Item category 2: City of Literature

A poetic exploration of language and gender, place and time, through the mirror of exile. It slips between the author's childhood in Baghdad and her present life in Detroit.

The highly anticipated new collection from Forward Prize-winner Kei Miller, exploring landscape, legends and histories.

Travis Stillwell spends his nights searching out women in honky-tonk bars on the back roads of Texas. What he does with them doesn't make him proud - it just quiets the demons for a little while. But when he crosses paths with one particular mysterious pale-skinned girl, he wakes up weak and bloo...

This selection, translated by Anthony Howell working from the author's own versions, explores the experience of becoming at home in London, passing from a sense of exile to a sense of uneasy belonging. In his introduction the poet is tactful, candid, touching on some of the most urgent themes of ...

Mum always knows best. Meet the daughters of Iris Parker. Dee; sensitive and big-hearted; Rose uptight and controlled and Fleur the reckless free spirit. At the reading of their mother's will, the 3 estranged women are aghast to discover that their inheritance comes with very tricky strings attac...

The third part of Neil Campbell's 'Manchester Trilogy,' in which our struggling young writer finds love with a girl called Cho. Where a love song to Manchester becomes a love song to Cho. 'Lanyards' explores how the jobs we wear around our necks dictate the ways we are identified. Building on the...

It is quite a shock for a seven-year-old to be whisked away from the New York streets to an English stately home and be told he is to inherit a title and a fortune. But then Little Lord Fauntleroy is a very unusual boy.

When Sara Crewe is sent back from India to school in England, she appears to have everything. However circumstances change, and when poverty strikes, she must swap dancing lessons and luxury for hard work and a room in the attic. Will she find that kindness and generosity are all the riches she t...

When Sara Crewe, the daughter of a rich and loving father, arrives at her new school in London from India, she is nicknamed the Little Princess by her classmates. When her father dies she is reduced to a life of poverty, left only with her dreams.