royle, nicholas

Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at `The

Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover - or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short

"An uncanny effect often arises when the boundary between fantasy and reality is blurred . . ." - Sigmund Freud Nicholas Royle's stories are "imm

The Mongols have long been viewed in the West as violent barbarians who plundered and wrecked the societiesthey invaded. But in fact the Mongol Empire

The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development“Valuable . . . of

Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at ‘The

Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at ‘The

Science and religion have always been at each other's throats, right?

The Art of the Novel is the first textbook written by writers who are also teachers for today's Creative Writing students as well as more experienced

The second such anthology features short stories published in collections, magazines, newspapers and websites over the past year. Will Self and Stella

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is perhaps the most famous as well as strangest and most inventive poet and dramatist of all time. Although dead for h

A mix of memoir and narrative non-fiction, White Spines is a book about Nicholas Royle's passion for Picador's fiction publishing from the 1970s to th

Before the devastating 'loss of her marbles', Mrs Royle, a nurse by profession, is a marvellously no-nonsense character, an autodidact who reads widel

The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its eleventh year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover –

This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important topic for contemporary thinking on literature, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis, femi

Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short

Silas and Ethel Woodlock have retired from the business of undertaking to spend their twilight years by the sea but things are not as easy as they'd h

Mushrooms are loved, despised, feared and misunderstood. They have been a familiar part of nature throughout human history and occupy a special place

A lucid, original and inventive critical introduction to Helene Cixous (1937-). Royle offers close readings of many of her works, from Inside (1969) t

This book offer a series of lucid and incisive readings of Derrida's work, as well as an elegiac tribute in more personal terms.