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Author of Illusions

Thucydides’ Rewriting of the History of the Peloponnesian War

By: Robert D. Luginbill

£39.99

Pericles brought about the downfall of the Athenian empire. This truth was obscured by Thucydides, who reinvented the Peloponnesian War to absolve Pericles. This book examines how one man created a myth that has lasted millennia, unquestioned by scholars.

Basic Categories of Fantastic Literature Revisited

Edited By: Joanna Matyjaszczyk, Piotr Spyra, Andrzej Wicher

£41.99

This collection of essays offers a theoretical overview of fantastic literature. An accessible introduction to the field, it analyzes works by authors such as H.P. Lovecraft, George R.R. Martin, and Neil Gaiman alongside world literature classics.

Before Windrush

Recovering an Asian and Black Literary Heritage within Britain

Edited By: Pallavi Rastogi, Jocelyn Fenton Stitt

£34.99

This anthology testifies to a British nation that has been multiracial for centuries. Through essays on Asian and Black writers living in Britain before the post-WWII wave of immigration, Before Windrush reveals a hidden literary history.

Biofiction and Writers’ Afterlives

Edited By: Bethany Layne

From £29.99

Twelve original essays explore the afterlives of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers in biofiction and the biopic. Featuring case studies on Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf, this volume situates these genres in their cultural and ideological contexts.

Border Crossings

Narration, Nation and Imagination in Scots and Irish Literature and Culture

Edited By: Lauren Clark, Colin Younger

£44.99

Borderlands are crucibles for diverse cultures and alternative histories. This collection explores the contested terrains of the British Isles, where borders extend beyond the geographical to the cultural, psychic, and social, shaping competing identities.

Brief Forms in Medieval and Renaissance Hispanic Literature

Edited By: Alejandro Coroleu

£61.99

The studies gathered here engage in different ways with the ideas of André Jolles (1874–1946), whose Einfache Formen (“Simple Forms”) was first published in 1930. This anthology will be of interest to scholars of medieval and early modern Spanish, Catalan and Latin literature.

Byron and Orientalism

Edited By: Peter Cochran

From £18.99

Byron is often thought of as the Romantic poet most familiar with the East. This book examines this thesis, looking at Byron’s knowledge of the East and its religions, his Turkish Tales, his influence on Pushkin, and his own disorientated existence.

Canterbury

A Medieval City

Edited By: Catherine Royer-Hemet

£39.99

Since becoming the religious heart of the country in AD 597, Canterbury's fame has endured. This book explores its history, from illustrious figures like Thomas Becket and Chaucer to the lesser-known people and events that shaped its identity.

Since becoming the religious heart of the country in AD 597, Canterbury’s fame has endured. This book explores its history, from illustrious figures like Thomas Becket and Chaucer to the lesser-known people and events that shaped its identity.

Captivity, Past and Present

A Compendium of Observations and Interpretations

Edited By: Benjamin Mark Allen

£34.99

Analyses of human bondage from the early modern era to now. Essays cover 16th-century Spanish sagas, Puritan narratives, the slave narrative of Olaudah Equiano, and incarcerated mothers. Includes an original 19th-century Comanche captivity narrative.

Change and Confusion in Catholicism

A Historical Perspective on Today’s Liminal Church

By: Nathan R. Kollar

From £39.99

We live in a liminal time of severe disorientation. This book uses the author's personal and professional experiences to analyse how Catholics experience liminality today and dealt with it in the past, providing a historical case study of what to expect and what comes next.

We live in a liminal time of severe disorientation. This book uses the author’s personal and professional experiences to analyse how Catholics experience liminality today and dealt with it in the past, providing a historical case study of what to expect and what comes next.

Charles D’Oyly’s Lost Satire of British India

Tom Raw, the Griffin, 1828

Edited By: Hermione de Almeida, George H. Gilpin

From £33.99

Suppressed upon its 1828 publication, this lost satiric epic is a wickedly funny critique of British India. Written and illustrated by an insider—an artist serving the empire—it reveals the fault lines of colonial rule through a young cadet's eyes.

Cheap Print and the People

European Perspectives on Popular Literature

Edited By: David Atkinson, Steve Roud

From £32.99

For 500 years, cheap print was the staple diet of ordinary Europeans, offering news, scandal, folktales, and songs. Neglected for centuries, these materials shine a light on the culture and lives of the people. This is the first pan-European study of the subject.

Colonial Psychosocial

Reading William Lane

By: David Crouch

£41.99

With blistering rhetoric, William Lane mesmerised colonial Australia, playing on its fears of disease, deformity and invasion. This book follows his life—from dark cities to a failed utopia—to trace how he shaped a lasting legacy of exclusion.

Conflict, Memory Transfers and the Reshaping of Europe

Edited By: Filomena Viana Guarda, Adriana Martins, Helena Gonçalves da Silva

£44.99

This book discusses memory construction associated with war, genocide, and colonialism. It offers an interdisciplinary examination of how conflict memories reshape history and identity, destabilizing fixed meanings and clarifying our invisible bonds to the past.

Constructing Identities

The Interaction of National, Gender and Racial Borders

Edited By: Antonio Medina-Rivera, Lee Wilberschied

£44.99

Border studies examines the conflicts and resolutions that occur when groups come into contact. This peer-reviewed selection of papers focuses on historical, national, gender, and racial borders, and their implications in the construction of an identity.

Contemporary Perspectives on Language, Culture and Identity in Anglo-American Contexts

Edited By: Éva Antal, Csaba Czeglédi, Eszter Krakkó

From £32.99

This collection of essays highlights the variety in contemporary English and American studies and linguistics. It examines travelling and recollection in literature, male and female voices in narratives, representations of history, and the theoretical questions of language.

Contested Histories in Contemporary Travel Writing on India

By: Antara Datta

From £29.99

This book questions the relevance of travel writing in a flagrantly unequal world. It examines how acclaimed writers like V.S. Naipaul and Amitav Ghosh engage with the socio-political realities of post-independence India, revealing the interplay of travel, politics, and history.

Contesting Categories, Remapping Boundaries

Literary Interventions by Tamil Dalits

By: Krishnamurthy Alamelu Geetha

£41.99

This book traces the evolution of Tamil Dalit writing from the early twentieth century to the present and explores its impact on academia. It analyses the literary works of Tamil Dalits and explores how students respond to this literature in university curricula.

Contextualizing Indigenous Knowledge in Africa and its Diaspora

Edited By: Ibigbolade Aderibigbe, Alloy Ihuah, Felisters Kripono

£47.99

This book proposes adopting African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) for Africa’s renewal and freedom. It offers solutions to the continent's chronic problems from within, balancing short-term thinking with long-term planning for future generations.

This book proposes adopting African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) for Africa’s renewal and freedom. It offers solutions to the continent’s chronic problems from within, balancing short-term thinking with long-term planning for future generations.

Conversational Exchanges in Early Modern England (1549-1640)

Edited By: Kristen Abbott Bennett

£47.99

These essays explore how conversational exchanges in Early Modern England informed cultural productions. Conversation functioned as a method for creation and interpretation, a metamorphic force that did not simply reproduce, but transformed with each interaction.