• Angličtina

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

\n\'She [Bessie Smith] showed me the air and taught me how to fill it ... she\'s the reason I started singing, really\' -…

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…

• Rok vydání 1965

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

Central to this was the power and presence of Albert Grossman - manager for Dylan, Janis Joplin, Richie Havens, The Band and…

• 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…

\nLinda France\'s tenth collection is galvanising, comprising poems written from, and into, the fabric of the sixth mass…

\nI was eight years old when I come to H\'Inglan\' - I travel on my mother\'s passportAugust Henderson, fifty-two years in…

\nWhat follows is a dangerous battle fuelled by love, grief and power. Marina Carr\'s adaptation of the infamous Greek myth…

\nMrs Sarah Siddons, acclaimed as the greatest actress of all time, holds complete sway over audiences and critics alike.…

• Rok vydání 2012

\nAnton Chekhov\'s play Uncle Vanya in a new version by Christopher Hampton. nor does it seem to announce the end of an era,…

• Rok vydání 2009

\nLiubov Ranevskya, a widowed landowner returns home more or less insolvent after five years abroad. Everything appears just…

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

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…

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",…

• Rok vydání 2013

Sarah Losh, strong-willed and passionate, an architect and an intellectual who dumbfounded critics with her genius and…

\nWith acid wit, Miriam Battye\'s play takes a scalpel to modern romance. Strategic Love Play opened at the Belgrade…

• Rok vydání 2018

\nA new and updated edition of \'Tom Stoppard\'s extraordinary, epic drama of politics, persecution and protest in…

\n\'A remarkable journalistic achievement.\' Time Out\'Powerful . Including interviews with key figures in the fight against…

\nThe untold story of the hidden places across Britainthat have slipped through the fingers of history.\n…

Just married. Bored already. Hedda longs to be free. This vital new version by Patrick Marber (Closer, Three Days in the…

\nIn this uproariously funny and charmingly illustrated book, readers are introduced to incredible animals and the bizarre…

\nIt exemplifies Marina Carr\'s work: storytelling that pushes the boundaries of love, power and desire. Draw coal. A…

Led by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and…

• Rok vydání 2017

Selected Poems 1968-2014 offers forty-five years of work drawn from twelve individual collections by a poet who 'began as a…

• Rok vydání 1936

In the summer of 1936, W H Auden and Louis MacNeice visited Iceland on commission to write a travel book, but found…

Picking up from his earlier collection Sleepwalk, and the precursor to his award-winning Shortcomings, the four stories in…

Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf.…

"The Philokalia" is a collection of texts written between the fourth and fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the…

showing us the enthralling interplay of politics, avarice, hate, national pride, and religious fanaticism in that part of…

Edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, and conceived of as a collection of their own favourite poems, The Rattle Bag has…

• Rok vydání 2018

Together with Willie, their lanky navigator, they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the continent, over…

• Rok vydání 2019

But for those whose call deserts home, the 'hideous blanks' described by explorers are rich in resources and significance.…

• Čeština

In Florian Zeller's The Lie, a companion piece to his earlier play The Truth, Michel and Laurence are coming for dinner.…

• Rok vydání 2022

• Rok vydání 2023

\n\'One of the finest accounts of the mysterious workings of grief I have ever read.\' Helen MacdonaldI tore the arse of my…