CLASSICS
William Shakespeare Shakespeare in Autumn Tomas Nelson Fiction, 30th September, hb, £14.99, 9780785253020 Select plays and the complete sonnets.
Henryk Siekiewicz Quo Vadis Naxos AudioBooks, 1st November, audiobook, £36, 9781781983843 Epic novel set during the reign of Roman Emperor Nero. Informative, exciting and uplifting love story read by Peter Wickham.
Bram Stoker Dracula Tomas Nelson Fiction, 30th September, hb, £14.99, 9780785253013 Groundbreaking horror classic in a fine new edition.
Paul D Streufert (tr/ed), Euripides The Trojan Women Broadview Press, 31st August, pb, £14.95, 9781554814497 Tells the story of the survi- vors of the Trojan War, the women and children taken into slavery by the victori- ous Greek army.
Teffi, Robert Chandler (tr), Elizabeth Chandler (tr) Other Worlds Pushkin Press, 26th August, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781782275619 Masterful stories of faith and superstition from a much-loved Russian author. In English for the first time.
Kae Tempest Paradise Picador, 5th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529045260 New version of Sopho- cles’ Philoctetes, with a translation that brings contemporary relevance to the classic story by the Mercury Prize-winning lyricist, novelist, poet and now-playwright Kae Tempest.
MD Usher (tr) How to Be a Farmer Princeton University Press, 5th October, hb, eb, £13.99, 9780691211749 Delightful anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings about coun- try living, ranging from Lucretius’s philosophy of compost to Horace’s satiri- cal poem about a banker who dreams of becoming a farmer.
Katharina Volk The Roman Republic of Letters Princeton University Press, 16th November, hb, eb, £30, 9780691193878
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Intellectual history of the late Roman Republic and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil war.
Gregory Warren Wilson Twenty-five Fables Raphael Press, 2nd September, hb, £25, 9781916216204 These fables rethink the conventions of the genre and give voice to animals as delightfully various and improbable as a goose who wants to swap legs with a giraffe.
Claire Waters (ed), Barry V Qualls (ed), Jason Rudy (ed), Anne Lake Prescott (ed), Jerome J McGann (ed) et al The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Vol 5: The Victorian Era Broadview Press, 31st August, pb, £44.95, 9781554814916 This third edition of the Victorian Era volume includes a number of changes and additions.
PC Wren Beau Geste Naxos AudioBooks, 1st September, audiobook, £27, 9781781983799 Adventure novel set in French North Africa tells the story of three broth- ers who join the Foreign Legion after stealing a priceless sapphire. Read by Rupert Degas.
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Oxford World’s Classics Émile Zola, Brian Nelson, Robert Lethbridge (ed) The Assommoir Oxford Univeristy Press, 23rd September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780198828563 Pivotal novel in Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series where he lays bare the terrible poverty of the Parisian underclass living in overcrowded tenements and addicted to drink, and casual violence.
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