• Počet stran 208
• Rok vydání 1999

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

\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,…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nTiger was feeling sleepy. As sleepy as sleepy can be. So sleepy only one thing could help... Crocodile was feeling sleepy.…

• Rok vydání 2015

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

• Počet stran 96
• Rok vydání 2025

The Costa Award-winning poet's ingenious collection of poems is an investigation and test of Wordsworth's famous adage: 'the…

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

• 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…

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

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

• Rok vydání 2024

\nMeet John Cromer - \'one of the most original comic creations in recent fiction\' (Guardian) - and discover one of the…

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

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

• Počet stran 112
• Rok vydání 2024

The exhilarating second collection from the author of Three Poems, winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize and John Pollard Poetry…

• Počet stran 176
• Rok vydání 2002

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

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

From helpful hints on writing to tips on directing (working with actors and technicians, when to listen to the experts, how…

\nLoss is divined everywhere: in human relations, in the ruptures of class and privilege, and the poisoning of the planet.…

• Počet stran 112
• Rok vydání 2019

The exuberant new collection from a 'beguiling and magisterial' poet (The New York Times Book Review).…

\nA unique memoir of a lifetime\'s friendships - from one of Britain\'s most beloved literary companions.\n…

\nsolitary bachelors and disillusioned youths - these are the watchers, not the players. This is the aftermath of being one…

• Rok vydání 2011

When Edward Thomas was killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917 his poems were largely unpublished.…

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

• Rok vydání 2003

A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONMinsk, Lavinia Greenlaw's third collection, was shortlisted for the 2003 Whitbread…

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

Now in paperback, this is the million-selling musician Moby's memoir of his life, from suburban poverty and alienation to…

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

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

Three people. Stephen wants his ex to realise he's got what it takes. Helen wants her dead husband back. Jamie wants a girl…

David Lynch erupted onto the cinema landscape with Eraserhead, establishing himself as one of the most original,…

An intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nPodkin is now Keeper of the Gifts - which is a tremendously important job and just a tiny bit boring. So when the Godseye…

With films such as The Brood and Videodrome, David Cronenberg established himself as Canada's most provocative director.…

• Rok vydání 1956

\nIn 1956 Sylvia Plath wrote to her mother, Aurelia Plath: \'I feel I\'m developing a kind of primitive style of my own…

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

Midsummer's weekend in Edinburgh. It's raining. Bob's a failing car salesman on the fringes of the city's underworld.…

Her Again is an intimate look at the artistic coming of age of the greatest actress of her generation, from the homecoming…

• Rok vydání 2016

New Selected Poems is a book of singular abundance and formal verve, featuring poems of rare vision and dramatic power by a…

• Počet stran 48
• Rok vydání 2019
• Angličtina

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

• Rok vydání 2006

A priceless examination of the filmmaker's craft, from the renowned director of "Sweet Smell of Success" After more than…

• Počet stran 136
• Rok vydání 2019

The title of this collection of essays refers to a tailor's mannequin that Alfred Brendel spotted in a shop window in…

• Počet stran 144
• Rok vydání 2018

Graham's New Collected Poems (2004) marked a crucial point in the growth of his reputation, bringing together for the first…

• Počet stran 208
• Rok vydání 2018

The Pixels of Paul Cezanne is a collection of essays by Wim Wenders in which he presents his observations and reflections on…

he has an especial talent for evoking the visual particular . Ted Hughes has produced a strange bastard form that [works]…

• Počet stran 496
• Rok vydání 2008

James Fenton, a Whitbread-winning poet praised for his own love poetry, gathers together the best lyric poems originating in…

Welcome to the lost worlds of British cinema. This book features a secret history of British movies that includes the…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nA beautifully produced collection of Thom Gunn\'s classic poetry, illuminated by insightful notes.\n…

A new paperback edition of the story of Jack Cardiff's life in films, first as a camerman and then as a director, including…