The Colossus

The compelling story of the greatest warrior hero of ancient times, from award-winning writer, Jamila Gavin.Alexander the Great is hailed as the world's greatest leaders of all time, renowned for his bravery, his loyalty and his generosity towards his enemies. Jamila Gavin's vivid narrative...

The eagerly anticipated new poetry collection from Najwa Zebian, author ofand Mind Platter.

The experience of colour in Islamic visual culture has historically been overlooked. In this new approach, Idries Trevathan examines the language of colour in Islamic art and architecture in dialogue with its aesthetic contexts, offering insights into the pre-modern Muslim experience of interpreting colour.The...

The Faber poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T. S. Eliot who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Since the sixties, each passing decade has seen the list grow with the addition of poets who...

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writingsand is a collection that displays the full force of Edgar Allen Poe's mastery of both Gothic horror and the short story form. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by...

The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath.'Surely the final, the definitive, biography of Sylvia Plath' Ali Smith*WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED...

The first major literary presentation of Nostradamus'sand Prophecies, newly translated and edited by prizewinning scholarsThe mysterious quatrains of the sixteenth-century French astrologer Nostradamus have long proved captivating for their predictions. Nostradamus has been credited with anticipating the Great Fire of London, the rise of...

The genesis of what eventually became 'The Cave' occurred in a coffeehouse soon after Emad graduated from college in 2004, where he developed a handful of lines into a book-length narrative poem split into three volumes, entitled "The Worlds". In the first volume, "The...

The Glory of India: An anthology of Urdu Poetry in English translation, with its English and Hindi translations,and and brings out vividly how Urdu poetry has professed and practised down the ages the lofty ideals of nation building, patriotism, peaceful co-existence and catholocity of...

The ground-breaking work of the poet who paved the way for generations of women writers, in a new selection by her daugher and literary executor, Linda Gray SextonWhen Anne Sexton took her own life in October 1974, she left behind a body of work...

The judges of the 2024 Forward Prizes for Poetry - comprising the poets Alycia Pirmohamed, Vanessa Kisuule, Daniel Sluman and Jane Clarke, and chaired by actor and comedian Craig Charles - read hundreds of recent books and individual poems before arriving at this anthology....

The Liars Truth andamp; Love in Chakiwara (Value Pack) by Liberty Books

The life-affirming and unforgettable new novel from the author ofand Lost for Words'A delightful and original concept about how a second hand bookshop can heal a community' Katie Fforde'The perfect book to curl up with . . . It's heartwarming, emotional and full of...

The much-anticipated debut collection by the winner of the Outspoken Performance Poetry Prize: a tender meditation on queerness and Islam'Dissolving whatever boundaries would wall us off from love, Ahsan finds a way to let it all be holy' Victoria Adukwei-Bulley'When I speak of the...

The Museum Of Wasted Loves

The Penguin Classics Book is a reader's companion to the largest library of classic literature in the world. Spanning 4,000 years from the legends of Ancient Mesopotamia to the poetry of the First World War, with Greek tragedies, Icelandic sagas, Japanese epics and much...

The perfect gift for Valentine's DaySelected Poems contains Neruda's resonant, exploratory, intensely individualistic verse, rooted in the physical landscape and people of Chile.

The perfect introduction to poetry, The Poetry Book offers a fascinating exploration of more than 90 of the world's greatest poetic works.Discover poems in all their many guises, from the epics of the ancient world through Renaissance sonnets to modernist masterpieces such as The...

The poems in this collection were chosen and arranged by the author. They feature as great a variety of subject and tone and place as any reader could wish for. To illustrate this book, John travelled to Cornwall to meet Charles Causley. If you...

The poems inand Winter Treesand were written in the last nine months of Sylvia Plath's life, and form part of the group from which theand Arieland poems were chosen. They reveal the poet at the height of her creative powers, exhibiting the startling imagery...

The poetry of Robert Frost is praised for its realistic depiction of rural life in New England during the early twentieth century, as well as for its examination of social and philosophical issues. Through the use of American idiom and free verse, Frost produced...

The record-breaking debut novel that won every major science fiction award in 2014,and Ancillary Justiceand is the story of a warship trapped in a human body and her search for revenge.Ann Leckie is the first author to win the Arthur C. Clarke, the Nebula...

The Scream of an Illegitimate Voice by Kishwar Naheed

The second edition of Ralph Russell's critically acclaimed The Famous Ghalib introduce Ghalib to readers who want to find out why his poetry hasand inspired generations of Urdu speakers and many others besides. It explains the form of poetry in which Ghalib wrote, and...

The seminal Epicurean text, in a brilliant new translation The Epicureans of ancient Rome discarded the ideas of life after death and of an interventionist God in favor of the tactile pleasures of nature. In The Nature of Things, Lucretius celebrates with wit and...

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#444444;background:#FCFCFC">The Shade of Longing and Other Poems is a collection of poems that are personal keepsakes for eras, people and places that no longer exist. The book is intended as a portal to enter these otherwise lost worlds. The mystery of the...

