In the week's blog, Denise Hanrahan Wells looks Jane Austen's first published novel, 'Sense and Sensibility'. Read the blog here: bit.ly/SandS_Blog Our Collector's Edition can be found here: bit.ly/SandS_WWE

On International Dylan Thomas Day, and as Taylor Swift name-checks Dylan Thomas on her album, The Tortured Poets Department, Sally Minogue looks at Thomas’s cultural power and the long-standing relationship between poetry and song bit.ly/DTDay_blog #dylanthomas #TaylorSwift

In this week's blog, David Stuart Davies looks at Victor Hugo's classic tale of 15th-Century Paris, 'The Hunchback of Notre-Dame'. Read the blog here: bit.ly/HofN-D_Blog Our edition of the book, for £3.99, is here: bit.ly/HofN-D_WWE

2024 marks the 200th anniversary of poet Lord Byron’s death. In this week's blog, Sally Minogue looks at his writing and his life, and the age-old question as to whether we can separate the two. Read it here: bit.ly/Byron_Blog Our edition of his Selected Poems, for £4.99,

“Half the new building will be dedicated to Boris Johnson alone.” Oh this is joyous. Electoral street art, just spotted in Oxford. Planning permission for a new wing at the Bodleian Library. Enjoy 🔥🔥🔥

In this week's blog, Denise Hanrahan Wells looks at one of Henry James' finest works, 'The Aspern Papers'. Read the blog here: bit.ly/Aspern_Blog Our edition, for £3.99 (and including 'The Turn of the Screw') is here: bit.ly/Aspern_WWE

Anyone who has glanced to our Top 10 Bestseller lists in recent years will be aware of just how popular Russian literature is, both here and in the United States. In this week's blog, Sally Minogue sets the scene for an upcoming trio of blogs on Russian Classics: 'Fathers and

Continuing our short series on Russian Literature, in this week's blog, Sally Minogue has a look Turgenev's 'Father and Sons' in its contemporary context, and at the novel as we might read it today. Read the blog here: bit.ly/Turgenev_Blog Our edition of the book, for £3.99,

'The Idiot' is the novel in which Dostoevsky attempted the difficult experiment of creating a central character who embodied goodness. In this week's blog Sally Minogue looks at the resulting fiction. Read it here: bit.ly/Idiot_Blog Our new Dostoevsky box set can be found

In this final blog on a trio of great Russian novels, Sally Minogue suggests reasons for thinking that Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is the greatest of the three. Read the blog here: bit.ly/AK_Blog Our edition, for £3.99, is here: bit.ly/AK_WWE

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his first Sherlock Holmes story, 'A Study in Scarlet', in 1887, but he was still writing them into the 1920s. In this week's blog, Denise Hanrahan Wells looks at three of stories that are having their centenary this year. Read the blog here:

Best known as the author of the classic novel, 'The Awakening', Kate Chopin also wrote many highly-rated short stories. In today's blog, Denise Hanrahan Wells looks at two of them. Read it here: bit.ly/Chopin_Blog Our edition of 'The Awakening and Selected Stories', for

In our blog for Halloween, Stephen Carver looks at the supernatural fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell, better known for her classic novels 'Mary Barton', 'North and South' and 'Wives and Daughters'. Read it here: bit.ly/Gaskell_Blog Our edition of Gaskell's 'Tales of Mystery and

‘He do the Police in different voices’ As Charles Dickens’ last complete novel, 'Our Mutual Friend', is adapted for BBC Radio 4, Sally Minogue looks at the novel’s relationship to his world and to ours. Read the blog here: bit.ly/OMF_blog2 Our edition, for £3.99, is here:

Read Sally Minogue's blog Sally Minogue on Herman Melville's classic American novel, 'Moby Dick' here: bit.ly/MobyD_blog Our two editions can be found here, from £3.99: bit.ly/MobyD_WWE

This week's blog has a seasonal theme as Sally Minogue Sally Minogue looks at some of the ways that writers, such as Coleridge, Rossetti and Hardy, have drawn inspiration from winter weather. Read the blog here: bit.ly/WinterWWE_Blog

In this week's blog, Mia Rocquemore reflects on time and nature in the poetry of Shelley. Read the blog here: bit.ly/Shelley_Blog Our edition of Shelley's selected poetry and prose, for £4.99, is here: bit.ly/Shelley_WWE

In today's blog, Sally Minogue reviews the BBC drama 'Miss Austen' which concluded last night. As Sally points out in her article, large parts of it and the book on which it was based were fictitious. Does this matter? Did this have any impact on your enjoyment of the programme?

Does it make sense to think of writing as belonging to a particular place? In this week's blog, Sally Minogue Sally Minogue reflects on the influence Yorkshire has had on our national literature. Read the blog here: bit.ly/Yorkshire_Blog Our various editions of 'Wuthering

In this week's blog, David Ellis looks at one of Charles Dickens' most popular novels. Read the blog here: bit.ly/OCS_Blog Our edition, for £3.99, is here: bit.ly/OCS_WWE