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LITERATURE & CRITICISM
GINGKO LIBRARY
Shelley DeWees’ non-fiction début revisits British history through the extraordinary lives of long-forgotten authoresses. E
ICON BOOKS
JANE AUSTEN: THE SECRET RADICAL HELENA KELLY November, hb, £20, 9781785781162 An iconoclastic re-evaluation of one English literature’s most celebrated novelists. E
ON LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY: THE NON-FICTION WRITING OF NAGUIB MAHFOUZ (VOLUME I) NAGUIB MAHFOUZ July, hb, £28, 9781909942776 Mahfouz’s early non-fiction writings on philosophy and literature available in English for the first time. E
ESSAYS OF THE SADAT ERA: THE NON-FICTION WRITING OF NAGUIB MAHFOUZ (VOLUME II) NAGUIB MAHFOUZ November, hb, £28, 9781909942806 Mahfouz deals with diverse political topics such as socio-economic class, democracy and dictatorship, Islam and extremism. E
GROVE PRESS
FREEMAN’S SERIES FREEMAN’S 2: THE BEST NEW WRITING ON FAMILY ED JOHN FREEMAN August, tpb, £10.99 each, 9781611855401
An essential addition to the library of any serious reader of literary fiction. E
HARPERPERENNIAL
THE ART OF MEMOIR MARY KARR October, pb, £8.99, 9780062223074 Anchored by excerpts from favourite memoirs, The Art of Memoir lays bare Karr’s own process. E
NOT JUST JANE: REDISCOVERING SEVEN AMAZING WOMEN WRITERS WHO TRANSFORMED BRITISH LITERATURE SHELLEY DEWEES December, pb, £9.99, 9780062394620
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THE BRONTËSAURUS: AN A-Z OF CHARLOTTE, EMILY AND ANNE BRONTË; (AND BRANWELL) JOHN SUTHERLAND November, hb, £9.99, 9781785781438 In the year of Charlotte’s bicentenary, a light-hearted miscellany on all things Brontë. E
JAMES CURREY
WRITING THE NIGERIA- BIAFRA WAR OGECHUKWU EZEKWEM; TOYIN FALOLA EDS July, hb, £50, 9781847011442 Discusses fictional and non-fictional accounts of the civil war to reveal ideas behind the conflict.
A COMPANION TO MIA COUTO GRANT HAMILTON; DAVID HUDDART EDS September, hb, £45, 9781847011459 Engages with the significance of Mia Couto’s writing and contemporary discussions about World literature.
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
DISTRACTION: PROBLEMS OF ATTENTION IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE NATALIE M PHILLIPS November, hb, £32, 9781421420127 Tells how Enlightenment writers fiercely debated the nature of distraction in literature. E
THE AGE OF ANALOGY: SCIENCE AND LITERATURE BETWEEN THE DARWINS DEVIN GRIFFITHS December, hb, £35.50, 9781421420769 Asks how 19th-century literary techniques advanced science. E
REVOLUTION: THE EVENT IN POSTWAR FICTION MATTHEW WILKENS December, hb, £22.50, 9781421420875
A sophisticated theoretical treatment of postwar fiction as a model of literary and cultural change. E
FREEDOM TIME: THE POETICS AND POLITICS OF BLACK EXPERIMENTAL WRITING ANTHONY REED December, pb, £16, 9781421421209 Experimental poetry and prose by black writers who reject traditional interpretations of social protest. E
LANNOO
WIM VANDEKEYBUS DAVID BYRNE; MAURO PAWLOWSKI; PETER VERHELST September, hb, £45, 9789401434744
Exclusive glimpse into the mind of Wim Vandekeybus, choreographer, dancer, filmmaker, photographer.
