Literature & Criticism
2nd December, pb, £24.99, 9781531512132
Examining Europe’s borders and their artistic representations as an archive both of state violence and of refusal, fugitivity and imagination.
Frances Lincoln
The Writer’s Table Valerie Stivers, Katie Tomlinson (illus)
9th October, hb, £19.99, 9780711293915
From Ernest Hemingway’s perfect hamburger to Beatrix Potter’s home- made gingerbread The Writer’s Table presents 50 of the world’s best-loved authors’ favourite recipes.
The Worlds of Jane Austen Helena Kelly 25th September, hb, £25, 9781836004189
Takes a fresh look at Austen’s life, inspirations and legacy through photographs, artworks and illustrations.
Granta Books
Shakespeare-themed puzzles, one to solve every day of the year.
Johns Hopkins University Press
The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley, Neil Fraistat (ed), Nora Crook (ed)
5th January, hb, eb, £118.50, 9781421451909
Fourth volume of the magisterial edition, covering the years 1818 to early 1820, the first phase of Shelley’s Italian period.
Modernism, Media, and the Politics of Common Life
Aleksandr Prigozhin 30th January, pb, eb, £33, 9781421452241
Explores how Modernist fiction interrogated the many promises of ubiquitous media connectivity as key to collective life.
Degraded Heartland Maria Farland 19th January, pb, eb, £37.50, 9781421452425
How did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior and how did literary Modernism respond?
Kulturalis
Letters to Sophia Kate Chisholm, Loren Rothschild 10th November, hb, £16.95, 9781836360131
In Writing Hattie Crisell 6th November, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781803510651
Based on Crisell’s podcast of the same name, here is an inspiring glimpse into the creative process with some of our best-loved, contemporary writers.
HarperOne Both/and
Denne Michele Norris 25th September, hb, eb, £22, 9780063414372
Inspired by the groundbreaking Electric Literature series, a vital essay anthology spotlighting and celebrating trans and gender-nonconforming writers of colour.
Ivy Press
The Shakespeare Puzzle Book Roland Hall 4th September, pb, £12.99, 9781836004981
Autumn/Winter 2025
The story of Hester Thrale’s life after her second marriage to Gabriel Piozzi in 1784 told through the letters she wrote to her daughter Sophia.
The Age of Johnson in the Library of Loren and Frances Rothschild Loren Rothschild
11th August, hb, £100, 9781836360155
The library recorded in this book represents the result of 50 years of collecting the works of British writers who were contemporaries of Johnson.
Liveright
The Aeneid Virgil, Scott McGill (tr), Susannah Wright (tr), Emily Wilson
26th September, hb, eb, £29.99, 9781324096436
Rome’s epic origin story, brilliantly rendered in a vivid, rhythmic idiom.
Liverpool University Press
The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature Christopher Cusack (ed), Bridget English (ed), Matthew L Reznicek (ed)
28th November, hb, eb, £115, 9781836244837
Interrogating representations of the corpse, this collection offers new perspectives on death in Irish literature.
Kamila Shamsie Peter Morey 15th October, pb, £25, 9781836244882
First book-length study of Shamsie’s work explores prevailing themes of gender, migration and citizenship.
Socialism and British Literature Roberto del Valle Alcala
28th December, pb, eb, £24.99, 9781836244899
An original reinterp- retation of the literary history of British socialism in the long 20th century.
Irish Writers in the Civil Service Jonathan Foster (ed), Elliott Mills (ed)
28th November, hb, eb, £115, 9781836244929
Reveals a literary imagination running through the byways of the Irish bureaucratic state.
Michel Faber Rodge Glass 31st August, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781836244974
First detailed assessment of Faber’s life and work across genre and form.
Retelling the Caribbean Laura Ekberg 28th November, hb, eb, £115, 9781836245391
Rxamines hetero- lingualism and cultural representation in Caribbean literary works and their translations.
Trauma and Meaning in French Concentration Camp Poetry (1943-1945) Belle Marie Joseph
28th December, hb, eb, £115, 9781836245421
How French concentration camp prisoners sought transcendent meaning through poetry.
