Literature & Literary Studies

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 …

Add to Cart

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…

Add to Cart

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 living…

Add to Cart

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…

Add to Cart

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…

Add to Cart

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…

Add to Cart

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…

Add to Cart

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper [9780857524485]

** WINNER of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2019 ** 'The victimes of Jack the Ripper were never "just prostitutes"; they were daughters, w…

Add to Cart

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…

Add to Cart

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…

Add to Cart

This Is Shakespeare [9780241392157]

A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, origina…

Add to Cart

Make, Think, Imagine: Engineering and the Future of Civilisation [9781526605719]

Today's unprecedented pace of change leaves many people wondering what new technologies are doing to our lives. Has social media robbed us of our pri…

Add to Cart

Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style: The UK Edition [9781529124279]

An indispensable, New York Times-bestselling guide to the craft of writing from Random House's long-time copy chief and one of Twitter's leading langu…

Add to Cart

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 …

Add to Cart

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…

Add to Cart

The Penguin Classics Book [9780241320853]

A complete and wondrous guide to all of the Penguin Classics, from the Creative Editor of the series. Penguin Classics is the largest and best-known …

Add to Cart

The Written World: How Literature Shaped History [9781783783137]

From clay tablets to the printing press. From the pencil to the internet. From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. This is the true story of litera…

Add to Cart

Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise [9781526610072]

Katherine Rundell - Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prize-winning author of five novels for children - explores how children's books ignite, …

Add to Cart

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…

Add to Cart

The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands [9780500519509]

Maps can transport us, they are filled with wonder, the possibility of real adventure and travels of the mind. This is an atlas of the journeys that …

Add to Cart