Literary essays

In the 1940s, it was believed that homosexuality had been becoming more widespread in the aftermath of war. A moral panic ensued, centred around London as the place to which gay men gravitated. Peter Parker explores what it was actually like for queer men in London in this period, whether they we...

The new edition of this book is based on Dr S.Eales' translation, published by Elliot Stock in 1895. Bernard's original 86 sermons are extensive, running to some 600 pages. This is a selection from these sermons and includes an introduction outlining his life and accomplishments.

In October 1960, James Baldwin and John Cheever spoke on a panel at San Francisco State College. The troubled state of American society was under discussion, which Baldwin incisively diagnosed as a 'failure of the masculine sensibility'. This book explores this crisis in mid-century masculinity a...

Love is what gives life meaning, but relationships also present us with the greatest emotional challenges of our lives. This volume takes us on a journey into one of the most fascinating realms there is - other people's relationships. Candid, captivating and full of wisdom, each chapter is inspir...

Love is what gives life meaning, but relationships also present us with the greatest emotional challenges of our lives. This volume takes us on a journey into one of the most fascinating realms there is - other people's relationships. Candid, captivating and full of wisdom, each chapter is inspir...

One of the most inspiring and counter-intuitive thinkers of our age, the author of 'Seven Brief Lessons on Physics', transforms the way we think about the world with his reflections on science, history, and humanity. In this collection of writings, the logbook of an intelligence always on the mov...

In this moving and lyrical collection of essays, the award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller explores the silence in which so many important things are kept. He examines the experience of discrimination through this silence and what it means to breach it: to risk words, to risk truths. And he ...

In this moving and lyrical collection of essays, the award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller explores the silence in which so many important things are kept. He examines the experience of discrimination through this silence and what it means to breach it - to risk words, to risk truths. And he...

A hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does that do to a person's soul, to the spirit of a nation? To both the occupied and the occupier? International Booker Prize winning Israeli novelist David Grossman has spent decades campaigning for peace in Israel and Palestine. But after October 7th ...

When it comes to how societies commemorate their own distant dreams and catastrophes, we often think of books, archives, or memorials carved from stone. But in Time's Echo, Jeremy Eichler makes a revelatory case for the power of music as culture's memory, an art form uniquely capable of carrying ...