A beautifully curated collection of Maya Angelou's most beloved poems, accompanied by the vibrant artwork of Aurélia Durand.I'm a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,That's me.Radical self acceptance. Hope through turbulent times. Love as an anchor. Maya Angelou's poetry is the perfect gift for any occasion. Let her...

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...

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

Savour the changing seasons with this beautifully illustrated collection of classic haiku.Perhaps no poetic form evokes nature so effectively as the haiku. Made up of just 17 syllables, it conveys an impression with almost the same immediacy as our own senses—it can be as...

‘A profoundly original, ambitious and globally minded writer’ Rebecca Tamás, Guardian'A writer of serious intellectual depth' Jay BernardFor over half a century, Jay Wright’s poetry has been celebrated for its alertness to the multiplicity of human experience and identity.Wright’s inexorable lyric voice, whose gravitational...

A powerful exploration of life and death, illness and grace, wonder and beauty, in the posthumous collection from one of our greatest contemporary poets'It’s impossible not to love the world more when reading Burnside' GUARDIAN'A master of language' HILARY MANTELJohn Burnside’s last collection of...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'I adore Lennie's poetry' NIGELLA LAWSON'Impressive . . . hugely entertaining and intelligent' Scotsman'A poet who redefines what poetry is and who it is for' LEMN SISSAY'The keeper and reinventor of the Scots language in the 21st century' IAN MCMILLANA...

‘I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration’ PHILIP PULLMAN‘Entrancing … a creative manifesto’ TELEGRAPH‘Mesmerising … vibrating with life and curiosity’OBSERVERIn this lyrical and revelatory memoir, Alan Garner, Booker shortlisted author of Treacle Walker, traces the line of his life: from a...

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDA PEN / JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD FINALIST'Wise, beguiling... a treasure and a beacon of a poet, whose indispensable body of work offers no less than a way to navigate this world' Sarah HoweA new collection and...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TS ELIOT PRIZE 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2026'© Codex' SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST SINGLE POEMLONGLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE 2026'Profound, sheer originality... a tantalising jigsaw puzzle of a book' Tristram Fane-Saunders, TelegraphIn The New Carthaginians, time...

“We all have a stage, but what happens when the lights go out?” — A poetic exploration of the masks we wear, and the truth that lies beneath.Burning The Ghost Light is a striking new poetry collection that invites readers into a world where...

The second installment in the Healing Verses series from poet r.h. Sin introduces Serenity’s Song, a profound collection of restorative poetry woven together to address the intricate journey of healing from trauma.Across the volumes of The Healing Verses, r.h. Sin delves deep into the...

Through this genuine and personal collection of poems, Joey Kidney shares gentle reminders that though life can be overwhelming and unpredictable, we all have the ability to hold tight to hope. Sometimes we just need a little help remembering.With over 10 million followers across...

'A landmark appraisal... deep and enriching' GUARDIAN'An exhilarating meeting of critical minds' OBSERVER'Serpell is a superlative essayist' DIANA EVANS'Serpell brings her expertise and eye to Toni Morrion's singular literary genius' HARPER'S BAZAARThe essential companion to Toni Morrison’s work, written by Namwali Serpell, ‘one of...

Winner of the 2024 Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary CriticismWinner of the Northern California Book Award for General Nonfiction'The Island makes an outstanding contribution to our knowledge of both Auden's intentions and his achievement in the first part of his writing life.' Andrew Motion,...

Written immediately after his return from his first trip to America in June 1934, A Voyage at Sea with Don Quixote follows the author’s observations about life aboard a Dutch vessel bound for New York, interspersed with remarks on his reading of Cervantes’s immortal...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2025Human being - astonishing creature - who are you?Delivered in Stockholm in December 2025, Enough About Angels is the extraordinary Nobel Lecture from László Krasznahorkai. Characteristically brilliant and unforgettable, it is a message about hope, compassion, the...

From independence movements in Sri Lanka to train stations in contemporary Ontario, an intimate and witty selection of Michael Ondaatje’s most widely loved poems taken across fifty years'My life always stops for a new book by Michael Ondaatje' JHUMPA LAHIRIThrough poems that grow out...

'A spectacular comeback' Jeremy Noel Tod, Prospect'Siken’s signature intensity still throbs between sentences' The Yale ReviewA collection of pitch-perfect prose poems written in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophic stroke. From the author of cult poetry bestseller, Crush.Richard Siken’s Crush was an underground international...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Caputo returns to the heart of the human condition with Wandering Souls, a collection of powerful stories that explore war, love, nature, life, and death.In the gripping title story, a Vietnam vet revisits the war-torn landscape of his past, searching...

A vital and vivid poetry collection about place, time, illness and recovery'This is a profound, enduring collection' Guardian, Best New PoetryEach of the three sections in Goyle, Chert, Mire focuses on one of the distinctive elements characteristic of the Blackdown Hills – a little-known,...

The Valkyries – fierce daughters of battle, riders of storm and shadow. They choose the slain and carry souls to glory, moving between mortal and divine. These fierce but angelic warrior goddesses escort half of those who have died in battle to Odin's hall...

