's career, from the first stories she published in the early 1950s as an undergraduate at the University of Western Ontario to her final books. It offers an enlightening range of approaches and interpretive strategies, and provides many... |
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A gripping historical drama about the conflict between the Catholic Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots and protestant reformer John Knox.
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In a struggling pub on one of Hull's toughest streets, ex-pro boxer Taylor Flint runs a women's boxercise class. For Lauren, Jazz, Aneta and Grace, the class is much more than a way to lose weight and have a laugh - they're fighting the grinding challenges of everyday life.
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Graham Mort's masterly 10th collection of poetry, Black Shiver Moss (Seren), is packed with poems about his native northern counties of Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cumbria, as well as stunning evocations of elsewhere: Africa, Southern Spain, France, Italy. A prize-winning short story author as well as a poet, Mort's rich, concentrated style thrives on detailed observations of the natural...
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I arise from dreams of thee
In the first sweet sleep of night,
When the winds are breathing low,
And the stars are shining bright.
I arise from dreams of thee,
And a spirit in my feet
Hath led me - who knows how? -
To thy chamber window, Sweet Percy Bysshe Shelley The best... |
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ESSAYISM is a personal, critical and polemical book about the genre, its history and its contemporary possibilities, itself an example of what it describes: an essay that is curious and digressive and at the same time held together by a personal voice and a polemical point.
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Purchased from Russia. Developed in India. Delivered to the UK. A global transaction over nine months that offers 'a lifetime of happiness' for all involved. What do you think will happen to a baby girl in India that nobody wants?
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New work and old favourites from national treasure and one of Britain's most exciting poets, Lemn Sissay
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An account of the origins and development of literary criticism in the turbulent seventeenth- and eighteenth-century print marketplace.
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This study explores the prevalence of bigamy in Victorian fiction to challenge traditional understanding of the period's social and narrative conventions.
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Handel's Messiah is the world's most popular choral work. But its story begins in the unlikely setting of a room above a pub in Chester, when the great composer, detained by bad weather on his way to a season of concerts in Dublin, invites some local choristers to rehearse excerpts. It is not a success. So begins Handel's struggle to stage the premiere of his masterpiece, confronted by...
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Published alongside the West End transfer of the hit RSC production.
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Shakespeare's engagement with anti-Semitic tradition is a notoriously disturbing feature of The Merchant of Venice. Douglas Lanier carefully shows how Shakespeare shuttles between language that emphasises irreconcilable differences, and language that emphasizes common humanity, and how you can productively analyse this language for yourself.The language of business-of monetary value,... |
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George Garrett (1896-1966) was a Merchant Seaman, writer, playwright and radical activist. His autobiographical work Ten Years On The Parish, written in the late 1930s, is published here together with a series of letters between Garrett and New Writing editor John Lehmann, which reveal a unique insight into the relationship between a working-class writer and his editor.
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The first collection from the multi-award-winning American poet and playwright Dan O'Brien.
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Come one, come all, and join us at The Star this Christmas, as we re-open the doors for your enjoyment and delight, with a magical, mammoth, marvellous and mesmerising Music Hall entertainment Celebrate the 150th birthday of the Playhouse Theatre in its original incarnation as The Star Music Hall in a story of onstage magic, backstage deception, new (and old) love, a DASTARDLY plot and...
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Originally published in 1933, this book presents a concise study regarding the works of Racine, Marivaux and Musset.
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Crawforth presents a major re-reading of early modern poetry, demonstrating its debt to the emergence of linguistics in the period.
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A tale of friendship, love and rivalry over thirty years from award-winning playwright Elinor Cook.
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Originally published in 1901, this book presents a collection of Greek and Latin compositions by the British classicist Richard Shilleto.
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