A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liber...

"After existing orally for hundreds of years, Sunjata was written down in the 20th century. David Conrad, who recorded a new version of the epic, h...

"After existing orally for hundreds of years, Sunjata was written down in the 20th century. David Conrad, who recorded a new version of the epic, h...

"As one of eight writers, poet Janet Charman was invited in 2009 to take part in a hectic, immersive literary residency in Hong Kong. Written out o...

"The terrified yell of my comrades makes me stop. I drop the potatoes into the grass and turn around. He has pulled out the pistol and is taking ai...

One can find plenty of literature on the life and works of William Shakespeare. Much less if any can be found and read about his three children. Th...

Rural communities, often the first indicators of economic downturns, play an important role in planning for development and sustainability. Increas...

This book gathers the voices of poets from across Canada, the US and the UK who write of water. Bottled, clouded, held in rain, in river, estuary ...

There’s no straightforward path to LGBTQ2 parenthood and just as every queer person has their own coming out story, every LGBTQ2 family has a uniqu...

Shortlisted, Independent Publishers Book Award, PoetryThe Qingming Shanghe Tu scroll, sometimes called "Spring Festival by the River," was thought ...

This is an English translation of Plato account of an important dialogue on the nature of love between Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophan...

T S Eliot, udually considered to be difficult and obscure, must be approached through the images running through his work as woof and wrap. This bo...

In Tacoma Narrows, Mitchell Parry reflects on the nature of disasters, both public and private. A reflection on things lost, Parry allows himself t...

In Take Us Quietly, Armstrong explores life, sickness, death and the importance of paying attention to the wider world, filtered through her own un...

Piquant, frank, open, wistful, tender, funny … this personal memoir by Diane Brown is deftly 'marbled' throughout with social history. From careful...

Ödön von Horváth (1901-1939) is one of the most important theatre writers in the 1930s. His reputation rests largely on the four plays in this coll...

An allegorical reckoning of the physical and psychic wounds inflicted by the oil sands.

Prudence Steiner's lively prose translation of Moliere's great comedy remains close to the original French, while casting the speech of characters ...

Prudence Steiner's lively prose translation of Moliere's great comedy remains close to the original French, while casting the speech of characters ...

Prudence Steiner's lively prose translations remain close to the original French, giving us the speech of the characters in a slightly compressed a...

Prudence Steiner's lively prose translations remain close to the original French, giving us the speech of the characters in a slightly compressed a...

This is a collection of three plays that span the career of award-winning playwright Stewart Lemoine and provide a taste of the delightful variety ...