Literature & Criticism
Literature & Criticism
Wittgenstein and Popular Culture Bernhard Stricker (ed), Martin Urschel (ed)
3rd March hb, eb, £80, 9781839991318
Incisive contribution to the field of philosophy of culture.
Alma Classics
As I Please George Orwell 27th May, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781847499387
Collected here in one volume, and fully annotated, these opinion pieces showcase Orwell’s polemical brilliance.
Anthem Press
Black Configurations Kimberly W Benston 2nd June, hb, eb, £80, 9781785278679
First in a three-volume study of African- American literary history, with special attention to the internal dialogues regarding concepts of “tradition”, haunting, trauma and re-vision.
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Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature hb, eb, £80, 9781
Broad range of titles that undertake rigorous, multidisciplinary and original scholarship in the domain. Archipelagothic Jeremy C De Chavez (ed) 2nd June, vol 2, 785279300 Nuclear Gothic Helena K Bacon 12th May, vol 1, 839981623 Critical Approaches to Fen Gothic Literature Gina Wisker 2nd June, vol 3, 839982033 Chernobyl Trauma and Gothic Stuart Lindsay 10th February, vol 4, 839990649 Archival Anxiety in Documentary and Mockumentary Horror Kristopher Woofter 12th May, vol 6, 839995880 Excavating the Castle Joshua B Tuttle 5th May,vol 5, 839998072
Pursuits of Settler Belonging in Australian Post-millennial Memoirs Martina Horakova
10th March, hb, eb, £80, 9781839990571
Memoirs written by public intellectuals—writers, historians, academics and journalists—which attempt to come to terms with the history of colonial violence and dispossession of Indigenous people.
Spring/Summer 2026
The Humanist Critic Daniel Rosenberg Nutters 5th May, hb, eb, £80, 9781839991592
Re-examines the careers of Lionel Trilling and Edward Said, demonstrating how each critic turned to the Modernist literary tradition to reinvent the role of the humanist intellectual during the rise of critical theory.
Empathy in the Reading and Teaching of English Literature Lauren A Weber
5th May, hb, eb, £80, 9781839994197
The educational potential of empathy for literary studies.
Penny Dreadfuls Manon Burz-Labrande 10th March, pb, eb, £20.99, 9781839996306
Looks at the impact of 19th-century popular literature on society as well as on later literary works and genres.
Ray Petri
Georgina Ripley 16th June, hb, £85, 9781839997754
pb, eb, £19.95, 9781839997761 How Petri’s radical casting, gender-play and iconography of homoeroticism boldly politicised the relationship between fashion and identity.
Struggle, Resistance and Decolonization in African American Literature After 1960 W Lawrence Hogue
17th March, hb, eb, £80, 9781839997945
Six African American writers who use the cultural and historical past to imagine a different present and future examined.
Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing Amina Yaqin
3rd February, pb, eb, £25, 9781839998027
Unconventional literary history of progressive Urdu poetry by Pakistani women in the 20th century.
The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa De Sa Nogueira Sandra Sousa
5th May, hb, eb, £80, 9781839998102
Reveals how her fearless writing challenged colonial power.
Universality and Utopia Daniel Sacilotto 3rd February, pb, eb, £25, 9781839998386
The evolution of the Peruvian indigenista literary tradition in the 20th century in relation to the evolution of socialist thought and dialectical materialist philosophy.
Nation, City, Household Daniela Vitolo 2nd June, hb, eb, £80, 9781839998454
Adopting a spatial and affective perspective, this monograph presents a study of contemporary Pakistani women’s fiction.
The Ecstasy of Reproduction Alberto Castelli
3rd February, hb, eb, £80, 9781839998720
Analysis of contemp- oraneity which the author still terms postmodernity.
Manfred Thierry Mugler Vanessa Gerrie 12th May, hb, eb, £85, 9781839998782
Encapsulates the notion of a fashion auteur. Championing the subversion of cultural codes, the late designer built a fashion house that transcends and transgresses boundaries of formal.
