Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

  • The Literary Almanac

    £14.99

    Whether echoing the changing seasons or set in a particular month, each of the 24 books recommended in ‘The Literary Almanac’ has been selected to chime with that time of year to provide a richer reading experience and open our imaginations to the different seasons and rhythms of our world. Beautifully illustrated throughout with original artwork, this compendium guides you through a trove of bookish delights.

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  • What to Read Next

    £9.99

    For a whole year on his train to work, TLS editor Stig Abell read books from across genres and time periods. Then he wrote about them, and their impact on our culture and his own life. The result is a work of many things: a brisk guide to the canon of Western literature; an intimate engagement with writers from Shakespeare to JK Rowling, Marcel Proust to Zora Neale Hurston; a wise and funny celebration of the power of words; and a meditation on mental unrest and how to tackle it. It will help you discover new books to love, give you the confidence to give up on those that you don’t, and remind you of ones that you already do.

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  • Dear Reader

    £9.99

    A memoir of a life spent immersed in the comfort and joy of books, from Sunday Times bestselling author Cathy Rentzenbrink.

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  • Walking the Invisible

    £16.99

    See through the eyes of the Brontës as you immerse yourself in their lives and landscapes, wandering the very same paths they each would have walked in search of the inspiration behind their novels and poetry.

    An ‘imaginative and elegant trek through the landscape of the Brontës’ Grazia

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  • Varying Degrees of Success

    £25.00

    In a career spanning six decades, David Lodge has been one of Britain’s best-loved and most versatile writers. With ‘Varying Degrees of Success’ he completes a trilogy of memoirs which describe his life from birth in 1935 to the present day, and together form a remarkable autobiography. His aim is to describe honestly and in some detail the highs and lows of being a professional creative writer in several different genres: prose fiction, literary criticism, plays for live theatre and screenplays for film and television.

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  • Philip Roth

    £30.00

    Appointed by Philip Roth and granted complete access and independence, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth’s personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in breathtakingly candid conversations. The result is an indelible portrait of an American master and of the post-war literary scene. Bailey shows how Roth emerged from a lower-middle-class Jewish milieu to achieve the heights of literary fame, how his career was nearly derailed by his catastrophic first marriage, and how he championed the work of dissident novelists behind the Iron Curtain.

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  • Daily Rituals Women at Work: How Great Women Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Ge

    £10.99

    Exploring the daily obstacles and rituals of women who are artists, composers, sculptors, scientists, filmmakers, and performers.

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  • Orwell: A Man Of Our Time

    £20.00

    As one of the most enduringly popular and controversial novelists of the last century, the 70th anniversary of George Orwell’s death in 2020 offers an opportunity to assess his relevance today. This book provides a thorough examination of his most significant works in order to shed light on the man behind the writings.

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  • Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read

    £9.99

    FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH

    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE

    Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?

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  • Kafka’s Prague

    £10.99

    Kafka hardly ever left Prague during his short life. This text is more than a guidebook, it captures brilliantly the social, cultural and architectural atmosphere of his time as it takes the reader to many of the places that Kafka knew.

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  • Life and Loves of E. Nesbit: Author of The Railway Children

    £20.00

    Fitzsimons’s eye-opening biography brings new light to the life and works of famed literary icon E. Nesbit, in whom pragmatism and idealism, tradition and modernity worked side-by-side to create a remarkable writer and woman.

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  • Sontag: Her Life

    £30.00

    Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant, serious mind combined with her striking image, her rigorous intellectualism and her groundbreaking inquiries into what was then seen as ‘low culture’ – celebrity, photographs, camp – propelled her into her own unique, inimitable category and made her famous the world over, emblematic of twentieth-century New York literary glamour. Today we need her ideas more than ever. Her writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism, Fascism, Freudianism, Communism, and Americanism, forms an indispensable guide to our modern world. Sontag was present at many of the most crucial events of the twentieth century: when the Cuban Revolution began, and when the Berlin Wall came down, in Vietnam under American bombardment, in wartime Israel and in besieged Sarajevo.

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