Hans Christian Andersen is known and loved throughout modern China. With his fairy tales and other stories the Danish author builds a bridge of ima...

Named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Books of 2016. For close to fifty years, three masters of the hard-boiled detective novel dispatched intrep...

Named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Books of 2016. For close to fifty years, three masters of the hard-boiled detective novel dispatched intrep...

This book explores contemporary ways of reading some important New Zealand literary works, all produced between 1910 and 1940. Interpretations of t...

Robert McKelvey argues that John Bunyan wrote The Holy War as a warfare allegory symbolizing the salvation history of Scripture from a Calvinistic-...

A study of the use of history as political ammunition and literature as historical counter-discourse in Mongane Serote's "Gods of Our Time", Mike N...

This portrayal of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) is based on published and unpublished sources. Like many women novelists of her time -- pa...

In this book academics write about significant fantasy books, films, television series and music. The different approaches offer new insights into ...

How does a city make a writer? Described by Fiona Kidman as a ‘ravishing, immersing read’, A Strange Beautiful Excitement is a ‘wild ride’ through ...

A unique, candid and intimate survey of the life and work of 12 of our most acclaimed writers: Patricia Grace, Tessa Duder, Owen Marshall, Philip T...

It has been very difficult over the years for collectors to know just what has been produced from the works of Tolkien, and where it can be purchas...

This book combines the reading public's interest in science fiction with the always popular biography genre. The book contains one hundred concise ...

This book offers a complex and thought-provoking anthology of critical essays respecting the notion of the witness and phenomena of witnessing in W...

Robin Hyde's extraordinary but short life (1906-39) included a precocious early career as poet and parliamentary reporter. As a journalist, she jug...