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\nif you are not deeply discomfited by the time you finish reading On Having and Being Had, you have no…

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The Time by the Sea is about Ronald Blythe's life in Aldeburgh during the 1950s. He had originally come to the Suffolk coast…

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

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Presented as a collection of found papers, appendices and notes, The Big Music tells the story of John Sutherland of 'The…

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Winner of the Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year, this book takes you on a tour to celebrate the absurd failures of the…

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• Rok vydání 1999

The Oresteia comprises three of the greatest plays of all time: Agamemnon, The Cheophori and The Eumenides.…

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Auden's electrifying, enigmatic and extraordinarily influential debut collection was published by Faber in 1930, and simply…

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A scrupulously forensic literary appreciation of Edward Lear and his 'nonsenses' by one of our most cherished historians -…

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'Seamus Heaney has gone beyond the themes of his earlier poetry and has made the giant step towards the most ambitious, most…

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Something so old and so deep, it has no words, no shape, no logic. Viv Albertine has always been obsessed with the truth:…

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For hundreds of years, musicians, craftsmen, church officials, heads of state and philosophers fought heatedly against the…

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The Secret Life of Poems is a primer which offers a poem - or on occasion an excerpt - succeeding with commentary in which…

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Philip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England's best-loved poet - a writer matchlessly capable of evoking his native land and of…

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Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize for Poetry…

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Asha Phillips writes as both a child psychotherapist and a mother, using case studies as well as informal anecdotes from…

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In these vivid, real and sometimes surreal pieces, Daljit Nagra creates his own inimitable linguistic bhaji: where…

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LRB BOOKSHOP'S AUTHOR OF THE MONTH ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY GEOFF DYER'If you haven't…

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Molotov - ruthless apparatchik, participant in the collectivizations and the Great Purge - was also an ardent bibliophile.…

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"Offers parodies of William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, and Emily Dickinson, and humorous sonnets, haiku, and love poems."…

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

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• Rok vydání 2014

By drawing on scenes originating in versions such as those from Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, as well as the better-known…

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

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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'Engaging, brilliant' Guardian'A talkative, tender meditation' Financial Times'Every…

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Born in Dresden in 1962, Durs Grunbein is the most significant and successful poet to emerge from the former East Germany, a…

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An essential guide to the strange, sometimes sinister culture of contemporary Italy. When Tobias Jones first travelled to…

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Focuses on such characteristic subjects as: the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the…

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In Where China Meets India he explores the new strategic centrality of Burma, the country of his ancestry, where Asia's two…

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Winner of the Encore Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for FictionA beguiling, short and yet sweeping prose-poem,…

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

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Extending the concerns of Dart and written over a period of several years, these poems combine abrupt honesty with an…

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\nAn electrifying queer awakening, novel-in-verse\n…

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The Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, director and teacher has written a blunt, unsparingly honest guide to acting. He…

Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and…

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David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near…

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A guide to writing fiction by the Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little. Part biography, part reflection and part…

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A SUNDAY TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZETHE BOOKSELLER'S Most Picked Book…

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From the author of 1599, a fresh perspective on the history of the United States - and a timely reminder of Shakespeare's…

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A vast range of human experience is here: most are anonymous, everyday encounters - children playing, a homeless man in…

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The second instalment of the Pax Britannica Trilogy by Jan Morris, recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the…

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Originally published in 1960, The Colossus was the only volume of Sylvia Plath's poetry published before her death in 1963.…

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This essay collection brings to us out of one of history's darker moments an extended love song to the world we still have.…

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How are conductors' silent gestures magicked into sound by a group of more than a hundred brilliant but belligerent…

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A dual-authored volume of poems from the multi-award winning Dickman twins, which they wrote when their older sibling…

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In this new selection from the poetry of Lawrence Durrell (the first for thirty years), Peter Porter has drawn on the full…

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A century after his death, Gustav Mahler is the most important composer of modern times. In this highly original account of…

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Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse…

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It's not until 2010, when Elisa's decomposed body is found in the church where she went missing, that the two cases are…

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