What does a library say about the mind of its owner? How do books map the intellectual interests, curiosities, tastes, and personalities of their readers? What does the collecting of books have in common with the practice of architecture? "Unpacking...

Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Children's Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from "Aesop's fables to Mother Goose", from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" to "Peter Pan"...

"Prose Occasions" gathers over half a century's critical writing by the poet Thomas Kinsella. It makes available for the first time in a single volume key works including "The Divided Mind", his influential discussion of Anglo-Irish poetry, writings...