Oxford World’s Classics
Geoffrey Milburn’s Guide to the World’s Classics series originally hosted by his University of Western Ontario is no longer available there so it can be downloaded here: World’s Classics Full List
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The Museum of Truth
The Museum of Truth From The Manchester Review June 2018 by Ian Pople. Rack Press’s publisher, Nicholas Murray, has a new pamphlet, The Museum of Truth. Murray is an accomplished satirist and his pamphlet...
Crossings
CROSSINGS: A JOURNEY THROUGH BORDERS Published July 2016. ‘Nicholas Murray unleashed his inner poet for his greatest nonfiction book, Crossings. An examination of borders of all kinds – cultural, political, linguistic – it is particularly poignant...
The Migrant Ship
THE MIGRANT SHIP My new pamphlet collection of poems, The Migrant Ship is now available from the publisher, Melos. As well as the title poem it contains other poems on the theme of migration...
The Secrets of the Sea
THE SECRETS OF THE SEA My latest poetry collection, published in September 2015. It contains the 2015 Basil Bunting Prize winning poem “Walk”. ‘The poems are often invigorated by all too human misprisions or...
Bloomsbury and the Poets
BLOOMSBURY AND THE POETS A literary guide to the poets who have lived and worked in Bloomsbury following my Real Bloomsbury (Seren). The ideal companion to a walk around literary Bloomsbury. ‘A delight,’ –...
A Corkscrew is Most Useful
A CORKSCREW IS MOST USEFUL The Travellers of Empire Published by Little, Brown in 2008 with the paperback edition appeared in July 2009. ‘A trunk packed full of tales of high adventure…terrific’ – The...
So Spirited a Town
SO SPIRITED A TOWN Visions and versions of Liverpool In this highly personal encounter with his native city Nicholas Murray blends literary descriptions of Liverpool across the centuries with his own childhood memories to...
Kafka
KAFKA This life of the writer Franz Kafka, was published in 2004 by Little, Brown (UK) and Yale (USA) and has been translated into eight languages, including Chinese and Hebrew. ‘Superbly researched and level-headed’...
Remembering Carmen
REMEMBERING CARMEN Published in 2003, this is my second novel, a London novel about regret, loss and betrayal set in contemporary Fitzrovia. ‘As a treatise on romantic passion this book succeeds brilliantly…the aperçus are...