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\nA captivating exploration of Britain\'s most iconic contemporary buildings, from the Barratt home to the Millennium Dome.…

• Rok vydání 1897

The second instalment of the Pax Britannica Trilogy by Jan Morris, recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the…

Adapted by the author from his autobiographical memoir, The Lady in the Van tells the story of Miss Mary Shepherd, whom Alan…

• Rok vydání 1972

But in 1972 along came the American, Bobby Fischer: insolent, arrogant, abusive, vain, greedy, vulgar, bigoted, paranoid and…

In Ulysses and Us, Declan Kiberd argues that James Joyce's Ulysses offers a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life…

(Pause.) That sound you hear is the sea. (Pause.) I mention it because the sound is so strange, so unlike the sound of the…

• Rok vydání 2013

I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, success and failure, fame and…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nBy the Poet LaureateThe Alliterative Morte Arthure - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around…

Who, or what, is the Green Man, and why is this medieval image so present in our precarious modern times? An encounter with…

Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and…

• Rok vydání 2018

Gordy LaSure's alwaystalking about films and how they'd be a shit ton better if only people would pull their asses out of…

Richly observed, this witty and yet deeply moving tale of Charlotte Hobson's year travelling around Russia takes us to the…

\nIn the multiverse, with every possible future ahead of them, a love of honey could make all the difference. Nick Payne\'s…

\nTHE IRISH TOP 10 BESTSELLERA gripping investigation into one of Irish history\'s greatest mysteries, Great Hatred reveals…

The play was revived by the Donmar Warehouse, London, in February 2018. Winner of the London Critics' Circle Award for Best…

A title that combines Wildean pastiche, political history, artistic debate, spoof reminiscence, and song-and-dance in…

A hijacked plane is heading towards a packed football stadium. Ignoring orders to the contrary, a fighter pilot shoots down…

• Rok vydání 2008

Hedda Gabler returns, dissatisfied, from a long honeymoon. Bored by her aspiring academic husband, she foresees a life of…

One summer, Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way - a challenging 256-mile route usually approached from south to…

'An unknown place.' This was what Michael Frayn's children called the shadowy landscape of the past from which their family…

• Rok vydání 2011

Including a number of prose poems and translations, this book offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and…

• Rok vydání 1965

In 1965, one song defined a generation caught the questing spirit of the era and changed the rules of the possible in…

The overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi has been one of the twenty-first century's defining moments: the Arab world's most bizarre…

In 1959, the first Mini was produced on an assembly line at Cowley, near Oxford. Designed for austerity and efficiency, the…

• Rok vydání 2016

The change will come. And it's not far away, I promise you that. Some figure will emerge from the dark screaming 'Get out of…

• Čeština

Bernie Ecclestone gehört wohl zu den kontroversesten Personen der Formel 1. Aus ärmsten Verhältnissen stammend, hat er es im…

The news that a government inspector is due to arrive in a small Russian town sends its bureaucrats into a panicked frenzy.…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nChosen as one of Sight & Sound\'s \'Best Film Books of the Year\'John Boorman is one of the cinema\'s authentic…

This anthology is drawn from his writings about the memories of men and women of a past era - farm labourers, shepherds,…

\nSet inside a men\'s public toilet, Boys on the Verge of Tears is a bold, kaleidoscopic tale of violence and vulnerability.…

• Rok vydání 2019

Andrew Motion's prose memoir In the Blood (2006) was widely acclaimed, praised as an act of magical retrieval and a hymn to…

\n\'A pointed, svelte but diverse work.\' Irish TimesPart memoir, part manifesto, Some Answers Without Questions is an…

• Rok vydání 2011

Luxuriating in her fading moneyed world and regardless of the increasingly hostile forces outside, she and her brother snub…

In the extraordinary circumstances of World War I, eight ordinary men are changed, changed utterly. Observe the Sons of…

'One of the most famous of modern art documents - a poetic primer, prepared by the artist for his Bauhaus pupils, which has…

Described by The Times as 'the national children's dramatist', David Wood has been writing, adapting, directing and acting…

Offering a realistic account of the bits of our lives advertising agencies prefer to ignore, this book is suitable for…

• Čeština

Including a personal appreciation, fuelled by five decades of journeying, the author presents a magisterial portrait of the…

A priceless examination of the filmmaker's craft, from the renowned director of "Sweet Smell of Success" After more than…

Poems 1988-1998 is a compendium from Jo Shapcott's award-winning books Electroplating the Baby, Phrase Book and My Life…

'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael FraynThe Strangest Man is the Costa Biography…

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a wave of TV shows, first on premium cable channels like HBO and then basic cable…

Thomas Ad s: Full of Noises: Conversations with Tom Service is an unprecedented glimpse into the creative mind and…

Pulling together his years of experience as a novelist and a teacher, Richard Skinner covers the basics of writing great…

• Rok vydání 2007

I know now, Kostya, I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't…

They're just across the Channel, right on our doorstep. Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson's The Jungle premiered as a…

Nothing is more compelling than the drama, at once dark and dazzling, of that theatre over the hills - the vast splendour of…

• Brožovaná

\nIt is 00:00 and the full of the night yet to come. A man sits at a window through the dead hours of night, his sleep…