Biography, literature & literary studies

From his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Gore Vidal travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theatre, politics, and international society, where he has cut a broad swathe, recounting achievements and defeats, friends and enemies made. POINT TO POINT NAVIGATI...

This title takes you on a journey through the many possible ways of writing, reading, and imagining fiction and documentary projects for cinema, television, and new media. It explores the critical role of a script as a document to be written and read with both future readers and the future film i...

This collection of essays explores British attitudes to Continental Europe that explain the Brexit decision. Addressing British-European entanglements and the impact of British Euroscepticism, the book argues that Britain is in denial about the strength of its ties to Europe, and that it needs to...

George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended fo...

Set in the bleak, magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Hardy's early work, Tess's cruel story reveals circumstances slowly closing in on her as she attempts to grasp a few moments of happiness with her lover. When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy...

Red squirrels and red kites, drained lakes and flooded valleys, sulphurous springs and sea-filled caves. The land, sea and skyscapes of the UK are constantly shifting. Species, landmarks and ways of life slip in and out of existence, and firm ground is often just out of reach. Weaving together st...

Expresses unorthodox views on art, love, nature, and religion with ample use of literary quotations.

Part self-portrait, part-literary appreciation, this book tells how Alexander McCall Smith first came across W.H. Auden's work in the 1970s, while teaching law in Belfast.