Literary companions, book reviews and guides

'Assia was my true wife, and the best friend I ever had', wrote Ted Hughes, after his lover surrendered her life and that of their young daughter in 1969, six years after Sylvia Plath had suffered a similiar fate.

Exploring the brilliant web of verbal hocus-pocus that J.

What were the achievements of the 'angry' writers who emerged in the fifties?

For fans of Lorna Sage and Paula Fox, a unique memoir from Irma Kurtz, the acclaimed author of 'The Great American Bus Ride' and internationally renowned agony aunt.

A collection of remarkable and completely made-up correspondence from the great and the good across history.

York Notes Study Guide for the AQA Poetry Anthology cluster, Love and Relationships is an essential guide to your GCSE poetry paper.

An 365-day anthology of readings from one of the most influential writers of all time, George MacDonald, compiled by CS Lewis himselfMacDonald was a major Christian writer of the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries.

From China's first-ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature comes an exquisite book of fictions, none of which has ever been published before in English.

'Like Lorna Sage's Bad Blood .

A working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great (and downright terrible) literature in this laugh-out-loud memoir.

On the same day that his wife gave birth to twins, Anthony Doerr received the Rome Prize, an award that gave him a year-long stipend and studio in Rome.

The new book of articles and opinion from Jonathan Franzen, author of 'Freedom' and 'The Corrections'.

A novel from the author of 'March' and 'Year of Wonders' takes place in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, as a young book conservator arrives in Sarajevo to restore a lost treasure.

Brilliant and original, 'A Thousand Years of Good Prayers' introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to become a major literary talent.

Decir que Ensayos argentinos es ya un clásico dista de ser una exageración.

Eine Liebeserklärung ans Lesen von Bestseller-Autor Nick HornbyIn Weniger reden und öfter mal in die Badewanne schreibt Nick Hornby über seine größte Leidenschaft: das Lesen.

La historia de la literatura italiana del siglo XX (il Novecento) encuentra en este libro una síntesis redonda y puesta al día, elaborada por manos expertas, única en lengua española.

"366 Rosas Mágicas"Hay una Rosa Mágica para cada uno de tus días.

Das Oberstufenwissen im Fach Deutsch, praxisnah und anschaulich präsentiert.

A cracking collection of short stories from the author of the stupendous 'Swimmer'.

A major international debut novel from a storyteller who couples a timelessly beguiling style to an energetically modern worldscape.

A brilliant, inventive and endlessly delightful memoir from Fay Weldon, one of our most respected commentators on sex, relationships and gender, that picks up where her acclaimed Auto da Fay left off.

A collection of essays on books and why they matter by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY and WONDER BOYS.

Whisky is the world's favourite spirit and is enjoying booming sales, especially in the USA and Asia, yet too often it's shrouded in mystery, myth and complex- sounding terminology.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love, Cathy Rentzenbrink's Dear Reader is the ultimate love letter to reading and to finding the comfort and joy in stories.

A hilarious and original debut novel that skewers our craze for celebrity.

Unlike the Government's Citizenship Test, this is the real measure of Britishness.

A stunning novel which examines our fears, prejudices and desires, from the author of Ghost MacIndoe and Invisible.

The son of one of the greatest writers of our time-Nobel Prize winner and internationally best-selling icon Gabriel Garcia Marquez-remembers his beloved father and mother in this tender memoir about love and loss.

Novels which transform our ideas about human possibilities, biographies which celebrate the achievements of extraordinary individuals, polemical works of non-fiction which oblige us to alter our views of the world or of human society: all of us can remember reading at least one book which made us think about the world anew.

Novels which transform our ideas about human possibilities, biographies which celebrate the achievements of extraordinary individuals, polemical works of non-fiction which oblige us to alter our views of the world or of human society: all of us can remember reading at least one book which made us think about the world anew.

The final classic installment in the excellent Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s - the novels that have inspired all Scandinavian crime fiction.