In mid-career, Michael Frayn took up his old trade of journalism, and wrote a series of occasional articles for the Observer…

• 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…

\nIntroduced by Annie Proulx. lose yourself in an epic naval journey in this Booker Prize-winning novel: the first in the…

• Rok vydání 2022

\n\'A book all should read, particularly white people.\' Irish Times\'A powerful - and varied - portrait of the Black…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nA nature diary by award-winning novelist, nature writer and hit podcaster Melissa Harrison, following her journey from…

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\n From the author of Golden Hill \'Glorious.\' Evening Standard\'Exhilarating.\' TLS\'Brilliant.\' Observer\'Dazzling.\'…

In a stunning memoir-cum-travelogue Peter Carey charts this journey, inspired by Charley's passion for Japanese Manga and…

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

Fresh from her successful scoop reporting the first ascent of Everest in 1953, Jan Morris spent a year journeying across the…

When Owen Sheers discovers a book in his father's study he stumbles upon the life of an obscure relative: Arthur Cripps,…

\n\'Uproarious.\' The Times\'Terrifically entertaining.\' Evening Standard\'Irresistible.\' Daily Mail\'Gripping.\' Sunday…

• Rok vydání 2023

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

\nIn the sixteenth century, the vast and sophisticated empire of China lay almost entirely unknown to Western travellers.\n…

• Rok vydání 2013

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

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

New Selected Poems is a book of singular abundance and formal verve, featuring poems of rare vision and dramatic power by a…

\nThe collected letters of John McGahern, \'one of the greatest writers of our era\' (Hilary Mantel) and \'the most…

\nA unique, life-affirming memoir about the author\'s friendship with two men living in Regent\'s Park\n…

\nFrom the \'Winner of Winners\' of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story of a utopian American experiment,…

\nA stunning social history of British rap and grime by one of the nation\'s foremost cultural chroniclers. \'A stunning…

\nA history of the great British comedy tradition of the twentieth century to the present day.\n…

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• Rok vydání 2023

An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers forty years of…

\nA groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden\'s early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development as…

\nThe moving story of Rachmaninoff\'s years in exile and the composition of his last great work, against a cataclysmic…

Benjamin Ingham, possibly the greatest tycoon England has ever known, was attracted to Sicily from his humble beginnings in…

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

• Rok vydání 2021

\nThis volume completes the publication of this series of notebooks, the plays in question being Play, Come and Go, Eh Joe,…