As the nights draw in and the geese begin their long and strenuous journey southwards, the bookshop staff hunker down against the encroaching winter with warm mugs of hot toddy and some lively ...

From the publisher: 'Tender and elegant' Guardian'Unlike anything else in modern English literature' D.J. Taylor, SpectatorA damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the ...

There were so many incredible books this year. I’ve stuck to poetry: my favourite collection of 2023 was Andrew Wynn Owen’s Infinite in Finite for its combination of technical adeptness and emotional ...

Every ten years, Granta magazine names their 20 best British novelists under 40, and it’s always an influential list – Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Jeanette Winterson and Zadie Smith are among the ...

The nine authors on the 2022 Political Fiction list are all first time Orwell Prize nominees, in the fourth year of The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. As chair of judges Adam Roberts says, ‘What ...

From the publisher: A collection of poems both old and new, spanning a career of ground-breaking writing. Dearly gave us Atwood’s first new poetry collection in over a decade; Paper Boat not only ...

From the publisher: A people's history of the high street'A rich, lively and nostalgia-provoking sensory experience ... this is history in its messiest, most bustling human essence' THE TIMES'The ...

From the publisher: The eagerly awaited, no-holds-barred biography of the great poet: an intellectual maverick, sexual rebel and icon of queer literature.'The first biography of Thom Gunn, and likely ...

Our Author of the Month for November is the poet and novelist Rosemary Tonks.

During the Covid lockdown of 2020, artist, poet and passionate environmental advocate Daphne Warburg Astor founded Hazel Press, a publisher of small books of prose and poetry based at her ...

Throughout its history feminism has had a troubled relationship with policing, torn between seeking its protection and attacking its ingrained sexist bias. In Why Would… ...

From the publisher: This revised edition of Tolkien’s famous illustrated letters from Father Christmas to his children includes a number of pictures and letters that have not been seen in print before ...