The Leaping Hare is a rare and remarkable book about every aspect of the life and legend of the wild hare, exploring nature,…

\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…

\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…

Winner of the Whitbread First Novel AwardAgnes Day - sub-editor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire - has discovered…

• Rok vydání 2024

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

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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…

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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…

Set in the mysterious landscape of the bogs of rural Ireland, Carr's lyrical and timeless play tells the story of Hester…

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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…

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

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

• 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…

• 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…

• Rok vydání 2022

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

• 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…

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.…

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

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• 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…

• Rok vydání 2014

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

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

\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…

Flora died before her grandson was born, but their travels and obsessions unravel side by side in this absorbing novel. A…

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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…

Over the last five years, often when David Mitchell has been on holiday, the comedian Stewart Lee has been attempting to…

• 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…

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.…

Andrew Martin has written an historical thriller set around the true story of the Brookwood Necropolis Railway, which…