Both his books -- like his paintings -- have a thrice-distilled quality of finality and impersonality, like Gothic…

This is a new collection of some of David Hare's finest work, including Skylight (Winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for…

The first collection of plays by Marina Carr introduces the work of a major new voice in playwriting. But it has to be…

The first volume of Alan Ayckbourn's collected work contains his morality plays from the 1980s. It includes the plays A…

This third richly varied collection of plays by Marina Carr was published to coincide with the Royal Shakespeare Company's…

• Rok vydání 2017

Terrence Malick's debut film, Badlands, announced the arrival of a unique talent. In the 40 years since that debut, Malick…

This second volume of plays by David Hare contains work from the 1970s and 1980s which confirmed him as one of the major…

A companion to The Rattle Bag, The School Bag is an engaging and authoritative selection for the classroom. Seamus Heaney…

sharp and fizzy.\' GuardianHotel\'That unusual theatrical thing, a thriller - and a thriller that really scares.\'…

Graham has given us a poetry of intense power and inquisitive vision - a body of work regarded by many as among the best…

The Coast of Utopia is an epic but also intimate drama of romantics and revolutionaries in an age of emperors. The three…

Starring Christopher Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy and Morgan Freeman, the trilogy commenced with Batman…

This third volume of Alan Ayckbourn plays includes Haunting Julia, Sugar Daddies, Drowning on Dry Land and Private Fears in…

Written with characteristic Berkoff flair and an understanding of the subtle power and violence of the English language,…

This fourth volume of Tom Stoppard's work for the stage brings together five of his most celebrated translations and…

The plays in this collection reveal in combination the 'frivolous' and 'serious' aspects of Tom Stoppard's talent: his sense…

A collection of David Hare plays from the 1970s.…

This second collection of Brian Friel's work contains:The Freedom of the City (1973) Volunteers (1975) Living Quarters…

What was it like to be caught in the firestorm that destroyed Pompeii? John Carey's best-selling Faber Book of Reportage…

• Rok vydání 1985

Reordering the thematic principle of the 1985 Collected Poems, this edition returns to a book-by-book chronology and allows…

An invaluable analysis of the director's art and craft, from one of the most revered of all film school directors.…

Includes The Homecoming, Old Times, No Man's Land, four shorter plays, six revue sketches and a short story. This title…

\nThis could be the defining moment of your life. Or, y\'know, it could be what it should be: nothing at all. A sad, little…

Published ahead of the centenary of the Queen's birth and sumptuously illustrated with over 100 images, this is an exquisite…

Completely addictive.' STEPHEN FRY'A volume to treasure, sigh and snigger over.' BIDISHAAn engrossing collection of the most…

Based on the famous series of dialogues between Francois Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock from the 1960s, this book moves…

People increasingly are using documentaries as journalism, younger audiences want to see change in the world, Fraser says.…

• Rok vydání 2011

Bernard Leach (1887-1979) is generally reckoned to be the 'father of British studio pottery. In this title, he communicates…

\n\'Counterintuitive, funny and provocative . Along the way, he reveals the deep-lying and often controversial roots of…

So said Elizabeth Taylor, and therein lay her secret. From her days as a youthful minx at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to her…

This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. Due prominence is given to the poet's comments on…

\nScotland. Aaron and Robbie, two working-class friends since childhood, are taking their first diving exams in the depths…

\nThe rise and fall and triumphant rise from the ashes of Lenny Henry during the 80s and 90s.\n…

• Čeština

In particular, it was the years during which he and his sister looked after their mother that shaped the writer we know so…

Basil Bunting's work was published haphazardly throughout most of his life, and in many cases he did not oversee…

\nThis new edition updates Mike Leigh\'s career to his most recent films, Mister Turner and the epicmasterpiece Peterloo.\n…

\nJones combines her personal experience as a mixed-race woman who cares about racism with her professional expertise as a…

\nA generous selection of poems from \'one of the most talented and interesting poets writing in English today\' (Robert…

\nThe Ballets Russes not only left a matchless artistic legacy - they changed style and glamour, they changed taste, and…

John Cassavetes is the godfather of American independent cinema, saluted by virtually every US maverick who's followed in…

Immersive, detailed, meticulous, privileged inside-dope.' - Craig Raine More than just the tinkerings of a glass watchmaker,…

A comedy play about a lesbian, a wedding-day bonk, a mother who contracts Alzheimer's and finding failure and frivolity (a…

• Rok vydání 2024

The first English translation of this foundational collection of texts by the spiritual masters of the Greek Orthodox…

• Angličtina

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE'One of the world's finest living writers.' Independent'In this world of forgeries,…

• Angličtina

Edmund Wilson wrote of Robert Lowell that he was the 'only recent American poet - if you don't count Eliot - who writes…

• Čeština

The Artist's Handbook has become an indispensable reference work for thousands of practising artists all over the world.…

\nThe first biography of Bergman in 40 years, containing exclusive extracts from workbooks and letters.\n…

• Rok vydání 1987

\nThe Cantos of Ezra Pound is one of the great landmarks in twentieth-century poetry. This Fourth Collected edition of 1987…