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

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of…

• Počet stran 432
• Pevná / vázaná
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2026

FROM THE GLOBAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'She means to save us by telling us stories. . . She comes closer than anyone else I…

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of…

Kniha 9780571290697 Heaven's Command Jan Morris…

• Počet stran 896
• Rok vydání 2012

Rediscover one of the twentieth century's greatest romances in Lawrence Durrell's seductive tale of four tangled lovers in…

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of…

Heralding the explosive arrival of an absolutely brilliant new writer, Shiny Pippin is the hilarious new series from debut…

Beautifully illustrated by Arthur Robins and with an appeal extending beyond Eliot fans, Macavity's Not There! will sit…

• Rok vydání 2025

The third of the three greatest novels by the era-defining Nobel laureate, reissued for a new generation. I can't go on,…

The second of the three greatest novels by the era-defining Nobel laureate, reissued for a new generation. Nothing is more…

The big red suit was ironed and ready. The elves had stuffed the final teddy,When from the bathroom came a yelp,'Ho Ho, oh…

• Rok vydání 2010

The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a stage is…

Part of our collection of Young Adult Classics, this stunning Carnegie-winning tale takes us to a world of darkness and ice,…

The highly acclaimed and Betty Trask Award winning debut from the author of Maps for Lost LoversA sack of letters lost in a…

A gem-like selection of Stevie Smith's best-loved poems: 'Cheerful, brutal, beautiful! Stevie Smith is the wildest poet of…

Then one day a man turns up, sees her, and mindlessly destroys her.' Martin Crimp's pared down version of Chekhov's first…

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

• Rok vydání 1952

The Bloodworths come from Ackerman's Field, Tennessee. Theirs is a rough and violent past and Boyd Bloodworth - father of…

The first stage adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's heartbreaking, bestselling novel. And as that day grows near, Kathy looks…

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Originally published in this translation in 1966, a collection of texts on prayer, drawn from Greek and Russian Orthodox…

• Rok vydání 2015

For Violet, family is the most important thing in the whole galaxy. So when her father goes missing while on a hazardous…

Serge has bought a modern work of art for a large sum of money. Marc hates the painting and cannot believe that a friend of…

One wintry morning academic Prudencia Hart sets off to a conference in the Scottish Borders. Stranded there by snow, she is…

Staggering talent Kae Tempest's first work of non-fiction: a meditation on the power of creative connection.…

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• Počet stran 349
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2024

OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES OF APPLE TREE YARD SOLD'Psychologically acute. Terrific.' Daily Mail'A page-turning read. Kept me…

\nFabulous festive picture book from the creators of the bestselling Santa\'s New Beard - a perfect stocking-filler…

• Rok vydání 2018

The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. Then, when a terrible monster from outer space threatens to lay waste to the…

A wonderful new picture book version of one of T. S. Eliot's most popular cat poems,brought to life by delightfully humorous…

Kniha 9780571362264 Inheritance Matthew Lopez…

The Book of Chocolate Saints follows the unforgettable character Francis Newton Xavier and his journey towards salvation -…

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

Exploring the reservoir of wrong headed questions with which love and death confront us, this volume offers a collection…

Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and…

The never-before-published poems of one of the great American poets, edited and introduced by Shane McCrae. Only Sing is a…

'To describe Paul Muldoon's influence on contemporary poetry is like trying to assess the influence of The Beatles on…

Lamont Williams, recently released from prison and working as a hospital janitor, strikes up an unlikely friendship with a…

Directly below was a sight none of them had ever seen before - a kind of spiral, with glowing ruby-red lights that curved…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nOne-legged Joe is often told that he\'s Amazing Joe or Poor Joe, but what if he\'d rather just be . Joe?One-legged Joe is…

SHORTLISTED for the CILIP Carnegie Medal and the UKLA Book Award. Love, tragedy, luck and salvation in the interweaving…

• Rok vydání 2018

Called to the peaceful wooded churchyard of St-John's-at-Hampstead, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose faces one of…

\nI feel so fucking sillybut I thought they meant real peacefucking hell KateyI thought they meant that even my bodyit might…

• Rok vydání 1999

Nominated for seven Oscars and winner of the BAFTA award, this triplet of masterfully interwoven crime stories is witty,…

When Sara Crewe's beloved father dies, her fortunes at strict Miss Minchin's boarding school are reversed. And as she will…

A captivating look at what draws us to the shocks and thrills of horror, by film critic and broadcaster Bogutskaya.…

In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime…

Storm and Conquest brings together the terrifying ordeal of men, women and children caught at sea in hurricanes, and those…