• Rok vydání 2018

Gordy LaSure's alwaystalking about films and how they'd be a shit ton better if only people would pull their asses out of…

Rob Chapman's book is the first authoritative and exhaustively researched biography of Syd Barrett that fully celebrates his…

Richly observed, this witty and yet deeply moving tale of Charlotte Hobson's year travelling around Russia takes us to the…

\nIn the multiverse, with every possible future ahead of them, a love of honey could make all the difference. Nick Payne\'s…

\nTHE IRISH TOP 10 BESTSELLERA gripping investigation into one of Irish history\'s greatest mysteries, Great Hatred reveals…

Astonishing real-life rescue missions from on, under and above the earth from the award-winning team behind Survivors and…

The play was revived by the Donmar Warehouse, London, in February 2018. Winner of the London Critics' Circle Award for Best…

A title that combines Wildean pastiche, political history, artistic debate, spoof reminiscence, and song-and-dance in…

A hijacked plane is heading towards a packed football stadium. Ignoring orders to the contrary, a fighter pilot shoots down…

• Angličtina

James Fenton, a Whitbread-winning poet praised for his own love poetry, gathers together the best lyric poems originating in…

Frost returned to the safety of New England while Thomas stayed to fight for the Old. It is these roads taken - and those…

• Rok vydání 1987

This volume contains a selection of work from each of Seamus Heaney's published books of poetry up to and including the…

His wife was restless and jealous. Outside of the villa, Mexican communists tried to storm the house, the Trotskys' sons…

A work of unreconciled Shakespearean intensity, the Testament has been translated by Seamus Heaney into a confident and yet…

• Rok vydání 1965

Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen…

Sean Connery's personification of secret agent James Bond invigorated Britain and its cinema, allowing a cash-strapped,…

• Rok vydání 2008

Hedda Gabler returns, dissatisfied, from a long honeymoon. Bored by her aspiring academic husband, she foresees a life of…

The news that a government inspector is due to arrive in a small Russian town sends its bureaucrats into a panicked frenzy.…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nChosen as one of Sight & Sound\'s \'Best Film Books of the Year\'John Boorman is one of the cinema\'s authentic…

This anthology is drawn from his writings about the memories of men and women of a past era - farm labourers, shepherds,…

\nSet inside a men\'s public toilet, Boys on the Verge of Tears is a bold, kaleidoscopic tale of violence and vulnerability.…

• Rok vydání 2019

Andrew Motion's prose memoir In the Blood (2006) was widely acclaimed, praised as an act of magical retrieval and a hymn to…

\n\'A pointed, svelte but diverse work.\' Irish TimesPart memoir, part manifesto, Some Answers Without Questions is an…

• Rok vydání 2011

Luxuriating in her fading moneyed world and regardless of the increasingly hostile forces outside, she and her brother snub…

• Rok vydání 1991

From the record-breaking success of 1991's 'Black Album' to the band's reinvention with the Load/Reload albums; from the…

In a wonderfully evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, Jan Morris - a constant…

• Rok vydání 2000

When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had written…

• Rok vydání 2011

To understand Lebanon\'s history is to understand the history of the entire region - and, with the rise of Hizbullah, it has…

In that dark hour America saw its chance to challenge British dominance: her troops invaded Canada and American frigates…

Meet the girl from MI5 who had the gravy browning licked from her legs by Dylan Thomas; the barman who was appointed the…

Offers an interpretation of Blake\'s art and poetry in the context of the revolutionary period in which he was working.…

• Angličtina

The Story of English is the extraordinary tale of the origins and development of the English language. Two thousand years…

• Rok vydání 2020

\'Cements her reputation as one of the most fierce and elegant chroniclers of how we live now.\' Stephanie Merritt,…

In the extraordinary circumstances of World War I, eight ordinary men are changed, changed utterly. Observe the Sons of…

Thomas Ad s: Full of Noises: Conversations with Tom Service is an unprecedented glimpse into the creative mind and…

Pulling together his years of experience as a novelist and a teacher, Richard Skinner covers the basics of writing great…

• Rok vydání 2007

I know now, Kostya, I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't…

They're just across the Channel, right on our doorstep. Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson's The Jungle premiered as a…

• Rok vydání 2024

\nA future classic of memoir by one of the greatest writers at work today\n…

\nThe people who buy paintings like this aren\'t just driven by aesthetic desire. A story that catapults them into the orbit…

A collection of seven essays that sketches out the author's personal view of the history and value of the novel. The real…

The real story of how Winston Churchill and the British mastered deception to defeat the Nazis - by conning the Kaiser,…

When a distressed young woman arrives at their station claiming her friend has been abducted, and that the man threatened to…

Presents a social history, a diary of a nation's changing culture, and an in-depth appraisal of one of our greatest…

Auden was once described as the Picasso of modern poetry - a tribute to his ceaseless experimentation with form and subject…

• Čeština

Billy Bragg is one of Britain's most distinctive and accomplished songwriters, whose work has articulated the passions, both…

This volume replaced Ted Hughes's Selected Poems 1957-1981. It contains a larger selection from the same period, to which…

Paul Schrader is US cinema's hardcore intellectual. This title collects three of his finest screenplays, "Taxi Driver",…