Literature & Criticism
Fresh editions of evergreen literary works. Selected Short Stories Rabindranath Tagore, Sumit Chakrabarti (ed) 9780192865816 Billy Budd, Sailor, and Selected Tales Michael Jonik (ed), Herman Melville 9780198865124
Herman Melville: A Very Short Introduction Maurice S Lee
2nd March, pb, £8.99, 9780197753057
Tells the story of Melville’s exciting and tragic life, provides overviews of his minor and major works and offers ways to interpret and enjoy his books.
Utopia
Douglas Mao, Duncan Bell 5th March, pb, £18.99, 9780198922872
Bringing together an historian of political thought and a literary scholar, this book offers a historically wide- ranging and theoretically sophisticated discussion of Utopia.
Peepal Tree Press
Gurudeva and Other Indian Tales
Seepersad Naipul, Kenneth Ramchand, Aaron Eastley (ed), 19th February, pb, £11.99, 9781845235543 Pioneering stories of Indian life in Trinidad from Naipaul’s 1943 collection, Gurudeva and other Indian Tales, and the uncollected stories from Caribbean Voices from 1929 -1953.
Picador
A Chorus of Ears Denise Riley 25th June, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781035095964
Essays on voice, lyric and the persona of the poet from one of the greatest living English poets.
Princeton University Press
Thinking Through Shakespeare David Womersley
10th March, hb, eb, £30, 9780691154107
How Shakespeare’s exploration of central human questions – about identity, politics, religion and right and wrong – explains his lasting power, popularity and relevance.
Heroes of the Gael Natasha Sumner 17th February, hb, eb, £35, 9780691204734
Spring/Summer 2026
The evolution of the Fenian tradition of story and song traced over 1,400 years.
Three Roads Back Robert D Richardson 3rd March, pb, eb, £13.99, 9780691224329
From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss, changing the course of American thought.
What’s So Great About the Great Books? Naomi Kanakia
14th July, hb, eb, £22, 9780691251929
A popular novelist and literary blogger answers those who claim the classics are too difficult and too white and explains what we gain by reading them.
Middlemen Laura B McGrath 23rd June, hb, eb, £25, 9780691256160
Revealing account of how agents have shaped book publishing and the literary canon from the 1950s to today.
Troubled Lands Ricardo Wilson (ed) 19th May, hb, eb, £22, 9780691268415
A landmark book—the first complete publication of Langston Hughes’s translations of 33 stories by 18 Mexican and Cuban writers.
Shakespeare’s Scholars Sean Keilen 7th July, hb, eb, £20, 9780691272634
What Love’s Labour’s Lost, Hamlet and The Tempest can teach us about discovery, growth and change.
I, Wandering Jew Yair Mintzker 26th May, hb, eb, £25, 9780691272702
Combining history, detective story and memoir, a surprising and revelatory account of the antisemitic myth of “the Wandering Jew”.
Arachnomania Maria M Tatar 14th July, hb, eb, £20, 9780691281025
In praise of spiders in all their inspirational glory.
Making Waste Sophie Gee 24th February, pb, eb, £25, 9780691284507
The obsession with waste in 18th-century English literature.
Reaktion Books
A Home in Space Edwin Morgan, Greg Thomas (ed), Julie Johnstone (ed)
1st June, hb, eb, £25, 9781836391968
Reveals Morgan’s groundbreaking multimedia poetics beyond his celebrated lyric voice.
Renard Press
Three Guineas Virginia Woolf 15th May, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781804470343
Written in response to three letters, Woolf’s Three Guineas on war, education and work produces a level-headed and compassionate voice of reason in a storm of anger and repression.
Scribe
The Queer Bookshelf Layla McCay 4th June, hb, £14.99, 9781917189071
Ultimate guide to the rich history of queer writing and the perfect companion for anyone beginning or continuing their queer reading journey.
Scribner
Animal Stories Kate Zambreno 9th April, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781398556232
A curious, roving report from the “deep strangeness” of the zoo, exploring mortality, alienation and how we regard ourselves among the animals.
Seren Books
The Waters That Raised Us Taylor Edmonds (ed)
9th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781781727942
Drawing on personal narratives, 10 Welsh writers explore how water shapes and connects us and consider what threats the climate emergency poses to the future of communities in Wales.
