A dozen star historians on what might have happened at history's turning points if the dice had fallen differently.Throughout history, great and terrible events have often hinged upon luck. Andrew Roberts has asked a team of twelve leading historians and biographers what might have...

A dynamic collection of three of Sabrina Mahfouz's pieces for the theatre, published alongside a selection of her poetry.Dry IceA critically acclaimed solo show about a young stripper, which was produced at by the Underbelly (Edinburgh) and the Bush Theatre (London) and directed by...

A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response.Here are fifteen invaluable suggestions-compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive-for how...

A fine collection of classic novels, short stories, poems, and essays from distinguished women writers.and Women writers have been making their voices heard for centuries, but their works were not always taken seriously. Over time, as women gained more social and political freedom, these...

A gorgeously illustrated introduction to poetry for children, featuring poems about everything from science, sports, and space, to friendship, family, and feelings.This thoughtfully crafted anthology is perfect for children new to verse and for young poetry fans seeking out new favorites. Explore poetry from...

A great American writer s confrontation with a great European critic a personal and intellectual awakening.Karl Kraus: satirist. Controversialist. Forgotten voice of the early twentieth century.Jonathan Franzen: bestseller. Contrarian. One of the greatest novelists working today.Recalling his student days, the celebrated author of The...

A gripping page-turner from the celebrated author of book club favoriteand The Violin Conspiracy: Music professor Bern Hendricks discovers a shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all time-his music may have been stolen from a Black Jazz Age prodigy named Josephine...

A Little Resurrection is the debut full-length collection from acclaimed poet Selina Nwulu.In these reflections on being and blackness, informed by empathy and intellectual curiosity, Nwulu melds the golden light of Senegal with the harsh winds of Yorkshire. Here, blackness itself is complicated, and...

A Manto Panorama: A Representative Collection of Saadat

A marvellous new collection of poems by Joshua Seigal, two-time winner of the Laugh Out Loud Awards - the UK's only prize for funny children's books. Someone has let the words out... and they're going to have some fun!'Joshua Seigal is definitely my new...

A must-read for anyone moved by the power of song' - Lesley Garrett, CBESinging has always been there for us, at the root of what it is to be a human being. Through personal anecdote and scientific fact-finding, this book celebrates the way song...

A noir narrative written with the intensity and power of poetry, The Long Take is one of the most remarkable - and unclassifiable - books of recent years.Walker is a D-Day veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder; he can't return home to rural Nova Scotia,...

A PASSIONATE, PAGE-TURNING TALE OF COERCIVE CONTROL AND FEMALE SOLIDARITY, FOR FANS OF THREE WOMEN AND ACTS OF DESPERATION. 'This is the book I have always needed, it is F*****G BRILLIANT and everyone should read it' Nikita Gill 'A beautiful, biting page-turner' Irish Times...

A penetrating account of Greek tragedy, it demonstrates how the elements of plot, character and spectacle combine to produce 'pity and fear' - and why we derive pleasure from this apparently painful process. It introduces the crucial concepts of mimesis ('imitation'), hamartia ('error') and...

A pioneering poet of the Romantic movement, William Wordsworth was made Poet Laureate in 1843 for his lyrical innovation.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect...

A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic grace"Sophus Helle's new translation . . . [is] a thrilling, enchanting, desperate thing to read."-Nina MacLaughlin, Boston Globe"Looks to be the last word on...

A poetic meditation on identity, loss, and loneliness from the bestselling poet and visual artistAn all-new illustrated poetry collection from the bestselling author ofand yesterday i was the moon,and New Names for Lost Thingsand combines Noor Unnahar's powerful poetic voice and her signature collage-style...

A policeman interrupts a rich family's dinner to question them about the suicide of a young working-class girl. As their guilty secrets are gradually revealed over the course of the evening, 'An Inspector Calls', J. B. Priestley's most famous play, shows us the terrible...

A powerful collection of new and recently completed poems by Ben Okri covering topics of the day, such as the refugee crisis, racism, Obama, the Grenfell Tower fire, and the Corona outbreak.In our times of crisisThe mind has its powersThis book brings together many...

A powerful personal journey to find meaning and life lessons in the words of a wildly popular 13th century poet. Rumi's inspiring and deceptively simple poems have been called ecstatic, mystical, and devotional. To writer and activist Melody Moezzi, they became a lifeline. In...

A radical landmark in Caribbean literature, reissued with a new foreword by Jamaica Kincaid to mark Wilson Harris' centenary: a visionary masterpiece tracing the dreamlike voyage of a riverboat crew through the jungle. I dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing eye and one...

A rich introduction to the work of Rumi by the foremost scholar on the great mystical poet, featuring leading literary translations of his verse by Coleman Barks, Robert Bly, Andrew Harvey, Kabir Helminski, Camille Helminski, Daniel Liebert, and Peter Lamborn Wilson.and andlt;p/andgt;Rumi's poems are...

A rich, poetic, and socially relevant version of the great spiritual-philosophical classic of Taoism, the Tao Te Ching-from a legendary literary icon Most people know Ursula K. Le Guin for her extraordinary science fiction and fantasy. Fewer know just how pervasive Taoist themes are...

