The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its eleventh year.Best British Sho...

What is this thing called literature? Why study it? And how? Relating literature to topics such a...

The 'shadow line' is a term Royle uses to describe the faint line on the top edge of the text blo...

Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover - or more accurately, by its ...

Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover - or more accurately, by its ...

What is this thing called literature? Why should we study it? And how?Relating literature to topi...

A lucid, original and inventive critical introduction to Helene Cixous (1937-). Royle offers clos...

This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important topic for contemporary thinking ...

A lucid, original and inventive critical introduction to Helene Cixous (1937-). Royle offers clos...

Nicholas Royle conveys the richness and complexity of Shakespeare's work by focusing, above all, ...

Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the ...

'An uncanny effect often arises when the boundary between fantasy and reality is blurred . . .' -...