• Čeština

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

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

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

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…

• 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…

\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…

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

• 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…

The overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi has been one of the twenty-first century's defining moments: the Arab world's most bizarre…

• Rok vydání 2016

The change will come. And it's not far away, I promise you that. Some figure will emerge from the dark screaming 'Get out of…

'One of the most famous of modern art documents - a poetic primer, prepared by the artist for his Bauhaus pupils, which has…

Described by The Times as 'the national children's dramatist', David Wood has been writing, adapting, directing and acting…

• Rok vydání 2007

Some of his most famous and often quoted (or misquoted) lines appear in their original form, including the text of two poems…

No longer dogs of war running ragtag armies, the new breed of private soldiers operate their million-dollar contracts from…

• Rok vydání 2011

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

• 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…

• 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…

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

• Rok vydání 2020

\'One of Britain\'s greatest living playwrights to provide his most personal play yet.\' The Times\'The news that Tom…

Poems 1988-1998 is a compendium from Jo Shapcott's award-winning books Electroplating the Baby, Phrase Book and My Life…

Exploring the reservoir of wrong headed questions with which love and death confront us, this volume offers a collection…

Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and…

Cedilla continues the history of John Cromer ("adventures" sounds rather too hectic) begun by Pilcrow, described by the…

• Rok vydání 2001

This first collection of plays by Charlotte Jones includes her multi-award winning Humble Boy (Susan Smith Blackburn Award…

• Čeština

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 2017The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise is the extraordinary story, in her own…

• Rok vydání 2012

In his latest laugh-out-loud collection of misanthropic scribblings, hideous Q-list celebrity failure Charlie Brooker…

• Čeština

What was Mozart really like? Wild? Sublime? Responsible? Fun-loving? Bright? Foul-mouthed? Reading these sparkling new…

It follows the phenomenal success of The Father (Theatre Royal Bath, Tricycle, London and West End) and The Mother (Theatre…

• Rok vydání 2024

\nThe revised and updated edition of Zinnie Harris\'s powerful reimagining of Shakespeare\'s brutal tragedy, telling Lady…

'Obviously something more than a successful play, it is the practical demonstration of a patently conceived theory of…

\nFrom the moment their hugely influential 1978 debut landed, Van Halen set a high bar for the rock \'n\' roll lifestyle,…

Schoenberg's music examples range from the entire development sections of classical symphonies to analyses of the harmonic…

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

• 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…