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It feels as though we have each been walking along our own path in the same forest. And now, we have found our way to a…

A dramatization, suitable for schools and amateur dramatic groups, of Golding's bestselling novel. The book contains notes…

\nCarelli has written the definitive account of the crime. A dizzying feat of investigative mastery, Carelli\'s book is…

Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is a Northern epic and a classic…

It's about the second when the guard drops, that moment when the eyes blink and miss the incoming hammer blow. Beautiful…

The second sequence, \'Lepus\', extends an interest in the hare as trickster, traceable elsewhere in David Harsent\'s work,…

\nAphorisms have been described as \'the obscure hinterland between poetry and prose\' (New Yorker) - short pithy statements…

Adam Phillips uses the idea of flirtation to explore the virtues of being uncommitted - to people, to ideas, to methods -…

\nAnd in the fourth part of Paterson\'s ongoing poem \'The Alexandrian Library\', the poet-as-amateur scientist - from a…

Going to see a 'Shakespeare' and want a quick run-down on the plot before you start? Teaching the 'Henry's' and need a handy…

\nBe transported to the wild meadows of Kite\'s Nest Farm and peek into the surprising private lives of some of our most…

The Leaping Hare is a rare and remarkable book about every aspect of the life and legend of the wild hare, exploring nature,…

Written from a teenage child's point of view, Motion captures the pathos and puzzlement of childhood with great clarity of…

In About Kane, Graham Saunders offers an important study of one of the most controversial and talented playwrights of recent…

Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why…

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• Rok vydání 2006

For the fortieth anniversary of its publication, in May 2006, Faber are reissuing Seamus Heaney's classic first collection,…

Its successor, Serious Concerns has proved even more popular, addressing such topics as 'Bloody Men', 'Men and Their Boring…

• Rok vydání 2010

From the birth of crime writing with Wilkie Collins and Dostoevsky, through Conan Doyle to the golden age of crime, with the…

They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and…

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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• Rok vydání 1998

The Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, director and teacher has written a blunt, unsparingly honest guide to acting. He…

• Rok vydání 2015

Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, John…

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\nThis is the tale of four women.Popo: brilliant, vulnerable and stuck. She\'s determined to free herself from the traps of…

Grunge, also known as the 'Seattle Sound', emerged from the Pacific north-west in the early part of the 1980s. With the…

Derby Day, Henley Regatta, Cowes, the twelfth of August, a cup final, the dog races, the pin table, the dart board,…

Written between August and December 1938, Autumn Journal is still considered one of the most valuable and moving testaments…

• Rok vydání 2012

"Listening to Van Morrison" represents Greil Marcus' quest to trace Morrison's particular genius through seminal moments in…

Heartbreaking, shocking, grotesque and gentle.…

• Rok vydání 2017

The essential book on the New Russia, and how it's travelled from communist collapse to a new form of dictatorship. Kniha…

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a wave of TV shows, first on premium cable channels like HBO and then basic cable…

He examines the science behind the topics that are much discussed but rarely understood - stem-cell research, cloning, DNA -…

A revolutionary army is taking on the failing government and the US Marines, and the cities have become vast garbage-strewn…

\nRenowned anthropologist and film-maker Hugh Brody weaves a dazzling tapestry of personal memory and distant landscapes:…

With the sensuousness and physicality of language that would become the hallmark of his early writing, these poems…

The SAS describes its attitude to the use of lethal force as 'Big boys' games, big boys' rules'.…

Do you want to know why Harold Pinter is a figure of such influence and importance in the theatre? The Faber Critical Guide…

Yeats and other canonized writers, he relates this to the cult of the Nietzschean Superman, which found its ultimate…

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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…

• Rok vydání 2017

A SUNDAY TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZETHE BOOKSELLER'S Most Picked Book…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nA blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic.\n…

It is the first book to identify a strain in the poetry of the last half-century which is characteristic of the 'strange…

• Rok vydání 2010

The idea for this book grew out of Wendy Cope's experience of meeting her audience, when reading her poems in schools. As…

In this new selection from the poetry of Lawrence Durrell (the first for thirty years), Peter Porter has drawn on the full…

Here is the memoir of an extraordinary life, an explosive story of abuse, revenge, graffiti, breakdancing, gold teeth,…

The picture we have of it - created by his immediate followers and perpetuated in countless works of literature and art ever…

Sylvia Plath was one of the most gifted and innovative poets of the twentieth century, yet serious study of her work has…

In Ulysses and Us, Declan Kiberd argues that James Joyce's Ulysses offers a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life…