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Dad suggests a sherry 'To keep us both going', in the cosy front room with the firelight glowing ... Then out comes the…

Throughout the remote and forgotten corners of the British Isles, Frank Hardy offers the promise of redemption to the sick…

\nLose yourself in bestselling author Lawrence Durrell\'s sublime novel about a group of English tourists trapped in the…

• Rok vydání 2022

What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What's grown-ups going to think? Going off-hunting pigs-letting fires out-and…

\nEach begins to long for what the other has, luring them into a strange loop. In this play for two variables, Marcus du…

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• Rok vydání 2018

In this masterful novel by the acclaimed Indian writer Vivek Shanbhag, a close-knit family is delivered from…

• Rok vydání 2017

Catherine and Heathcliff's, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father, passionate but doomed love forms the core of this…

York, Winter, 1906 - two brothers have been shot to death. Meanwhile, Jim Stringer meets the Lost Luggage Porter, humblest…

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Late at night in a foreign land, an English army sweeps through the landscape under cover of darkness and takes the seat of…

'Grotesque and depraved and above all very funny.' Ardal O'HanlonRobert Caligari is a thoroughly evil thirteen-year-old who…

Everyman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling. But Death is close behind, and time is running…

'The setting is a schoolroom near Manchester where an evening class of budding comics congregate for a final briefing from…

• Rok vydání 2017

If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as if I had gone through…

George III's behaviour has often been odd, but now he is deranged, with rumours circulating that he has even addressed an…

\nThe dramatic story of Solange: a musician and artist whose unconventional journey to international success was far more…

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• Rok vydání 2020

When a young girl is found murdered in a field, the scientific examination of the exhibits is just a routine job for the…

\nWhile mothers raise children in the bucolic Place of Women, Chimp is tormented by the Leopard Men in their brutal hunts,…

\nLose yourself in the thrilling political intrigue and tangled love affairs of wartime Egypt: Durrell\'s epic modern…

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• Rok vydání 2018

When Detective Constable Connie Childs is dragged from her bed to the fire-wrecked property on Cross Farm Lane she knows as…

• Rok vydání 2022

\n\'Almost nothing in life is only what it seems.\'Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an…

The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but \'the Great War\' would not as hoped be \'the…

As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, and their picaresque travels together and apart - in…

Attempts on her Life 17 scenarios for the theatre by Martin Crimp Attempts to describe her? Attempts on her Life 17…

Now a film starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd'A book you can't put down.' O, The Oprah MagazineFor years, thirty-eight-year-old…

Stuff Happens premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2004 and has subsequently been performed around the world. This…

• Thriller

For fans of Borgen, The Killing and the Wallander series, a thrilling novel of murder and political scandal in Oslo. An…

He arrives to find a city on the point of insurrection, his cover apparently blown - and his only contact lying dead with…

The central character of this play is Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who led an Irish and Spanish alliance against the armies…

In a stunning memoir-cum-travelogue Peter Carey charts this journey, inspired by Charley's passion for Japanese Manga and…

\nIntroduced by Annie Proulx. lose yourself in an epic naval journey in this Booker Prize-winning novel: the first in the…

April, 1945. East of Berlin, the Red Army stands poised to unleash its final assault upon the ruined capital of Hitler's…

• Rok vydání 2024

\nAn original and profound portrait of contemporary Britain told through the testimonies of its inhabitants.\n…

\nSimon Armitage, Poet Laureate, brings new perspectives and energy to a timeless poetic subject. Blossomise celebrates the…

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• Rok vydání 1960

Discover the original psychological thriller... Winner of the 1960 Edgar Award for best mystery novel'A lost masterpiece.'…

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• Rok vydání 2020

\nThe scandalous cult classic: when Anna is kissed by a masked figure at a New Year\'s Eve masquerade ball, a heady dance of…

• Rok vydání 2018

- What were you in life?- In life, as you put it, I was a schoolmaster. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital…

This volume contains Carol Ann Duffy's adaptation plus the dramatization by Tim Supple and the Young Vic Company.…

The finest commemoration of the First World War centenary I've seen to-date, this deserves a much longer life.' Dominic…

• Thriller

lead to places I don't want to go again.' When Emily and her husband move to Clairmont, Texas, they believe that it's the…

• Rok vydání 2014

Promising young playwright Will Shakespeare is tormented by writer's block until he finds his muse in the form of passionate…

Women have made huge strides in equality over the last century. This book argues passionately and articulately that feminism…

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Inspector Zen has been posted to Naples in disgrace, where he is asked to oversee the clean-up of the city's corrupt…

Nothing is more compelling than the drama, at once dark and dazzling, of that theatre over the hills - the vast splendour of…

\nWith their tidal imagination, the poems in this debut collection sweep between old worlds and new, seeking the lost and…

• Rok vydání 2022

\n\'[A] compelling meditation on Indian and Western art-making.\' The New YorkerFinding the Raga is Amit Chaudhuri\'s…

• Rok vydání 2022

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