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- Sale!"A wonderful novel... transforms the stuff of life into art" - Philippa Gregory in The Sunday TimesSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
- Sale!"An authentic adult voice, tender, ironic, relaxed and highly educated... a fine collection." - Al AlvarezSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
- Sale!What happens to Ordinary lives when international concerns intrude? What does it mean to belong when the various strands of our identity are brought into conflict? How do we survive to re-invent ourselves when we have seen the world torn apart?Special Offer: We are offering this title at 50% off the publisher’s RRP
- Sale!Each story places us inside the desperate world of a child trying to make sense of abuse, and what it is doing to her, or at least to the part of her able to speak.Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
- Sale!"Groundbreaking""A great first collection with breadth and ambition. A book I return to time and time again.” – Amazon"A collection as strong as the gritstone of it's roots. Best poetry I've read for a long time" - Amazon Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
- Sale!"Born with the gift of lyricism as natural speech" - Clive James"A virtuoso collection” – J.M. CoetzeeSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
- Sale!"Rough Music" is an old English custom of public scapegoating. In this book of disturbing musical echoes, brilliant renewals of carol, charm, folksong and ballad explore violence, loss and belonging.Fiona Sampson is the award-winning author of many books, including A Century of Poetry Review, Common Prayer, which was short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2007, and Writing Poetry: The Expert Guide."a very fine poet indeed" – Adam Thorpe in The GuardianSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
- Sale!A Poetry Book Society Special RecommendationA collection that brings together for the first time the whole range of Philip Gross's poetry... from prize-winning Ice Factory to the Whitbread shortlisted Wasting Game, but takes the reader also into previously unknown reaches of Philip Gross territory. Text taken from the book cover.Special Offer: We are offering this book at 25% off the publisher's RRP.
- Sale!A Poetry Book Society RecommendationWinner of the T.S. Eliot Prize"A zestful poet of the road... Jen Hadfield conjures poems of great spirit and imaginative daring. She is a remarkably original poet" - Andrew MotionSpecial Offer: We are offering this book at 25% off the publisher's RRP.
- Sale!"Philip Gross's meditations move with subtle steps between these shifting grounds and those of the man-made world, the ageing body and that ever-present mystery, the self." - BloodaxeSpecial Offer: We are offering this book at 25% off the publisher's RRP.
- Sale!"Witty, realistic and imaginative. Auden, Haydn and Uccello live in his pages as happily as snooker stars, Tesco and Extra Strong Mints" - Peter Porter, The ObserverSpecial Offer: We are offering this book at 25% off the publisher's RRP.
- Sale!"Sensual and magical with the hard edges of realism” - Milner PlaceSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
- Sale!Illustrated by Jonathan GrossPhilip Gross's poems speak to all ages, and sit confidently on the bookshelf next to Philip Gross's prize-winning work for adults" - Salt PublishingSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
- Sale!Three full collections from the very best young poets"Between the leaves of this book lies the mad boundless energy of the globe cracking-up under our very noses; it is a world which is harnessed in images of jazz, sex, drugs, aliens, abuse; in effective colloquial language and manic syntax; but the themes are always treated with gravity, unsettling candor and humor." (Text taken from Amazon).Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
- Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize"A remarkable novel” - The Irish Times"An unputdownable read" - The ScotsmanSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
- "Superb first collection" - Sean O'BrienThe living and the dead are working side by side in John Challis's dramatic debut collection, The Resurrectionists. Whether in London's veg and meat markets, far below the Dartford Crossing, or on the edge of the Western world, these poems journey into a buried and sometimes violent landscape to locate traces of ourselves that remain.
- Bryce's two previous prize-winning collections were widely admired for their marvellously seductive music and their speed of thought; Self-Portrait in the Dark widens and deepens the poet's scope, and is her most emotionally compelling collection to date. Bryce's new poems are "slant tellings" that reveal strange and true reflections. - Text from Goodreads
- Winner of the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize (2000)This is the first collection from Colette Bryce, a young poet from Northern Ireland. Subjects range from a woman who feels sick as she prepares a turkey for Christmas dinner, a set of boys who sit on a wall outside the Bolger trial, and lovers' telephone calls. Text from Goodreads
- Sale!Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2010), John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (2010)Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
- Affectionate reminiscences of Lancaster's The Storey building. Home of Lancaster Litfest.
- Sale!An ancient evil is waiting...Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
- Sale!Hardback, 1st edition, in d/wPublished by Faber & Faber, 2007Number of pages: 224We are offering this book at 25% off the publishers RRP
- Sale!Blake Morrison’s A Discoverie of Witches is a limited edition clothbound hardcover book with just one hundred copies produced. Each copy is signed and numbered by the author. The limited edition includes exclusive DVD content.Synopsis: Lancaster Assizes, 1612. Ten people from Pendle in Lancashire were hanged, pronounced guilty of the crime of witchcraft. The poems in this collection give voice to characters involved in the trials: from the accused to the accusers, from a child who bore witness against her own mother to the hangman who carried out his job loyally and efficiently, yet not without stirrings of compassion. Also included are several poems set in the Pennine countryside where Blake grew up, as well as the controversial tour-de-force ‘The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper’.Each book is stamped with silver foil onto a quality dark grey cloth and is wrapped with a striking transfilm half jacket and has been signed and numbered by the author.Blake Morrison’s A Discoverie of Witches is a limited edition clothbound hardcover book with just one hundred copies produced. This edition comes with a half hour interview with the author on a DVD filmed early in 2012 and presented in full exclusively with this edition.
