LITERATURE & CRITICISM
of one of the most exciting yet maligned technologies of contemporary times— artificial intelligence.
Snapshots Dinah Lenney (ed) 6th February, hb, eb, £20, 9781350397057 Thirty-six meditations from a diverse group of writers, each of whom draws on a photograph from their personal archive to inspire a short essay.
Fantasy Adam C Roberts 24th April, pb, eb, £17.99, 9781350407824 Historical overview of the rise of the genre traces its roots, influences and evolution from the 19th to the 21st centuries across the globe, various media and culture.
Writing and Health Care Janelle Adsit 24th April, pb, eb, £24.99, 9781350417083 Teaches artists, patients and health practitioners how to exercise the benefits of aesthetic thinking in the fields of arts in health, health humanities and narrative medicine.
Follow-up to Harkup’s bestselling A is for Arsenic features 14 more poisons from the books of Agatha Christie.
Brandeis University Press
Making and Unmaking Literature in the Warsaw, Lodz and Vilna Ghettos Sven-Erik Rose 25th July, pb, £32, 9781684582754 Study of literature written by Jewish authors while interned in Nazi ghettos emphasises how writers processed their horrific experiences through poetry and prose.
Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge Centennial Edition of the Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald 6th February, hb, £20, 9781009414593 Celebratory edition of Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, chronicling the dreams, deceits and illusions of unforgettable characters in Jazz Age New York.
Living With Jane Austen Janet Todd 27th March, hb, £18.99, 9781009569316 Eminent Austen authority suggests using Austen to transform the way we look at the world.
Camden House
London Uncanny Clive Bloom 20th February, hb, eb, £20, 9781350424036 Panoptic exploration of gothic London follows its arcane history and darkest fictitious depictions from the 18th century to the present.
A Fiction Writer’s Guide to Peace Gabriel Ertsgaard 26th June, pb, eb, £21.99, 9781350473959 How to make peace- building, civil resistance and conflict trans- formation as compelling as battles and explosions.
Bloomsbury Sigma
V is for Venom Kathryn Harkup 19th June, hb, eb, £20, 9781399413077
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The Critical Writings of Ingeborg Bachmann Ingeborg Bachmann, Karen R Achberger, Karl Ivan Solibakke 11th March, pb, £28.99, 9781640142121 First English translation of the essays, lectures and other critical writings of the celebrated Austrian poet, novelist and public intellectual, one of the most influential postwar writers in German.
The Critical Life of Toni Morrison
Susan Neal Mayberry 18th March, pb, £26.99, 9781640142138 The first book to trace the critical reception of the great African American woman writer, attending not only to her fiction but to her non-fiction and critical writings.
Canongate Books
Dear Writer Maggie Smith 10th April, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781837260478 Meditations, essays and
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-fiction
practical tips on creativity and the craft of writing by a New York Times best- selling writer.
Canongate Canons
Home and Exile Chinua Achebe 13th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781786896131 Looking back at his own life and education, Achebe presents a deeply personal and essential key to unlocking his literature and politics.
Chambers
Everyday Shakespeare Ben Crystal, David Crystal 10th April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781399809344
A daily dose of eloquence and reflection. Let yourself be nourished with everyday lines from the Bard.
C Hurst
Awake!: William Blake and the Power of the Imagination Mark Vernon 12th June, hb, eb, £27.50, 9781911723974 New look at the life and works of Blake, revealing the full complexity and enduring legacy of this deeply spiritual and politically radical figure.
Cornell University Press
Old Norse Folklore Stephen A Mitchell 15th February, pb, £22.99, 9781501777509 Second volume explores medieval and early modern Nordic magic and witchcraft. Syncretism, continuity, survival and the reconstruction of pagan beliefs and cultic practices are covered.
Cornell University Press and Library
Textual Entanglements Jacob Haubenreich 15th May, pb, £29.99, 9781501781155 How the material processes of writing manifest in the published works of three 20th-century Austrian authors: Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Bernhard and Peter Handke.
Dey Street Books
Y2k Colette Shade 27th February, hb, eb, £22, 9780063333949 Perfect for fans of Jia Tolentino and Chuck
Shakespeare on the Radio Andrea Smith 31st May, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781399547284 Brings together Shakes- pearean performance, audio drama studies and media history to offer the first detailed examination.
The Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts David Punter (ed) 1st May, pb, eb, £39.99, 9781474432368 Gothic in all its artistic forms and ramifications traced from medieval times to the 21st century.
Michael Field’s Revisionary Poetics
Klosterman, Y2K is a delightfully nostalgic and bitingly told exploration about how the early 2000s forever changed us and the world we live in.
DK
Manga: A Visual History Frederik L Schodt, Rachel Thorn, Zack Davisson, Erica Friedman, Jonathan Clements 27th March, hb, eb, £35, 9780241621936 The evolution of the form, from classic favourites to lesser-known gems. Key writers and artists, iconic characters and manga’s impact on anime, film and TV.
Edinburgh University Press
The American Vagrant in Literature Bryan Yazell 28th February, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781399506724 Widespread panic once generated by tramps produced interdisciplinary and international dialogue on race, work and welfare.
Derek Walcott’s Painters Maria Cristina Fumagalli 1st May, pb, eb, £29.99, 9781399512145 First book devoted to Walcott’s lifelong engagement with the Atlantic visual arts.
Jill Ehnenn 28th February, pb, eb, £24.99, 9781474448406 History, modernity, gender and sexuality interrogated through the literary innovations of two late-Victorian female co-authors.
Anna Kavan Victoria Walker 1st February, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781474478953 First book-length study of Kavan’s writing contra- dicts earlier critical approaches that have figured her writing as sui generis by reading her comparatively alongside her contemporaries.
Early Radio Emilie Morin (ed), Marielle Sutherland (tr), Nicoletta Asciuto (tr) 1st February, pb, eb, £24.99, 9781474485159 The first anthology to explore early radio.
Interrogating Lesbian Modernism: Histories, Forms, Genres Elizabeth English (ed), Jana Funke (ed), Sarah Parker (ed) 1st February, pb, eb, £24.99, 9781474486064 Original examination of lesbian Modernism.
Faber & Faber
Gertrude Stein Francesca Wade 22nd May, hb, eb, £20, 9780571369317 A biography as unconventional and surprising as the life it relates. This is Gertrude Stein as she was when nobody was watching: captivating, complex and human.
89 Words and Prague Milan Kundera 3rd July, hb, eb, £10, 9780571393237 Invigorating pair of essays exploring exile, language and national identity from one of Europe’s most celebrated literary stars, the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
First Hill Books
Hidden Heroes: Anthology of North Korean Fiction Immanuel Kim, Benoit Berthelier 4th March, hb, £80, 9781839994654 pb, eb, £15, 9781839994661 Short stories from the 1980s to the present that unveil the lives of ordinary North Koreans.
Fordham University Press
How to Read Like an Anti-fascist Annette Wannamaker 3rd June, pb, £25.99, 9781531509804 Wannamaker proposes that there are books aimed at future gener- ations which critique and counter fascist propa- ganda and mythmaking.
HQ
The Queer Bible Jack Guinness (ed) 8th May, pb, eb, £20, 9780008530501 Essays written by queer icons about the trail- blazers throughout history who inspired them.
Hutchinson Heinemann
Backstage Donna Leon 17th July, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781529155143 Engaging compendium of stories and essays by the celebrated author of the internationally bestselling Guido Brunetti series. Infused with her ever- present senses of humour and irony.
John Murray
Wild Fictions Amitav Ghosh 27th February, eb, £20, 9781529349382 From one of our most brilliant thinkers a searing collection of essays about how we tell stories and our relationship with the world around us.
Johns Hopkins University Press
The Cradle of Words Valeria Lopez Fadul 3rd February, hb, eb, £54, 9781421450216 How languages served as archives of local know- ledge and a crucial resource for both the human and natural history of the Americas in the Spanish empire.
Brilliant Modernism Nicoletta Asciuto 4th March, pb, eb, £33, 9781421450636 Takes readers on a journey through the electrified streets of the early 20th century and explores the influence of this illumination on Modernist poetry.
Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899–1929 Sebastian P Klinger
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