Split into five parts-Of Life, Loss, and Love, Nature and the World, Writerly Reflections, People, Strangers, and Society, and Just a Word of Motivation...You Might Need It, Hermione Lee's debut…

Why is it that men have always had power, influence, wealth and fame, while women have had nothing but children? In this essay, first published in 1929, Woolf exhorts young…

EDITED BY JOANNE TRAUTMANN BANKS, WITH A PREFACE BY HERMIONE LEE The finest and most enjoyable of Virginia Woolf’s letters are brought together in a single volume.

Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014 Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year Penelope…

Dark forces threaten to loom over the Otherworld as the tension between the two magical kingdoms brews like a storm. When misfortune befalls the Otherworld, two Elders are accused of…

A study of Philip Roth as a major twentieth-century writer. Setting the novelist’s work in the context of Jewish-American writing (and Jewish-American families) and twentieth-century American politics, it explores the…

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEE The previously uncollected occasional prose of a great English writer - full of wit, feeling and illumination.

This anthology follows the OxfordPoets anthologies of 2000, 2001 and 2002. It introduces a number of new poets who are beginning to make their way. The collection celebrates the diversity…