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• Rok vydání 2022

\nWhy do people commit hate crimes? A world-leading criminologist explores the tipping point between prejudice and hate…

The brain builds a narrative to steady us from moment to moment, but it is absolutely an illusion. This title features three…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nDuring sessions with his psychiatrist, Balthazar, their intricate love affair is cast in a radical, sinister light,…

• Rok vydání 2007

John Clare (1793-1864), the 'peasant poet', worked as an agricultural labourer in Northamptonshire until a deterioration in…

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• Rok vydání 2018

Ivor died in a car crash two months ago - she may not be adjusting to widowhood very well, but Imogen certainly didn't…

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• Čeština
• Počet stran 592
• Rok vydání 2020

Now a major Channel 5 series'The Queen of Crime.' New York TimesVenetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she…

\nBut how we misread them, bright drop after bright drop in the sea of night. Based on the letters of Mary Queen of Scots,…

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Jim's faltering career in the railway police hangs on whether he can solve the murder - but before long the pursuer becomes…

• Čeština

A modern classic by one of Ireland's greatest contemporary playwrights, reissued in a beautiful typographic jacket. I was…

• Angličtina

The Faber Book of Beasts is a collection of many of the best poems in English about the creatures who share our planet.…

• Rok vydání 2017

He got in touch with people he admires, and asked them to suggest an album for him to track down on his travels, giving an…

Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, this book conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive…

In About Kane, Graham Saunders offers an important study of one of the most controversial and talented playwrights of recent…

As the boxing world starts to recede, the characters he has lived with, and for, rear sharply into focus one last time: the…

\nThe no. 1 internationally bestselling High Coast series returns with a case that entangles Detective Eira Sjodin\'s own…

\nLose yourself in an epic naval journey in the second novel in the Booker Prize-winning Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord…

\nOnly you and I will know that we Topped Their Love. Love has no limits for the Diggs siblings: there\'s nothing that…

Smart, edgy, hilarious, and unabashedly raunchy New York Times bestselling author Samantha Irby explodes onto the printed…

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• Rok vydání 2022

As it pulls up, Lydia Wickham - Elizabeth Bennet's younger, unreliable sister - stumbles out screaming that her husband has…

\nAn Expert in Murder is the first in a new series that features Golden Age crime writer Josephine Tey as its lead…

\nThough never elected to office, he manipulated those who were through a mix of guile, charm and intimidation. Motivated at…

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In our age of accusations, blurred lines, and shifting allegiances, what would you do?When Angela meets Jason Powell, a…

Adam Phillips uses the idea of flirtation to explore the virtues of being uncommitted - to people, to ideas, to methods -…

Designed to meet the requirements for students at GCSE and A level, this accessible educational edition offers the complete…

• Rok vydání 2001

In 2001, after over a decade in the business, the author quit stand-up, disillusioned and drained, and went off to direct a…

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'Absolutely riveting . Burke delivers a first-rate thriller, as a rookie detective investigates the dark side of internet…

Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former…

Clears a devastating path from the bygone Glasgow of the 1970s to the grim secrets of Gloucester in the mid 1990s.…

• Čeština

A liff is a familiar object or experience that English has no word for. This book corrects this disgraceful oversight by…

• Čeština
• Rok vydání 2007

Fishamble's world premiere of The Pride of Parnell Street opened at the Tricycle Theatre, London, and as part of the Dublin…

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• Angličtina
• Počet stran 338
• Rok vydání 2019

NOW A PRIME VIDEO TV SERIES STARRING ELIZABETH BANKS AND JESSICA BIEL'Highly addictive' KARIN SLAUGHTER 'A major talent'…

\nA delightful, nostalgic ramble around the hostelries of London from a bygone age.\n…

Designed to meet the requirements for students at GCSE and A level, this volume is intended equally for those studying…

Presents a selection of 1,423 facts to bowl you over. This title includes facts such as: Bees can play football; cholesterol…

\nThe poems collected in Tribute: Three Commemorative Poems were composed by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage for three…

\nYou\'d be surprised how a simple thing like locking up your husband in the same room as you, makes you aware of something.…

The definitive account of the first rise and fall of Boy George and Culture Club and British pop music in the 1980s. NEW…

\nLose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the Greek island of Rhodes after World War II by the king of travel…

• Rok vydání 2014

Presents a virtual wonderland that provides total sensory immersion. This book explores the consequences of living out our…

Fast-moving, fun and full of special effects, Ayckbourn's wonderfully inventive play for children brings alive several…

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• Rok vydání 2011

A solitary tent is found to contain the body of a half-buried woman. Two years earlier internet reporter Henning Juul lost…

• Rok vydání 2007

As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol…

On the first day of the Somme enlisted railwayman Jim Stringer lies trapped in a shell hole, smoking cigarette after…

Alcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die in…

Offers an evocation of Edwardian working-class life.…

Offers an intimate evocation of the famous of all mountaineering exploits and the old-fashioned Fleet Street scoop.…

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But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another…

• Rok vydání 2020

\'No musician or music lover should be without it.\' BBC Music MagazineRobert Schumann was far ahead of his time: his music…