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New Ebooks on our Ebook Platforms

In this box, you will see several links to ebooks that enter our collection through our publisher package deals.
For individual purchases of print books and ebooks from other publishers, please see below.

Brill (Brill and partner presses)
All books in the subsection English & Anglophone in the field Literature and Cultural Studies published in 2023 and 2024.
Cambridge Core (Cambridge University Press and partner presses)
All books in the field of English Literature: General Interest published in the last 12 months. Please note that Cambridge offer more categories in the field of English Literature. Use the Browse Subjects menu item on the Cambridge Core website to navigate further.
De Gruyter (De Gruyter and partner presses)
All English-language books in the subject area of Literary Studies published in the last year.
Oxford University Press
All books in the field of Literature published in 2023 and 2024.
Taylor & Francis (T&F and partner presses)
All books in the field of Language & Literature published in the last 12 months.
Bloomsbury Collections
All books in the field of British and Irish Literature published in 2023 and 2024.

New Books (October 2024)

Time Shelter

Gospodinov, Georgi. Time Shelter. Translated by Angela Rodel. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022.

Rosewater

Thompson, Tade. Rosewater. London: Orbit, 2016.

Zone One

Whitehead, Colson. Zone One: A Novel. London: Vintage, 2011.

Dracula, Dracula’s Guest, and Other Stories

Stoker, Bram, and David Stuart Davies. Dracula ; Dracula’s Guest, and Other Stories. Ware: Wordsworth Editions, 2009.

The Word Is Murder

Horowitz, Anthony. The Word Is Murder. New York: Harper Perennial, 2018

S.

Abrams, J. J., and Doug Dorst. S. La Vergne: Canongate Books, 2013.

The Lieutenant

Grenville, Kate. The Lieutenant. La Vergne: Canongate Books, 2009.

Mid-Century Women's Writing

Dinsman, Melissa, Megan Faragher, and Ravenel Richardson, eds. Mid-Century Women’s Writing: Disrupting the Public/Private Divide. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024.

New Books (September 2024)

The Norton Anthology of English Literature (11th Edition)

Greenblatt, Stephen, ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Eleventh edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2024.

The Calamity Form

Nersessian, Anahid. The Calamity Form : On Poetry and Social Life. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020.

C. S. Lewis

Evans, Robert C., ed. C. S. Lewis. Critical Insights. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2023.

Green Modernism

McCarthy, Jeffrey Mathes. Green Modernism: Nature and the English Novel, 1900 to 1930. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Keats's Odes

Nersessian, Anahid. Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Selected Poems 1

Atwood, Margaret. Selected Poems 1: 1965-1975. HarperCollins Publishers, 2023.

Medieval Drama (ebook)

Bevington, David. Medieval Drama. Cambridge, MA: Hackett, 2012.

At the Beach

Urbain, Jean-Didier. At the Beach. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.

The Woman Novelist and Other Stories

Gardner, Diana. The Woman Novelist and Other Stories. London: Persephone Books, 2006.

Poetry As Spellcasting

Beyer, Tamiko, Destiny Hemphill, and Lisbeth White. Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 2023.

Tell It to a Stranger

Berridge, Elizabeth. Tell It to a Stranger: Stories from the 1940s. London: Persephone Books, 2000. Originally published in 1947.

Yellowface

Kuang, R. F. Yellowface: A Novel. New York, NY: William Morrow, 2023.

Fabulosa

Rigby, Karen. Fabulosa. [United States]: Jackleg Press, 2024.

Every Good Deed and Other Stories

Whipple, Dorothy. Every Good Deed and Other Stories. London: Persephone Books, 2016.

New Books (July-August 2024)

Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory

Jones, Ann Rosalind, and Peter Stallybrass. Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

M. Butterfly

Hwang, David Henry. M. Butterfly. New York, NY: Plume Books, 2017.

Citizen

Rankine, Claudia. Citizen: An American Lyric. London: Penguin Books, 2014.

A Book of Monsters

Ashford, David. A Book of Monsters: Promethean Horror in Modern Literature and Culture. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024.