Series
One Word Ryan Thorpe 9th June, pb, eb, £14.95, 9781839998
Academic Writing 164 Helps students move beyond formulas, showing how to draft with purpose, revise for clarity and build credible, well- supported claims. Creative Nonfiction 195 How small writing choices, including the selection of a single word, can shape the truth on the page. Fiction 225 Every story grows from a series of decisions, and the right word can bring a character, setting or scene to life. Poetry 256 How just one word can help the poet.
Arcturus
The Strange World of HP Lovecraft Mark Hayes
1st July, hb, £14.99, 9781398855984
Fascinating reference guide explores Lovecraft’s legacy and examines how his writing has influenced generations.
Bloomsbury
Truth and Consequence Daniel Ellsberg, Michael Ellsberg, Jan R Thomas
28th May, hb, eb, £22, 9781639735518
From the legendary Pentagon Papers whistleblower and author of The Doomsday Machine a posthumous collection of courageous writings, edited by his son.
Walking Shadow: Love, Loss and Shakespeare Greg Doran
23rd April, hb, eb, £22, 9781526694379
Compelling blend of memoir, travelogue and investigation sheds new light on the past while Doran himself emerges from the darkness of loss.
Bloomsbury Academic
Speculative Fiction Benjamin Warner, Ron Tanner
19th February, pb, eb, £23.99, 9781350408494
Wide-ranging, all-in- one craft guide and anthology to speculative fiction writing. Author interviews, exercises and annotated stories.
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Object Lessons pb, eb, £9.99, 978 Concise, collectable, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Fist
Nelle Mills 19th February, 1501376634 River Peter B Campbell 9th July, 9798216197041 Microphone Ralph Jones 2nd April, 9798765126011 Ballot
Anjali Enjeti, Christopher Schaberg, Ian Bogost 5th February, 9798765126196 Lipstick
Eileen G’Sell 5th February, 9798765135587
Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ytasha L Womack
11th June, hb,£10.99, 9798765131633
A look at the successful reimagining of one of the most popular super hero characters of all time.
Reimagines our relationship with the natural world through the Welsh poetic tradition.
Cambridge University Press
Series
A Writer’s City 26th March, pb, eb, £15.99
Traces the major writing set in world cities through their streets. New Orleans TR Johnson 9781009060301 Dublin ChristopherMorash 9781108926942
Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift, David Womersley (ed)
28th May, hb, £25, 9781009553179
New edition of one of the landmarks of world literature, based on the most authoritative scholarship.
Canongate Books
If This be Magic Daniel Hahn 9th April, hb, eb, £25, 9781805301622
Intriguing study of the world of translation and Shakespeare.
The Ultimates Ted Adams 14th May, hb, 9798765141649 In the 1990s and early 2000s, Marvel Comics underwent bold experimentation, leading to The Ultimates, a groundbreaking series that transformed Marvel’s universe and left a lasting mark on pop culture.
Bloomsbury Continuum
Homer Haunted Henry Power 16th July, hb, eb, £22, 9781399428156
Story of how Homer, the ancient poet of The Odyssey and The Iliad, songs of war and exile, still haunts us today.
Bucknell University Press
Reading With Jane Austen Elaine Bander 10th March, pb, £22.95, 9781684485857
Bander carefully rereads the author’s novels against the rich context of late Georgian literary and intellectual culture.
Calon
Cynefin Carwyn Graves 16th April, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781837600663
Carcanet Classics
Collected Prose Paul Celan, Rosmarie Waldrop (tr)
26th February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781800175402
One of the greatest postwar European poets, his work reissued as a Carcanet Classic.
Clemson University Press
Readings in the Cantos Vol 3 Richard Parker (ed), Alexander Howard (ed)
1st March, hb, eb, £90, 9781638040286
Detailed close readings of individual sections of The Cantos of Ezra Pound.
William S Burroughs SE Gontarski 1st March, hb, eb, £95, 9781638040545
Measures the scope of Burroughs’ innovation in the variety of media in which he worked.
Postcolonial Tragedy in Ireland Julian Breandan Dean
28th May, pb, eb, £40.75, 9781638042150
Reveals tragedy’s radical role in Irish drama, reframing sacrifice and failure as hopeful postcolonial strategies.
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