FEATURED IN THE SCOTSMAN'S SPORT BOOKS OF 2020A collection of lyrical sweet-nothings whispered to late goals, local radio commentators, referees falling over and 47 other reminders of why we love football.Despite its flaws and excesses, modern football is still sprinkled with simple yet beguiling...

Why might Hamlet be even longer in Italian?How does the story of Romeo and Juliet begin . . . in Thai?How do you build a joke in German, or recreate a rhyme in Japanese?And why are Lady Macbeth's pronouns such a problem?What does it...

Poetry is Palestine’s most cherished art form – a way to voice resistance and preserve cultural memory. This powerful bilingual anthology captures a century of both celebration and struggle.The twenty-one poets gathered here span a remarkable range: from the lyrical rhetoric of Tawfiq Zayyad...

A spectacular, tenderhearted poetry debut that is also “a valuable tool on your personal growth journey” (Yung Pueblo, #1 New York Times bestselling author).“What do you have left after losing everything you know?”You’ve been told that it’s the cumulative impact of everything you’ve built:...

'I'm always happy to go into her zany vortex' Lorde'Anything by Patricia Lockwood is guaranteed to make me laugh out loud' Caro Claire Burke, author of Yesteryear'A modern word witch' New York Times Book ReviewThe new collection(s) of poetry from Booker Prize finalist and...

The centenary edition, with a newly commissioned introduction by Simon McBurney.'Those who read or listen to our stories see everything as though through a lens. This lens is the secret of narration, and it is ground anew in every story, ground between the temporal...

'Remarkable' ANDREW MOTION'Revelatory' CAROL ANN DUFFY'Movingly profound' WILLIAM BOYDFrom one of our greatest war correspondents, a unique collection of memories from over 40 years of reporting from conflict zones, set aside war poems from all over the world.I was standing outside an apartment block...

'Enchanting, illuminating and tender' - Nigel Slater‘I believe you can live in a book of poems’A book about finding a creative voice and becoming an artist via a startling rediscovery in Edmund de Waal’s family archives – letters between his grandmother and the charismatic...

John Cooper Clarke may have an honorary doctorate and a poem on the English Literature GCSE syllabus, but don’t let that fool you: the ‘Poet Laureate of Punk’ is still a bona fide iconoclast. In Have It, a collection of scathing new poems, the...

Selected Poems captures the extraordinary trajectory of Jackie Kay’s three decades in poetry.From The Adoption Papers, winner of the very first Forward Prize thirty-five years ago, to May Day, published in 2024 to widespread acclaim, Kay has for decades written eloquently about love and...

Darkness Becomes Bright is an unflinching exploration of horror, the human condition, and how Edgar Allan Poe's haunted legacy might keep us company in moments of darkness.'A wonderfully engaging account of Poe’s troubled life and work . . . Nimble, generous, brimming with insight'...

This beautiful pocket-sized hardback gift book contains carefully curated poetic poisons compiled by Deborah Alma, the founder of the Poetry Pharmacy. The Poetry Poisons are for when sweetness fails, offering a controlled dose of the less virtuous emotions, to be taken slowly and without...

A place to belong for anyone caught between cultures, countries, or selves.The Pomegranate is a Grenade is a debut poetry collection that examines what it means to grow up Arab and Muslim in the United States, where home is both inherited and continually reshaped....

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The Poetry Exchange is an award-winning podcast and project that celebrates the role poetry plays in people's lives. In their first anthology, Fiona Bennett and Michael Shaeffer draw on ten years of archival material to bring together a collection of poems chosen by readers...

A fun-filled rhyming picture book version of Roald Dahl's iconic Revolting Rhymes, featuring the original text and now fully illustrated with brand-new and wickedly funny art.Jack was nimble, Jack was keen. He scrambled up the mighty bean.This is Jack and the Beanstalk as you've...

A guide to uncovering your inner strength, ancestral clarity, and soulful presence• Presents 9 essential principles drawn from ancient Icelandic texts for cultivating a balanced, resilient, and meaningful life• Offers practical meditations, creative exercises, and 81 poetic mantras to help you integrate each principle...

The Pashtun are known as formidable warriors; but their brilliant poetic soul and deep longings are less well known. This book corrects that imbalance. It is a labor of love."Akbar Ahmed, Distinguished Professor, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University, Washington D.C."This book...

Celebrate twenty-five years of the bestselling classic Room on the Broom with this anniversary edition, perfect for little ones at Halloween!Enjoy the much-loved story, a stunning special cover, and bonus content from Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, creators of The Gruffalo.The witch and her...

As One Lamp Lights Another: A Collection of Pakistani Poems in English is a rich anthology of poetry celebrating the literary heritage of Pakistan. Compiled by Basharat Qadir, the collection brings together poems by seven members of the Qadir family, spanning different generations and...

Tacitus' Annals of Imperial Rome recount the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus up to the death of Nero in AD 68. With clarity and vivid intensity he describes the reign of terror under the corrupt Tiberius, the...

Dorothy Wellesley was a poet, traveller, heiress and rebel. When she became the lover of Vita Sackville-West, it wrecked her marriage to the future Duke of Wellington. Through Vita, Dorothy met Virginia Woolf and gained a unique view of the iconic and intensely self-absorbed...