D. H. Lawrence and Feminism (ebook)

Simpson, Hilary. D. H. Lawrence and Feminism. London: Routledge, 2024. Originally published in 1982.

Eco-Modernism

Diaper, Jeremy, ed. Eco-Modernism: Ecology, Environment, and Nature in Literary Modernism. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Press, 2022.

New Books (June 2024)

What I’d Rather Not Think About

Posthuma, Jente. What I’d Rather Not Think About. Translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey. Melbourne: Scribe, 2023.

Virginia Woolf: Night and Day

Viriginia Woolf: Night and Day. Edited by Michael H. Whitworth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

The Romance of Tristran by Beroul and Beroul II

The Romance of Tristran by Beroul and Beroul II. Translated by Barbara Nelson Sargent-Baur. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store

McBride, James. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. New York: Riverhead Books, 2023.

Revolution in Poetic Language

Kristeva, Julia. Revolution in Poetic Language. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024.

The Darcy Myth

Feder, Rachel. The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love. Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2023.

Selected Letters of Wilfred Owen

Selected Letters of Wilfred Owen. Edited by Jane Potter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Knife

Rushdie, Salman. Knife: Meditations after an Attempted Murder. London: Jonathan Cape, 2024.

The Art of the Short Story

Gioia, Dana, and R. S. Gwynn. The Art of the Short Story. New York: Pearson Longman, 2006.

Appropriate

Rekdal, Paisley. Appropriate: A Provocation. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 2021.

New Books (May 2024)

Purple Passage

Hahn, Emily. Purple Passage: A Novel About a Lady Both Famous and Fantastic. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950.

The English Short Story, 1880-1945

Flora, Joseph M., ed. The English Short Story, 1880-1945: A Critical History. Boston, MA: Twayne, 1985.

The Years

Woolf, Virginia. The Years. Edited by Anna Snaith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

The 40s

Finder, Henry, and Giles Harvey. The 40s : The Story of a Decade. New York: Random House, 2014.

The Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism

Dow, William, Roberta S. Maguire, and Yoko Nakamura, eds. The Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism. New York: Routledge, 2020.

Disciplining Modernism

Caughie, Pamela L. Disciplining Modernism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Modernism and Its Environments

Rubenstein, Michael, and Justin Neuman. Modernism and Its Environments. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

New Books (April 2024)

Virginia Woolf: Orlando

Virginia Woolf: Orlando: A Biography. Edited by Suzanne Raitt and Ian Blyth. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf

Susan Dick, ed. The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf. Second edition. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989.

Uncle Vanya (DVD)

McPherson, Conor, Ian Rickson, and Ross MacGibbon. Uncle Vanya. Sonia Friedman Production ; Dazzler Media, 2021.

Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway. Edited by Anne E. Fernald. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Light from Uncommon Stars

Aoki, Ryka. Light from Uncommon Stars. New York: Tor, 2021.

Notes from the Field

Smith, Anna Deavere. Notes from the Field. New York: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House, 2019.

Prophet Song

Lynch, Paul. Prophet Song. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023.

British Boarding Houses in Interwar Women's Literature

Mullholland, Terri. British Boarding Houses in Interwar Women’s Literature: Alternative Domestic Spaces. London: Routledge, 2017.

Wifedom

Funder, Anna. Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life. London: Penguin Books, 2024.

Virginia Woolf: Jacob's Room

Virginia Woolf: Jacob’s Room. Edited by Stuart Nelson Clarke and David Bradshaw. The Cambridge edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

New Books (March 2024)

Nzingha

McKissack, Pat. Nzingha, Warrior Queen of Matamba. New York, New York: Scholastic, 2000.

Skin Shows

Halberstam, Jack. Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.

Unquiet Spirits

Lee Murray and Angela Yuriko Smith, eds. Unquiet Spirits Essays by Asian Women in Horror. Nashville, TN: Black Spot Books Non-Fiction, 2023.

