A delicious compendium of literary feuds, slights, spleen and venom, drawn from the Guardian newspaper column 'Writers on Writers'

Celebrities - you've got to love them, haven't you? And there's no time you love them more than when they are having a dig at each other. This title records hundreds of the greatest jibes, put-downs and cheapest shots ever to spill forth from the over-privileged mouths of the nation's so-called VIPs.

A collection of tales that can inspire you to live your dreams. It presents stories that demonstrate the best qualities we share as human beings: compassion, grace, forgiveness, generosity and faith and they share a collected wisdom on love, parenting, teaching, death and the overcoming of obstacles.

Explores some of the most famous speeches.

A survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, this edition represents essential works in genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf to global twentieth-century classics. It contains concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines and bibliographies.

A collection of author's stories, including Library of Babel .

Over 700 years of literature about, or set in, Venice. Contains extracts from the works of poets, novelists, playwrights, historians and travellers. With city maps and an index.

Offers wisdom from writers, philosophers, politicians, actors, and others that demonstrate the power of the question 'What if?' to alter the way we think about our world, using these possibilities to bolster an argument or drive home a point.

An international selection of 15 short stories by distinguished modern writers including Peter Carey, Zadie Smith and Bernard Malamud. Featuring the theme of 'difference', each story has something to say about cultural encounters, often arising from experiences of migration or uprooting. With biographic and photographic portraits.

A selection of the author's critical writings, short fiction and poetry that demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind.

A survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, this edition represents essential works in genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf to global twentieth-century classics. It contains concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines and bibliographies.

Gathering together 44 tales from around the world, from the 5th century on, this critical edition examines the genre, its cultural implications and its critical history. She has focused on six different tale types, and includes multicultural variants and literary rescriptings.

A wonderful and pithy collection of sayings, advice, confession and home truths about the relationships between men and women. Originally published 1910 and illustrated with charming and funny contemporary illustrations. Don't make love to a girl in a hammock; you may both fall out.

Features texts by a range of male and female poets, political and philosophical writers, diarists, painters, broadside-balladeers, reviewers and letter-writers.

Away at Christmas is a collection of incredible stories of human endeavour drawn from the journals of the world's greatest explorers.

In print since 1948, this is a single-volume collection of Oscar Wilde's texts. It contains his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters. Illustrated with many photographs.

Taking us from pregnancy through infancy, childhood and adolescence to adult life and death, this fascinating anthology of extracts from letters and diaries shows us some of the ways mothers and fathers have thought about and written to their children over the past eight hundred years

As more and more secular funerals are taking place, there is a need for appropriate texts. This collection offers 70 poems and prose extracts suitable for reading at funerals and celebrations of a life. It includes selections that range from Shakespeare to Chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee Nation, and from Christina Rossetti to St Francis of Assissi.

An anthology which includes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.