Sort by:
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'It is good to meet the real Jane Austen at last' Independent on Sunday 'Brilliantly illuminating ... by focusing, chapter by chapter, on one thread or...
The Year of the Cat: A Love Story: 'Tender and uplifting' Stylist
'A brave process of healing and self reconstruction' Observer'Simply one of the best writers working today. Here's to family, to glamour, and to love' Nell Frizzell, author of The Panic...
If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation
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,...
The Genius of Shakespeare
Who was Shakespeare? Why has his writing endured? What makes it so endlessly adaptable to different times and cultures? And how has Shakespeare come to be such a powerful symbol...
Gunter Grass's "Der Butt"
Gunter Grass's novel "Der Butt" is one of his most important and best-known works, and yet it has not received the critical acclaim enjoyed by his other novels, most notably...
The Biplane Houses
This is Les Murray's first new volume of poems since 2002's Poems the Size of Photographs. In it we find Murray at his near-miraculous best. The collection exhibits both Murray's...