A new translation of the Roman poet Catullus which reinvents and reimagines his poetry for the contemporary age.

A master of deductive reasoning who can solve the most difficult crimes by spotting obscure clues overlooked by others, dilettante sleuth Sherlock Holmes was the hero of sixty stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle between 1887 and 1927. With the...

Surrealism comes of age in Champion's welcome return to British poetry.

What can be found in the Vatican's Secret Archive? How many books did Charles Darwin's library aboard the Beagle hold? Which library is home to a colony of bats? Bursting with potted histories, quirky facts and enlightening lists, this book explores...

In the early 1960s, the Hungry Generation revitalized Bengali poetry in Calcutta, liberating it from the fetters of scholarship and the fog of punditry and freeing it to explore new forms, language, and subjects. Shakti Chattopadhyay was a cofounder...

Ever wondered how ink is made? Or what is the bestselling book of all time? Or which are the oldest known books in the world? Highbrow to lowbrow, all aspects of the book are celebrated and explored in "The Book Lovers' Miscellany". From a list of u...

In "Farm by the Shore", Thomas A. Clark continues his investigations into the landscape and culture of the Scottish highlands and islands. His brief notations and fragments embody the precarious balance between sea and land, wilderness and civilisati...

Paul A. Cantor first probed Shakespeare's Roman plays – "Coriolanus", "Julius Caeser", and "Antony and Cleopatra" – in his landmark "Shakespeare's Rome" (1976). With "Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy", he now argues that these plays form an integrated tri...

For more than forty years, Paul Cantor's "Shakespeare's Rome" has been a foundational work in the field of politics and literature. While many critics assumed that the Roman plays do not reflect any special knowledge of Rome, Cantor was one of the fi...

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was a remarkable woman – a gifted writer and an activist central to the making of the modern Indian nation. India's representative to the Global South for many years after independence, Kamaladevi figured prominently in discu...