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Experience is speedy, the poems seem to say, so dizzyingly fast that the poetry will inevitably be running to catch up -…

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A riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film; a cross-genre feast of moving…

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In Climbing Days, Dan Richards is on the trail of his great-great-aunt, Dorothy Pilley, a prominent and pioneering…

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POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICEThe Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, Alice Oswald's first collection of poems, announced the arrival…

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Kanfer expertly examines each of Brando's films - from The Men in 1950 to The Score in 2001 - making clear the evolution of…

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From one of the country's most eminent reviewers and academics, a delightfully sceptical and devastatingly intelligent…

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For twenty years, Ireland's economic miracle was supposed to be the envy of the world. For years, those with economic power…

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A 'kluge' is an engineering term for a makeshift solution, an inelegant construction that somehow works. This is Gary…

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The picture we have of it - created by his immediate followers and perpetuated in countless works of literature and art ever…

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Produkt 77 Dream Songs - Berryman, John zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele FABER & FABER.…

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Part memoir and part description of the creative process, this is an absorbing journey through the musical landscape of John…

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• Čeština

A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning…

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Picking up where his hilarious Screen Burn left off, Dawn of the Dumb collects the best of Charlie Brooker's recent TV…

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This story, buried under layers of official secrecy for three decades, is one of Britain's great military success stories…

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Arthur Ransome was, from 1930 to the early 1960s, what J.K. As the Red Army engaged with an Allied invasion of Russia,…

\nThe book\'s three sections - ingenious rewritings of canonical prayers, dramatic monologues from the Pendle witch trials…

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Placing Mahler within his world, The Eighth reassesses Mahler's work in the context of the prevailing thought of his age,…

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Renowned and much-loved travel writer Jan Morris turns her eye to Sydney: 'not the best of the cities the British Empire…

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Taking for her subject our human planet, or what Robert Lowell called 'this sweet volcanic cone', Alice Oswald has chosen…

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What happens when you take the people's game away from the people? What happens to the game, and what happens to the people?…

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This is a classic wartime tale of a (real!) cat who made his home at the Faber offices and decided he'd never leave. 'This…

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Celebrities and nobodies, all come to the ball. The storyteller who steps in and out of this human tapestry changes,…

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Well-meaning civil servants were eager to modernise Irish agriculture and to improve the Irish moral character, which was…

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A collection of poems that takes care and consideration in examining the often brutal arena of human relations, concluding…

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This collection of poems from Wendy Cope reveals a softer lyrical voice, also present in her earlier books, but here given…

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• Angličtina

'Monumental . An authoritative guide to the countless ways in which Greek words and ideas have shaped the modern world.'…

These six stories escort them with a care that either respects, or mocks, the dignity of all. The film stars Tom Waits,…

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Julia Copus's poems bring humanity and light to some of our most intimate and solitary moments, repeatedly breathing life…

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This text explores the lives of four different escape artists: a little girl playing her own wayward version of hide and…

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The title, The Government of the Tongue, carries suggestions of both monastic discipline and untrammelled romanticism, and…

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(Pause.) That sound you hear is the sea. (Pause.) I mention it because the sound is so strange, so unlike the sound of the…

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Mr Field, a concert pianist travelling back from a performance in London, fractures his left wrist in a train crash. When he…

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How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? Fiona Maddocks selects 100 classical works from across nine centuries,…

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Rainer Maria Rilke's 55 Sonnets to Orpheus remain a testimony to a writer whose significance other poets continue to testify…

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'In the world of British poetry, Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar.' (Guardian) This stellar edition of her poems brings…

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Mike Love is a founding member of the Beach Boys and the lead singer and lyricist of their biggest hits. In Good Vibrations,…

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The debut collection of poetry from a virtuosic, compassionate new voice.…

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With The Sixteen, Christophers has succeeded in nurturing a choir of exceptional calibre, establishing a business model that…

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Grunge, also known as the 'Seattle Sound', emerged from the Pacific north-west in the early part of the 1980s. With the…

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For thousands of years, humans have built walls and assaulted them, admired walls and reviled them. In Walls, David Frye…

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The new edition, which like the original has had the advantage of Seamus Heaney's own cooperation and unstinted access to…

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'Urgent, compelling and lyrically, luminously beautiful . As she does, she depicts vividly for us not only her own life but…

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This is a revised and enlarged edition. It is designed to help the reader of Eliot's "Selected Poems" by identifying and…

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Edited by award winning novelist and short story writer, this volume seeks to offer fresh renditions to the Irish story -…

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Since his precise, potent and subtle portraits of Northern Irish life first came to public attention in the 1970s, Tom…

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Who, or what, is the Green Man, and why is this medieval image so present in our precarious modern times? An encounter with…

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An electrifying and original sequence of poems, using AI as a creative resource.…

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Hughes strips away the protective layers - the soundproofed ears, the double-glazed eyes - that prevent us making contact…