Simon Armitage’s new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales.

Here comes everybody: Snoobie and Carla ...

Simon Armitage’s new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales.

Here comes everybody: Snoobie and Carla ...

‘The most compelling of anthologies, the most leisurely, and the most complete.’ Observer

First published in 1923, the conception of de la Mare’s collection of poetry and prose ‘for ...

Set in a near future (the novel was first published in 1961 and is set in the period 1970-73), this is Angus Wilson’s most allegorical novel, about a doomed ...

The Professor was Rex Warner’s second novel, published in 1938, only a year after his groundbreaking first novel, The Wild Goose Chase . It is one of the most extraordinary ...

The Wild Goose Chase , published in 1937 and Rex Warner’s first novel, was a groundbreaking piece of fiction. The novel follows three brothers whose journey is a dazzling original ...

When the world’s foremost travel writer describes the small city-state of Hav, it is unlike any of her other books. For Hav exists only in one special place - Jan ...

Widely praised on its first publication in 1978, The Haw Lantern ventured into new imaginative territory with poems exploring the theme of loss - including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the ...

When the world’s foremost travel writer describes the small city-state of Hav, it is unlike any of her other books. For Hav exists only in one special place - Jan ...

The Cow is the story of a Spanish agricultural labourer, Ambrosio, who goes to Switzerland as a Gastarbeiter. He is bound for Innenwald, a village in the Swiss highlands, and ...