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alongside an essay on the revision process to explore how the poem evolved.
Love Me Fierce in Danger: The Life of James Ellroy Steven Powell 9th February, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781501367311 The first biography of the author tells the extraordinary story of his lifelong obsessions with crime, sex and America’s secret history.
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Object Lessons pb, eb, £9.99, 97815013 Concise, collectable, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Pregnancy Test Karen Weingarten 9th March, 76542
Explores Kafka’s influence on French intellectual history and theory in the 20th century.
Relating Suicide Anne Whitehead 9th February, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781350192164 Argues for the impor- tance of seeing suicide as ordinary rather than exceptional.
Camden House
Anneliese’s House Lou Andreas-Salome, Frank Beck (ed), Raleigh Whitinger (ed) 28th March, pb, eb, £24.99, 9781640141599 First English translation of a modern portrayal of emerging feminist sensi- bilities in a 19th-century family by one of Germa- ny’s leading writers in the period before the First World War.
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Meg Bernhard 1st June, 83618
Grave
Allison C Meier 9th February, 83656
George Orwell’s Perverse Humanity Glenn Burgess 4th May, pb, eb, £21.99, 9781501394652 Portrait gives centrestage to Orwell’s deep commitment to freedom of speech and thought and to speaking truth to power.
The Gutenberg Parenthesis Jeff Jarvis 1st June, hb, eb, £20, 9781501394829 The story of print and its technologies argues that our 500-year age of print is an exception in history.
George Orwell and Russia Masha Karp 15th June, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781788317122 First book to show how Orwell’s political writing was received in the Soviet Union and how Orwell’s depiction of totalitari- anism is reproduced in Russia today.
France/Kafka John T Hamilton 9th February, pb, eb, £19.99, 9798765100370
Female Desire in Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance Lucy M Allen-Goss 2nd May, pb, eb, £17.99, 9781843846796 Examination of female same-sex desire in Chaucer and medieval romance.
Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-century British Culture Clare A Simmons 4th April, pb, eb, £17.99, 9781843846826 Survey of the rituals of the year in Victorian England showing the influence of the Middle Ages.
Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture Emily Kesling 4th April, pb, eb, £17.99, 9781843846833 Winner of the Best First Monograph from the ISSEME 2021. Examination of Old English medical collections argues that these texts are products of a learned intellectual culture.
Edinburgh University Press
Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland, 1845-1895 Hannah-Rose Murray, John R McKivigan 18th February, pb, £29.99, 9781399511100 The first and only anthology dedicated to Douglass’ three journeys to Britain, covering oratory, print and visual culture.
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Te Collected Works of Kenneth White Kenneth White, Cairns Craig 18th February, pb, £24.99, 97813995111 Vol 1 24 The beginnings of one of the most radical and exhilarating figures in modern literature. Vol 2 31
Includes three collections of essays whose aim is to express the cartography and the experience of a live, open world.
Elizabeth Robins Pennell: Critical Essays Dave Buchanan, Kimberly Morse Jones 18th February, pb, £24.99, 9781474475372 A rediscovery of the writings and life of Robins Pennell.
The Secret Architecture of Shakespeare’s Sonnets Steven Monte 19th May, pb, £24.99, 9781474481489 Explores the intricate hidden organisation of Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction Hannah Lauren Murray 18th February, pb, £19.99, 9781474481748 In-depth examination of liminality and race.
The Body in Arabic Love Poetry Jokha Alharthi 28th February, pb, £24.99, 9781474486347 Radically reinterprets the nature of medieval Arabic love poetry in the classical age.
Iranian Literature After the Islamic Revolution LaetitiaNanquette 28th February, pb, £24.99, 9781474486385 Analyses contemporary Iranian literature in both Iran and its diaspora in relation to the social, economic and political fields.
Shakespeare and Latinidad Trevor Boffone, Carla Della Gatta 18th February, pb, £19.99, 9781474488495 Timely and exciting intervention at the intersection of Latinx and Shakespeare Studies.
Key Concepts in Victorian Studies William Hughes 31st March, pb, £14.99, 9781474499873 Uniquely detailed and
accessible insight into the terminology and culture of the Victorian period.
