Item category 2: City of Literature

This anthology challenges 20 acclaimed authors to get under the skin of key moments of British protest, working closely with historians, crowd scientists and activists. From Boudicea's revolt against Roman occupation in 45AD to the protests that followed the Grenfell Tower tragedy in 2017, these ...

'The Revisionist' and 'The Astropastorals' brings an American poet with a "formidable underground reputation" to a European audience for the first time, combining his 1981 debut collection (out of print for 30 years) with his subsequent 2017 chapbook.

When Aberdeen housewife Debbie Milne abruptly vanishes without trace, leaving behind her two young children, husband Scott is too distraught to sit out the police's 72-hour window and await developments. He turns to local detective agency Harcus & Laird. Put off by previous 'domestic' cases, Magg...

In her first book of poems, Isabel Galleymore takes a sustained look at the 'eight million differently constructed hearts' of species currently said to inhabit the earth. These are part of the significant other of her title; so too are the intimacies - loving, fraught, stalked by loss and extinct...

The title poem of John Greening's 'The Silence' is a meditation on Sibelius and the thirty years he spent grappling with an eighth symphony that he eventually burned. The poem is emblematic of a broader concern with the mystery of the creative process, explored in the work of other artists but al...

Vahni Capildeo returns with her third Carcanet collection, 'Skin Can Hold'. The collection marks an experimental departure for a traditionally pen-and-paper poet as she explores embodied practice-theatre, dance, and experimental performance. These texts are the fruit of those experiments and coll...

It is 1981 and Detective Inspector Henry Hobbes is still reeling in the aftermath of the fire and fury of the Brixton riots. The battle lines of society - and the police force - are being redrawn on a daily basis. With the certainties of his life already sorely tested, a brutal murder will shake ...

The 52 poems in this anthology are selected from those chosen during the 12 years in which Carol Rumens has written a regular 'Poem of the Week' for Guardian Books online. The poems are printed alongside the prose pieces which originally accompanied them, and the online comments included add the ...

'So Many Rooms', the debut collection from Geoffrey Dearmer Prize-winning poet Laura Scott, moves with its own lyric strangeness, opening up different rooms and also different worlds.

'Sonic Youth Slept on My Floor' is writer/DJ Dave Haslam's gloriously well-crafted memoir, documenting his encounters with inspiring characters including Tony Wilson, Nile Rodgers, Terry Hall, Neneh Cherry, Tracey Thorn, John Lydon, John Peel, Ian Brown, Laurent Garnier, and David Byrne.