• Rok vydání 2017

Terrence Malick's debut film, Badlands, announced the arrival of a unique talent. In the 40 years since that debut, Malick…

A collection of texts written between the fourth and the fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian…

Graham has given us a poetry of intense power and inquisitive vision - a body of work regarded by many as among the best…

Tells of the author\'s return voyage from the China Seas to England, via the South Seas, Cape Horn and West Africa.…

Johann Joachim Quantz's On Playing the Flute has long been recognized as one of the primary sources of information about…

Michael Powell lived intimately, and abundantly, with the movies - entering the business at the end of the silent era,…

The angels on our Christmas cards, the stained glass in our churches, the great paintings in our galleries - Edward…

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• Rok vydání 2009

W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nCould these forebodings help the world to prevent disasters?In 1966, John Barker, a dynamic psychiatrist working in an…

• Rok vydání 2020

Robert leaves Ibsen's A Doll's House outraged by its attack on the sanctity of marriage; What she chooses to do next will…

Cope\'s first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its…

In North Seamus Heaney found a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland - its people, history and landscape.…

A generous selection of poems from 'one of the most talented and interesting poets writing in English today' (Robert Nye).…

A comedy play about a lesbian, a wedding-day bonk, a mother who contracts Alzheimer's and finding failure and frivolity (a…

When Glenn Gould died in 1982 at the age of fifty, he left behind an astonishing legacy: in twenty-six years he had proved…

• Rok vydání 2011

For more than twenty years and from Blackwood, Wales to Tokyo, Japan, Nicky Wire has kept a personal visual history of the…

In the second volume of his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption examines the middle years of the…

In the decades since his death in 1963, Louis MacNeice's reputation as a poet has grown steadily, and there are now several…

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The Artist's Handbook has become an indispensable reference work for thousands of practising artists all over the world.…

• Rok vydání 2012

Contemporaries in both countries believed that they were living through memorable times: times of great wickedness and great…

Impertinent owls, an immersive theatre troupe, ancient men from the Great War and idiot balloonists - such characters…

\nA work that reminds us of the singular and glorious power of poetry in our complex world. Silver is a collection that…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nHis body was never found. In 1891, Thomas Edison - inventor of the lightbulb and the phonograph - announced that he had…

• Rok vydání 2017

In the wake of the EU referendum, the United Kingdom's border with Ireland has gained greater significance: it is set to…

• Rok vydání 2017

I can confirm that should you ever find yourself on stage playing the bass guitar with three left hands, it is usually the…

• Rok vydání 1942

Released in 1942, Casablanca won four Oscars, including Best Picture, and featured unforgettable performances by Humphrey…

\nSkin is David Harsent\'s visionary new collection, consisting of ten dramatic sequences of poems, which, like a planetary…

'Compulsively readable' (History), this is the first volume in a series that details the long and violent endeavour of the…

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Edmund Wilson wrote of Robert Lowell that he was the 'only recent American poet - if you don't count Eliot - who writes…

The extraordinary group of Russian composers who came together in St Petersburg in the 1860s - long known as 'The Mighty…

Contains, in parallel translation, a thousand of the most frequently performed Lieder, both piano-accompanied and…

Since his death in 1896, William Morris has come to be regarded as one of the giants of the Victorian era. The author has…

This is a vivid record, in words, illustrations and working diagrams, of a section of women's clothing design from 1600 to…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nGrowing up in Marsden among the hills of West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage has always associated his early poetic experiences…

\nTiger was feeling sleepy. As sleepy as sleepy can be. So sleepy only one thing could help... Crocodile was feeling sleepy.…

Lunch in Soho with a former lover - but Zanzotti's is under new management, and as the wine takes effect fond memories give…

When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear - all have…

Anything but analogue, Magic Mobile is the latest offering of comic genius from Michael Frayn, the author of Matchbox…

In one corner was Barry Hearn and his Romford Mafia - Davis, Taylor and Griffiths - and in the other were the bad boys -…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nBrittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people ofWales during a period of great national change.\n…

• Rok vydání 2015

Written in French and first performed at the Theatre du Bablyone in Paris, in 1953, En attendant Godot was subsequently…

• Rok vydání 2008

In 2008 Paul Robertson, the renowned violinist and leader of the Medici Quartet, suffered a ruptured aorta. During this…

• Rok vydání 2020

\nFive exceptional women; one London square. A spellbinding group biography by a luminous new talent.\n…

\nTeenage provides a panoramic scope for his talents.\'INDEPENDENT\'Savage has produced a book that may well change how…