Literary theory

An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigourous interrogation and beautiful style.

Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives.

Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022

Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction

The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense – economic and political, artistic and personal.

Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022

Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction

The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense – economic and political, artistic and personal.

The 50th Anniversary edition of the ground-breaking, worldwide bestselling feminist tract.

‘The Female Eunuch retains that power of transformation; it asserts the possibility of creativity within female experience’ Guardian

‘The best poet in America’ Jean Genet

‘He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels’ Leonard Cohen

The definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark

‘The best poet in America’ Jean Genet

‘He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels’ Leonard Cohen

The definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark

Raymond Williams’ seminal exploration of the history of meaning of some of the most important words in the English language.

A great American writer’s confrontation with a great European critic – a personal and intellectual awakening.

Three acclaimed works for the stage by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

A startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J.G. Ballard’s greatest interviews.

This highly praised biography is the first to explore fully the way in which her painful early life and rejection by her brother Isaac in particular, shaped the insight and art which made her both Victorian England’s last great visionary and the first modern.