A second collection from one of the most distinctive and original voices to have emerged in recent years. Zaffar Kunial is a proven master of taking things apart, polishing up the fugitive parts of single words, of a sound, a color, the name of...

A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking,and Against Interpretation and Other Essaysand is the definitive collection of Susan Sontag's best known and important works published in Penguin Modern Classics.Against Interpretationand was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays...

A spellbinding modern fairytale, sexy and warm and full of hope and the power of love' BOLU BABALOLA'Funny, sexy and breathtakingly romantic' EMILY HENRYOne florist. One pianist. One love story . . . One hundred years in the making.Ricki Wilde has many talents, but...

A stunning collection of poetry on feminism, trauma, survival and empowerment.You cannot burn awayWhat has always been aflameWILD EMBERS explores the fire that lies within every soul, weaving words around ideas of feeling at home in your own skin, allowing yourself to heal and...

A tender homage to the journeys of growth and change that we all experience, told through the theme of the four seasons and the connection they have to our lives.Growing pains, societal pressures, loneliness, grief--all these things make it hard to see the positive...

Aand THE TIMESand BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' Alex Preston,and Observer'It makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays at once' Hilary MantelA genius and prophet whose timeless...

Aand TIMESand BOOK OF THE YEAR'A small masterpiece.and There is something funny, notable or awe-inspiring on every single page' Jenny Colgan,and Spectatorand A joyful celebration of books - the perfect gift for bibliophiles, word lovers and anyone who's ever wondered, should you judge a...

Find me in another life. Find me in them all'It all ends now. . .But Every end is also a beginning.I was supposed to die. If it weren't for Slade, I would have. But he tore a hole the world I know and I...

This comprehensive volume contains all Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963. The poems are drawn from the only collection Plath published while alive,and The Colossus,and as well as from posthumous collectionsand Ariel, Crossing the Waterand andand Winter...

Bilston is a magician with words'and - GuardianThe perfect, witty gift for Valentine's and beyond.Alexa, what is there to know about love?and is a wonderful collection of poems by Brian Bilston, Twitter's unofficial poet laureate', in which he frets over the challenges of modern...

The Frozen Lake' is the second collection of my English poems. The first, titled The Mahogany Junction,' was published in 2017. The feedback from critics and poetry lovers was overwhelming enough to stay with me and to inspire the compilation of poems I had...

The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without,' Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to date. These poems tell the story of a life at risk of spilling over the edge of the page,...

This translation of Fahmida Riaz's poetry collection not only preserves the iconoclastic sensuousness of Fahmida's Urdu original but adds to its evocative power through English diction and figures of speech. Fahmida Riaz's voice had the distinction of breaking new paths, daring to deviate from...

“A marvelous interweaving of poetry, scholarship, literary criticism and memoir: it is wise, welcoming, and a delight to read. There are poems here that are memorable in any context:and Qasida of 700,000 Years of Loveand one among those for me. I wish Agha Shahid...

“Ahmed Rashid chronicles the history of a people, land, mountain and plain held hostage by relentless politics and uncaring time. Razor sharp and near perfect, the poems present an intriguing portrait of the man who wrote them. Rashid's poems are as self-revelatory as they...

“i closed my eyes to look inward and found a universe waiting to be explored and and From poet, meditator, and speaker Yung Pueblo, comes a collection of poetry and prose that explores the movement from self-love to unconditional love, the power of letting...

“TO THE WOMEN I ONCE LOVED is a reflection of a poet's heart, his inner feelings towards past relationships, and how they have contributed to the man he has become. Each piece brings consciousness to female attributes that ought to be glorified, and qualities...

Aazadi Novel Baresagheer Ki Taqseem Kay Pas Manzar Main Ek Romanvi Dastan

About The Moon Has My Heart Book:and The moon has my heart is the rich and beautiful collection of poetry about life, love, loss, inspiration, hurt, strength, nature, and family. The raw emotions are concealed in every word of the book so that the...

Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of fourteenth-century Persian literature.Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist, represent one of the most remarkable literary flowerings...

According to the Kama Sutra, the erotic handbook written two thousand years ago, when the wheel of ecstasy is in motion "there is no textbook at all, and no order."and Indian Love Poemsand is a unique gathering of poems from across more than two...

Agbabi, Armitage, Burnside, Duffy, Dunmore, Fanthorpe, Heaney, Motion, Nagra, O'Brien and morePoems of the Decadeand brings together more than one hundred poems from the many thousands submitted to the Forward Prizes for Poetry in the first decade of the 21st century.The Forwards are among...

Ahmed Faraz Shehr e Muhabbat Ka Nagmagar by Asif Ali

Aisha Sarwari was told, love and devoted acts of service will always light the way. These, however, become the very reason of her complete unravelling.Heart Tantrums, an honest and multilayered memoir, artfully describes the scatter of catastrophic losses suffered by the author-losing her father...

Aks by Amjad Islam Amjad

Alice Oswald's poems are always vivid and distinct, alert and deeply, physically, engaged in the natural world. Mutability - a sense that all matter is unstable in the face of mortality - is at the heart of this new collection and each poem is...