Literature: History & Criticism

We are living in the era of the self, in an era of malleable truth and widespread personal and political delusion.

Published to celebrate Faber's 90th anniversary, this is the story of one of the world's greatest publishing houses - a delight for all readers who are curious about the business of writing.

Victor Hugo is an icon of French culture. He achieved immense success as a poet, dramatist, and novelist, and he was also elected to both houses of the French Parliament. Leading the Romantic campaign against artistic tradition and defying the Second Empire in exile, he became synonymous with the progressive ideals of the French Revolution.

Gerald Dawe presents an accessible view of modern Irish literature, filtered perceptively through his own distinctive lens, and raises important questions about cultural belonging, the commercialisation of contemporary writing, and the influence of Irish literary culture in a digital age.

'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded'

In this conference volume, six distinguished scholars of Irish birth or descent, reflect on what the ambitions and achievements of the men and women who supported the Rising of 1916 have meant to succeeding generations of Irish people at home and abroad.

2017 1st Edition Hardback

Joan Didion's hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties.