Literature & Literary Studies

Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions [9781408878682]

'If you have ever been down, or felt lost, this amazing book will change your life ... Read it now' - Elton John 'The more people read this book, the …

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21 Lessons for the 21st Century [9781787330672]

FROM THE AUTHOR OF HOMO DEUS AND THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER SAPIENS Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons…

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Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience [9781782119289]

Letters of Note is a collection of over one hundred of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular …

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We Should All be Feminists [9780008115272]

A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of 'Americanah' and 'Half of a Yellow Sun', based on her 2013 TEDx…

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Everybody Lies: What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really are [9781408894712]

Insightful, surprising and with ground-breaking revelations about our society, Everybody Lies exposes the secrets embedded in our internet searches, w…

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Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions [9780008241032]

From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today - written as a letter to…

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Poetry Notebook: 2006-2014 [9781447269120]

Clive James is one of our finest critics and best-loved cultural voices. He is also a prize-winning poet. Since he was first enthralled by the mysteri…

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Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense [9780571269549]

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE Edward Lear's poems follow and break the rules. They abide by the logic of syntax, the linking of rhyme and t…

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Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience [9781782112235]

Letters of Note is a collection of over one hundred of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular …

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David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet [9780224044608]

As read on BBC Radio 4. As a poet, visual artist and essayist, David Jones is one of the great Modernists. The variety of his gifts reminds us of Blak…

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Speeches of Note [9781786331090]

Speeches of Note is a celebration of oratory old and new. From Shaun Usher, the author of the international bestseller, LETTERS OF NOTE, comes an ob…

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The Good Immigrant [9781783523955]

How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? Or be told that, as an actress, the part you're mos…

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Reasons to Stay Alive [9781782116820]

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE? Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on livin…

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Secret Sisterhood, A: The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Bronte, Eliot and Woolf [9781781315941]

'In digging up the forgotten friendships chronicled in A Secret Sisterhood, Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney have done much service to literar…

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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup [9781509868063]

'Carreyrou tells the story virtually to perfection . . . Bad Blood reads like a West Coast version of All the President's Men.' New York TimesThe full…

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One Hundred Writers in One Box: Postcards from Penguin Modern Classics [9780141197333]

To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Penguin Modern Classics we are publishing an incredibly desirable and collectable postcard collection of 100 …

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Philip Larkin: Letters Home [9780571335596]

Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These correspond…

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The Road to Wigan Pier [9780141185293]

'True genius ... all his anger and frustration found their first proper means of expression in Wigan Pier' - Peter Ackroyd, The Times A sear…

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The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry [9780241279205]

'He is unlike anybody else writing today ...After Donald Trump's election, we urgently need to rediscover the best of radical America. An essential pa…

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The Day That Went Missing [9781910701560]

A family story of exceptional power and universal relevance - about loss, about carrying on, and about recovering a brother's life and death. Life cha…

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