THE SQUEEZED EMOTIONSThis poetry book is like a newborn baby that has come out of excruciation, endurance and stoicism. Every page is engrossed in nervous excitement, meltdowns, mesmerisation, exhilaration and zest, all in one. Every word draws a bead on every reader's emotion; they...

The Tempest isone of Shakespeare's enduringly popular and much-studied later plays. The introduction has been extended to focus on new scholarship about the play's first production and to take account of major theatre and film versions since first publication in 1999, including Julie Taymor's...

the tenth poetry collection from amanda lovelace deviates from the well-worn path of fairy tales andamp; myths, instead bringing readers face to face with the person behind the poems that have made her beloved.from bestselling poetess amanda lovelace comesand she followed the moon back...

The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication.This edition is twofold, for there exists an illuminating...

The unbridled romance of Love and PainSafinah Elahi is a Montessori teacher, a partner of a fitness company, a soon to be lawyer and now also a writer. Sharing her inspiration and what readers can expect from Unbridled Romance of Love andamp; Pain, the...

The Use of Metaphors in Iqbal's Urdu Poetry: An Analytical Study in the Light of Conceptual Metaphor Theory

THE VOID: By FAKHAR ZAMAN

The whole world does its works and commits its errors: but few are the lovers who know the beloved'"He who has seen Him and touched Him, he is freed from all fear and trouble""Kabir says: "I have attained the unattainable, and myheart is coloured...

THE WINE OF WISDOM The Life- Poetry and Philosophy of Omar Khayyāmand Loved by the free-spirited, hated by his orthodox peers; a stranger in both his homeland and the West: the complexities and contradictions surrounding the life of Umar Khayyām are reconstructed for the...

The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the epic story of the Norse hero, Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, the revenge of his wife, Gudrún, and the Fall of the Nibelungs.In the Lay of the Völsungs is told the...

The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England's legendary hero, King Arthur.The Fall of Arthur, the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends of Arthur King of Britain,...

these letters thus far have remained unsent, i want you to change that for me.'Embrace honesty and heal beautifully.Inand the letters i will never send,and TikTok poet Isabella Dorta urges you to leave nothing unsaid and take comfort in moving poems on love, heartbreak,...

These stories are waves of fury, desire and delicious cruelty, always kissed by beauty and death' Mariana EnríquezA new selection of lyrically haunting short stories from a Japanese literary iconA writer is seized by apocalyptic visions; a voyeuristic marquis commits a brutal act; and...

This beautiful boxed selection contains six clothbound volumes of William Shakespeare's best-known plays.From comic masterpieces, likeand Much Ado about Nothingand andand Twelfth Night,and to tragedies such asand Hamlet,and Othelloand andand Romeo andamp; Juliet,and as well as the grand histories ofand Henry Vand andand Richard...

This beautifully illustrated book seeks to tell children the true, diverse and decolonised story of art around the world.Even before they could write, people were telling stories with pictures. And though art is universal, the story we know about it is not.and A Whole...

This book contains a select ion from the poems of Shad Azeemabadi who was responsible firstly for the revival of Urduand ghazal, and secondly for giving an ideological basis to the Urdu elegy. In Shad, the creative impulse was stronger than critical insight. Shad...

This book contains selected ghazals of Mir Taqi Mir (1723-1810) who was the defining poet of classical Urdu poetry. His ghazals were celebrated for their utter simplicity and pathos, and his verses exemplifying the ideal suffering lover created a prototype, which all masters of...

This book contains selections from Shah Mubarak Abroo (1683-1733), the most prominent North Indian poet of formative phase of Urdu (Eighteenth century). He was born in 1683 at Gwalior. His full name was Najam ud Din Shah Mubarak and nom de plume was Abroo....

This book provides a new English translation of a selection of Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu and Persian poetry in a form that remains faithful to that of the original. The translations present pleasing renditions of Iqbal in an understandable contemporary idiom coupled with a conservative...

This book selects from twenty years of Glyn Maxwell's poetry, and provides a concise introduction to one of the most imaginatively gifted poets of the age. Maxwell's is perhaps the most immediately recognizable voice in British poetry: wry, wise, compellingly rhythmic, and everywhere carrying...

This collection contains more than 80% of the sonnets, including all the famous ones. In addition, there are substantial extracts from the longer narrative poems Shakespeare wrote in his youth, songs from the plays, and celebrated soliloquies from HAMLET, ROMEO AND JULIET, KING LEAR,...

This is a collection in English of poetry inspired by and inspiring the Taliban. Most Taliban fighters are Pashtuns, a people who cherish their poetic tradition, and poetry is used in battle.

This is a collection of poems and essays that range from the sublime to the ridiculous; from soaring on the wings of ecstacy to struggling with overwhelming despair; from the capricious joys of matrimony to the changeful delights of singledom; from the profound ecstasy...