Modern & contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)

Home Is Not A Place

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS

‘Beautiful, haunting, thought-provoking … A book I will return to again and again’ Bernardine Evaristo

A gorgeously produced, hugely original examination of Black Britishness in the 21st century

A House in St John’s Wood: In Search of My Parents

An intimate portrait of Stephen Spender’s extraordinary life written by Matthew Spender, shifting between memoir and biography, with new insights drawn from personal recollections and his father’s copious unpublished archives.

Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE

‘Gripping and at times ineffably sad, this book would be poetic even without the poetry. It will be the standard biography of Ted Hughes for a long time to come’ Sunday Times

‘Seldom has the life of a writer rattled along with such furious activity … A moving, fascinating biography’ The Times

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