• Rok vydání 2018

Egypt, 2011: this is a revolution. On the streets of Cairo, a violent uprising is transforming the course of history. The…

Arthur Ransome was, from 1930 to the early 1960s, what J.K. As the Red Army engaged with an Allied invasion of Russia,…

\n\'Darkly funny and startlingly contemporary, full of witty one-liners and stop-you-in-your-tracks observations about…

\'So funny - Nabokov meets Spinal Tap.\' STEPHEN MERCHANT\'Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.\' TIM KEY\'Absolutely…

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• Rok vydání 2021

\nThe fifth novel in the enthralling series starring Golden Age crime writer Josephine TeyA house that can\'t restA crime…

\nFor years, Sgt Wayne Jenkins and his elite team of plain-clothed officers - the Gun Trace Task Force - had been the…

Why is the sea salty?How far away is space?Why can't I tickle myself?Why can't we live forever?Children ask the most…

\nSOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM STARRING PAUL MESCAL, CLAIRE FOY, ANDREW SCOTT AND JAMIE BELL Middle-aged, jaded and divorced, TV…

\nAsa tries to give her classmate a biscuit. Nami evades her classmates\' playground game of acorn-throwing. Happy decides…

Well-meaning civil servants were eager to modernise Irish agriculture and to improve the Irish moral character, which was…

These poems report on worlds both robust and delicate, from boisterous pub-bluff to the oxygen bubble of an exquisite…

• Rok vydání 2012

Picking up where his hilarious Screen Burn left off, Dawn of the Dumb collects the best of Charlie Brooker's recent TV…

Wallace's best poems, contained within this collection, have been described as the work of "someone sympathetic,…

Tells the story of ten exceptional generals who left their mark on Britain, the British Empire, and the world. Some -…

• Rok vydání 1945

In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. From its beguilingly idiosyncratic…

150 essential rules from the award-winning co-writer of Yes Minster and Yes Prime Minister, Hollywood movie director,…

\n\'What the doctor ordered . . . What he doesn\'t realise is that encountering an illness and understanding it are two…

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal…

A stunning international thriller and a wild, compulsive ride into the greedy vortex of modern life. Imagine a drug that…

\nDIRECTING, DIALOGUE AND ACTINGFrom Richard Williams\' The Animator\'s Survival Kit comes key chapters in mini form. The…

• Rok vydání 2019

When Rachel Cusk decides to travel to Italy for a summer with her husband and two young children, she has no idea of the…

\nWALKSFrom Richard Williams\' The Animator\'s Survival Kit comes key chapters in mini form. The Animator\'s Survival Kit is…

• Rok vydání 2020

\nThe award-winning, bestselling verse novel is now a stunning graphic novel with illustrations by Danica Novgorodoff.\n…

State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 looks at post-war Britain from a theatrical perspective.…

Already famous throughout Europe for his theories of planetary motion and gravity, Isaac Newton decided to take on the job…

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In Where China Meets India he explores the new strategic centrality of Burma, the country of his ancestry, where Asia's two…

• Rok vydání 1897

The second instalment of the Pax Britannica Trilogy by Jan Morris, recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the…

Losing none of the exuberance which has become a hallmark of Simon Armitage's poetry, these poems are more personal. The…

How are conductors' silent gestures magicked into sound by a group of more than a hundred brilliant but belligerent…

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Tells the story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in…

• Rok vydání 1972

But in 1972 along came the American, Bobby Fischer: insolent, arrogant, abusive, vain, greedy, vulgar, bigoted, paranoid and…

In Ulysses and Us, Declan Kiberd argues that James Joyce's Ulysses offers a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life…

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• Rok vydání 2023

Floodmeadow draws us into a seething pastoral where lightning threatens and thunder gathers, pylons and powerlines hum, and…

Andre and Madeleine have been in love for over fifty years. And why does Andre feel like he isn't there at all?Christopher…

Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman play rival magicians in turn-of-the-century London who battle each other for trade secrets,…

• Rok vydání 2018

And 'The Satoshi Affair' chronicles the strange case of Craig Wright, the Australian web developer who may or may not be the…

I'm an award-winning business woman. Beneath the surface, though, the cracks are starting to show. Linda by Penelope Skinner…

A discussion of ways in which we may be terrorized by experts, and of the idea of expertise itself. The author challenges…

A Scattering is a book of lamentation and remembrance, its subject being Christopher Reid's wife, the actress Lucinda Gane,…

(Pause.) That sound you hear is the sea. (Pause.) I mention it because the sound is so strange, so unlike the sound of the…

• Rok vydání 2013

I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, success and failure, fame and…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nBy the Poet LaureateThe Alliterative Morte Arthure - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around…

Who, or what, is the Green Man, and why is this medieval image so present in our precarious modern times? An encounter with…

One summer, Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way - a challenging 256-mile route usually approached from south to…

'An unknown place.' This was what Michael Frayn's children called the shadowy landscape of the past from which their family…

• Rok vydání 1972

With the sensuousness and physicality of language that would become the hallmark of his early writing, these poems…

• Rok vydání 1965

In 1965, one song defined a generation caught the questing spirit of the era and changed the rules of the possible in…