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When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit London and his family, he finds himself…

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It's the sweltering summer of 1911, and one Friday evening a young aristocrat arrives into the custody of detective Jim…

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Produkt Klopp - Quinn, Anthony (Film Critic/Book reviewer) zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele FABER & FABER.…

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Richard Wagner remains, almost 130 years after his death, the most controversial composer in the history of music. The…

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Kid gives us one of the liveliest poetic voices to have emerged in the last ten years. Simon Armitage's inspired ear for the…

Adapted by the author from his autobiographical memoir, The Lady in the Van tells the story of Miss Mary Shepherd, whom Alan…

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He eats film, he drinks film, and sometimes he'll even watch a film. But most of all he loves talking about film, and how…

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Richly observed, this witty and yet deeply moving tale of Charlotte Hobson's year travelling around Russia takes us to the…

\nWith their tidal imagination, the poems in this debut collection sweep between old worlds and new, seeking the lost and…

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A selection of Shakespeare's poems and dramatic speeches, along with the author's accompanying essay. It intends to show how…

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They might go home together, they might not. Constellations explores love, free will, and friendship through quantum…

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A family story, told with restraint and tenderness. This book is a son's unembarrassed tribute to his mother. His memory of…

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A gripping investigation into one of Irish history's greatest mysteries, Great Hatred reveals the true story behind one of…

Not one of us must breathe a word of what we've found. It's a dark and stormy night. Treasure Island, Robert Louis…

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In this collection of psychoanalytic essays on a wide range of relatively unexplored subjects, the author evolves his own…

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The central character of this play is Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who led an Irish and Spanish alliance against the armies…

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A decade after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars had given way to an era of retrenchment and repression, 1824…

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Lorca's Blood Wedding is a classic of twentieth-century theatre. Lorca uses it to investigate the subjects which fascinated…

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

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A title that combines Wildean pastiche, political history, artistic debate, spoof reminiscence, and song-and-dance in…

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George III's behaviour has often been odd, but now he is deranged, with rumours circulating that he has even addressed an…

A hijacked plane is heading towards a packed football stadium. Ignoring orders to the contrary, a fighter pilot shoots down…

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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…

The news that a government inspector is due to arrive in a small Russian town sends its bureaucrats into a panicked frenzy.…

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Takes you on an expedition into the animal kingdom to encounter 100 of its most remarkable subjects. This book features…

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Chosen as one of Sight & Sound's 'Best Film Books of the Year'John Boorman is one of the cinema's authentic visionaries,…

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This anthology is drawn from his writings about the memories of men and women of a past era - farm labourers, shepherds,…

\nSet inside a men\'s public toilet, Boys on the Verge of Tears is a bold, kaleidoscopic tale of violence and vulnerability.…

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And at the feet of my master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to…

Everyman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling. But Death is close behind, and time is running…

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Andrew Motion's prose memoir In the Blood (2006) was widely acclaimed, praised as an act of magical retrieval and a hymn to…

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The book brings together subtle and moving meditations on exile and belonging, travel and home, and honours many friends and…

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Whether you are a professional actor looking for fresh audition pieces, an amateur in search of competition-worthy…

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'They are not for you but for a later age!' Ludwig van Beethoven, on the Opus 59 quartetsBeethoven's sixteen string quartets…

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

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Yellow Moon is a modern Bonnie and Clyde tale that follows the fortunes of two teenagers on the run. The play premiered at…

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\nThe stirring, mindful and deeply humane new collection of poems from Paul Muldoon - now in paperback.\n…

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Happy Days was written in 1960 and first produced in London at the Royal Court Theatre in November 1962. WINNIE: [ . .] Well…

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\'Cements her reputation as one of the most fierce and elegant chroniclers of how we live now.\' Stephanie Merritt,…

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In the extraordinary circumstances of World War I, eight ordinary men are changed, changed utterly. Observe the Sons of…

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As he and his best friend Henry attempt to make the sometimes painful, sometimes comic transition to their divorced middle…

Tom Stoppard's new play is centered around A.E.Housman, poet and Classics scholar, whose most famous poem was A Shropshire…

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August Kleinzahler has earned admiration for his musical, precise poems that are grounded in the people, places and language…

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Joseph Haydn is one of the greatest and most innovative of all composers, yet in some ways he is still curiously…

Throughout the remote and forgotten corners of the British Isles, Frank Hardy offers the promise of redemption to the sick…

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Adam Phillips uses the idea of flirtation to explore the virtues of being uncommitted - to people, to ideas, to methods -…

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A novel is a relationship, a place outside of time where both reader and writer are challenged and validated, stretched and…

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a play which, as it were, takes place in the wings of Hamlet, and finds both humour…