Although Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received ...

In Summer 2010 Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. The challenging 256-mile route is usually approached from south to north, from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk ...

First published in 1966, Robert Bernard Martin's The Accents of Persuasion is a consummate critical study of Charlotte Brontë's four novels: The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette ...

Newly updated to 2012 and the Leveson Inquiry, Stick It Up Your Punter! is the classic story of the Sun newspaper, its part in the rise of Rupert Murdoch's ...

Paul Auster’s Collected Prose is an essential collection from one of the finest thinkers and stylists in contemporary letters.

The celebrated author of The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace ...

Blood on the Altar is the true story of a 16 year-old girl who went missing in 1993 in a church in Potenza, in the deep south of Italy. Elisa ...

Volume 4 of The Letters of T. S. Eliot, which brings the poet, critic, editor and publisher into his forties, documents a period of anxious and fast-moving professional recovery and ...

'One day there is life ... and then, suddenly, it happens there is death.'

So begins The Invention of Solitude, Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. The first ...

In the period covered by this richly detailed collection, which brings the poet to the age of thirty-nine, T. S. Eliot was to set a new course for his life ...

Private faces in public places
Are wiser and nicer
Than public faces in private places.
- W. H. Auden, dedication to Stephen Spender, 1932

Stephen Spender wrote almost a million words ...

In Summer 2010 Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. The challenging 256-mile route is usually approached from south to north, from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk ...

'This book should be regarded as rescue work. It salvages from pre-Victorian periodicals from the limbo of forgotten publications, and exhumes from long undisturbed sources a curious collection of women ...

The journal of Benjamin Haydon was, Max Beerbohm reported to Siegfried Sassoon, the best diary Beerbohm had ever read. Harold Acton declared Haydon 'a more exciting figure than Ruskin.' H ...

Blood on the Altar is the true story of a 16 year-old girl who went missing in 1993 in a church in Potenza, in the deep south of Italy. Elisa ...

In the year 1570, at the age of thirty-seven, Michel de Montaigne gave up his job as a magistrate and retired to his château, situated a few miles north of ...

In the last eight years of his life - and he died when he was only thirty-three - Denton Welch wrote three novels, umpteen short stories, hundreds of poems, and - between 1942 ...

Literary biography is an endlessly fascinating form, not least because of the fierce controversies that attend the question of how much of a writer’s real life ought to be ...

The Secret Life of Poems

is a primer which offers a poem - or on occasion an excerpt - with succeeding commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order ...

What makes a novel a novel? How does the language used in a novel create a world different from that of drama or poetry?  What kinds of truth can be ...

This collection of Hanif Kureishi’s prose writings begins in the early 1980s with The Rainbow Sign , which was written as the introduction to the screenplay of My Beautiful Laundrette ...