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\nThe people who buy paintings like this aren\'t just driven by aesthetic desire. A story that catapults them into the orbit…

• Čeština

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 2017The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise is the extraordinary story, in her own…

Edited by Alan Jenkins, this authoritative Collected Poems contains all of the poetry that Ian Hamilton chose to publish,…

First published in 1984, Paul Muldoon's The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry sought to establish a canon of Irish…

• Rok vydání 2012

In his latest laugh-out-loud collection of misanthropic scribblings, hideous Q-list celebrity failure Charlie Brooker…

• Čeština

What was Mozart really like? Wild? Sublime? Responsible? Fun-loving? Bright? Foul-mouthed? Reading these sparkling new…

Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and…

• Rok vydání 1997

The political thriller of the year - UPDATED WITH A DEVASTATING NEW CHAPTER ON THE CHILCOT INQUIRY'Excellent' Sunday…

Schoenberg's music examples range from the entire development sections of classical symphonies to analyses of the harmonic…

• Rok vydání 2020

\'One of Britain\'s greatest living playwrights to provide his most personal play yet.\' The Times\'The news that Tom…

It follows the phenomenal success of The Father (Theatre Royal Bath, Tricycle, London and West End) and The Mother (Theatre…

• Rok vydání 2024

\nThe revised and updated edition of Zinnie Harris\'s powerful reimagining of Shakespeare\'s brutal tragedy, telling Lady…

\nAnd in the fourth part of Paterson\'s ongoing poem \'The Alexandrian Library\', the poet-as-amateur scientist - from a…

'Obviously something more than a successful play, it is the practical demonstration of a patently conceived theory of…

Welcome to Edmundsbury, a small town in England, some time in the recent future. As tensions mount, lives begin to unravel.…

Rob Chapman's book is the first authoritative and exhaustively researched biography of Syd Barrett that fully celebrates his…

• Angličtina

James Fenton, a Whitbread-winning poet praised for his own love poetry, gathers together the best lyric poems originating in…

His wife was restless and jealous. Outside of the villa, Mexican communists tried to storm the house, the Trotskys' sons…

The Golden Gate is a brilliantly achieved novel written in verse. Set in the 1980s in the affluence and sunshine of…

• Rok vydání 1965

Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen…

Central to this was the power and presence of Albert Grossman - manager for Dylan, Janis Joplin, Richie Havens, The Band and…

'Are Collected Letters a superior form of biography? When as numerous and meticulously edited as these of Gustav mahler,…

• Rok vydání 1991

From the record-breaking success of 1991's 'Black Album' to the band's reinvention with the Load/Reload albums; from the…

• Rok vydání 2020

A Luminous family saga from one of Granta\'s Best Young British NovelistsWhen the four Essinger children gather in Austin…

\nFrom the moment their hugely influential 1978 debut landed, Van Halen set a high bar for the rock \'n\' roll lifestyle,…

As a young girl Gwen thought it impossible that she could ever succeed as an artist, and yet the observations of the small…

• Rok vydání 2022

\n\'My daddy always told me, if it looks too good to be true - then it probably is.\'Bart, Teddy and Cole have been best…

\n\'Lines off\' is a term used for lines spoken from the wings of a theatre, or off-camera in a film. Autobiographical,…

\nA story about the legacy of Black classical music in Britain and the life of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, heartbreaking and…

In a wonderfully evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, Jan Morris - a constant…

The true story of how Britain's maritime power helped gain this country unparalleled dominance of the world's economy,…

• Rok vydání 2000

When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had written…

• Rok vydání 2011

To understand Lebanon\'s history is to understand the history of the entire region - and, with the rise of Hizbullah, it has…

In that dark hour America saw its chance to challenge British dominance: her troops invaded Canada and American frigates…

As a 20-something college dropout Nick Kent's first five interviews as a young writer were with the MC5, Captain Beefheart,…

Offers an interpretation of Blake\'s art and poetry in the context of the revolutionary period in which he was working.…

Across the American South, and in the Union of South Africa, black people risk their livelihoods, and their lives, in the…

• Rok vydání 2018

How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? Fiona Maddocks selects 100 classical works from across nine centuries,…

An adaptation of Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid for the stage. Tim Supple is Artistic Director of the Young Vic. He has…

But when the ratings soar, the network seize on their newfound populist prophet, and Howard becomes the biggest thing on TV.…

\n\'She [Bessie Smith] showed me the air and taught me how to fill it ... she\'s the reason I started singing, really\' -…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRYIt is the current Poet Laureate who has done the most to bring medieval…

A memoir about how, what and why we read as children.' Nick Hornby, Guardian Books of the Year'Parents, non-parents,…