LIVERIGHT
ONE TOSS OF THE DICE: THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF HOW A POEM MADE US MODERN HOWARD R BLOCH November, hb, £18.99, 9780871406637 A thrilling literary history that reveals how a poem created the world we live in. E
THE NECKLACE AND OTHER STORIES: MAUPASSANT FOR MODERN TIMES GUY DE MAUPASSANT August, pb, £9.99, 9781631491894 A bold new translation that reinterprets Guy de Maupassant’s best works for a new generation. E
LIVES AND LETTERS
THE TELLER AND THE TALE: ESSAYS ON LITERATURE AND CULTURE 1994 - 2014 GABRIEL JOSIPOVICI October, pb, £14.99, 9781784102128 Two decades’ worth of essays on Jewish culture and experience, modernism and its discontents. E
MCFARLAND
CHUCK PALAHNIUK, PARODIST: POSTMODERN
IRONY IN SIX TRANSGRESSIVE NOVELS DAVID MCCRACKEN July, pb, £37.95, 9780786479290 This comprehensive study refutes criticism that Palahniuk’s goals are to shock and sensationalise.
NINE ARCHES PRESS
HOW TO BE A POET JANE COMMANE; JO BELL December, pb, £14.99, 9781911027119 A lively guide to a writing life in the 21st century with advice from editors.
NOTTING HILL EDITIONS
ALCHEMY: WRITERS ON TRUTH, LIES AND FICTION IAIN SINCLAIR ET AL September, hb, £14.99, 9781910749166 In this collection of essays, Notting Hill Editions has commissioned five authors and artists. E
CLASSIC COLLECTION SERIES
hb, £14.99 each, 9781910749
The Classic Collection restores the great essayists of the past, edited and introduced by modern day authors. GRUMBLING AT LARGE: SELECTED ESSAYS OF J. B. PRIESTLEY J B PRIESTLEY; VALERIE GROVE July, 180 E SELECTED ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE; TIM PARKS November, 234 E
OBERON BOOKS
JONATHAN MILLER: ONE THING OR ANOTHER JONATHAN MILLER; IAN GREAVES ED November, pb, £24.99, 9781783197453 Highlights from the wide- ranging writings of stage director and broadcaster Jonathan Miller. E
OXBOW BOOKS
CROSSING BOUNDARIES: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO THE ART, MATERIAL CULTURE, LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE OF THE EARLY MEDIEVAL WORLD JANE HAWKES; ERIC CAMBRIDGE EDS October, hb, £55, 9781785703072
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the material culture, language and literature of the Viking and medieval worlds. E
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
THE LITERARY AGENDA SERIES MARYANNE WOLF pb, 978019
A series of polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading. TALES OF LITERACY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: THE LITERARY AGENDA MARYANNE WOLF July, £14.99, 8724179 IS LITERATURE HEALTHY? THE LITERARY AGENDA JOSIE BILLINGTON September, £12.99, 8724698 E TRADITION: A FEELING FOR THE LITERARY PAST: THE LITERARY AGENDA SETH LERER September, £14.99, 8736288 E THE TRAGIC IMAGINATION: THE LITERARY AGENDA ROWAN WILLIAMS September, £12.99, 8736417 E LITERATURE AND THE PUBLIC GOOD: THE LITERARY AGENDA RICK RYLANCE October, £12.99, 9654390 E
RETHINKING METONYMY: LITERARY THEORY AND POETIC PRACTICE FROM PINDAR TO JAKOBSON SEBASTIAN MATZNER September, hb, £65, 9780198724278 This book sets an agenda for far-reaching reconsiderations in literary studies and beyond. E
GOTHIC TALES SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE; DARRYL JONES ED October, hb, £16.99, 9780198734291 This collection brings together 33 of Conan Doyle’s best Gothic Tales. E
SHAKESPEARE | CUT: RETHINKING CUTWORK IN AN AGE OF DISTRACTION BRUCE R SMITH
July, hb, £25, 9780198735526 Shakespeare | Cut considers contemporary practices of cutting up Shakespeare productions in various mediums. E
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