Harper
These Vital Signs Sayed Tabatabai 6th July, hb, £20, 9780063291379 Nephrologist produces a collection of essays chronicling his experiences in the medical field and inspired by his viral Twitter poems.
Harper Perennial
I’ll Show Myself Out Jessi Klein 25th May, pb, £12.99, 9780062981608 Now in paperback, the eagerly anticipated second essay collection from author of the New York Times bestselling début You’ll Grow Out of it.
HarperVia
Somewhere We Are Human Reyna Grande 20th July, pb, £12.99, 9780063095786 Collection of 41 bold and captivating personal essays, poems and art by immigrants, refugees and children taken into the US without documentation.
Johns Hopkins University Press
Sacred Engagements: Interfaith Marriage, Religious Toleration, and the British Novel, 1750-1820 Alison Conway 11th April, pb, eb, £26, 9781421445151 A revelatory reading that considers interfaith marriage, religious toleration and the ethics of sociability.
Dorian Unbound Sean O’Toole 30th May, pb, eb, £26, 9781421446530 Bold reimagining of the literary history of deca- dence through a close examination of the trans- national contexts of Oscar Wilde’s classic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Lilliput Press
A Bit of a Writer John Brannigan (ed) 20th April, pb, eb, £25, 9781843518594 Collection gathers all the articles and essays that Brendan Behan published in newspapers from 1951 to his death in 1964. Coming in 2023 during the centenary celebrations of his birth.
Lives and Letters
NB by JC James Campbell 27th April, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781800172883 Varied and witty selec- tion from the popular NB column which Campbell wrote in the Times Literary Supplement each week between 2000 and 2020.
Last Post Frederic Raphael 27th July, pb, eb, £25, 9781800173033 Consists of final “letters” sent by the brilliant essay- ist and Oscar-winning film writer to famous friends, foes and others that cele- brate, settle scores and summarise relationships.
Mack
Painting Photography Painting Carol Armstrong 1st April, pb, £25, 9781913620974 Essential first collection of essays by art critic and historian brings together writings on French paint- ing, early photography, feminist theory and the representation of women and gender.
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Configurations of a Cultural Scene: Young Writers and Artists in Madrid, 1918–1930 Andrew A Anderson 15th February, hb, eb, £72, 9780228013860 Throughout the 1920s a remarkable number of young writers and artists lived and worked in Madrid, creating a unique atmosphere and upsurge in creativity that has rarely been equalled.
MIT Press
The Limit of the Useful Georges Bataille, Cory Austin Knudson 7th February, hb, £32, 9780262047333 First English-language translation of an early work that is key to understanding the French philosopher’s thought.
Mudlark
Once Upon a Prime Sarah Hart 13th April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780008601089 In her clear, insightful and witty début, Hart shows us the myriad connections between maths and literature and how understanding those connections can enhance our enjoyment of both.
National Trust
100 Books From the Libraries of the National Trust Yvonne Lewis, Tim Pye, Nicola Thwaite 6th April, hb, £10, 9780707804644 Gathered together in this beautifully illustrated volume are vital books and manuscripts selected from more than 400,000 held in National Trust libraries across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
NUS Press
Tales of an Eastern Port Joseph Conrad, Kevin Riordan (ed) 20th February, pb, £22.95, 9789813252189 In the 1880s, Joseph Conrad spent three extended stints in Singapore. In the 30 years that followed, he would return to the place many times in his writing.
Oxford University Press
The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction Deborah Lindsay Williams 9th March, pb, £15.99, 9780192848970 Discusses how young adult fiction offers new ways of thinking about climate change and definitions of citizenship.
Getting to Good Friday Marilynn Richtarik 2nd February, hb, £30, 9780192886408 Intertwines literary analysis and narrative history to examine shifts in thinking and talking about Northern Ireland that brought years of political violence to a close with the Good Friday Agreement.
Shakespeare’s First Folio Emma Smith 13th April, hb, £20, 9780192886644 A new printing of this fascinating book in cele- bration of the 400th anni- versary of its publication.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 27th April, pb, £6.99, 9780198841081 Social commentary informed by the history of England forms an analysis of the problems of the newly industrialised country both by invoking historical events and by dissecting contemporary issues.
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