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Bestselling novelist Alexander McCall Smith's charming account of how the poet W. H. Auden has helped guide his life - and how he might guide yours too

A clear-eyed, hard-hitting look at the real costs of Brexit from the Financial Times public policy editor

When Grandmama Fell off the Boat is an anthology of the humorous verse of Harry Graham, one of the early 20th century's wittiest writers. Published in England and America, he was credited with introducing 'sick' verse. His obituary in The Times compared him to Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and W. S. Gilbert, an epitaph that has stood the test of time.

When the Tree Falls is Jane Clarke's second collection. These lyrically eloquent poems bear witness to the rhythms of birth and death, celebration and mourning, endurance and regrowth. An elegiac sequence, inspired by the loss of her father, moves gracefully through this second collection.

In this unique offering, The Unbound Body explores author Danielle Doby's deeply personal journey with cancer through both poetry and memoir. Doby offers her insights on grief, joy, trauma, love, healing, and how one can move closer to life by choosing to offer their attention, staying present in moment and body.

From the publication of his first poems at the age of twenty, to his Nobel Prize in 1923, the author grew from an aspiring poet by the mystical life, to an Irish senator crafting modernist poetry around a complex system of symbolism. This volume proffers lush images of western Ireland full of faeries and otherworldly beings.

Kerry Hardie's new poems are the work of time and the cycles of growth, they are songs about saints and scholars, the natural world, exaltation and suffering and ordinary joy, the quiet accumulation of the slowly learned lessons of a lived life. There are narratives of the wondrous bewilderments of life as well as homages to the dead and the dying.