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The theme of non-communication in human relationships in a world saturated with information is the connecting thread in this…

Obliquely sinister and wryly engaging, full of fright and grim hilarity, these are rootless poems - unsettled and…

It's a journey that follows the arc of Western culture, from Dante Alighieri, Rembrandt van Rijn and Claude Monet to Marcel…

Deep in limestone country, at the corner of Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, lies the village of Coleshill. This…

From the author of the bestselling Suite Française. In 1903 LĂ©on M - the son of two Russian revolutionaries - is given the…

The wider world beckoned from the white ships sailing past Rangitoto Island, but the dream was also here on the Takapuna…

By the time six months have passed, Gracian will have journeyed twice more into the forest, the German army will be on the…

There is clearly a growing interest among teenagers in all things magical and difficult to explain. Following the huge…

Vonny lives on the island of Martha's Vineyard with her husband Andre and son Simon. Alice Hoffman's ability to fuse the…

Offers an assessment of the author's life, passions, possibilities and the making of her decision to leave Canada and return…

Desmond Morris considers the cat in myth and history, and answers questions he received from cat owners after the…

Adrian Ludlow, a novelist with a distinguished reputation and a book on the 'A' level syllabus, is now seeking obscurity in…

This debut collection from David Malouf, now one of Australia's most highly acclaimed and popular authors, won the Victorian…

• Čeština

Miles Green wakes up in a mysterious hospital with no idea of how he got there or who he is. In the most unorthodox of…

In Britannia's Daughters, bestselling novelist Joanna Trollope examines the contribution of women in building and sustaining…

Sharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with…

Adam O'Riordan's remarkable first collection traces the hidden paths from past to present, from the lost to the living,…

Part political thriller, part meditation on the nature of desire and betrayal, this book tells the story of Stefan Vogel, a…

The sleeping giant of India is beginning to stir to the dwelling reverberations which herald the great struggle for…

• Čeština

Featuring poems on British activity in Ireland through the ages intrude on an intensely moving series of love poems which…

A collection of short stories which tear through the archives of cinema, of art and of the subconscious. A young Lizzie…

From the author of Paper Lion Stepping into the ring against light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore, George Plimpton pauses…

In Banon, a small, peaceful village in upper Provence, the local community's principal source of income is the cultivation…

A fisherman, sailing from Newlyn, Mousehole and St Ives, he began to paint in the 1920s - strange, brilliant pictures of…

And the motley group of ex-pats she finds in Verona, the Oxbridge brigade, the revolutionary Scot, the cool Canadian, the…

This is the story of Aurora Ortiz, who lives in Madrid, and who, at the age of only thirty, has been widowed and needs to…

• Rok vydání 1959

Contains two African notebooks Congo Journal, which records Graham Greene's travels in 1959, and his stay at the Yonda leper…

The rural fuse has been lit. The countryside is tinder-dry. Post offices and banks, shops and schools are closing. Farmers…

To the Last City is set deep in the Peruvian Andes, where five ill-prepared travellers - men and women with different…

Written in the form of letters to an aspiring artist, 'Letters to a Young Artist' includes Julia Cameron's hints on how to…

Written to be read aloud, this book features poems that attend to the organic shapes and sounds and momentum of the language…

A collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic. Writing about real lives takes…

Every year, millions of women have their lives turned inside out by the experience of pregnancy. This book takes a critical…

Amateur sleuth Mordecai Tremaine is back in another classic mystery from the author of Murder for ChristmasMordecai Tremaine…

Beautiful, disturbing and a pleasure to read, Ruth Padel's new poems are her most ambitious yet, adding animal legend and…

Produkt Poetry Of Edward Thomas - Motion, Andrew zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Vintage Publishing.…

A staggering, shattering novel from Turkey's greatest novelistSince Halil was shot dead in his own home by his wife EsmĂ©'s…

In a country recovering from a brutal and divisive civil war, a young boy, Jamie, is knocked off his bike and dies in a city…

This rich selection - made by the author - exhibits those qualities in poem after poem, reflecting, moreover, an exciting…

• Čeština

With this deeply influential book, which is now internationally recognised as a classic study of childhood and its social…

A vivid, brutal and enthralling account of the Burma Campaign - one of the most punishing and hard-fought military…

The book - a selection of articles, broadcasts and books extracts that revealed important and disturbing truths - ranges…

Tells the story of popular music, from the birth of recording in the 1890s to the digital age, from the first pop superstars…

In the final paper on the Oedipus complex, Klein develops her theories of the earliest infant stages of development,…

Shows how the early leaders of the group first met in the Paris studios and lived and worked closely together for nearly…

Hurtle Duffield is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. It is only when Hurtle meets an egocentric adolescent…

"A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me a boat. Since the king spent all his time sitting by the door for…

A challenge to the whole basis of thinking on the subject of classical civilization. The author argues that it has its roots…