1. How would you like someone who has read your book to sum it up in one sentence? This is the best book ever written on Foucault’s relationship to theatre; it has completely changed the way I’ll... READ MORE
It is the Bard’s birthday today and we are celebrating with these ten fascinating books on Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare by McBean By Adrian Woodhouse Shakespeare by McBean... READ MORE
How would you like someone who has read your book to sum it up in one sentence? ABBA ABBA is a great read from the exceptional Anthony Burgess, unknown sides to whom are on full show here. What... READ MORE
Trick or treat! Things are getting seriously spooky with these 13 Gothic books to keep you up at night this Halloween. Scroll down… if you dare! Clive Barker: Dark imaginer Edited by... READ MORE
The winner of the Curtin University, Faculty of Humanities Book of the Year award in the General category is: John Kinsella for his book: Polysituatedness. A poetics of displacement John... READ MORE
What book in this field has inspired you the most? Joseph Davies Accounts of Innocence. Did your research take you to any unexpected places? It certainly gave me a much broader appreciation of the... READ MORE
What book in this field has inspired you the most? A recent collection that we enjoyed and learned from and that gave us a template for some of the things we hoped to accomplish in our own volume is... READ MORE
What book in this field has inspired you the most? To my mind Steve Zwicker’s Lines of Authority: Politics and English Literary Culture, 1649-1689 remains among the most eloquent and the most... READ MORE
What book in this field has inspired you the most? We’ve been inspired by a whole range of scholarship in the field of early modern women’s writing. We’ve both been lucky enough to be working at... READ MORE
The John Rylands Library and Manchester University Press are delighted to announce the new editors of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library: Stephen Mossman, University of Manchester Cordelia Warr,... READ MORE