Patrick's life strikes Robert as brazenly fabricated, yet soon he is compelled to pursue his own story. In a twist on the cat-and-mouse narrative, A Lonely Man depicts an attempt to create art at the brink of empathy and imagination.

Both a love song to Italy and a criticism of class and patriarchy in England at the time, this illustrated edition is an exquisite, tumultuous romance. 'One doesn't come to Italy for niceness,' was the retort;

Tonight nineteen-year-old William Lavery is dressed for success, his first black-tie do. It will be his first job, and will be - although he's yet to know it - a choice that threatens to sacrifice his own happiness in his desire to help others.

It is October 1966 and William Lavery is having the night of his life at his first black-tie do. It will be his first job as an embalmer, and it will be one he never forgets. His work that night will force him to think about the little boy he was, and the losses he has worked so hard to forget.

From the Costa Book of the Year-winning author of Days Without End.

The current UK Poet Laureate's popular series of lectures examining what poetry is and who it might be for.

POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION Jack Underwood's debut collection, Happiness (2015), was celebrated for its unconventional and daring tone: 'conversational, arresting .

The diary and essays of Brian Eno republished twenty-five years on with a new introduction by the artist in a beautiful hardback edition. 'One of the seminal books about music .