Literature & Criticism
political implications for future speakers.
Manchester University Press
Into Being Lily Dunn 7th October, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781526179258
Radical guide to memoir reveals how writing can transform both author and reader. Helps writers turn raw experience into universal truth.
Penguin
Scarcely English Simon Heffer 21st August, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781804940136
An A–Z of terrible English by the Telegraph’s former master grammarian.
Princeton University Press
The Politics of Language David Beaver, Jason Stanley
28th October, pb, eb, £20, 9780691242750
Provocative case for the inherently political nature of language.
On Pedantry Arnoud SQ Visser 6th January, hb, eb, £25, 9780691257563
Entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual vice.
Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization Joseph Campbell (ed), Heinrich Zimmer
30th December, pb, eb, £15.99, 9780691279428
Analysis of key motifs found in legend, myth and folklore taken directly from the Sanskrit.
Teach Yourself Series
Teach Yourself pb, eb, £29.99, 9781399818
Perfect for the absolute beginner or anyone who wants to rekindle their knowledge and love of a language and culture. Complete Spanish Aurora Martín de Santa Olalla Sánchez; Belén Martín de Santa Olalla Sánchez 23rd September, 285 Complete Italian Elena Borelli, Giulia Baronti 23rd September, 612 Complete German Jonas Langner, Heiner Schenke 21st October, 650 Complete French Ana de Madeiros, James Fowler, Thomas Chaurin 21st October, 681
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The Catholic University of America Press
Os Praesens
Ciceronis Epistularis: The Immediate Mouth of Cicero in His Letters Reginald Foster, Daniel McCarthy
22nd August, pb, £39, 9780813239606
Presents the teaching method of Foster exemplified by 160 imagined dialogues working with original thoughts of Cicero to help students learn the Latin language from their very first encounter.
Troubador
The Rude Guide to Being a Better Writer David J Hayles
28th August, pb, £14.99, 9781836283751
Guide to writing that is not specifically aimed at business and copywriting professionals but at a much broader audience. Explores how to communicate with readers in a clear, concise and straightforward way.
Tuttle
Japanese Vocabulary Flash Cards Kit John Millen, Tuttle Studio (ed)
16th October, kit, £17.99, 9784805319789
Learn new Japanese vocabulary quickly on the go.
University of Hawai’i Press
Peripheral Linguistic Brutality
Jess Kruk, Wesley C Robertson, Allison Alexy 31st October, pb, £25.99, 9798880700639
Sociolinguistic investi-gation into the production of “metalness” through language in the Asia Pacific.
University Press of Mississippi
A Black Woman for President Dianna N Watkins-Dickerson 17th November, pb, £21.99, 9781496859396
Rich, interdisciplinary framework for understanding how Black women have reshaped the political landscape in the US through the power of their words.
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction Wellfleet Press
Learn Black American Sign Language Franklin R Jones Jr, Carolyn McCaskill
22nd January, hb, £18.99, 9781577154525
Shares details of the language’s history and teaches everyday words alongside proper positions and motions with photos and descriptions.
Learn American Sign Language James W Guido 13th November, pb, £20, 9781577155522
Definitive guide to ASL features new signs from the past 10 years and video content for multi-step signs.
Yale University Press
George Orwell: A Reader’s Guide DJ Taylor
26th August, pb, £11.99, 9780300284232
Spirited companion to the writer and his works, covering all the novels and major essays.
Zone Books
Action and Reaction Jean Starobinski, Sophie Hawkes (tr), Jeff Fort (tr)
11th November, pb, eb, £28, 9781942130956
Wide-ranging, inter- disciplinary conceptual history of the changing meanings and metaphors of “action” and “reaction”.
Literature & Criticism
The European Byron Jonathan Gross 16th September, hb, eb, £80, 9781839991424
Considers Byron’s borrowings from Thomas Moore, Tasso, Percy Shelley, Ugo Foscolo and Madame de Stael.
Alma Classics
Literary and Political Essays George Orwell
28th August, pb, £9.99, 9781847495150
Annotated volume collects all Orwell’s major essays as well as a generous selection of shorter pieces on a variety of literary and political subjects.
Anthem Press
Sexual Violence and Literary Art Peter Robinson
7th October, hb, eb, £80, 9781785278853
Addresses the complicity of representation and its creative transformations by re-examining classic texts by men in light of women’s philosophical, theoretical and critical responses to them.
Screen Performance and the Shakespeare Film Canon in the Spotlight of Archivision Anthony R Guneratne
2nd December, hb, eb, £80, 9781839982699
Revolutions in post-digital archival practice and other forms of historical research necessitate an increasingly sophisticated interdisciplinary approach to Shakespeare studies.
Pursuits of Settler Belonging in Australian Post-millennial Memoirs Martina Horakova
11th November, hb, eb, £80, 9781839990571
Horakova examines Australian memoirs of settler belonging written by public intellectuals which attempt to come to terms with the history of colonial violence and dispossession of Indigenous people.
Chernobyl Trauma and Gothic Stuart Lindsay
11th November, hb, eb, £80, 9781839990649
Scholarly monograph explores the published eyewitness testimonies, poetry and literature surrounding the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
The Humanist Critic: Lionel Trilling and Edward Said Daniel Rosenberg Nutters
13th January, hb, eb, £80, 9781839991592
Re-examines the careers of Trilling and Said and demonstrates how each critic turned to the Modernist literary tradition to reinvent the role ofthe humanist intellectual during the rise of critical theory.
Contestatory and Creative Poetics for a Time of Climate Catastrophe Vol 1 John Kinsella, Russell West-Pavlov
5th August, hb, eb, £80, 9781839992735
Collaborative work of ficto-critical ecopolitics written by two Australian scholar-poets based in the Western Australian Wheatlands and Germany’s south- western Wurttemberg.
Empathy in the Reading and Teaching of English Literature Lauren A Weber
2nd December, hb, eb, £80, 9781839994197
Explores the educational potential of empathy for literary studies across a historical, generic and geographic continuum.
Adoption Reckonings: For Three Refrigerators and a Washing Machine Gonda Van Steen
12th August, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781839995033
Presents new play “For Three Refrigerators and a Washing Machine” along with a thorough introduction that provides historical context and theoretical framing of postwar Greece’s “historic” child adoptions.
Radical Realism, Autofictional Narratives and the Reinvention of the Novel
Fiona J Doloughan 9th September, pb, eb, £25, 9781839996375
Monograph treats modes of fictionality in contemporary auto/biography, memoir and autofiction.
Bantam Books
Reacher Lee Child 9th September, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780857508744
Child’s first auto- biographical collection of 24 honest and witty reflections on his life and work, crafted across decades.
Batsford
Celebrating Women Sarah Gristwood 9th October, hb, eb, £25, 9781837330041
Captivating collection of women’s writing includes poetry, letters, novels, memoir and journals.
Berghahn Books
Autistic Dreaming Anna Reading 1st August, hb, eb, £92, 9781836950882
While scholarship recognises the presence of neurodiverse thinking in popular folktales and access to works by autistic people is growing neurodiverse storytelling is largely neglected.
The Resonance of Joseph Conrad in Contemporary Culture Agnieszka Adamowicz- Pospiech (ed)
1st September, hb, eb, £104, 9781836951520
Illuminates how Conrad’s approach to questions of moral ambiguity and the haunting complexities of colonialism continues to inform the cultural output of our globalised world.
Bloomsbury Academic
The Black Writers’ Toolbox Muli Amaye
22nd January, pb, eb, £21.99, 9781350444775
Focusing on the nuances of writing while Black, this practical guide presents the tools to decolonise the Black writer’s imagination and create authentic
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