Collins Classics – The Odyssey (Collins Classics)
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Literature: history and criticism
Collins Classics – Hamlet (Collins Classics)
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Kafkaesque: Ten Great Writers Translate the Twentieth Century
‘A book to underline endlessly, to carry around until battered, and then to tell all your friends to buy because you’re too reluctant to give up your own copy. A wonder’ Polly Barton
‘Brings a welcome freshness of vision and a dashing style … provocative and illuminating’ The Spectator
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The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE*
A dazzling new biography of young Tennyson by the prize-winning, bestselling author of The Age of Wonder.
Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius
‘I relished every page … This is the best book on Jane Austen I have ever read’Spectator
‘Compelling … a delightful and engrossing book … Byrne’s passion is nothing if not persuasive’Sunday Times
Was Jane Austen a woman of prim manners and genteel calm? Or someone who behaved outrageously, filled with sharp wit and wild comedy?
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 another of Austen’s experience, Byrne allows us to grasp the richness of her inner life’ Guardian
Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
A Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, Bookseller and at Waterstones
‘He understands only the women he invents – the others not at all’
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring.
Collins Classics – A Christmas Carol (Collins Classics)
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Collins Classics – The Common Reader: Second Series (Collins Classics)
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Collins Classics – The Common Reader: First Series (Collins Classics)
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I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
‘An absolute belter of a biography’ MARINA HYDE
A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022
An LA Times Best Book of the Year 2022
An intimate, revealing and profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea.
Shakespeare’s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio
‘A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed’FINANCIAL TIMES
Jane Austen’s Little Book of Wisdom: Words on Love, Life, Society and Literature
Jane Austen’s Little Book of Wisdom offers more than 300 bite-size quotes of inspiration and wisdom from one of the greatest females writers in the English language.
A Preface to Paradise Lost
In Preface to Paradise Lost, C. S. Lewis presents an illuminating reflection on John Milton’s Paradise Lost, the seminal classic that profoundly influenced Christian thought as well as Lewis’s own work.