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As the story begins, Belacqua - a young version of Molloy, whose love is divided between two women, Smeraldina-Rima and the…

\nFrom the \'Winner of Winners\' of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story of a utopian American experiment,…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nLonglisted for the Penderyn Music Book PrizeEngland was once dubbed \'the land without music\', but in the early twentieth…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nDrawing from her own vivid reminiscences and those of ex-students, documents from the Moscow Conservatoire and extensive…

People increasingly are using documentaries as journalism, younger audiences want to see change in the world, Fraser says.…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nIlluminating and authoritative treatise on \'how a poem works\', from the multi-award-winning poet, editor and professor…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nThe must-read music book of the year: Bob Stanley\'s prequel to Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let\'s Do It is the only book that brings…

\nA history of the great British comedy tradition of the twentieth century to the present day.\n…

\nI am a composer. Part memoir, Becoming a Composer offers an intriguing glimpse into the mind and motivation of a composer…

Motion - affectionate but undeceived about the man's frailties, a diligent researcher and a deft reader of poetry - has…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nA stunning new edition of Bob Stanley\'s much-loved, acclaimed and bestselling history of pop, Yeah Yeah Yeah.\n…

\nBlazing a trail in the examination of controversial issues such as drug addiction (The Man with the Golden Arm) and…

Henrietta Lovell is best known as 'The Rare Tea Lady'. She is on a mission to revolutionise the way we drink tea by…

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An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers forty years of…

• Rok vydání 1985

Reordering the thematic principle of the 1985 Collected Poems, this edition returns to a book-by-book chronology and allows…

• Rok vydání 2014

Presents exact and complete transcriptions of the journals kept by Sylvia Plath for the last twelve years of her life -…

Completely addictive.' STEPHEN FRY'A volume to treasure, sigh and snigger over.' BIDISHAAn engrossing collection of the most…

Based on the famous series of dialogues between Francois Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock from the 1960s, this book moves…

\n\'The greatest book ever written on British independent music\' Guardian\'One of the best British music books of the last…

In a period of meaningless mass manufacturing, our growing appetite for hand-made objects, artisan food, and craft beverages…

\nA monumental history of the LGBTQ influence on popular culture, from the award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author…

In the book, Rosen concentrates on the three major figures of the time - Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven - because 'it is in…

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After its publication in 1667, John Milton's Paradise Lost was celebrated throughout Europe as a supreme achievement of the…

• Rok vydání 2024

\n\'Counterintuitive, funny and provocative . Along the way, he reveals the deep-lying and often controversial roots of…

So said Elizabeth Taylor, and therein lay her secret. From her days as a youthful minx at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to her…

\nAs poet laureate, prize-winning biographer and founder of Poetry Archive, Andrew Motion has been at the centre of British…

\nThe rise and fall and triumphant rise from the ashes of Lenny Henry during the 80s and 90s.\n…

Eliot - and of its author, a formidable woman sidelined by literary history. 'Heartbreaking and wonderfully told.' Susan…

\nThe moving story of Rachmaninoff\'s years in exile and the composition of his last great work, against a cataclysmic…

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\nIn particular, it was the years during which he and his sister looked after their mother that shaped the writer we know so…

\nA lively, subversive history of the new UK jazz wave, encapsulating its revolutionary spirit and tracing its foundations…

\nA stirring account of how music acts as a witness to history and a medium of cultural memory in the post-Holocaust world.\n…

\nTrapped in History tells how the British colonised Kenya and how African nationalism arose under Jomo Kenyatta. Trapped in…

• Rok vydání 2024

\nThe definitive story of Anna May Wong, the first East-Asian Hollywood star, and how she blazed a trail for the Chinese…

\nBasil Bunting\'s work was published haphazardly throughout most of his life, and in many cases he did not oversee…

\nBut as Stephen Walsh - author of the highly praised Debussy: A Painter in Sound - points out in this intensely absorbing…

\nThis new edition updates Mike Leigh\'s career to his most recent films, Mister Turner and the epicmasterpiece Peterloo.\n…

\nLet\'s Do It is the definitive history of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties. The story begins in 1898 with…

\nJones combines her personal experience as a mixed-race woman who cares about racism with her professional expertise as a…

This is a collection of texts written between the fourth and fourteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox…

\nThe Ballets Russes not only left a matchless artistic legacy - they changed style and glamour, they changed taste, and…

\nA groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden\'s early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development as…

To accompany Eliot's poems, Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue have provided a commentary that illuminates the creative…

\nSpecial 20th Anniversary edition of contemporary-comics-classic, \'one of the best graphic novels of all time\'…

\nRichard Brody\'s Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard is a landmark biography of one of the great…