The Raven

Maybe the World Will End So We Won't Have to

Waiting for Music is the fifth collection of poetry from the acclaimed writer Simon Mundy. A grea...

First published in 1925, set 'one Wednesday in mid-June', Mrs Dalloway charts the lives of severa...

'The glow of my cigarette picks out a dark shape lying on the ground. I bend down to take a close...

In Why I Write, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing ...

In this haunting illustration of the treatment of mental health and chilling Gothic tale, a woman...

The Rover, or, The Banished Cavaliers is the most popular play by the Restoration playwright (and...

George Orwell set out ''to make political writing into an art'', and to a wide extent this aim sh...

In 1773, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral became the first book of poetry by an Afr...

Fantomina, or, Love in a Maze is a novella by Eliza Haywood which charts an unnamed female protag...

When Stephen Duck's The Thresher's Labour was published in 1730, it was a sensation - but Mary Co...

We were ushered into this banqueting scene with the sound of minstrelsy, the old harper being sea...

First published in 1896, The Burglar's Christmas is a short story by the great American writer Wi...

In 2020, for the first time in centuries, theatres were closed. Two actors set about photographin...

In 1892 a furious Charlotte Perkins Gilman put pen to paper and created the avant-garde feminist ...

What was it that got you through the Covid-19 pandemic? For some it was long walks; others turned...

For many years the victim of smear campaigns by notable male writers, and dismissed as being mere...

First published in 1923, The Prophet is a collection of twenty-six poetic fables that centre arou...

The concept of identity - be it class, gender, sexuality, national, institutional, or anything el...

George Orwell set out ''to make political writing into an art'', and to a wide extent this aim sh...

Meticulously selected by Simon Mundy, the Wit and Acid series collects the sharpest lines from Sh...

First published in 1921 as part of her ground-breaking short-story collection Monday or Tuesday, ...

Published during the heyday of fascism in Europe, It Can''t Happen Here is a chilling cautionary ...

George Orwell set out ''to make political writing into an art'', and to a wide extent this aim sh...

Jane Austen, one of the nation''s most beloved authors, whose face adorns our currency, surely ne...

Working men of all countries, unite! First published in 1848, The Communist Manifesto is one of t...

William Morris is perhaps best known today for the beautiful textile designs he created under the...

First published in 1905, O. Henry''s masterpiece, The Gift of the Magi, is a moving short story t...

Gian-Luca has a rocky start in life, his mother dying in childbirth, his father unknown, and he i...

First published in 1928, The Tower was Yeats''s first collection published after receiving the No...

Edie finds the world around her increasingly difficult to comprehend. Words are no longer at her ...

''Novels, one would have thought, would have been devoted to influenza, epic poems to typhoid, od...

In 1928 Virginia Woolf gave two speeches at Newnham and Girton Colleges on the subject of ''Women...

One of the most famous novelists in the English literary canon, the likes of Middlemarch and Sila...

With a focus on the western tip of Cornwall, its abiding attraction as a holiday location, its pr...

The debut poetry collection from a talented, fresh-voiced poet, People: Unfinished Poems is a lyr...

Van Jennings, a sociology student, and his two friends, Terry Nicholson and Jeff Margrave, set ou...

By turns comedic, heart-wrenching and moving, these stories paint powerful pictures of pain, love...

Jane Austen, one of the nation''s most beloved authors, whose face adorns our currency, surely ne...

The Zebra and Lord Jones is a hopeful exploration of class, wealth and privilege, grief, colonial...

The countdown to the millennium has begun, and people are losing their heads. A so-called Y2K exp...

First published in 1844, The Fir Tree is a moving short story about a tree that is so desperate t...

Meticulously selected by Simon Mundy, the Wit and Acid series collects the sharpest lines from Sh...

The Alchemy is a robust, frank and loving guide to an often opaque industry. As well as offering ...

Concepts of belonging and community have constantly evolving definitions, and have been at the ce...

There are around 7 million carers in the UK alone. The Curae Prize was established to offer a pla...

A trail-blazing writer of great repute in her day, but now unjustly neglected, Baroness Emmuska O...