In Parenthesis by David Jones, illustrated by Ewan Clayton(Folio Society)

Composed of free verse and prose, In Parenthesis is at once a poem and a novel. Set in the first world war, it is a classic, both of war literature and of modernism, as Chris Power wrote in the Guardian: ‘You wouldn’t think the British Isles had produced enough significant modernist works to ignore one of the best, yet Jones’s work remains woefully neglected. Not that it has lacked advocacy. TS Eliot thought it “a work of genius”’. Read the full review