English/ Irish/ Scottish/ Welsh
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Educating Rita
$18.62 Add to cartEducating Rita, about a working-class Liverpool girl’s hunger for education, is ‘simply a marvellous play, painfully funny and passionately serious; a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale with a
- Series: Modern Classics
- Author: Russell, Willy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 23 2009
- ISBN10: 0413767906
- Language: English
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Janet Flanner’s World: Uncollected Writings 1932-1975
$17.99 Add to cartThe pieces collected here include an early profile of Hitler, reports on the Nuremberg trials, portraits of Thomas Mann, Bette Davis, Picasso, and concerts and art exhibits. Edited by Irving Drutman. … [more below]
- Author: Flanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 14 1981
- ISBN10: 015645971X
- Language: English
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The Complete Poetry of John Milton
$23.00 Add to cart- Author: Milton, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: July 06 1971
- ISBN10: 0385023510
- Language: English
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Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel
$35.00 Add to cartThe award-winning biographer Frances Wilson presents an exhilarating new look at Muriel Spark, a consummate artist of the twentieth century.
“Is the story fact? Is it fiction? It is what it is,” said- Author: Wilson, Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0374613206
- Language: English
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Poyums Annaw
$22.00 Add to cartThe anticipated follow up to poyums, from a singular voice in modern Scots poetry
“A second, blistering collection that confronts patriarchy, gender-based violence and societal injustice with tenderne
- Author: Pennie, Len
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1837263280
- Language: English
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Collected Poems
$35.00 Add to cart“[Cope] writes the sort of poems almost no one does any longer . . . She seems always to know what to say, and what to do, in dark moments.” –Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review
This volume c
- Author: Cope, Wendy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0571383254
- Language: English
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Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
$4.99 Read moreHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
‘Greedily she engorged without restraint,
And knew not eating death;’Milton’s Paradise Lost is a poem of epic proporti
- Series: Collins Classics
- Author: Milton, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0007902107
- Language: English
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Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
$35.00 Add to cartFrom a critically acclaimed biographer, an engrossing narrative of Robert Louis Stevenson’s life, a story as romantic and adventurous as his fiction
“This magnificent biography of Robert Louis Stevens- Author: Damrosch, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0300268629
- Language: English
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A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
$21.00 Add to cartWhy are we so fascinated with Jane Austen’s novels? Why is Austen so universally beloved? The essayists in this volume offer their thoughts on the delightful puzzle of Austen’s popularity. Classic and… [more below]
- Author: Carson, Susannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0812980018
- Language: English
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The Second Common Reader: The Virginia Woolf Library Annotated Edition
$20.99 Add to cartHere, in twenty-six essays, Woolf writes of English literature in its various forms, including the poetry of Donne; the novels of Defoe, Sterne, Meredith, and Hardy; Lord Chesterfield’s letters and De… [more below]
- Series: Virginia Woolf Library
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 13 2003
- ISBN10: 0156028166
- Language: English
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Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot
$22.99 Add to cartThe Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot, edited by Professor Frank Kermode, gathers work from Eliot’s unrivalled career as a literary and social critic. These thirty-one essays-categorized as “essays in gen
- Author: Eliot, T. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0156806541
- Language: English
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The Strange History of Samuel Pepys’s Diary
$29.95 Add to cartDuring the 1660s, Samuel Pepys kept a secret diary full of intimate details and political scandal. Had the contents been revealed, they could have destroyed his marriage, ended his career, and seen hi… [more below]
- Author: Loveman, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: April 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1009554115
- Language: English
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Celtic Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook
$16.99 Add to cartDiscover the gods, goddesses, heroes, and monsters from Celtic mythology with this beautiful book that captures the ancient stories and tales that captivated the Celts.
Prepare to be entertained as yo- Series: World Mythology and Folklore
- Author: Hegarty, Sorcha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1507223889
- Language: English
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Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness
$27.95 Add to cartDo Jane Austen novels truly celebrate–or undermine–romance and happy endings?
How did Jane Austen become a cultural icon for fairy-tale endings when her own books end in ways that are rushed, ironic,
- Author: Brodey, Inger Sigrun Bredkjær
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1421448203
- Language: English
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The Shield of Achilles
$22.95 Add to cartBack in print for the first time in decades, Auden’s National Book Award-winning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readers
The Shield of Achilles, whic- Series: W.H. Auden: Critical Editions #1
- Author: Auden, W. H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 069121865X
- Language: English
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Let the Light Pour in
$20.00 Read moreAn uplifting poetry collection from the number one bestselling author of My Name Is Why, Lemn Sissay OBE
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
First Aid kit for the heart! For the past decade, Lemn Sissay
- Author: Sissay, Lemn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1805301136
- Language: English
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Avidya
$17.95 Add to cartThe poems in this collection emerged from journeys of great personal significance, and out of a migrant sensibility tied to three different countries: Sri Lanka, the UK and the USA. Sensuous, droll, y
- Author: Ravinthiran, Vidyan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1780377398
- Language: English
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Beast
$17.95 Add to cartPoetry Book Society Recommendation
Mythic and familial beasts roam the swamps and moors of Pascale Petit’s Beast, a collection that ranges from the Camargue of Provence, the limestone Causses and gorge
- Author: Petit, Pascale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1780377371
- Language: English
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Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel
$27.95 Add to cartThe first book in the ‘Biography of a novel’ series offers a compelling account of Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece.
The fourth and best-known of Virginia Woolf’s novels, Mrs Dalloway is a modernist maste- Series: Biography of a Novel
- Author: Hussey, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1526176815
- Language: English
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The Canterbury Tales
$24.00 Add to cartBeyond its importance as a literary work of unvarnished genius, Geoffrey Chaucer’s unfinished epic poem is also one of the most beloved works in the English language-and for good reason: It is lively,… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: November 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0812978455
- Language: English
