Genre Explorations

In a world filled with intolerance, it sometimes feels there’s little that can be done except be a mute spectator. Poets are, perhaps, more fortunate because they can do something...

Kate Saunders’s death last year, at the age of 62, robbed children’s fiction of one of its best-loved voices. After an initial career as an actress, she had gone on...

Picador has scooped WHAT, a new poetry collection from the "Poet Laureate of Punk", John Cooper Clarke. Colette Bryce, poetry editor, acquired UK and Commonwealth and audio rights from Phil Jones...

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Isabelle Popp has written all sorts of things, ranging from astrophysics research articles...

The ‘90s were a decade of great changes, innovations, and challenges. From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the rise of the Internet, from the Gulf War to the...

As if poet Emily Dickinson wasn’t distinctive enough for the 19th century, her very own handwriting also gave away the poet’s rebellious nature. “She had a man’s handwriting,” says Thomas...

Published 14 May by William CollinsWives Like Us by Plum SykesPlum Sykes’s delectable new novel, Wives Like Us, bears a strong resemblance to the Austen-era novels of the 19th century,...

$1000 stipends for MPS teachers and librarians available To support more diverse books in classrooms and libraries and integration of diverse books in the curriculum, the UWM Center for Latin...

When Westward Ho! resident Hilda Cochrane was encouraged to go to follow other girls to secretarial college in the late 1950s, she was determined to turn it to advantage. So...