Classics are timeless, transcending their date of publication with a lasting originality. The books you see below are from imprints of Carcanet Press and span a number of years; you'll see some from 2014 (like Josipovici's Hotel Andromeda) alongside those from 1845 (like Poe's The Raven).

Titles are offered as a digital package, containing a PDF, EPUB and MOBI.

Carcanet Fiction

Carcanet Fiction publishes novels from a range of culturally-diverse and distinguished international authors including critic, essayist and playwright Gabriel Josipovici, prize-winning Jewish biographer and translator Elaine Feinstein, and Geneva-born academic Christine Brooke-Rose. The authors published under this imprint are those which have contributed greatly to the contemporary literary scene both in Britain and world-wide.

Fyfield Books

Carcanet’s version of Penguin Classics, the Fyfield list celebrates classic and canonical poets including Rossetti, Wilde, Catullus, Petrarch, Ovid, Rilke, Pessoa, Wyatt, Poe, Kipling, the Brontes, and many more. A broad and diverse list ranging from Ancient Rome, Renaissance Europe, nineteenth century and Victorian Britain, to early twentieth century key figures Sylvia Townsend Warner, James K. Baxter, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ivor Gurney, and Ford Madox Ford, Fyfield brings to life the works of the most influential poets of all time.

Carcanet Poetry

Now in its fifth decade, Carcanet publishes the most comprehensive and diverse list available of modern and classic poetry in English and in translation. The poetry list includes multi-award-winning poets, former Poet Laureates, bestselling and internationally-acclaimed poets and the most exciting upcoming and emerging poets from all over the globe.

Lives and Letters

Comprised of collections of letters, journals, diaries, biography and literary essays, the Lives and Letters imprint boasts non-fictional works from some of the most significant and pioneering literary figures of the twentieth century and today. From Muriel Spark’s critical musings on Mary Shelley and The Brontes, to Scotland’s first National Poet Edwin Morgan’s candid correspondences with colleagues, peers and lovers alike; from Ford Madox Ford’s reflections on the state of Britain in the aftermath of WWI to speculations on a changing Irish culture from leading Irish poet Eavan Boland and Irish academic Jody Allen Randolph.