A cool, concise account of the mistakes and miscalculations which led to the end of Britain as a ...

In this short but vivid discussion of Russia and its rulers, Caroline Brooke draws on the views o...

A fresh look at the way Virginia Woolf shook up the literary world with Mrs Dalloway, one of the ...

Simon Palfrey shows us the passion and the cruelty which lie beneath the surface of Shakespeare’s...

This short study guide tells you all you need to know about John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Con...

The Connell Short Guide To Cormac McCarthy's The Road

Graham Bradshaw looks at the critical arguments that have swirled round this shocking tragedy of ...

The Connell Short Guide To Tennesee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire

An entertaining and erudite guide to Shakespeare’s great sequence of history plays, culminating i...

The veteran and provocative Shakespeare critic Graham Bradshaw shows why so many critics have bee...

The Connell Guide To World War I

Hastings tells the story of the war in a clear and compelling narrative, ranging across a vast ca...