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A deeply personal journey into Shakespeare's work that explores how it remains relevant and always has something to say about the times we are living in.

A remarkable book that takes us to the heart of Shakespeare's art and influence."-James ShapiroWhen Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, he discovered that the only words that made sense to him were snatches of Shakespeare. Unable to travel or move as he used to, the First Folio became his "book of life"-an endless source of inspiration through which he could embark on "journeys of the mind" and see a reflection of our...

Part biography, part showcase for some of McConnell's most celebrated designs, this book gathers McConnell's exclusive redesign for Faber & Faber - a revolutionary new approach to book covers from the early 1980s.

Expanding from the two-year long "Observer" serial drawing attention to the best of non-fiction, the novelist and critic picks the best non-novel books from Pepys' "Diaries" to Wolfe's "The Right Stuff".

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998."To all concerned, this book is meant to send a ghostly signal across the dark universe of ill-health that says 'you are not alone.'" - Robert McCrumOn July 29, 1995, Robert McCrum, 42, married only ten weeks, suffered a paralyzing stroke. Overnight, his life shifted irrevocably. But this admired novelist and former editorial director of the London publishing house Faber and Faber decided to chronicle what...

There can be no better guide than a wise, humane and battered-about writer like McCrum . . . I found myself encouraged and fortified' Andrew Marr'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous' Kate MosseIn 1995, at the age of forty-two, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic and near-fatal stroke. Since that life-changing event, McCrum has lived in the shadow of death, unavoidably aware of his own mortality. And now, in his sixties, he is n...

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Praise for My Year Off 'Not only a riveting account of sudden illness, but also of love being put under a real test: a heart-warming triumph' Kazuo Ishiguro 'I have never read anything quite like this, moving and unsentimental . . . it should be prescribed reading for all' Beryl Bainbridge 'Compelling and terrifying . . . remarkable' Henry Marsh

An entertaining journey through the past 300 years in search of the best novels published in the English language. The list has been compiled week by week since September 2013 by the novelist, critic and literary editor of the "Observer", Robert McCrum.

A reissue of McCrum's insightful history of the development of the English language, from its emergence 2000 years ago to today.

To Evelyn Waugh he was simply "the Master." He wrote ninety novels and story collections, and among his immortal characters are Jeeves, Psmith, and the Empress of Blandings (who is, of course, a pig). Equally impressive is the range of his devotees: Dorothy Parker, John Updike, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Salman Rushdie, John le Carre, and Seamus Heaney. Wodehouse had an extraordinary Broadway career, working with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, and even...

On the morning of July 29, 1995, Robert McCrum - 42 years old, just two weeks newly married, at the top of his profession as one of British publishing's most admired editors, in what he thought was the full bloom of health - awoke to find himself totally paralyzed on the left side, the victim of a stroke brought on by a massive cerebral hemorrhage. After a nightmarish day struggling to reach a phone, he finally summoned help. In the weeks to c...

My brain, which had just let me down so badly, was perhaps never so active. The paramedics' question was a fundamental one. Who are you? Yes indeed. Who am I? Robert McCrum was forty-two when he suffered a massive stroke which left one side of his body totally paralysed, his speech drastically impaired, and his sense of himself radically altered. What followed was a prolonged period of recovery, full of heartache and frustration, as he gradual...

Now revised, The Story of English is the first book to tell the whole story of the English language. Originally paired with a major PBS miniseries, this book presents a stimulating and comprehensive record of spoken and written English—from its Anglo-Saxon origins some two thousand years ago to the present day, when English is the dominant language of commerce and culture with more than one billion English speakers around the world. From Cockn...

It seems impossible: a small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbors, becomes the dominant world power in the nineteenth century. Equally unlikely, a colony of that island nation, across the Atlantic, grows into the military and cultural colossus of the twentieth century. How? By the sword, of course, by trade and industrial ingenuity, but principally, and most surprisingly, b...

In this provocative and compelling new work, the coauthor of the bestselling book and television series The Story of English shows how English became the language of the world.