Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

Every scar holds a story. Some heal, while some ache beneath the surface forever. In Scarred for Life, E. Whitney...  Read More >>

Once, when we were far away, I said to you ""Now is the time. Now is the time to go to the sea."" So begins this...  Read More >>

Poetry, grime and dance unite in Debris Stevenson’s explosive new play about learning to fall, fail and find our...  Read More >>

Four poems. One story. The wondrous gifts of God expressed through a parable on the sea; exploring His gifts of...  Read More >>

How do we engage with our metamorphic bodies and brains in ways which resist social and political violences and...  Read More >>

Addresses the changing geographical and historical background to Conrad's life as a source for his developing artistic...  Read More >>

“Kate Baer's poems are so full of life—life as it is now, that I can hear them breathing. I loved this book.”—Emma...  Read More >>

The third keenly anticipated Rilke novel exploring the dark underbelly of contemporary Glasgow, from the Award-winning...  Read More >>

A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: LA Times * Boston Globe * The Millions * LitHub * Shondaland By the New York...  Read More >>

‘A tale of rapacious colonialism, Cold War spy games, dazzling technical innovation, big business rivalry, big power...  Read More >>

As touching as it is funny, a new collection charting love, loss and life's small wonders from Blake Morrison, the...  Read More >>

Set during a single twelve-hour night shift in an injection molding factory, plastic is a poem exploring the life...  Read More >>

Andrew McNeillie's new collection explores the sense of not belonging anywhere, other than in mind and in the wild....  Read More >>

Graeme Richardson's first collection delivers frank and humorous poems about mortality, desire, and the joys and...  Read More >>

A mosaic of human connections in all their sexy and shameless shades – from breaking up to making out, quiet contentment...  Read More >>

First ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes...  Read More >>

This book provides an important exploration of empathetic practices and approaches in and to creative writing –...  Read More >>

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A breathtaking book of essays about the shocks - of joy, of sadness, of survival - that make up a life, from the...  Read More >>

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To All the Women I’ve Ever Loved is a heartfelt love letter to the divine feminine and all the women who carry its...  Read More >>

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Dryness, paleness, waking, sighing, despair, frenzy, death: love's repercussions can be dire indeed. Perhaps that...  Read More >>