Finished just two months before the author's murder on 18 August 1936 by a gang of Franco's supporters, The House of…

Matthew Francis's latest collection celebrates the richness of nature and of our responses to it. And, in a moving elegy for…

Bryony Lavery's Frozen was winner of the TMA Best New Play award and the Eileen Anderson Central Television Award for Best…

A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a…

I choose to take back my life.My life.Medea is a wife and a mother. She exacts an appalling revenge and destroys everything…

• Čeština

In a townhouse in Copenhagen works Hans Christian Andersen, a teller of exquisite and fantastic children's tales beloved by…

The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in…

Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is a Northern epic and a classic…

Sylvia Plath was, for both English and American poetry, one of the defining voices of twentieth-century, and one of the most…

In a series of chapters built round poems by a number of writers including himself . He makes the whole venture seem…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nAn exquisite winter tale of courage - and its cost, set in Catholic Ireland.\n…

This is a world of transformative pains, triumphs, losses and celebrations and joins us all in our universal experiences of…

Robert leaves Ibsen's A Doll's House outraged by its attack on the sanctity of marriage; What she chooses to do next will…

Follows pottery teacher Cate Blanchett as she enters into an affair with one of her students, causing upheaval in both her…

\nThe Maids (Les Bonnes, here translated by Bernard Frechtman) is Jean Genet\'s most oft-revived work for the stage.…

• Rok vydání 2019

'They belong to each other in mood, in tone and by way of certain images and words that form a ricochet of echoes - not…

When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear - all have…

Surveying world's art, from primitive cave-drawings to Jackson Pollock, this book explains the persistence of certain…

• Rok vydání 1998

Features a poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, this book charts two…

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

\nASTEROID CITY (adapted from a \"hypothetical\" play) takes place in a fictional desert town, circa 1955. The itinerary of…

• Rok vydání 1985

Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1985, these poems were written after the death of Douglas Dunn's first wife in…

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

Admiral of the Fleet Lord 'Jacky' Fisher (1841-1920) was one of the greatest naval reformers in history. This book offer an…

\nA work that reminds us of the singular and glorious power of poetry in our complex world. Silver is a collection that…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nHis body was never found. In 1891, Thomas Edison - inventor of the lightbulb and the phonograph - announced that he had…

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

West Country rivers predominate ('The West Dart'and 'Torridge'), but other poems imagine or recall Japanese rivers or Celtic…

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

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

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

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

"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…

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

While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, 'Burnt…

• Rok vydání 2008

In 2008 Paul Robertson, the renowned violinist and leader of the Medici Quartet, suffered a ruptured aorta. During this…

'These legends are the action-packed stories - of ancient heroes, huge battles, attempted invasions, prophecies and spells,…

• Rok vydání 1998

• Rok vydání 2022

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

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

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

• Brožovaná
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• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2017

Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written during the exceptionally creative period of the last years of…

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

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

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