The turning point in British history, a story no one with any curiosity about the shaping of Brit...

Adrian Poole on why Shakespeare's reworking on the great love story of the ancient world is so po...

A book which, drawing on the best critics of Hardy, explains and analyses his most controversial ...

John Wiltshire, one of the most original critics of Jane Austen, argues not only that Mansfield P...

Chaucer has been called the father of English literature and here Stephen Fender explores his gre...

Phillip Mallett guides us through Hardy's most charming and most satisfying novel and shows us wh...

Virginia Woolf described Middlemarch as one of the few novels written for grown-ups. Josie Billin...

Pride and Prejudice is the most satisfying and enjoyable of Jane Austen's six books - and has bec...

A shorty and incisive study of one of Britain's most influential poets and of why so many later p...

Stephen Fender explains why To Kill a Mockingbird has had such an extraordinary impact on America...

A beautifully written study of Shakespeare's most shocking and brutal tragedy, by Valentine Cunni...

Tom Bishop, a much respected Shakespearean scholar, looks at the bard's great romantic comedy, an...