Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature

In this book based on the Harvard University course he has taught and refined since the late 1970s, Gregory Nagy argues that the ancient Greeks' concept of "the hero" was very different from what we understand by the term today--and it is only through analysing their historical contexts that we c...

Raw and beautiful and completely devoid of pretension, Ali Whitelock's poems will speak to anyone who's ever messed up, been confused, wished they'd done things differently, to anyone who's had an affair and regretted it, who's been loved completely but was too blind to see it.

In her exquisite poems, Marjon Mossammaparast explores the physical experience of being human, bound to four dimensions, matched with the belief we are also spirit beings. And to Ecstasy is a poetic journey through space and time, projecting a transcendental element of reality. In her exquisite p...

"The love story between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy--in their own words Christopher Isherwood was the celebrated middle-aged English author of Goodbye to Berlin when he met the Californian teenager Don Bachardy on a Santa Monica beach in 1952. Defying convention, the two created an en...

Review: "In this volume, Andersen's most acclaimed works, such as "The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Snow Queen," and "The Little Mermaid," are now joined by "The Shadow," "Story of a Mother," and the rarely seen "Auntie Toothache," mature stories that reveal the imaginative depths of his prose an...

Antipodean China is a collection of essays drawn from a series of encounters between Australian and Chinese writers, which took place in China and Australia over a ten-year period from 2011. The encounters could be defensive, especially given the need to depend on translators, but as the writers ...