books by subject
Literary Theory & Movements

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

One Pair of Feet: 'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens ... she's blissfully funny' Nina Stibbe

The Consolation of Maps

Mademoiselle Perle and Other Stories (riverrun editions): a new selection of the sharp, sensitive and much-revered stories

Victor Hugo

The Nightmare of Reason: Life of Franz Kafka

Kafka

The Village Book

Proust

On Ugliness

My American Century

Monument Maker

The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon

Cicero and Rome (Inside the ancient world)

Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy

Dickens: A Biography

Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth

Wordsworth: A Life

George Eliot: The Last Victorian

Fanny Trollope: The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman

Bernard Shaw: v. 2: Pursuit of Power, 1898-1918

Oscar Wilde

Tristessa

Starting Shakespeare (NEW LONGMAN LITERATURE 11-14)

Selected Letters: 1957-69

Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats - A Portrait

Off the Road: Twenty Years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg

Anais: Erotic Life of Anais Nin

Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind - Arthur Koestler and the Quest for Belonging
