The Woman in Black, Strange Meeting, I'm the King of the Castle, A Little Bit of Singing and DancingIn Vintage Living Texts,…

In early 1994 Marina Warner delivered the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC.…

The search for love (or failing that, sex), the passing of time and the inevitability of pain and grief, the struggle for…

The theme of non-communication in human relationships in a world saturated with information is the connecting thread in this…

There is clearly a growing interest among teenagers in all things magical and difficult to explain. Following the huge…

Offers an assessment of the author's life, passions, possibilities and the making of her decision to leave Canada and return…

Sharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with…

The sleeping giant of India is beginning to stir to the dwelling reverberations which herald the great struggle for…

This is the story of Aurora Ortiz, who lives in Madrid, and who, at the age of only thirty, has been widowed and needs to…

• Rok vydání 1959

Contains two African notebooks Congo Journal, which records Graham Greene's travels in 1959, and his stay at the Yonda leper…

Written in the form of letters to an aspiring artist, 'Letters to a Young Artist' includes Julia Cameron's hints on how to…

Written to be read aloud, this book features poems that attend to the organic shapes and sounds and momentum of the language…

A collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic. Writing about real lives takes…

Every year, millions of women have their lives turned inside out by the experience of pregnancy. This book takes a critical…

Beautiful, disturbing and a pleasure to read, Ruth Padel's new poems are her most ambitious yet, adding animal legend and…

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This rich selection - made by the author - exhibits those qualities in poem after poem, reflecting, moreover, an exciting…

• Čeština

With this deeply influential book, which is now internationally recognised as a classic study of childhood and its social…

The book - a selection of articles, broadcasts and books extracts that revealed important and disturbing truths - ranges…

In the final paper on the Oedipus complex, Klein develops her theories of the earliest infant stages of development,…

Shows how the early leaders of the group first met in the Paris studios and lived and worked closely together for nearly…

A challenge to the whole basis of thinking on the subject of classical civilization. The author argues that it has its roots…

Geoffrey Robertson QC has been at the centre of internationally high-profile legal cases for over three decades. From…

John Cheever's Collected Stories explores the delicate psychological frameworks of 20th century suburbia. WITH AN…

• Čeština

Presents an acerbic response to the phenomenon of Richard M Nixon. In the character of Trick E Dixon, the author portrays an…

One of only a hundred or so books originally written in the Basque language during the last four centuries, Obabakoak is a…

Separation, the second volume of Attachment and Loss, continues John Bowlby's influential work on the importance of the…

Agatha is aware of an intensity, a powerful storm of emotion briefly awakened by a shortlived love affair with her cousin…

Comte-Sponville offers the reader both a thoughtful and accessible introduction to the history of Western ethics and an…

Ever feel like you are pedalling in the choucroute? Been caught with your beard in the mailbox again? Or maybe you just wish…

As her book shows, these stony ladies can be persuaded to yield surprisingly interesting answers' - Lorna Sage, ObserverAn…

This anarchic satire is accompanied by related works - short stories, an essay and a screenplay - and through Robert…

Nadezhda saw it as an opportunity for her husband to mend his shattered life, but it was a trap and he was arrested for the…

'Arguably the most important intellectual alive' New York Times An indispensable collection of Noam Chomsky's talks on the…

Explains psychological, neuroscientific, and philosophical developments in our understanding of very young children,…

'Outstanding...Overy has written a masterpiece of analytical history, posing and answering one of the great questions of the…

An introduction to the thinking of the French intellectual, Roland Barthes, as applied to such diverse topics as Gide,…

Set against the background of violence and state repression in a turbulent period of French history, The Red Virgin and the…

Vivid, courageous and defiant, The Faculty of Useless Knowledge is the crowning achievement by the author of The Keeper of…

Peoplewatching is the culmination of a career of watching people - their behaviour and habits, their personalities and their…

Argues that we have entered an 'age of forgetting', where we have set aside our immediate past before we could even begin to…

• Rok vydání 2010

For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a devoted and ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated, clever, modern…

Features 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 'The Task of the Translator' and 'Theses on the Philosophy…

Since the early 1970s, Marina Warner has been one of the most challenging, subtle and profound commentators on the culture…

A search for this lost text and its poignant, devastatingly simple message begins... This is a beguiling tale of fables,…

Psychologist, teacher and therapist, John Selby, shows how the non-stop chatter of our minds and our own fear-based thoughts…

Assuming the character of a wise village storyteller, R K Narayan sits in the cool of an imaginary evening to recount the…

An impassioned correspondence between two former school friends as they reach crisis in middle age, from the prize-winning…