Biography, Literature and Literary studies

Ellen Davis was born in 1929 in the small German village of Hoof.

Khalil Maleki (19011969) was a selfless campaigner for democracy and social welfare in twentieth-century Iran.

"e;The voice has poetic authority: a technique capable of thinking and feeling through the poem, which compels attention.

A son's journey through his father's dementia.

Beyond Washington and Jefferson: Ranking the Founders.

Authored by two eminent Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn scholars, The Soul and Barbed Wire is the first and only book to offer both a detailed biography and a comprehensive appraisal of the literary achievement of the Nobel prizewinning author who became one of the Soviet regime's most formidable foes.

When Nula's husband James becomes forgetful they put it down to the stress of his work.

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Victorian Cardiff - the world's busiest port, booming on the back of the coal mined in the Welsh valleys.

Frustrated with the continuing educational crisis of our time, concerned parents, teachers, and students sense that true reform requires more than innovative classroom technology, standardized tests, or skills training.

Provides an authoritative treatment of the life, work, and legacy of Charles Dickens A Companion to Charles Dickens is an essential resource for understanding one of the most celebrated authors in English literature.

In this, her twelfth collection, noted poet Sheenagh Pugh steps into a new, northern landscape, the Shetland Islands, with poems steeped in the wilder weathers and views of rugged coastlines, sweeping sea-vistas and the hardy historical characters who have inhabited these lands.

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The title poem of this new collection of poems by Carolyn Jess-Cooke: 'Boom!

"e;In this virtuoso collection, Paul Henry, poacher-like, tracks the journeys of the heart through landscape, love and loss.

Jim Neat is an unusual and striking memoir, a coalescing of prose, poetry, found documents and photographs.

"e;The story that the public were never supposed to read.

'A rare duet, in which father and son rediscover a whole world through the redeeming power of art.

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"e;Full of life: politicially astute, well-made and formally experimental poems celebrate even sadness in fresh language, natural rhythms and subtle music.

The murder of God-fearing, bible-quoting, partially deaf Thomas Thomas at the branch of Star Stores he managed in Garnant, South Wales has remained an unsolved mystery since it happened in 1921.

Is Dai Morris a brutal murderer or the victim of a terrible miscarriage of justice?

Shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize, this is the third collection from a poet of powerful emotions and vivid imagery.

Shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize, this is the second collection from a poet of powerful emotions and vivid imagery.

The Hitting Game' is the first collection of poems by the London-based young poet Graham Clifford.

The Black Place is dark and gorgeously multi-faceted artwork, like a black diamond.

What the Water Gave Me contains fifty-two poems in the voice of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.

'Cusp', this new collection from Graham Mort, features many of the qualities readers have come to admire; keen observation, a feeling for the natural world that echoes and enhances the human interactions in his poems, the sense of the individual as part of a larger society of which we are implicitly responsible.

One of the most significant voices of his generation from Wales, a new book by Duncan Bush is an eagerly awaited event.

Already well-known for his prizewinning Welsh-language poetry and fiction, and for his scholarly non-fiction, Grahame Davies has now produced his first collection of poems in English.

Shortlisted for the 2013 Ondaatje Prize, Call Mother a Lonely Field mines the emotional archaeology of family, home and language, the author's attempts to break their tethers, and the refuge he finds within them.

With the narrative pull of a novel and the vibrancy of a play for voices, Damian Walford Davies's Witch offers a thrilling portrait of a Suffolk village in the throes of the witchcraft hunts of the mid-seventeenth century.

Here is the best of Sheenagh Pugh's early work: a generous and wide-ranging selection from her first four collections, together with two dozen previously unpublished pieces Notable inclusions are the prize-winning 'M.

A stupendous compilation of the best things said by and to Americans .

In this classic memoir of rural life in the Scottish Highlands, a shepherd chronicles his years in a remote glen before the introduction of electricity.

"e;Through the use of deadpan humour, lightning wit and a commitment to poking fun at pomposity, Bryony Littlefair's poems show us what the world is really like.

As If To Sing explores the human condition through the language of music and does so with a mastery of poetics.

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"e;A necessary and urgent response to the world's increasing crises.

'A poet who instinctively sees the possibilities of defamiliarisation wherever she casts her penetrating, colour-loving eye' (Carol Rumens, Guardian)'Her poems wrestle at the interface between self and other and from the heat of that fight she forges startlingly original imagery' (Poetry London)re:Loudness '.

Steckst auch du manchmal fest - in der Angst, im Stillstand, im Wunsch mutiger zu sein und weiterzukommen?

In Ironies of Faith, celebrated Dante scholar and translator Anthony Esolen provides a profound meditation upon the use and place of irony in Christian art and in the Christian life.

Get to grips with one of the world's most powerful books.

This work is a highly readable introduction to Shaykh Mufid, the leading Shi'i scholar of his time, and it examines his contributions in the fields of jurisprudence, theology, and sacred history in clear and straightforward language.

One of greatest Persian writers of both classical prose and poetry, Sa';di was revered in his time as a man of great wisdom and passion.

Ashraf `Ali Thanawi (1863-1943) was one of the most prominent religious scholars in Islamic history.

By pairing a scholar of Islamic law with a scholar of Jewish law, a unique dynamic is created, and new perspectives are made possible.

Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor They terrorised the establishment.

For readers of Damaged and Running with Scissors, a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape.

In 1841, Nigel Halleck left Britain as a clerk in the East India Company.