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POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONFleche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nEliot\'s celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary. \'A rattling good story\' Sunday Telegraph\'A work of art\'…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nWith The Sixteen, Christophers has succeeded in nurturing a choir of exceptional calibre, establishing a business model…

• Rok vydání 2018

Propped against the bank, his blond face undisfigured, except by the mud which I wiped from his eyes and mouth with my coat…

\n\'Urgent, compelling and lyrically, luminously beautiful . As she does, she depicts vividly for us not only her own life…

\nThe perfect Christmas gift for the incurably curious. WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM ZOE BALL\'Funny and fascinating.\' ZOE…

• Rok vydání 2017

Shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2017'Here at the turn of the leaf a horseman is ridingthrough…

\nLoss is divined everywhere: in human relations, in the ruptures of class and privilege, and the poisoning of the planet.…

When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole, his story became a myth embedded in the national…

• Angličtina

\nThe timeless and compelling \'word-music\' of one of Britain\'s oldest cultural treasures is captured in this new…

\nThe prize-winning biography of Wordsworth\'s beloved sister, champion, muse who was at the heart of the Romantic movement…

\nCheeky sun won\'t go to bed! . . painting rainbows, drinking the sea, hiding behind mountains. . . but even the sun must…

\nA groundbreaking music history book from BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we…

\n\'A coolly marshalled, worldly intelligence seems to be able to take on any subject from the quotidian to the arcane. The…

\n\'A classic of creative autobiography,\' Mick Imlah\n…

\nFantastically funny, wise and charming motherhood sketches from award-winning illustrator Polly Dunbar.\n…

\nA nature diary by award-winning novelist, nature writer and hit podcaster Melissa Harrison, following her journey from…

From the birth of crime writing with Wilkie Collins and Dostoevsky, through Conan Doyle to the golden age of crime, with the…

• Rok vydání 2024

\nA unique memoir of a lifetime\'s friendships - from one of Britain\'s most beloved literary companions.\n…

\nsolitary bachelors and disillusioned youths - these are the watchers, not the players. This is the aftermath of being one…

Emma Brockes is thirty-seven, lives alone, and wants children. And that's just the beginning - there are a million choices…

• Rok vydání 2018

Pronounced guilty of libel and sentenced to a year in prison, novelist Emile Zola went on the run. Michael Rosen brings to…

• Rok vydání 2017

How new is atheism?Long before the Enlightenment sowed seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was a matter…

Widely considered an outstanding and unique figure in French literature, Genet wrote five novels between 1942 and 1947, now…

For many, the highlights of seaside holidays are rockpooling and gathering the glorious array of shells left strewn on the…

\nHere is director Roman Polanski, both predator and prey, haunted by the savage murder of his wife, returning to Los…

\nThe bizarre and little known story of how a hubristicArchduke became the puppet Emperor of Mexico -with tragic results and…

Like Greek drama, the play\'s theme and form are rooted in religion, ritual purgation and renewal, and it was this return to…

• Rok vydání 2024

\n\'A clarion call to get up on the dance floor.\' FINANCIAL TIMESWhy do we dance together? Dancing is a part of our stories…

\nThe Secret projects an unsettling story about a young woman and her two children who vanish from their apartment one…

DISCOVER THE REALITY OF LIFE AS A SUPERSTAR DJ IN THIS SENSATIONAL EXPOSE OF WHAT REALLY GOES ON BEHIND THE BPMs. The…

\nASTEROID CITY (adapted from a \"hypothetical\" play) takes place in a fictional desert town, circa 1955. The itinerary of…

'Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.'Gauguin's aphorism serves as the motto for this morality tale of two women,…

In Mars By 1980, David Stubbs charts the evolution of electronic music from the earliest mechanical experiments in the late…

\nA new paperback edition of Hanif Kureishi\'s wide-ranging and thought-provoking essays.\n…

\nAnd each of them may soon disappear from the earth. A lavishly illustrated compendium of the staggering lives of some of…

\nA surprising, liberating and scientifically informed guide to overcoming the anxiety that permeates modern life.\n…

• Rok vydání 1981

It seemed the case of the notorious Yorkshire Ripper was finally closed when Peter Sutcliffe was sentenced to life…

You should know: I sing at parties, I wear colourful dresses, I am headstrong, I won\'t wear my hair up because you say I…

A conductor is one of classical music\'s most recognisable but misunderstood figures, attracting so many questions:\'Surely…

Above all don\'t use the word good as though it meant something in evolutionary science. Hilary, a young psychology…

• Rok vydání 2021

This comprehensive and welcoming edition draws on the whole of Stevie Smith\'s output in poetry, prose and drawings from…