Dictator/Gilgamesh is the most risky and compelling project to date by the great re-inventor of poems.
For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. how many poets make us laugh – or, in that curious phrase, “laugh out loud” (as if there’s another way of doing it)? Larkin, often, is more than memorable: he is instantly unforgettable.’ – Martin Amis
With humour, irony and celebration, Luxury explores the comfort and sustenance of life, the bittersweet clarity of ageing and the anxiety of existence.
‘Art’s my hobby too.’ Hobby?! Sasha was destined to take the art world by storm. At the age of fifteen pop stars wanted his paintings, and a new exhibition was going to make him a rich man. But now he serves in a stationers, and no one’s even heard of him… what went wrong? Philip Ridley’s darkly...
Now in paperback—the final collection of new poems from one of our finest and most beloved poets. The poems in this wonderful collection touch all of the events and places that meant the most to Philip Levine. There are lyrical poems about his family and childhood, the magic of nighttime and the...
‘An honest, compelling and important account and a critical plea for a fusion of farming, food and nature to provide global ecological security’ Chris Packham Climate change and poaching are not the only culprits behind so many animals facing extinction. The impact of consumer demand for cheap meat...
Larkin’s final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms.
Monsters are more than things that go bump in the night… Monsters are lurking in the woods, beneath the waves, and within our favorite books, films, and games—and there are good reasons why they appear so often. Monsters are manifestations of our fears and symbols of our society—not to mention...
The medieval Mappa Mundi showed the real world hedged about with wonders. Philip Gross’s new poems are as vividly observed and sometimes fabulous as the traveler’s tales of antiquity. Like those creatures in the margins of old maps they are hybrids of real longings, truth and lies. Each is a...
“The hallmarks of a Ridley classic; a fast-paced modern fairy-tale that burrows into the dark wormholes of the imagination … reveals how below all that glitters, there’s rarely gold.” Exeunt Ollie and Jill want to tell you about their dream home. Some of the things they did to get it, you might...
Philip Larkin’s Required Writing, a selection from his miscellaneous prose from 1953-82, was highly praised and enjoyed when it appeared in 1983. This second edition of Further Requirements includes two more essays by Larkin: ‘Operation Manuscript’ and his Introduction to Earth Memories by Llewelyn...
This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading alongside a number of his contemporaries and focusing particularly on his later fiction, this book offers a highly accessible, informative and persuasive view of Roth as an intellectually...
In particular, it was the years during which he and his sister looked after their mother that shaped the writer we know so well: a number of poems written over this time are for her, and the mood of pain, shadow and despondency that characterises his later verse draws its strength from his...
Berlin, in the words of Philip Hensher, editor of this anthology, ‘has always been a city of desperate modernity’, both in terms of urban architecture – largely a creation of the progressive 19th century, laid waste by World War II, temporary home of the infamous Wall – and in ways of living and...
A masterful collection of essays on storytelling by Philip Pullman, one of our greatest writers.
Snowflake, elite, expert . . . What are today’s ‘bad words’ and what do they say about us, both as individuals and as a society?
FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF HIS DARK MATERIALS AND THE BOOK OF DUST COMES A SPELLBINDING JOURNEY INTO THE SECRETS OF HIS ART.
Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin’s Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf.
An indispensable style guide of good and bad usage – an inspiring manual for all companies and communicators to speak or write properly.