'Enchanting, illuminating and tender' - Nigel Slater‘I believe you can live in a book of poems’A book about finding a creative voice and becoming an artist via a startling rediscovery...

Poetry Books, Shayri

John Cooper Clarke may have an honorary doctorate and a poem on the English Literature GCSE syllabus, but don’t let that fool you: the ‘Poet Laureate of Punk’ is still...

July, Non Fiction, Poetry Books

Selected Poems captures the extraordinary trajectory of Jackie Kay’s three decades in poetry.From The Adoption Papers, winner of the very first Forward Prize thirty-five years ago, to May Day, published...

Savour the changing seasons with this beautifully illustrated collection of classic haiku.Perhaps no poetic form evokes nature so effectively as the haiku. Made up of just 17 syllables, it conveys...

Darkness Becomes Bright is an unflinching exploration of horror, the human condition, and how Edgar Allan Poe's haunted legacy might keep us company in moments of darkness.'A wonderfully engaging account...

This collection of short stories, memoir, journal entries, essays and poems spans decades of Alex Miller's life. Opening with a moving depiction of Miller's father leaving for war, it closes...

'Remarkable' ANDREW MOTION'Revelatory' CAROL ANN DUFFY'Movingly profound' WILLIAM BOYDFrom one of our greatest war correspondents, a unique collection of memories from over 40 years of reporting from conflict zones, set...

Why might Hamlet be even longer in Italian?How does the story of Romeo and Juliet begin . . . in Thai?How do you build a joke in German, or recreate...

'A landmark appraisal... deep and enriching' GUARDIAN'An exhilarating meeting of critical minds' OBSERVER'Serpell is a superlative essayist' DIANA EVANS'Serpell brings her expertise and eye to Toni Morrion's singular literary genius'...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Caputo returns to the heart of the human condition with Wandering Souls, a collection of powerful stories that explore war, love, nature, life, and death.In the...