This book demonstrates how authors performing the role of a public intellectual discuss ideas and opinions regarding society while using literary strategies and devices in and beyond the text. Their assumed persona thereby reads the world as a book - interpreting it and offering alternative scenarios for understanding it.

A 50th anniversary celebration of key moments from the hilarious sit-com, in the definitive words of comedy legend John Cleese

Could a year of kind acts every single day really help change the world for the better? Bernadette Russell decided to find out…

The life and work of Katherine Mansfield, one of literary modernism’s most significant writers.

A raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache or grief.

The first biography of Robert Crumb, ?a monolithic presence who rewrote the rules of what comics are? (Art Spiegelman) and whose work shaped American culture and politics in the 20th century.

‘You think you’ve married a journalist, then, horrors, he becomes a politician.'