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In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.…

• Rok vydání 2007

As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol…

\nLose yourself in this vivid travelogue evoking the historic Mediterranean island of Sicily by the king of travel writing…

On the first day of the Somme enlisted railwayman Jim Stringer lies trapped in a shell hole, smoking cigarette after…

Alcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die in…

Offers an evocation of Edwardian working-class life.…

Offers an intimate evocation of the famous of all mountaineering exploits and the old-fashioned Fleet Street scoop.…

Andrew Martin has written an historical thriller set around the true story of the Brookwood Necropolis Railway, which…

• Rok vydání 2015

Just when you thought it was safe to start showing off again, the bestselling authors of The Book of General Ignorance and…

Four friends, one weekend, gallons of whisky. What could go wrong? Driven by amateur whisky-nut Adam, four late-thirties…

• Thriller

They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite and devoted woman who sings to their children, cleans the…

\nHis struggle to resolve this crisis, without fracturing his marriage or compromising his comfortable way of life, is…

• Thriller

When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the…

\n\'The kind of character comedy.\' Good Housekeeping\'A lynchpin of British comedy.\' Alan MooreThe nation\'s favourite…

\nThe most improbable, fascinating and endlessly entertaining sporting facts and stories, from prehistory to the present…

• Thriller

Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne Museum in Hampstead, and with its sinister murder room…

\nNot One of These People, a co-production between the Royal Court Theatre, Carte blanche, and the Carrefour international…

\nPresents a bittersweet comic diary of the years in which a lethally dotty and very smelly old bat parked her unroadworthy…

You go and drive those Germans back where they've come from, and then come home to me. At the outbreak of World War one,…

the theatre lends itself particularly well to the ritualistic aspects of the story - chanting, dancing, marching, forming a…

There are times in the theatre when you suddenly find yourself in the grip of silence. There is no fidgeting or coughing, no…

• Rok vydání 1996

Lorca's Blood Wedding is a classic of twentieth-century theatre. Lorca uses it to investigate the subjects which fascinated…

Fresh from her successful scoop reporting the first ascent of Everest in 1953, Jan Morris spent a year journeying across the…

The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in…

"In a series of chapters built round poems by a number of writers including himself . He makes the whole venture seem…

• Čeština

Spaniards are reputed to be amongst Europe's most forthright people. This apparent 'pact of forgetting' inspired writer…

\nThe epic imaginative enterprise [is] as formidable a feat as the year-long odyssey it charts.\' Sunday Times\'Golding…

In the comfortable suburb where she lives, Heloise is just a mom, the youngish widow with a forgettable job who somehow…

• Rok vydání 2018

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. At…

The House Party explores privilege and leisure from the viewpoint of the guest and the host, showing us what it was really…

• Brožovaná
• Rok vydání 2024

\n\'So compelling.\' Guardian \'I loved it.\' Sunday Times \'Magnificent.\' Big Issue The discovery of \'black gold\' in the…

When eighteen-year-old Michael visits the Hanbury\'s remote family home he is captivated by their bohemian lifestyle. The…

• Rok vydání 2018

LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2018Madame Zero is a remarkable collection of dark, sensuous stories set in sometimes…

A loner, Travis Bickle, takes up driving a taxi in search of an escape from his sleeplessness and his disgust with the…

Then one day a man turns up, sees her, and mindlessly destroys her.' Martin Crimp's pared down version of Chekhov's first…

• Thriller

The site where the body had been found was within the territory of the provincia di Catania, and hence under the…

• Thriller

Aurelio Zen returns to his native Venice to investigate the disappearance of a rich American resident but he soon learns…

Using both her personal experiences and the lessons of French history and culture, the author examines every aspect of…

Follows pottery teacher Cate Blanchett as she enters into an affair with one of her students, causing upheaval in both her…

- What're you doing here Robert? I thought I would just suddenly appear, so I did. I suddenly appeared. All we can be sure…

In an engaging, at times startling, enquiry into the fundamental loneliness of each sex, Leader asks why relationships…

A stand-alone thriller from P. Philippa enters a new and terrifying world and soon comes to realize that she is not the only…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nLose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the idyllic South of France by the king of travel writing and real-life…

• Brožovaná
• Rok vydání 2021

\n\'The most exhilarating surge of language, style and sordid English manners [in] literature.\' DBC Pierre \'A wild,…

• Detektivka

The snow is thick, the phone line is down, and no one is getting in or out of Warbeck Hall. With friends and family gathered…