The Hanging on Union Square

Tsiang, H. T. The Hanging on Union Square: An American Epic. Edited by Floyd Cheung. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2019.

The Fraud

Smith, Zadie. The Fraud. London: Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2023.

A Stranger with a Bag

Warner, Sylvia Townsend. A Stranger with a Bag: And Other Stories. London: Faber And Faber, 2011.

The Norton Chaucer

David Lawton, Jennifer Arch, and Kathryn L. Lynch, eds. The Norton Chaucer. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.

Christ the Physician in Late-Medieval Religious Controversy

Outhwaite, Patrick. Christ the Physician in Late-Medieval Religious Controversy : England and Central Europe, 1350-1434. Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, 2024.

Oliver Twist

Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. Edited by Kathleen Tillotson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Big Fiction

Sinykin, Dan. Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023.

Virginia Woolf : Writing the World

Pamela L. Caughie and Diana L. Swanson, eds. Virginia Woolf: Writing the World: Selected from the Twenty-Fourth Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Digital Press, 2015.

Hawksmoor

Ackroyd, Peter. Hawksmoor. London: Penguin, 2010.

Literate Zeal

Eldred, Janet Carey. Literate Zeal: Gender, Editing, and the Making of a New Yorker Ethos. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.

New Books (January-February 2024)

The Story of a Brief Marriage

Arudpragasam, Anuk. The Story of a Brief Marriage. London: Granta Books, 2017.

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Sillitoe, Alan. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. London: Harper Perennial, 2007.

The Girls of Slender Means

Spark, Muriel. The Girls of Slender Means. London: Penguin, 2013.

Robot Dreams

Varon, Sara. Robot Dreams. New York: Square Fish, 2016.

Palestinian Walks

Shehadeh, Raja. Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape. London: Profile, 2008.

Her Body and Other Parties

Machado, Carmen Maria. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories. Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2017.

Blasted

Kane, Sarah. Blasted. London: Methuen, 2002.

Among the White Moon Faces

Lim, Shirley. Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1996.

Travelling Texts - Texts Travelling

Renate Bauer, Christine Elsweiler, Ulrike Krischke, and Kerstin Majewski, eds. Travelling Texts - Texts Travelling: A “Gedenkschrift” in Memory of Hans Sauer. München: Utzverlag, 2023.

What It Is

Barry, Lynda. What It Is. Montréal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2008.

Red

Yahgulanaas, Michael Nicoll. Red: A Haida Manga. Madeira Park, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 2014.

Hicksville

Horrocks, Dylan. Hicksville: A Comic Book. Montréal, Quebec: Drawn & Quarterly Publications, 2010.

For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

Mackenzie, Victoria. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain. London: Bloomsbury, 2023.

Building Stories

Ware, Chris. Building Stories. New York: Pantheon Books, 2012.

Bone

Smith, Jeff. Bone. Columbus, OH: Cartoon Books, 2004.

Marvel 1602

Gaiman, Neil, Andy Kubert. Marvel 1602. New York, NY: Marvel Comics, 2005.

Agatha Christie

Worsley, Lucy. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman. London: Hodder, 2023.

This Afterlife

Stallings, A. E. This Afterlife: Selected Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.

The Return

Matar, Hisham. The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between. London: Penguin Books, 2017.

Strangers on a Pier

Aw, Tash. Strangers on a Pier: Portrait of a Family. London: 4th Estate, 2021.

Slaughterhouse-Five

North, Ryan, Albert Monteys, and Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death. Los Angeles, CA: Archaia, 2023.

Prisoner #1056

Ratnavel, Roy. Prisoner #1056: How I Survived War and Found Peace. Toronto, ON: Viking, 2023.

Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy

Terciero, Rey, and Bre Indigo. Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy : A Graphic Novel. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019.

Last Days in Babylon

Benjamin, Marina. Last Days in Babylon: The Story of the Jews of Baghdad. London: Bloomsbury, 2008.

Going Home

Shehadeh, Raja. Going Home: A Walk through Fifty Years of Occupation. London: Profile Books, 2020.

