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The long poem is preceded by a section of shorter lyrics and leads into a third group of poems in which the poet's voice is…

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Will she embrace the life she has, or risk everything for the life she imagines?With the warmth of David Nicholls and the…

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This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the series of 12-line poems entitled "Squarings", shows he is ready…

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Anne loved the time in her life when she prepared breakfast each morning for her two young children. Years later, spending…

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

\nCelebrated children\'s writer Hans Christian Andersen arrives, unannounced, for a stay at Gad\'s Hill Place in the Kent…

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The change will come. And it's not far away, I promise you that. Some figure will emerge from the dark screaming 'Get out of…

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Produkt iGirl - Carr, Marina zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele FABER & FABER.…

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In Mars By 1980, David Stubbs charts the evolution of electronic music from the earliest mechanical experiments in the late…

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Here is director Roman Polanski, both predator and prey, haunted by the savage murder of his wife, returning to Los Angeles,…

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Described by The Times as 'the national children's dramatist', David Wood has been writing, adapting, directing and acting…

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Winner of the Best Picture at the 1998 European Film Awards and the Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. 'A…

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Mesmerizing on stage but introverted and prone to desperate mood swings in his private life, Curtis died by his own hand on…

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It is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in London's Pentonville Prison. Dublin lies in ruins after…

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Offering a realistic account of the bits of our lives advertising agencies prefer to ignore, this book is suitable for…

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Like Greek drama, the play's theme and form are rooted in religion, ritual purgation and renewal, and it was this return to…

Here the Irish experience is refracted through images drawn from different parts of the Northern European experience, and…

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Christopher Nolan's previous films have presented a dark vision of the uncertainties of the twentieth-first century. With…

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A collection of elegies and love poems, and a short sonnet sequence which concentrates on such themes as: the individual's…

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'A clarion call to get up on the dance floor.' FINANCIAL TIMESWhy do we dance together? Dancing is a part of our stories -…

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Whatever the truth of this (and Kardashian's own statements refute it), Riviere has used the furore as a point of ignition,…

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This collection of Szymborska's work reveals her to be concerned with the unglamorized actualities of the human condition.…

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Europe has been widely acclaimed as among the finest achievements of 'one of our greatest living writers' (The Times). A…

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On 12 May 1883, the German flag was raised on the coast of South-West Africa, modern Namibia - the beginnings of Germany's…

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The first poem in Gottfried Benn's first book, Morgue (1912) - written in an hour, published in a week, and notorious ever…

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Life on a remote island is turned upside down by a stranger's arrival, testing bonds of family and tradition and leaving a…

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No longer dogs of war running ragtag armies, the new breed of private soldiers operate their million-dollar contracts from…

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Holloway - a hollow way, a sunken path. In July 2005, Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin - author of Wildwood - travelled to…

'Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.'Gauguin's aphorism serves as the motto for this morality tale of two women,…

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Poems 1988-1998 is a compendium from Jo Shapcott's award-winning books Electroplating the Baby, Phrase Book and My Life…

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'Highly readable, exciting and thought-provoking' - Hilary Mantel'A gem of blood-and-thunder storytelling' - Dominic…

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In the late eighties and early nineties, Moby, then an underground DJ and musician, was scraping out a living in New York…

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Impertinent owls, an immersive theatre troupe, ancient men from the Great War and idiot balloonists - such characters…

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From the European buzz of modern-day Constantinople to the Arabic-speaking towns of the south-east, this book investigates…

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For 6,557 miles, from New York to Mississippi to Seattle, Chuck Klosterman decided to chase rock n roll and death across a…

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Contains the old English texts of all the major short poems. This anthology provides a window into the mind and culture of…

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Nick Flynn met his father when he was twenty-seven years old, working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston.…

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Isabella de' Medici was the hostess of a glittering circle in Renaissance Florence. It was this affair - and her very…

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From the surreal pleasure dome of Minehead Butlins to a smoke-filled roundhouse on the Penwith Peninsula then out to the…

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Fiona MacCarthy traces the stories of the girls who curtseyed that year, and shows how their lives were to open out in often…

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Three early plays by Sean O'Casey--arguably his three greatest--demonstrate vividly O'Casey's ability to convey the reality…

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Provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. This book…

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'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael FraynThe Strangest Man is the Costa Biography…

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Whether recalling Philip Glass experiences working at Bethlehem Steel, traveling in India, driving a cab in 1970s New York,…

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A Beautiful Mind is Sylvia Nasar's award-winning biography about the mystery of the human mind, the triumph over incredible…

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Like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, Tom Waits is a chameleonic survivor who's achieved long-term success while retaining cult…

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Difficult Men is an insightful history of popular US TV drama which traces the emergence of shows such as The Sopranos,…