This study covers a wide range of Doris Lessing's works, including all of the novels (from The Grass is Singing through The Golden Notebook to The Good Terrorist and The Fifth Child) and a representative selection of her non-fictional prose and short stories. This is a concise but scholarly book, offering not only critical insights but a valuable up-to-date bibiliography.

Doris Lessing (Writers and Their Work)

Biographies & Memoirs

Maslen, Elizabeth

Arts & Literature

Northcote House Publishers

Tony Harrison has been acclaimed worldwide, not only for his poetry but for his lyric sequences and long poems, for his adaptations and original plays for the theatre, his opera libretti and his verse films for television.

Tony Harrison (Writers and Their Work)

Literature & Fiction

Kelleher, Joe

British & Irish

Pre-Raphaelitism: Poetry and Painting (Writers and Their Work)

This book re-assesses the significance to Pre-Raphaelitism of the fundamental relationship of poem to painting, of the visual to the verbal, to examine those aspects of the movement that account for its enduring legacy. Beginning with the profound and somewhat neglected influence of Ruskin's work upon the poets and painters, Smith focuses in particular upon the Pre-Raphaelite rehabilitation of the sister arts analogy, and an aesthetic of ekphrasis as played out in the short-lived periodical The Germ and in D.G. Rossetti's sonnets for pictures. At the heart of the project is a new reading of the notorious circumstances of Rossetti's coffined book - those manuscript poems Rossetti disinterred from his wife Elizabeth Siddal's grave that brings to the fore the all-pervasive significance to the Pre-Raphaelites of a complex aesthetic of resurrection. With this and other examples, Smith redefines for us those categories of the corporeal and spiritual, the material and immaterial, the verbal and visual that the Pre-Raphaelites aspired to re-conceptualise.

Arts & Photography

SMITH, LINDSAY

History & Criticism

The first full-length evaluation of the Booker prize-winning novelist ( for The Ghost Road) whose fiction explores issues of gender and class, violence and memory, across the generations in 20th century Britain.

Pat Barker (Writers and Their Work)

Monteith, Sharon

Religious Poets of the 17th Century (Writers and their Work)

Wilcox, Helen

Jamaica Kincaid (Writers and their Work)

Nasta, Susheila

Athol Fugard (Writers and Their Work)

Athol Fugard is widely recognised as one of the most important living dramatists, a total man of the theatre. Professor Walder's study asks how successfully the South African's dramatist's work continues the search for reconciliation and harmony in a country still haunted by its terrible past.

Athol Fugard (Writers and their Work)

Walder, Dennis

Dramas & Plays

Ama Ata Aidoo (Writers and Their Work)

This book examines the work of Ama Ata Aidoo from the perspectives of her early writing in Ghana of the 1960s, her development of the short story genre in Ghana and West Africa, her travel writings, and the various stylistic ways she uses poetry to communicate personal and public anxieties in a changing world.

AMA ATA AIDOO, HB (Writers and Their Work)

Wilson-Tagoe, Nana

Black British Literature (Writers and Their Work)

A wide-ranging study that gives a comprehensive critical introduction to the work of British writers of African descent, 1995 - present, ranging from prose to poetry to drama.

Osborne, Deidre

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