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\nAn engrossing and frank coming-of-age memoir from one of the world\'s leading pianists.\n…

• 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…

• Angličtina

The Story of English is the extraordinary tale of the origins and development of the English language. Two thousand years…

Features stories of families, feuds, enchantment, disenchantment and the manifold bonds of love. These stories are about the…

Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. August himself has just landed a…

\nLinda France\'s tenth collection is galvanising, comprising poems written from, and into, the fabric of the sixth mass…

\nI was eight years old when I come to H\'Inglan\' - I travel on my mother\'s passportAugust Henderson, fifty-two years in…

\nWhat follows is a dangerous battle fuelled by love, grief and power. Marina Carr\'s adaptation of the infamous Greek myth…

This is a memoir about hope - hope in others, hope in systems, and hope for the future. I've never quite known where to…

\nMrs Sarah Siddons, acclaimed as the greatest actress of all time, holds complete sway over audiences and critics alike.…

• Rok vydání 2012

\nAnton Chekhov\'s play Uncle Vanya in a new version by Christopher Hampton. nor does it seem to announce the end of an era,…

• Rok vydání 2009

\nLiubov Ranevskya, a widowed landowner returns home more or less insolvent after five years abroad. Everything appears just…

Benjamin Britten was one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century. An indispensable source of fresh insights into…

A collection of seven essays that sketches out the author's personal view of the history and value of the novel. The real…

Ed Moloney's Voices from the Grave follows his highly acclaimed A Secret History of the IRA, the best-informed account yet…

When a distressed young woman arrives at their station claiming her friend has been abducted, and that the man threatened to…

Auden was once described as the Picasso of modern poetry - a tribute to his ceaseless experimentation with form and subject…

• Čeština

Billy Bragg is one of Britain's most distinctive and accomplished songwriters, whose work has articulated the passions, both…

This volume replaced Ted Hughes's Selected Poems 1957-1981. It contains a larger selection from the same period, to which…

An anthology of worlds revealed by explorers through the ages.…

\nWith ethereal illustrations by Tomislav Tomic, this uncommonly beautiful book is a very special introduction to - or…

\nWith acid wit, Miriam Battye\'s play takes a scalpel to modern romance. Strategic Love Play opened at the Belgrade…

• Rok vydání 2018

\nBe transported to the wild meadows of Kite\'s Nest Farm and peek into the surprising private lives of some of our most…

\nA new and updated edition of \'Tom Stoppard\'s extraordinary, epic drama of politics, persecution and protest in…

\n\'A remarkable journalistic achievement.\' Time Out\'Powerful . Including interviews with key figures in the fight against…

\nThe untold story of the hidden places across Britainthat have slipped through the fingers of history.\n…

Just married. Bored already. Hedda longs to be free. This vital new version by Patrick Marber (Closer, Three Days in the…

• Rok vydání 2013

Sarah Losh, strong-willed and passionate, an architect and an intellectual who dumbfounded critics with her genius and…

Led by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and…

Presents a sequence of sea novels set in the early nineteenth century, about a voyage from England to Australia.…

Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies;…

• Čeština
• Rok vydání 1975

'Literary criticism is a distinctive activity of the civilised mind.' With Eliot's dictum in mind, Professor Kermode has…

So too are today's experts - Steve Jones on the Human Genome Project, Richard Dawkins on DNA and many other representatives…

• Rok vydání 1936

In the summer of 1936, W H Auden and Louis MacNeice visited Iceland on commission to write a travel book, but found…

Robert Mitchum was one of Hollywood's best-loved actors. This book reveals, Mitchum was one of the few Hollywood icons whose…

\nIn this uproariously funny and charmingly illustrated book, readers are introduced to incredible animals and the bizarre…

\nIt exemplifies Marina Carr\'s work: storytelling that pushes the boundaries of love, power and desire. Draw coal. A…

Inspired by Moliere's farcical, tragic, anarchic Don Juan (1665), Patrick Marber's Don Juan in Soho transports the action to…

• Rok vydání 2019

But for those whose call deserts home, the 'hideous blanks' described by explorers are rich in resources and significance.…

• Čeština

In Florian Zeller's The Lie, a companion piece to his earlier play The Truth, Michel and Laurence are coming for dinner.…