English bookshelf

Leighan Renaud, Mothering and Matrifocality in Contemporary Caribbean Literature

The Return of the 90s

edited by Madeline Lane-McKinley (writer, editor and cultural critic) and Sean O’Brien (Lecturer in the Department of English at Bristol) forthcoming in June 2026

Edward Thomas's Prose

Edward Thomas's Prose: Truth, Mystery, and the Natural World by Ralph Pite

Landline

a new poetry collection by William Wootten, Senior Lecturer in Poetry and Creative Writing at the University of Bristol

These Bodies Ain't Broken: A Horror Anthology

edited by Madeline Dyer

Phantoms of Kernow: Classic Tales of Haunted Cornwall

edited by Joan Passey

Unfinished Spirit: Muriel Rukeyser's Twentieth Century

by Rowena Kennedy-Epstein

Fathoming the Deep in English Renaissance Tragedy

by Laurence Publicover

Walter Pater and Persons

by Stephen Cheeke

The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson: Forms of Artistry and Thought

by Philip Smallwood

Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives

by Emma Parker

Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century

by Theophilus Savvas

Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature, 1793–1845

by Erin Forbes

Grief's Alphabet

by Carrie Etter

Shirley Jackson’s Dark Tales: Reconsidering the Short Fiction

edited by Joan Passey (Bristol) and Robert Lloyd (Cardiff)

Local Place And The Arthurian Tradition In England And Wales, 1400-1700

by Mary Bateman

Hannah More in Context

edited by Kerri Andrews and Sue Edney (the latter is a member of the Bristol English Department)

Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks

edited by Pam Lock

The Muriel Rukeyser Era

edited by Eric Keenaghan and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein

Late Light

by Michael Malay

Cornish Gothic, 1830-1913

by Joan Passey

The Dutch Hatmakers of Late Medieval and Tudor London

by Shannon McSheffrey and Ad Putter

A Flat Place

by Noreen Masud

Salman Rushdie in Context

edited by Florian Stadtler

The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro

edited by Andrew Bennett

An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory (6th Edition)

by Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle

British culture after empire: Race, decolonisation and migration since 1945

edited by Josh Doble, Liam Liburd and Emma Parker

Stevie Smith and the Aphorism: Hard Language

by Noreen Masud

African Literatures as World Literature

edited by Alexander Fyfe and Madhu Krishnan

Ecocriticism and the Island: Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago

by Pippa Marland

Georgic Literature and the Environment: Working Land, Reworking Genre

edited by Sue Edney and Tess Somervell

Troubling Late Modernism: Ethics, Feeling, and the Novel Form

by Doug Battersby

The Poems of Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book

edited by John Woolford, Danny Karlin and Joseph Phelan

Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century: The Father of English Poetry

by David Hopkins and Tom Mason

Our Haunted Shores: Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles

Edited by Emily Alder, Jimmy Packham (formerly of the University of Bristol) and Joan Passey (currently of the University of Bristol)

an/other pastoral

by Tjawangwa Dema

Modern British Nature Writing, 1789-2020

by Will Abberley, Christina Alt, David Higgins, Graham Huggan and Pippa Marland

Unfinished Spirit: Muriel Rukeyser's Twentieth Century

by Rowena Kennedy-Epstein

Hannah More in Context

edited by Kerri Andrews and Sue Edney

Speed and Flight in Shakespeare

by Matthew Steggle

Shipboard Literary Cultures: Reading, Writing and Performing at Sea

edited by Susann Liebich and Laurence Publicover

Thomas Hardy: Selected Writings

edited by Ralph Pite

Perception and analogy: Poetry, science and religion in the eighteenth century

by Rosalind Powell

Middle English Biblical Poetry: Romance, Audience and Tradition

by Cathy Hume

After Postmodernism: The New American Fiction

by Christopher K. Coffman and Theophilus Savvas

Cornish Horrors: Tales from the Land's End

edited by Joan Passey

EcoGothic Gardens in the Long Nineteenth Century

EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century: Phantoms, fantasy and uncanny flowers

Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture

By Samantha Matthews

Poetry and the Dictionary

Edited by Andrew Blades and Piers Pennington

Biofictions: Race, Genetics and the Contemporary Novel

By Josie Gill

Writing Spatiality in West Africa: Colonial Legacies in the Anglophone / Francophone Novel

By Madhu Krishnan

Contingent Canons: African Literature and the Politics of Location

By Madhu Krishnan

Things that Didn't Happen: Writing, Politics and the Counterhistorical, 1678-1743

By John McTague

Edmund Spenser and the romance of space

By Tamsin Badcoe

Rereading Chaucer and Spenser

Edited by Rachel Stenner, Tamsin Badcoe and Gareth Griffith

The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature

Edited by Helen Fulton and Geraint Evans

The Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature

Edited by Ulrika Maude, Mark Nixon

Who are Universities for? Re-making Higher Education

Josie McClellan, Richard Pettigrew and Tom Sperlinger

The Figure of the Animal in Modern and Contemporary Poetry

Michael Malay

Writing Place: Mimesis, Subjectivity and Imagination in the Works of George Gissing

Rebecca Hutcheon

Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Edited by Lesel Dawson, Fiona McHardy

Wordsworth's Monastic Inheritance: Poetry, Place, and the Sense of Community

Jessica Fay

Handling

Jack Thacker

Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations in the Later Middle Ages

co-edited by Helen Fulton and Michele Campopiano

Publishing the Grail in Medieval and Renaissance France

Leah Tether

Suicide Century: Literature and Suicide from James Joyce to David Foster Wallace

Andrew Bennett

Dramatic Geography. Romance, Intertheatricality, and Cultural Encounter in Early Modern Mediterranean Drama

Laurence Publicover

The Plays and Poems of Nicholas Rowe, Volume I: The Early Plays

Edited by Stephen Bernard, Rebecca Bullard, and John McTague

Doris Lessing and the Forming of History

Edited by Kevin Brazil, David Sergeant, and Tom Sperlinger

The Literary Culture of Early Modern Scotland: Manuscript Production and Transmission, 1560-1625

Sebastiaan Verweij

Rudyard Kipling, Stories and Poems

ed. by Daniel Karlin

Romeo and Juliet in Palestine: Teaching Under Occupation

By Tom Sperlinger

The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature

Edited by David Hillman and Ulrika Maude

The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Peter Porter

William Wootten

This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing

Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle

William Wordsworth in Context

Andrew Bennett (ed.)

The Works of the Gawain Poet

Ad Putter and Myra Stokes (eds.)

Contemporary African Fiction in English: Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications

Madhu Krishnan

The Literature of Pity

David Punter

The Figure of the Singer

Daniel Karlin

Shades of Authority: The Poetry of Lowell, Hill and Heaney

Stephen James

Reading Penguin: A Critical Anthology

George Donaldson and William Wootton

Multilingualism in Medieval Britain: Sources and Analysis

Judith Jefferson and Ad Putter (eds.)

The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, vol 3, 1660-1790

David Hopkins and Charles Martindale (eds.)

Chaucer and the Cultures of Love and Marriage

Cathy Hume

American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past

Theophilus Savvas

Readings on Audience and Textual Materiality

Graham Allen, Carrie Griffin and Mary O'Connell (eds.)