A title that takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Canterbury Tales to Harry Potter. With masterful digressions…

Olga, the pretty young daughter of a drunken forester on a country estate, and her fateful relationships with the men in her life. Adored by Urbenin, the estate manager, whom…

With a series of succint, pithy essays, renowned literary critic John Sutherland strips away all pretension and provides concise definitions and clear examples of the 50 most important terms and…

Either Detective Franklin Washborne is losing his mind, or something very strange is going on. Assigned a murder case with no witnesses and few clues, Washborne finds himself drawn into…

With over 900 biographical entries, more than 600 novels synopsized, and a wealth of background material on the publishers, reviewers and readers of the age the Longman Companion to Victorian…

John Sutherland examines the intergenerational conflict as a new kind of ‘war’ in which institutional neglect and universal indifference to the old has reached aggressive, and routinely lethal, levels.

From Sunday Times bestselling author of Blue and Crossing the Line comes the second novel from ex-hostage negotiator John Sutherland.

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