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• Rok vydání 2013

Features historians, lawyers, economists and writers who come together to put a coherent case: that although the Irish…

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• Rok vydání 2012

For the teeming populace of Old Mack's cacophonous yard in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, it's a cheek by jowl existence lived out…

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• Rok vydání 2005

The Time and Space of Uncle Albert is book one in the bestselling Uncle Albert science and adventure series. Famous…

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All set around Christmas and all expertly planned, written and executed!' 5 reader review'Perfect for a dark wintry…

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And now Alex has a shot at his biggest score so far: a normal, happy life with Diane Alison, the woman of his dreams. Their…

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They seldom think twice, and ask very few questions. Until one night over the poker table, they encounter a pulp writer with…

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EVERYTHING TO PLAY FOR - A NEW BOOK BY QI ELVES JAMES HARKIN AND ANNA PTASZYNSKI - IS AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOWThe perfect…

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• Rok vydání 2000

A memoir of the author's early life and time starting out as a novelist, as well as diaries recording her in old age.…

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• Rok vydání 1998

Schnitzler described Reigen, his loose series of sexual sketches, as 'completely unprintable'. Using as much imaginative…

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• Rok vydání 2024

I mean here I am in Spain with, like, a totally hot local Spanish guy from a tapas bar and we're drinking Rioja and I mean,…

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• Rok vydání 2016

Lavinia Greenlaw's first collection, Night Photograph, made an immediately favourable impact. Her second collection, A World…

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An invigorating novelistic essay, rich in literary wisdom, from the international superstar author of The Unbearable…

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• Rok vydání 2014

Their very titles - from 'The Duckling Brothers and their Disobedient Sister' to 'Don't Pay Bad for Bad' - are evocative of…

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• Rok vydání 2011

And the monster always wins. John Hodge's blistering new play depicts a lethal game of cat and mouse through which the…

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• Rok vydání 2013

A wonderful anthology of poems to set fire to the imagination. We only have to 'remember, remember the 5th of November' to…

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• Rok vydání 2013

And as the time draws ever nearer for one or other Dr Wilfred - or possibly both - to give the eagerly awaited lecture, so…

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• Rok vydání 1991

This volume contains a selection of early works by Harold Pinter. This edition also includes A Night Out, The Dwarfs and…

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• Rok vydání 2005

Who will solve the riddle of the quantum? Join Uncle Albert's niece Gedanken as she drinks from the magic bottle and shrinks…

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• Rok vydání 2010

Look around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you that the universe is orchestrated by chance. In this…

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• Rok vydání 2006

Focuses on why some businesses fail, and how to avoid it. This book looks at a truth all too seldom acknowledged: most…

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• Rok vydání 2015

Delayed in London, Ted Severson meets a woman at the airport bar. Over cocktails they tell each other rather more than they…

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• Rok vydání 2017

Shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award 2018Five runaways ride the bus from Bayelsa to a better life in a megacity. They are…

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• Rok vydání 2011

After his adventures under sun-drenched Neapolitan skies in Cosi Fan Tutti, Aurelio Zen finds himself back in Rome, sneezing…

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• Rok vydání 2025

There's something perverted about a Christmas tree I think they're weird they've got an aura like a malicious kind of an…

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• Rok vydání 2013

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Narcopolis is a rich and hallucinatory novel set around a Bombay opium den, as the…

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• Rok vydání 2017

Young, lost and out of control, a bunch of Catholic schoolgirls go wild for a day in the big city, the singing competition a…

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• Rok vydání 2020

You're only the greatest person ever invented and he's some boy who's probs never had a conversation with a side of the sun…

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• Rok vydání 1997

In an engaging, at times startling, enquiry into the fundamental loneliness of each sex, Leader asks why relationships…

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• Rok vydání 2016

To unravel the secret of the icon's past, Pekkala traces its last known whereabouts to a band of self-mutilating radicals…

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• Rok vydání 2016

In 1944, at the age of fifteen, Marceline Loridan-Ivens was arrested in occupied France, along with her father. Though he…

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The story of a strange experiment - a journey into the oddest corners of 60s Britain and the outer edges of science and…

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• Rok vydání 2025

From Freaks to Land of the Pharaohs, Dune to Speed 2, and Catwoman to Cats - a riotous and revealing story of Hollywood's…

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The little-known success story of four working class girls who formed 'the female Beatles' in 1960s Liverpool…

This play takes readers back and forth between the 19th and 20th centuries. Set in a large country house in Derbyshire, a…

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• Rok vydání 2005

From the prize-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, a daring, riotous, sweeping novel that spins the tale of two friends…

This play was first performed in 1960. Harold Pinter specializes in the tragicomedy of the breakdown of communication,…

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• Rok vydání 2019

'Elegant and absorbing.' Guardian'A book to be savoured.' Observer'Intimate, funny . . . But Paul's parents and siblings…

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• Rok vydání 2017

1990s London. An eighteen-year-old Irish girl arrives in London to study drama and falls violently in love with an older…

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• Rok vydání 2019

In a relationship of ever-changing boundaries, the couple question anything and everything as they attempt to navigate…

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• Rok vydání 2014

This is the story of Adebisi, a brave African huntress who sets out for the Jungle of the Pigmies to rescue her four…

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• Rok vydání 1998

The resulting play, written to be performed by the author himself, offers a meditation on an extraordinary trip to both…

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• Rok vydání 2014

A sale? Release all your wonderful treasures onto the open market and they are there for everyone to enjoy. It's a kind of…

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• Rok vydání 2014

Wordsworth was the first laureate of locomotives: in fact he railed against them, and against the consequent opening up of…

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• Rok vydání 2011

Aurelio Zen's final case brings him to remote town of Calabria, at the toe of Italy's boot, on what is supposed to be a…

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• Rok vydání 2025

Before long, Ian finds himself back in the local working men's club, preparing to give the performance of his life. Going…

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• Rok vydání 1978

Mr Stoppard's BBC television debut was sheer delight.' - Richard Last, Daily Telegraph'Plays which enhance civilization…

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• Rok vydání 2008

Originally published in 1997, Drown instantly garnered terrific acclaim. Moving from the barrios of the Dominican Republic…

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• Rok vydání 2004

'The Dreamers' is about a young American student who comes to Paris in 1968. Obsessed with film, he becomes involved with…