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Oxford's best-selling children's dictionary, My First Oxford Dictionary, has now been updated to support the new school curriculum requirements. It now appears as the Oxford First Dictionary with a new...

The first edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, edited by Sir Paul Harvey, was published in 1932, and quickly established itself as as the standard source of reference...

The collection includes famous poems such as Yeats's "The Fisherman" and Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" alongside new work from Ireland's finest living writers. As well as forming a...

For children aged 6 and over, this clear, easy-to-use dictionary contains full sentence definitions, child-friendly example sentences and parts of speech (noun, adjective etc) as well as colourful illustrations and...

This miscellany of Jessie Kesson's writings brings together a variety of her work in different genres, all focusing on childhood and adolescence.

This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute...

This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute...

This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute...

This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute...

This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute...

This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute...

The book titled Literary Daughters by the author Maggie Lane. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

First published in 1933, the Chambers Murray Latin-English Dictionary is the standard reference text for all advanced students of Latin.

In Whores of Babylon , Frances E. Dolan offers a perceptive study of the central role that Catholics and Catholicism played in early modern English law, literature, and politics. She...

The book titled Romantic Egotist: Unauthorized Biography of Jack Trevor Story by the author Brian Darwent. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year. The recent political chaos enfolding Downing Street provides the framing for the extraordinary story of the office of Prime Minister, and...

Great "new-look" title by a legendary children's book author for the Sprinters series relaunch. Long ago, in the cold lands of the North, there lived a troll named Ulf who...

The book titled No Laughing Matter: Life and Times of Flann O'Brien by the author Anthony Cronin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Volume 1 of a three volume set containing Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence in its entirety. This three volume set marks the first time any Australian literary writer has had his/her...

He was born in the year Dr Johnson died, and died in the year A.E. Houseman and Conan Doyle were born. The 75 years of Leigh Hunt's life uniquely span...

Intensely private, possibly saintly, but perhaps misanthropic, Samuel Beckett was the most legendary and enigmatic of writers. Anthony Cronin's biography is a revelation of this mythical figure as fully human...

Drawing extensively upon the poet's unpublished manuscripts-poems, journals, essays, and letters-as well as all his published works, Marjorie Perloff presents Frank O'Hara as one of the central poets of the...

General and students of nineteenth-century English literature and history.

The final volume in this brilliant translation destined to take its place among the great English versions of The Divine Comedy. The final volume in a brilliant translation destined to...

The second volume in Dante's Divine Comedy Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory - a mountain of nine...

Twain's account of travelling in Europe, A TRAMP ABROAD (1880), sparkles with the author's shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture, and showcases his unparalleled ability to...

The #1 ebook bestseller 'One of the sexiest, most compelling debuts I've come across this year, it cries out to become a TV drama' DAILY MAIL 'Thrilling, unputdownable, a fabulous...

The home of trusted Italian dictionaries for everyday language learning. With 40,000 words and phrases and 60,000 translations packed into this Collins Gem Italian to English and English to Italian...

This is a pencil-sharp book about English for anyone who ever needs to write. In an easy-to-read style, it offers accessible and constructive advice to help you improve your English...

Nik Cohn on Bounce in New Orleans Richard Sennett: why he stopped playing in public Hugo Williams: Dr Feelgood Richard Williams: Frank Sinatra Philip Hensher: the accident that robbed him...

The World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence,...

During the Second World War, a number of young Canadian poets converged on Montreal and, in a few years of little-magazine and small-press publication, rewrote the story of modern English-Canadian...

The book titled The Charles Dickens Encyclopaedia by the author Michael Hardwick. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

...Although (Belsey) uses the specialised vocabulary of modern critical theory, she writes with a clarity and zest which can carry along even an uninitiated reader.' - "THES".

The book titled Conrad and Religion by the author John Lester. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Do you say gooseberries or goosegogs? Would you call someone hen, my luvver or me duck? Do you like to eat a cob, butty or just a plain sarnie? And...

Over the last 20 years, the author of this book had been sending out Christmas crackers - a commonplace selection of prose and poetry - to his friends instead of...

'Allon is the 21st century Bond' Daily Mail No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his latest tale of high-stakes international intrigue featuring...

This new edition of the Collins Robert Concise French Dictionary has been fully revised and updated. Thousands of new words, a fresh, new colour design, and updated supplements on communication,...

The new editions contain new sections: Classwork and Examinations and Background to Shakespeare's England . There are also short sections on Date and Text, and Source. This book is intended...

With the help of a mood ring, a Magic 8 Ball, and some old-fashioned intuition, Judy Moody is convinced that she can foretell the future in a new episode that's...

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers who defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Her vivid, daring and complex poetry continues to captivate new generations of readers and writers....

The texts of "A London Life" and "The Reverberator", both serialized in 1888, are presented here with a new introduction, notes and lists of variant readings by Philip Horne. With...

Ready to meet the team Join Kit Casey and Sam Snow, two top agents from the Covert League of Animal Detective Experts, as they introduce you to the world of...

The most engaging, surprising and revealing look at the Beatles story you'll read. Everyone knows a Beatles tune. But their story goes beyond the omnipresent songs and iconic albums. Theirs...

The book titled The Routes of English by the author Simon Elmes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.