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

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Discover the classic novel of 'a modern master' (Irish Times), described by Stephen Mangan on BBC2s Between the Covers as 'a…

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Professional slackers and best friends KJ and Jasper spend their days talking music and Bukowski outside back of a coffee…

There are times in the theatre when you suddenly find yourself in the grip of silence. There is no fidgeting or coughing, no…

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Produkt Return of Benjamin Lay - Wallace, Naomi a Rediker, Marcus zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele FABER & FABER.…

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

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York, Winter, 1906 - two brothers have been shot to death. Meanwhile, Jim Stringer meets the Lost Luggage Porter, humblest…

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But the story of my life - my behaviour, my actions - now that's a slim little paperback, and I've never read it. The Fever…

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

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Going to see a 'Shakespeare' and want a quick run-down on the plot before you start? Teaching the 'Henry's' and need a handy…

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE PRIZE 2019LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR…

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Fifteen years ago Una and Ray had a relationship. They haven't set eyes on each other since. Now, years later, she's found…

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This luminous family saga from one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists is a must for fans of Anne Tyler and Jonathan…

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The Built Moment explores what we build out of the provisional: beginnings and endings, arrivals and departures, and the…

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At a family wedding Mevlut catches sight of a girl with whom he falls in love. After a secret courtship of letters passed…

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Faster, higher, stronger: winning words are those that inspire you on to Olympian goals. From William Shakespeare to Carol…

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Simon Weinberg is dead. And, on a November morning, six people gather at his funeral - brothers and a sister, lovers and…

When an invitation to The Ball arrives at the Ash girl's house, from Prince Amir, she can't bring herself to believe that…

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Sebastian Barry's new play explores our capacity to commit the deadliest of crimes but also our capacity for survival,…

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In the early hours of 5 September 1972 the perimeter fence surrounding the Olympic Village in Munich was scaled by…

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But Morris's visit ends in flight when an unidentified enemy arrives to seize control. When Jan Morris returns to Hav, some…

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Elegy imagines a very-near future in which radical and unprecedented advances in medical science mean that it's possible to…

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Flora died before her grandson was born, but their travels and obsessions unravel side by side in this absorbing novel. A…

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'Grotesque and depraved and above all very funny.' Ardal O'HanlonRobert Caligari is a thoroughly evil thirteen-year-old who…

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As a young girl Gwen thought it impossible that she could ever succeed as an artist, and yet the observations of the small…

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Taking his cue from the true-life story of Special Forces Operative Captain Robert Nairac, Eoin McNamee has in The Ultras…

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Then the noise of pebbles and mud that horses make when drinking. Till the horse had finished drinking or the driver deemed…

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With all the keen literary intelligence familiar from The New York Trilogy or Sunset Park, Paul Auster crafts an intensely…

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'Lines off' is a term used for lines spoken from the wings of a theatre, or off-camera in a film. Autobiographical,…

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Welcome to After Fame - an ambitious and resonant engagement with the epigrams of the Roman poet Martial, which completes…

Old Times was first presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on 1 June 1971. It was…

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In 1934, a group of Ashington miners and a dental mechanic hired a professor from Newcastle University to teach an Art…

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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE 21ST CENTURYWINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZETen years out of Yale and…

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From a motorway service area to her ambivalent relationship with religion, Wendy Cope covers a wide range of experience in…

After a shooting in London goes hideously wrong, two hitmen, Ray and Ken, are sent to hide out in the strange, Gothic,…

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Sophie and Calliope have never been to school. Their mum ran away from home when she was seventeen to join the New Age…

I can't take care of you anymore. Martha is their mother.That Face premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in April…

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Christopher Hampton has translated five plays by Yasmina Reza: 'Art', The Unexpected Man, Conversations after a Burial, Life…

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the theatre lends itself particularly well to the ritualistic aspects of the story - chanting, dancing, marching, forming a…

An adaptation of Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid for the stage. Tim Supple is Artistic Director of the Young Vic. He has…

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But when the ratings soar, the network seize on their newfound populist prophet, and Howard becomes the biggest thing on TV.…

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A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKBessie Smith: singer, icon, pioneer. Scotland's National Poet Jackie Kay brings to life the…

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And there, in the early hours of 11 September, tragedy struck them. Judith was torn away from David by a band of armed…

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Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. August himself has just landed a…

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

\nHallway-dwelling Semyon is unemployed and disheartened with life. On the night of the deed, a party grows towards a…

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'Set in a desolate motel room on the edge of the Mojave desert, the play has something of the timeless universality of a…

Set in the mysterious landscape of the bogs of rural Ireland, Carr's lyrical and timeless play tells the story of Hester…