Collected Poems

Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan. Collected Poems. Edited by Peter Fallon. Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland: Gallery Books, 2020.

American Born Chinese

Yang, Gene Luen. American Born Chinese. New York: First Second, 2021.

Shakespeare’s Macbeth

Barlow, Steve, Steve Skidmore, Jason Millet, Edu Rubio. Shakespeare’s Macbeth: A Graphic Novel. London: Franklin Watts, 2022.

Anne Frank’s Diary

Folman, Ari. Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation. UK: Viking, 2018.

The Linguistics of the History of English

Knooihuizen, Remco. The Linguistics of the History of English. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

Notes on Grief

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Notes on Grief. London: 4th Estate, 2021.

Modernism in the Green

Daniel, Julia E., and Margaret Konkol, eds. Modernism in the Green: Public Greens in Modern Literature and Culture. New York, NY: Routledge, 2020.

Modernist Short Fiction and Things

Gasston, Aimée. Modernist Short Fiction and Things. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

Turning Japanese

MariNaomi. Turning Japanese. Expanded Edition. Portland, OR: Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, 2023.

The Joy of Quitting

Roberts, Keiler. The Joy of Quitting. Montréal, Québec: Drawn & Quarterly, 2022.

Smile

Telgemeier, Raina, and Stephanie Yue. Smile. New York: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2010.

On a Sunbeam

Walden, Tillie. On a Sunbeam. New York: :01, First Second, 2018.

Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron

Quinn, Julia, and Violet Charles. Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron: A Graphic Novel. New York, NY: Avon, 2022.

Love Marriage

Ali, Monica. Love Marriage. London: Virago, 2023.

Gender Queer

Kobabe, Maia, and Phoebe Kobabe. Gender Queer: A Memoir. Portland, OR: Oni Press, 2023.

Fights

Gill, Joel Christian. Fights: One Boy’s Triumph over Violence. Portland, OR: Oni Press, 2020.

Dakwäkãda Warriors

Pauls, Cole. Dakwäkãda Warriors. Wolfville, NS, Canada: Conundrum Press, 2019.

This Dialogue of One

Ford, Mark. This Dialogue of One: Essays on Poets from John Donne to Joan Murray. London: Eyewear Publishing, 2015.

The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction

Allan, Janice M., Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King, and Andrew Pepper, eds. The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2020.

New Books (December 2023)

Mid-Century Gothic

Mullen, Lisa. Mid-Century Gothic: The Uncanny Objects of Modernity in British Literature and Culture After the Second World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019.

Eunoia

Bök, Christian. Eunoia. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2009.

Tipping the Velvet

Waters, Sarah. Tipping the Velvet. 20th Anniversary edition. London: Virago, 2018.

Selected Poems

Paterson, Don. Selected Poems. London: Faber and Faber, 2012.

The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison

The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison. Edited by John F Callahan. The Modern Library Classics. New York: Modern Library, 2003.

Lessons

McEwan, Ian. Lessons. London: Vintage, 2023.

In Search of Fatima

Karmi, Ghada. In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story. Second edition. London: Verso, 2009.

Return

Karmi, Ghada. Return: A Palestinian Memoir. London: Verso, 2015.

Black Panther: A Nation under Our Feet

Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Black Panther: A Nation under Our Feet. New York, NY: Marvel Worldwide, 2017.

House of Stone

Shadid, Anthony. House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East. Boston: Mariner Books, 2013.

99 Ways to Tell a Story

Madden, Matt. 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style. London: Jonathan Cape, 2006.

West Indian Stories

Salkey, Andrew, ed. West Indian Stories. United States of America: Hassell Street Press, 2021.

Atlas of Imagined Places

Brown, Matt, and Rhys B Davies. Atlas of Imagined Places: From Lilliput to Gotham City. United Kingdom: Batsford, 2021.

The Owl and the Nightingale and the English Poems of Oxford, Jesus College, MS 29 (II)

Fein, Susanna, ed. The Owl and the Nightingale and the English Poems of Jesus College Ms 29 (II). Middle English Text Series. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2022.