Presents Clement Freud's best and most humorous writing on a broad sweep of topics, including his consuming passions of food, sport, politics and the absurdity of the human condition, reflecting his extraordinarily varied life through the prism of his distinctive deadpan humour.

Features six films about six very different poems from six different places in the British Isles. This title includes films that tell the story of poems - where they come from, how they work and the nature and reach of their influence and legacy. It offers additional poems about the landscape and nature of Britain.

Dealing with the craft of detective writing and sharing her personal thoughts and observations on one of the most popular and enduring forms of literature, the author examines the challenges, achievements, and potential of this genre.

Takes an irreverent yet illuminating look at the living myths and folklore that are reflected, celebrated and affectionately libelled in the uniquely imaginative universe of Discworld.

Ever since boys' comics were first published in the middle years of the nineteenth century, they have offered readers fun, adventure and escapism. This book tells the stories of footballing heroes. It presents the history of the comic book footballer. It introduces the magic of these imaginary sporting stars to a whole new generation.

A day by day calendar of Shakespeare's year. It follows the rural farming cycle of lambing to sheep-shearing to harvest home, as they are referred to in Shakespeare's plays and poetry. It lists the high days and holidays, from Christmas to Easter, Candelmas to Hocktide. Every passing month is supplied with quotations from the plays.

A major reassessment of the great English novelist

Whether you want to write a Petrarchan sonnet for your lover's birthday, an epithalamion for your sister's wedding or a villanelle excoriating the government's housing policy, this book gives you the tools and the confidence to do so with enjoyable exercises, insights and simple step-by-step advice.

The Heinemann Plays series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. This modern tragedy concerns a salesman who, at the end of his life, is forced to face its futility and failure.

Covers key Hitchhiker's concepts and plot devices from tea, cricket and towels to small yellow fish. This book contains stories behind all your favourite characters: Ford Prefect, Arthur Dent, Zaphod Beeblebox, Trisha McMillan and, of course, Marvin, the paranoid Android.

This edition of the classic reference has been thoroughly revised and updated, offering unrivalled coverage of English literature. It continues to offer detailed and authoritative information on authors and works, alongside extended coverage of popular literary genres, as well as of the themes and concepts encountered by students.

'York Notes Advanced' offer an accessible approach to English Literature. This series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, 'York Notes Advanced' introduce students to sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.

Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for well over a decade. This volume focuses on literary theory. It offers students and readers introduction to the field.

Suitable for parents keen to introduce their children to the wonderful world of books and for adults to update their knowledge of this specialized area of reading, this book takes you on a journey of discovery into fantasy, adventure, history and contemporary life.

When Dionysus the Renegade faked a Sophocles text in 400 BC (cunningly inserting the acrostic 'Heraclides is ignorant of letters') to humiliate an academic rival, he paved the way for two millennia of increasingly outlandish literary hoaxers. This book presents the history of this fascinating sub-genre of world literature.

Between 1953-57, John Betjeman read a series of poems on The Faith in the West program airing on the BBC's West of England Home Service. This series, called Poems in the Porch , was so popular that Betjeman received constant requests to publish the poems. This book features an important discovery in the canon of Betjeman's poems.

AQA English Literature B is the only set of resources to have been developed with, and exclusively endorsed by, AQA, making them the first choice to support the new AQA specification for AS and A2.

* A follow-up to Aurum's successful Agatha Christie Companion * Lavishly illustrated throughout in full colour * Aimed at the gift market as well as the aficionado * Plot summaries of every Holmes story * Includes original interviews with actors who've played Holmes

Covers such subjects as the secretive (and, to some, sinister) world of Freemasonry and the influence it had on America's founding fathers, the Masonic symbolism found in, for instance, the US one-dollar bill and the architecture of Washington DC. This book is suitable for those who want to delve deeper into the mysteries of Dan Brown's fiction.

York Notes on English literature are packed with summaries, commentaries, exam advice, margin and textual features to offer a wider context to the text and encourage a critical analysis.