Depicting the gradual disintegration of the Compson family through four fractured narratives, this title explores passionate family relationships where there is no love, only self-centredness. It is about lovelessness - 'only an idiot has no grief; only a fool would forget it. What else is there in this world sharp enough to stick to your guts?'

Successive episodes in the death and burial of Addie Bundren are recounted by various members of the family circle, principally as they are carting their mother's coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, in order to bury her among her people.

Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his perverted God-fearing lover, it becomes inevitable that he is pursued by a lynch-hungry mob. Yet after the sacrifice, there is new life, a determined ray of light in the author's complex and tragic world.

Narrated by Quentin Compson, the suicide in The Sound and the Fury , this is the tale of Thomas Sutpen, a poor White who dreams of founding a dynasty. His refusal to accept his wife's Negro blood initiates a bloody train of events to create a vision of doom of the American South.

The story of an elderly black farmer arrested for the murder of a white man and threatened by a lynch mob in America's Deep South. A characteristically Faulknerian tale of dark omen, its sole ray of hope the character of a young white boy who repays on old favour by proving the farmer's innocence.

In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict risks his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these seperate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation.

This is a post war story of a wounded, helpless and dying officer returning home to his father and his fickle sweetheart in Georgia.

In this biography, David Minter draws upon a wealth of material, including the novelist's essays, interviews, and letters, to show the life and the artistic achievement of one of 20th-century America's most complex literary figures and to reveal Faulkner as powerful, vulnerable and real.

William Faulkner was a writer deeply rooted in the American South, one who drew strongly on Southern themes, attitudes and atmosphere in creating the mythical Yoknapatawpha County. This study explores the ancestors and Southern society that formed the basis of Faulkner's fiction.

This collection of essays by ten major scholars explores Faulkner's widespread cultural import.

Killing Kind is a terrifying thriller from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Dark Hollow .

A classic work on British clockmaking, considered one of the best accounts of the development of the main types of clocks since the middle of the 17th century.

A collection of the author's literary essays from 2000 to 2005. It discusses writers such as Italo Svevo, Joseph Roth, Bruno Schulz, Sandor Marai who lived through the Austro-Hungarian fin de siecle and felt the influence of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Freud.

Full title: 'Hemingway and Bailey's Bartending Guide to Great American Writers'. Forty-three classic American writers and forty-three classic cocktails mixed, shaken, and stirred into an intoxicating concoction.

A father and his son walk alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast. This book presents the story of their journey. It imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which two people, 'each the other's world entire', are sustained by love.

Tells the story of design and decorative art in Britain from the time of Henry VIII to the reign of Queen Victoria. It shows how Britain's rise during this period to become the most powerful nation on earth was reflected in her art, architecture and in the quantity of things made in Britain.

A celebration of the V&A's remarkable collection of fan prints (uchiwa-e) by the admired early 19th-century ukiyo-e woodblock print artist Utagawa Hiroshige. The collection is published in its entirety: 126 fan prints, which are remarkablefor their vibrant colours and striking design.