Skittledog
Darling Buds William Shakespeare, Harrison Dix (illus)
25th June, hb, £12.99, 9781837761128
Giftable anthology of some of Shakespeare’s most evocative verse, illustrated by scores of botanical watercolours.
Julius Caesar William Shakespeare, Andrew James Hartley (ed) £9.99, 110861
Titus Andronicus William Shakespeare, Curtis Perry (ed), Ayanna Thompson (ed) £10.99, 078406
SPBH Editions
Love in a Time of Allegory
Nicholas Muellner 1st February, pb, £12, 9781917651509
In this illustrated essay, a celebrated artist proposes that allegory and imagination, like love, keep open the possibility of connection in a fractured world.
Syracuse University Press
Banshees, Hags, and Changelings Molly Ferguson
2nd February, hb, £52, 9780815611998
Examines how women writers and the recent cultural feminist reckoning in Ireland allow for a reappraisal of the subjects of folktales and the anxieties they address.
The Arden Shakespeare
Series
The Arden Shakespeare 14th May, pb, eb, 9781350
Discover the next generation of Shakespeare’s plays, poems and sonnets.
Shakespeare’s Objects Catherine Richardson 23rd July, pb, eb, £29.99, 9781350123564
Illustrated introduction to the rich materiality, uses and social meanings of the 75 most important things which appear in the plays of Shakespeare.
Queer Shakespeare Goran Stanivukovic (ed) 11th June, pb, eb, £24.99, 9781350527478 The go-to resource for understanding desire, same-sex and trans eroticism in Shakespeare’s texts. This second edition features revisions to the original chapters and an additional six new chapters.
Edward II Christopher Marlowe 14th May, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781408133453
Annotated edition of Marlowe’s much-studied drama of passion and politics gives students a wealth of contextual and critical insight as well as examining the play in performance.
The British Academy
The Making of the Scottish Dream-vision Kylie Murray
28th February, hb, eb, £105, 9781805966272
Considers how Scotland responded to the dream-vision, medieval Europe’s most widely known literary form and precursor of the novel.
University of Chicago Press
Writing for Dark Times Hadji Bakara 15th May, pb, eb, £26, 9780226847825
Tells the story of the writer’s distinct place in the history of human rights.
The Last Amateur Helen Deutsch 19th June, pb, eb, £22, 9780226849560
Joins an unfinished conversation between satirist Jonathan Swift and critic Edward Said, arguing for the transformative potential of literature. How one comes to love one writer through another.
Collecting Antiquity in Modern China Guangchen Chen
26th June, pb, eb, £24, 9780226848587
Looks at 20th-century Chinese writers and
intellectuals who used the material remains of the past to unsettle the present.
University of Minnesota Press
Late Theory Phillip E Wegner 17th March, pb, £22.99, 9781517920524
Critical response to Frederic Jameson’s late writings, namely the final volumes of his Poetics of Social Forms, to develop an original and dialectical reading practice in conversation with his evolving thought.
University of Pennsylvania Press
Houses of Correction Matthew Ritger 7th April, hb, £52, 9781512828993 Delves into the archives of London’s Bridewell to show how humanist reformers provided the ideas, justifications and administration for England’s houses of correction and so-called literary workhouses.
Verso Books
Arrows of Desire Peter Wollen, Nicolas Helm-Grovas (ed), Kodwo Eshun (ed), Oliver Fuke (ed)
21st July, pb, eb, £30, 9781836741176
New anthology of uncollected writings by Wollen, cultural critic, avant-garde filmmaker and curator of paradigm- shifting exhibitions.
Voltaire Foundation
Republicanism in France After the Revolution Adam Lebovitz
12th May, pb, £85, 9781805966562
Analysis of a new text emulating Thomas Paine’s style offers valuable insight into the period.
William Collins
Kafkaesque Maia Hruska 23rd April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780008768614
The untold story of Kafka through the eyes of his 10 first and most famous translators.
WW Norton
Shakespeare’s Margaret Charles O’Malley, Scott W Stern
17th July, hb, eb, £24, 9781324076551
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