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A series featuring a contemporary poet selecting and introducing a poet of the past. It, by choice of poems and by the…
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A series featuring a contemporary poet selecting and introducing a poet of the past. It, by choice of poems and by the…
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He examines the science behind the topics that are much discussed but rarely understood - stem-cell research, cloning, DNA -…
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![Sleepless Nights - Hardwick, Elizabeth [EN] (2019, Brožovaná, Faber & Faber)](/img/image-placeholder.png)
Here are luminous sketches of characters she has met, of transgressive and often tragic women - prostitutes and mothers,…
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In Where China Meets India he explores the new strategic centrality of Burma, the country of his ancestry, where Asia's two…
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In Ulysses and Us, Declan Kiberd argues that James Joyce's Ulysses offers a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life…
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Interweaving discussion of the music he wrote for and about children with interviews with the boys whom Britten befriended,…
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With the sensuousness and physicality of language that would become the hallmark of his early writing, these poems…
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Includes three essays on regional writing, including "The Fiction Writer and His Country" and "Some Aspects of the Grotesque…
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Having taught playwriting for ten years, Stuart Spencer could find no effective handbook for his courses - so he finally…
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In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a wave of TV shows, first on premium cable channels like HBO and then basic cable…
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\nIntroduced by Claire-Louise Bennett, experience onenew mother\'s psychological journey in this lost 1930foremother of…
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![William Wordsworth - William Wordsworth [EN] (2005,, Brožovaná, Faber & Faber)](/img/image-placeholder.png)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland. In 1798 he published the Lyrical Ballads with Coleridge,…
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\nThe visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew\'s dreamlike jungle voyage ... \'An exhilarating experience ... As…
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![The Science of Hate - WILLIAMS, MATTHEW [EN] (2022, Měkká, Faber & Faber)](/img/image-placeholder.png)
\nWhy do people commit hate crimes? A world-leading criminologist explores the tipping point between prejudice and hate…
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![John Clare - Clare, John [EN] (2007, Brožovaná, Faber & Faber)](/img/image-placeholder.png)
John Clare (1793-1864), the 'peasant poet', worked as an agricultural labourer in Northamptonshire until a deterioration in…
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![The Fall at Home - Paterson, Don [EN] (2021, Měkká, Faber & Faber)](/img/image-placeholder.png)
\nAphorisms have been described as \'the obscure hinterland between poetry and prose\' (New Yorker) - short pithy statements…
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![The Seasons of Cullen Church - O'Donoghue, Bernard [EN] (2019, Brožovaná, Faber & Faber)](/img/image-placeholder.png)
Animates the characters of his childhood in County Cork. This book confirms author's place as one of the most approachable…
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Sex is often the closest they can get.' All the present controversies about the family are really discussions about…
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Edited by Alan Jenkins, this authoritative Collected Poems contains all of the poetry that Ian Hamilton chose to publish,…
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First published in 1984, Paul Muldoon's The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry sought to establish a canon of Irish…
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When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had written…
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![Beware of Small States - David Hirst [EN] (2011, Brožovaná, Faber & Faber)](/img/image-placeholder.png)
To understand Lebanon\'s history is to understand the history of the entire region - and, with the rise of Hizbullah, it has…
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The Story of English is the extraordinary tale of the origins and development of the English language. Two thousand years…
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Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies;…
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Investigates how the idea of folk has been handed down and transformed by successive generations - song collectors,…
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Pulling together his years of experience as a novelist and a teacher, Richard Skinner covers the basics of writing great…
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![The Owl and the Nightingale - Armitage, Simon [EN] (2023, Brožovaná, Faber & Faber)](/img/image-placeholder.png)
\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRYIt is the current Poet Laureate who has done the most to bring medieval…
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\nBe transported to the wild meadows of Kite\'s Nest Farm and peek into the surprising private lives of some of our most…
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![Mothers - Rose, Jacqueline [EN] (2019, Brožovaná, Faber & Faber)](/img/image-placeholder.png)
Moving commandingly between pop cultural references such as Roald Dahl's 'Matilda' to observations about motherhood in the…
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Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is a Northern epic and a classic…
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Musician and activist Bragg diagnoses the crisis of accountability in Western democracies in this new series of political…
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![Landscapes of Silence - Brody, Hugh [EN] (2023, Brožovaná, Faber & Faber)](/img/image-placeholder.png)
\nRenowned anthropologist and film-maker Hugh Brody weaves a dazzling tapestry of personal memory and distant landscapes:…
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![The Man With Night Sweats - Gunn, Thom [EN] (2024, Brožovaná, Faber & Faber)](/img/image-placeholder.png)
\nWith an illuminating new preface by Colm Tóibín, here is Thom Gunn\'s extraordinary memorial to love, life and death in…
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\nProvides a set of dialogues with one of the writer-directors in American film.\n…
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It was an energetic 'No' to provincialism, and a vigorous 'Yes' to nationalism as an enabler of poetry. This work is a…
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This third collection of Brian Friel's work contains:Three Sisters (Chekhov) (1981)The Communication Cord (1982) Fathers and…
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Covers the period from T S Eliot's childhood in St Louis, Missouri, to the end of 1922, by which time he had settled in…
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![First Time Ever - Seeger, Peggy [EN] (2018, Brožovaná, Faber & Faber)](/img/image-placeholder.png)
A SUNDAY TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZETHE BOOKSELLER'S Most Picked Book…
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![Two Cures for Love - Cope, Wendy; Middleton, Charlotte [EN] (2010, Brožovaná, Faber & Faber)](/img/image-placeholder.png)
The idea for this book grew out of Wendy Cope's experience of meeting her audience, when reading her poems in schools. As…
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The title, The Government of the Tongue, carries suggestions of both monastic discipline and untrammelled romanticism, and…
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![School of Instructions - Hutchinson, Ishion [EN] (2023, Brožovaná, Faber & Faber)](/img/image-placeholder.png)
\nIn language that is sensuous and biblical, School of Instructions centres on the experience of West Indian volunteer…
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This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, is intended as an introduction to the main body of his poetry prior to Four…
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![Sleeping on Islands - Motion, Sir Andrew [EN] (2024, Brožovaná, Faber & Faber)](/img/image-placeholder.png)
\nAndrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years. Sleeping on Islands is his…
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Over the course of several years, Simon Armitage has written hundreds of poems for various projects, commissions,…
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From the birth of crime writing with Wilkie Collins and Dostoevsky, through Conan Doyle to the golden age of crime, with the…
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\nAnd each of them may soon disappear from the earth. A lavishly illustrated compendium of the staggering lives of some of…
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