Mack
Renegade: Photography in the Life of Lisette Model Duncan Forbes
1st October, hb, eb, £15, 9781917651202
Illustrated essay offers a new interpretation of
Model’s photography and biography, looking to the artist’s rebelliousness as the key to understanding her remarkable life and work.
Chien Fou: Selected Writings
Germaine Krull 1st November, hb, eb, £30, 9781917651219
Landmark first collection of writings by renowned avant-garde photographer reflect on her life and practice.
Mariner Books
The Best American Essays 2025 Jia Tolentino
4th December, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780063351592
Selection picked by critically acclaimed author and essayist.
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025 Susan Orlean
4th December, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780063414211
New Yorker staff writer and author of Rin Tin Tin, The Orchid Thief and On Animals chooses 20 essays that represent the best examples of the form.
The Western Canon Harold Bloom 23rd October, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780063452046
The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett.
McFarland
Cormac Mccarthy’s Last Outlaws Peter Josyph
11th August, pb, £35.99, 9781476698717
Explores McCarthy’s collaboration with Ridley Scott and his final works in an extensive study of The Counselor and The Passenger.
Modern Language Association
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Margaret Atwood Lauren Rule Maxwell (ed) 12th December, pb, £32, 9781603297226
Approaches to teaching Atwood’s writing in a variety of genres, including speculative fiction, historical fiction, poetry and adaptations of classic literary works.
Northwestern University Press
Shattering the Self in Early Modern English Verse Gina Filo 15th December, pb, £27.99, 9780810148819
Reconfiguring our understanding of early- modern English erotic and literary landscapes.
Transit Lit Cameron Leader-Picone 15th December, pb, £31, 9780810149335
Explores new forms of cosmopolitan identity constructed in contemporary diasporic fictions.
At the Crossroads of the Avant-garde Lars Kleberg, Charles Rougle (tr)
15th November, hb, £104, 9780810149595
Rediscovering a lost luminary of Modernism and the Russian avant-garde.
NYRB Classics
Love and Death in the American Novel Leslie Fiedler
20th January, pb, eb, £23, 9781681379692
Provocative work of American literary criticism covering Poe, Melville, Twain, Hawthorne, Faulkner and others. Fielder’s groundbreaking work changed the way we see the American novel forever.
Oneworld
The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading Sam Leith
4th September, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781836430407
Panoramic and poignant history of children’s literature. Leith offers a humane portrait of a genre and celebrates the power of books to inspire and console entire generations.
Oxford University Press
George Orwell Robert Colls (ed) 21st January, hb, £14.99, 9780198830016
Intellectual biography offers an original account of the writer’s life and work.
The New Negro Alain Locke, Jeffrey C Stewart (ed) 13th November, pb, £8.99, 9780198911456
Anthology of poems,
The Literary Business Peter Finch 9th October, hb, eb, £20, 9781917140522
A personal ramble around the book world from the man who has experienced all sides of it. If you want to see how the Poetry Wars were fought, read here.
Pavilion
100 Diaries That Chronicled World Events Colin Salter
9th October, hb, eb, £22, 9780008562106
Compendium of the most celebrated, revelatory, notorious and heart- wrenching diaries from the great, the good and the downright evil.
Picador
Putting Myself Together Jamaica Kincaid 11th September, hb, eb, £20, 9781035036103
Important collection of essays and articles spanning the breadth of Kincaid’s decades- spanning career.
Princeton University Press
Reading it Wrong: An Alternative History of Early Eighteenth- century Literature Abigail Williams
173
stories and essays by Black luminaries of the 1920s provides a definitive statement of Black agency and of the Harlem Renaissance.
Palgrave Macmillan
The Pregnancy Question and the Novel Tracy Brain
24th November, hb, eb, £90, 9781137276452
Study of covert representations of pregnancy and birth in canonical 18th- and 19th-century novels, grounded in narrative theory and historicism.
Parthian Books
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