Wuthering Heights is traditionally seen as being about the timeless romance between Heathcliff and Catherine. Bradshaw takes issue with the conventional view, arguing that this in this novel the characters are driven by forces and passions they don't understand, and that Bronte's dark, violent world is much more complex than most critics allow.

Phillip Mallett guides us through Hardy's most charming and most satisfying novel and shows us why Bathsheba Everdene is one of literature's most bewitching heroines.

In this incisive book Cedric Watts and Jolyon Connell show why Hardy's story has such power and they explain the angry and uncompromising vision contained within its pages.

A fresh look at the way Virginia Woolf shook up the literary world with Mrs Dalloway, one of the seminal modern texts which challenged all the conventions of classic 19th century fiction.

A riveting account of the way Lord of the Flies came to be written and published, and of the qualities which make it one of the most disturbing books since World War Two.

Adrian Poole explains why Antony and Cleopatra is both so special and so different from the four commonly regarded as Shakespeare's greatest tragedies: Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth. Poole shows that while Shakespeare is dramatising the most famous love affair in the ancient world, his handling of sex and politics is strikingly modern.

An entertaining and erudite guide to Shakespeare's great sequence of history plays, culminating in Henry V, and to what the plays tell us about the public and private lives of politicians.