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.
Literary studies: poetry & poets
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
Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World
A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020
‘Radical Wordsworth deserves to take its place as the finest modern introduction to his work, life and impact’ Financial Times
‘Richly repays reading … It is hard to think of another poet who has changed our world so much’ Sunday Times
Reflections on the Psalms
C.S. Lewis’ moving theological work in which he considers the most poetic portions from Scripture and what they tell us about God, the Bible, and faith.
The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian’s Journey from Shetland to the Channel
COLLECTIVE WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE
‘This is the book that has been wanting to be written for decades: the ragged fringe of Britain as a laboratory for the human spirit’ Adam Nicolson
Collins Classics – Troy: The epic battle as told in Homer’s Iliad (Collins Classics)
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This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer
‘A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation’ Oldie
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
Collins Classics – The Sonnets (Collins Classics)
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The Poems of Catullus
Written in the twilight of the Roman Republic, the poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus offers a delicious insight into the passions and gossip of high Roman society.
Collins Classics – Leaves of Grass (Collins Classics)
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The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters
Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford)
‘A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer … There’s something that hits the mark on every page’ Claire Tomalin, Books of the Year, New Statesman
Collins Classics – Selected Poems and Letters (Collins Classics)
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Collins Classics – Selected Poems (Collins Classics)
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Collins Classics – The Canterbury Tales (Collins Classics)
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A Personal Anthology: Unabridged edition
A selection of poems by various poets, including W.B Yeats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and D.H. Lawrence. There are also readings especially devoted to John Milton’s ‘Comus’ and ‘Paradise Lost’ with Dylan Thomas as Satan.