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Literature: History & Criticism
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William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love (Paperback)€15.99How one visionary inspired 200 years of art, poetry, and protest. Weaving between the historical, cultural and personal, award-winning author Philip Hoare reveals a web of creative minds and artistic iconoclasts fired with the wild and revolutionary genius of William Blake.
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Backstage : Stories of a writing life€13.99Whether walking along the canals of Venice or teaching English to Iranian pilots, interviewing blood diamond dealers or reading Great Expectations, Donna Leon has found inspiration in the strangest of places.
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Milan Kundera : 89 Words followed by Prague, A Disappearing Poem€15.99An invigorating pair of essays exploring exile, language and national identity from one of Europe's most celebrated literary stars, the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
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The Correction of Taste : The Late Fiction of Henry James€17.99In this last written work, the internationally renowned Irish literary critic Denis Donoghue brings an acute critical intelligence to bear on the late novels of Henry James.
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William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love€28.99How one visionary inspired 200 years of art, poetry, and protest… Weaving between the historical, cultural and personal, award-winning author Philip Hoare reveals a web of creative minds and artistic iconoclasts fired with the wild and revolutionary genius of William Blake.
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On Reflection : Looking for Life's Meaning€24.99In On Reflection Richard Holloway thinks back on some of the questions that have shaped his life. Here, then, are the big asks: Is there a God? How can we forgive? Where does creativity come from? How can we face loss and death? How can we live a good life?
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Shakespeare is Hard, but so is Life€15.99The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from classic theatre to modern adaptations on stage and screen.
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The Illustrated World of Tolkien The Second Age€36.99This volume is an in-depth and exquisitely illustrated guide to the Second Age of Middle-earth, one of the least-explored periods of Arda's history.
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Writers and Their Teachers (Hardback)€29.99By turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers.
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Hamlet (Chiltern Classic)€23.99Part of the Chiltern Classics range. The most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet tells the story of the ghost of the King of Denmark who tells his son Hamlet, to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle.
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Flann O'Brien : Acting Out€49.99Flann O’Brien: Acting out is the first full-length study to comprehensively address the themes of performance, masking and illusion in the author’s fiction, columns, correspondence and scripts.
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Drámaíocht Na Gaeilge: ón Dara Cogadh Domhanda Ar Aghaidh€20.00Cad í canóin na ndrámaí Gaeilge? Cad iad na clasaicigh mhóra i ndrámaíocht na Gaeilge? Cé hé nó cé hí an drámadóir is tábhachtaí, is cumasaí, is snoite i saol na Gaeilg? Cad iad na drámaí Gailge ar chóir go mbeidís i mbéal an phobail, ar churaclam na scoileanna agus ar chlár na n-ollscoileanna?
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The Matter of Black Lives : Writing from the New Yorker€18.99A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more.
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Romance of the Grail : The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth€22.99The first collection of Joseph Campbell's writings and lectures on the Arthurian romances of the Middle Ages, a central focus of his celebrated scholarship, now in paperback.
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The Complete Tolkien Companion€40.99For all those who journey to Middle Earth, here is the definitive guide to its lands, legends, histories, languages and people.
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Pessoa : An Experimental Life€23.99For many thousands of readers Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet is almost a way of life. Ironic, haunting and melancholy, this completely unclassifiable work is the masterpiece of one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic writers. Richard Zenith's Pessoa at last allows us to understand this extraordinary figure.
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Ulysses Unbound : A Reader's Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses (Paperback)€12.99Ulysses is one of the foundational texts of modern literature, yet has a reputation for complexity and controversy.
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James Joyce: A Very Short Introduction€11.99James Joyce is one of the greatest writers in English. His first book, A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man laid down the template for the Coming of Age novel, while his collection of short stories, Dubliners, is of perennial interest. His great modern epic, Ulysses, took the city of Dublin for its setting and all human life for its subject, and its publication in 1922 marked the beginning of the modern novel.
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