A beautifully illustrated travelogue, chronicling the life and work of one of the world greatest poets.

The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship - and quarrel - between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism.

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

The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carr was alive

During the turbulent years of 1995-2000, the author surfed the great wave of olive oil which nearly swept British metropolitan culture away, and produced a series of restaurant reviews for "The Observer", whose coruscating criticality led to a cabal of restaurateurs plotting his contract killing.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and acclaimed author of Negroland boldly and brilliantly fuses cultural analysis and memoir to probe race, class, family and art.

A lifetime's reading of Proust's masterpiece: A highly entertaining book that takes in such disparate Proustian obsessions as insomnia, food and digestion, colour, addiction, memory, breath and breathing, breasts, snobbism, music, and humour.

An exploration of the ideas, groupings and the social tensions that shaped the transformation of life caused by the changes of modernity in art, science, politics and philosophy

Bookseller and bestselling author Shaun Bythell is back, and he has some thoughts about that Kindle you bought over lockdown.

A future classic of memoir by one of the greatest writersat work today

Based on Crisell's popular podcast of the same name, here is an inspiring and fascinating glimpse into the creative process - with some of our best-loved contemporary writers

A groundbreaking exploration of deafness by the award-winning poet Raymond Antrobus. A memoir. A cultural history. A call to action

An anthology of essays about the joys of reading and of giving books, from some of the world's most beloved writers. Inspired by and including Robert Macfarlane's own essay, 'The Gifts of Reading', publishing to coincide with the 20th anniversary of global literacy non-profit, Room to Read

The library saved her. Now she wants to save the library. But what I didn't expect was for a simple part-time job to become a passionate battle for survivial, both for me and for the library. So this is my eye-opening account of the strange and wonderful library that saved me and why I'm on a mission to save yours.

A literary quiz book with a difference, mirroring the format of the lively and popular quizzes Gary runs in the Betsey Trotwood pub in London and elsewhere. The book includes a lot of multiple-choice questions, some amusing answers, clever red herrings, little-known facts about authors and some much-loved Say What You See picture rounds.

A striking literary biography by a significant and talented young writer

Sex, fame and scandal in the theatrical, literary and social circles of late 18th-century England.

Since the early 1970s, Marina Warner has been one of the most challenging, subtle and profound commentators on the culture of past and present, unravelling our webs of images, ideas and beliefs, and making new and provocative connections.

Written by a leading academic and broadcaster and drawing on interviews with readers, writers, reading groups, bookshop owners, librarians, and figures from literary publishing, reviewing, and festivals, this accessible volume offers an overview of the contemporary scene of women's novel-reading.

In The Ministry of Truth, Dorian Lynskey charts the life of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: one of the most influential books of the 20th Century, a perennial bestseller, and a work that remains more relevant than ever in today's tumultuous world.