LITERATURE & CRITICISM
Gives readers the opportunity to learn about contemporary Japan while improving their language skills. Seventeen fascinating stories and essays about the country as it is now in parallel Japanese and English versions on facing pages. Free online audio.
Japanese Proverbs David Galef, Jun Hashimoto (illus), Edward G Seidensticker, Charles Shiro Inouye 25th March, pb, £11.99, 9784805318829 Collection of 200 sayings with illustrations and explanations for each.
Arabic Folktales for Language Learners Sarah Risha 13th June, pb, £16.99, 9780804857109 Learn about Arabic culture and improve knowledge of the language at the same time. Twenty-eight traditional tales in parallel English and Arabic versions on facing pages. Includes online audio.
Unicorn
Amorous or Loving Rupert Gavin 23rd April, hb, eb, £25, 9781917458085 Gavin explores how a marginal dialect from the ninth century evolved into contemporary, global English, shaped by history, geography, culture and influential figures throughout time.
University of Michigan Press ELT
English for Dispute Resolution Barrie J Roberts 8th July, pb, £36.95, 9780472039906 Teaches advanced- level ESL learners negotiation and mediation skills through practical exercises and readings, focusing on cross-cultural communication in legal and business contexts.
Media Work Carla R Chamberlin 10th March, pb, £24.95, 9780472039944 Equips teachers with the skills to foster critical media literacy in language learners through hands-on lessons. The intention is for students to analyse media messages, develop language skills and address social issues.
Voltaire Foundation
SERIES
Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment pb, £75, 9781836242 Previously known as SVEC, this series has published more than 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955. Jozef Ignac Bajza, Rene, or A Young Man’s Adventures and Experiences Dobrota Pucherova (ed), Erika Brtanova (ed) 8th April, 529 The Age of Dupont Arnault Skornicki (ed), Anthony Mergey (ed) 10th June, 833 Cultural Transmission and the French Enlightenment Hanna Roman (ed), Olivia Sabee (ed) 8th July, 840
Wesleyan University Press
So Much Secret Labor Anne Wright, Saundra Rose Maley, Jeffrey Katz 4th March, pb, £18.50, 9780819501585 A window into the work of the great American poet James Wright, whose love of languages and quest for the “true imagination” helped transform American poetry.
William Collins
Proto Laura Spinney 13th March, hb, eb, £22, 9780008626525 The epic tale of how one ancient language went global and the scientific quest to trace it back to its roots. From the author of the international bestseller Pale Rider.
Workman Children’s
Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts in One Big Fat Notebook 20th February, pb, £14.99, 9781523526055 Second edition updated to meet the needs of today’s students.
WW Norton
Dust and Light Andrea Barrett 8th April, hb, eb, £19.99, 9781324036500 Celebrated writer’s intimate exploration of how fact is transformed into fiction. Dust and Light is the perfect book for anyone who loves reading fiction set in the past.
Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling Henry Lien 18th March, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781324079101 Introduction to Eastern storytelling that opens readers’ minds to radically different ways of telling a satisfying story.
Zondervan Books
The Power of Writing It Down Allison Fallon 27th February, pb, eb, £14.99, 9780310369943 Writing coach shares a simple practice and proven method to reclaiming your narrative to increase emotional and spiritual health and discovering more clarity and freedom.
Literature & criticism
Alma Classics
Literary and Political Essays George Orwell 26th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781847495150 Annotated volume collects all of Orwell’s major essays plus a generous selection of shorter pieces on a variety of literary and political subjects.
Amberley
The Shakespeare Ladies Club Christine Ward-Agius, Jonathan Ward-Agius 15th June, hb, eb, £25, 9781398127449 The story of the women who saved William Shakespeare from obscurity.
Anthem Press
Archipelagothic Jeremy C De Chavez (ed) 1st July, hb, eb, £80, 9781785279300 Edited collection brings together essays that examine the place of the gothic in Philippine culture.
Ralph Ellison and Cinema Sam Halliday 3rd June, pb, eb, £20.99, 9781785279638 The first dedicated study of the relationship between cinema and the work of the African American author.
The Humanist Critic: Lionel Trilling and Edward Said Daniel Rosenberg Nutters 15th July, hb, eb, £80, 9781839991592 Demonstrates how both critics turned to the Modernist literary tradition to reinvent the role of the humanist intellectual during the rise of critical theory.
Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience Bryan Counter 8th April, hb, eb, £80, 9781839993435 Examines the novels of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Marcel Proust, Tom McCarthy and Rachel Cusk to reconsider aesthetic experience as it has been articulated in Western philosophy.
The Varieties of Joycean Experience Tim Conley 11th March, pb, eb, £25, 9781839994722 Essays on Joyce’s work, stressing variations of approach.
Apollo
Shakespeare is Hard, but So is Life Fintan O’Toole 3rd July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781035908707 Provocative but serious reflection on Shake- speare’s greatest tragedies shows how his finest plays have been made unintelligible and irrelevant to a modern audience.
Arcturus
The Pocket Book of Orwell Chris McNab 1st July, hb, eb, £9.99, 9781398840348 Ideal introduction to one of the world’s great thinkers, presented in a stylish pocket hardback edition with colourful pages and sprayed page-edges.
Arrow Gate
Displacement Sandra David (ed), Richard Harper 11th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781913142445 Unique exploration of the meaning of persecution and exile through the eyes of three eminent writers whose literary genius, dramatic lives and suicides continue to captivate the imagination.
Batsford
The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf Frances Spalding 3rd July, hb, £16.99, 9781849949637 The moving story of the life and work of the novelist revealed through her letters to those closest to her.
Beacon Press
Notes of a Native Son James Baldwin, Edward P Jones 4th February, hb, £22, 9780807018972 New edition of one of Baldwin’s most admired works, exploring what it means to be Black in America and his own search for identity.
Bloomsbury
The Rhetoric of Manipulation
Robert Harvey 6th March, pb, eb, £21.99, 9798765100813 Timely look at how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susceptible to manip- ulation and what we can do to reverse these trends.
SERIES
Object Lessons pb, eb, £9.99, 97987651 Short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Lawn Giovanni Aloi 20th February, 08789 Saxophone Mollie Hawkins, Christopher Schaberg, Ian Bogost 6th February, 14773 Restaurant Brian Duff, Christopher Schaberg, Ian Bogost 1st May, 21825
Decolonizing Knowledge Radha D’Souza (ed), Sunera Thobani (ed) 24th April, pb, eb, £21.99, 9798765125458 Interdisciplinary scholars rethink strategies for moving contemporary decolonisation politics forward by revisiting the writings of the mid-20th century anti- colonial movements’ leading intellectuals.
Bloomsbury Academic
Reading Literature and Chronic Pain Josie Billington 12th June, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781350270251
Based on unique empirical research with people who are living with chronic pain, this book explores the value of literature in understanding pain and as an intervention in its treatment.
Representing the New AI in Film and Television Graham Allen 26th June, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781350378018 Examines the radical change in cinematic and televisual representations
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