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English: Books

Resources for students studying English Language and English Literature

Finding books in the library

UoG Library book collections

Search Library Discovery for our print and eBooks. Results show the book location, organised on shelves by topic.

Remember to limit your search results to University of Gloucestershire to just display our own holdings.

Finding books with Library Discovery

Using our eBooks

eBook collections at UoG

UoG eBooks are available through Library Discovery.  They can also be accessed directly via our eBook provider platforms.

The main eBook providers for Creative Arts courses are:

Use eBooks for:

  • immediate access wherever you are
  • accessibility - you can alter the text size and background, or use a screen reader
  • search functionality

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Library Discovery

Selected new books for English

cover image: Crime Fiction in the Age Of #MeToo
Cover image: Writing the Irish Famine
The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650-1950
Possible Scotlands
The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature
Literature and Nature in the English Renaissance: an ecocritical anthology
Big Energy Poets: Ecopoetry Thinks Climate Change
Complete Short Fiction
New Forms of Environmental Writing: gleaning and fragmentation
Collected Poems
Ecopoetry: a critical introduction
Cover image: Speaking of Forms of Life
Cover image: The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature
Cover image: The Crossroads of Crime Writing
Cover image: Black British Women's Writing in the 1970s and Beyond Away from Home.
British Women Short Story Writers: The New Woman to Now
Cover image: Transgressing Women
The Fiction of Margaret Atwood
Horror As Racism in H. P. Lovecraft: White Fragility in the Weird Tales
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath
Storying Our Relationship with Nature: Educating the Heart and Cultivating Courage Admist the Climate Crisis
Youth Fiction and Trans Representation
Cover image: Transecology: transgender perspectives on environment and nature
The wave in the mind: talks and essays on the writer, the reader, and the imagination

Have a look at the full list of new resources for English courses.

Inter-Library Loan service for Books

Book not in the library?

Use the Inter-Library Loan (ILL) service to obtain print books and chapters from print or electronic books not held by the university. The service is primarily for final year undergrad students, postgrads, researchers and academics. Staff and students have an initial allocation of free requests. More information is available in the Guide to Inter-Library Loans

Main subject areas in the Library

Topic Shelf number
Sociology of language, sociolinguistics 306.44
Language 400
Discourse analysis 401.41
Linguistics 410
English language 420
Other languages 430-499
Theatre and drama 792
Literature 800
Literature and the environment 809.9336
American poetry 811
American drama 812
American fiction 813
English poetry 821
English drama 822
English fiction 823
Literatures from other languages 830-899

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