• Rok vydání 2019

Moving commandingly between pop cultural references such as Roald Dahl's 'Matilda' to observations about motherhood in the…

The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and…

A novel in three parts, written in short paragraphs, which tell (abruptly, cajolingly, bleakly) of a narrator lying in the…

\nIntroduced by Claire-Louise Bennett, experience onenew mother\'s psychological journey in this lost 1930foremother of…

First published in 1984, this book of prose-linked animal poems won both the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the…

William Barnes was born in 1801 near Sturminster Newton in Dorset, of a farming family. He learned Greek, Latin and Music,…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nWhy do people commit hate crimes? A world-leading criminologist explores the tipping point between prejudice and hate…

By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer…

• Rok vydání 2007

John Clare (1793-1864), the 'peasant poet', worked as an agricultural labourer in Northamptonshire until a deterioration in…

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.…

Thom Gunn (1929-2004) was educated at Cambridge University, and had his first collection of poems, Fighting Terms, published…

In this series, contemporary poets select and introduce a poet of the past who they have particularly admired. By their…

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. Since the publication of his poems in 1918 he…

A series featuring various poets selecting and introducing poets of the past. It, by choice of poems and the personal and…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nSelf-anointed guru of the Digital Age, Guy Matthias, CEO of Beetle, has become one of the world\'s most powerful and…

\nThe dramatic story of Solange: a musician and artist whose unconventional journey to international success was far more…

Faster, higher, stronger: winning words are those that inspire you on to Olympian goals. From William Shakespeare to Carol…

Politicians come and go through the revolving door of electoral politics, while she remains constant, waiting to welcome her…

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

He has published his poems in many forms, including - again his own invention - New Numbers, a constantly changing collage,…

• Rok vydání 2019
• Čeština

Nicolas is going through a difficult phase after his parents' divorce. He's listless, skipping classes, lying. He believes…

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

• Rok vydání 2021

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

Animates the characters of his childhood in County Cork. This book confirms author's place as one of the most approachable…

This anthology is drawn from his writings about the memories of men and women of a past era - farm labourers, shepherds,…

• Rok vydání 1997

It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the Styx, glad to be dead at last. His memories, however, are…

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

• Rok vydání 2017

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…

• 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…

• Rok vydání 2002

Paperback edition of this winner of both the 1999 }Whitbread Book Of The Year Award{, and the South Bank Show Literature…

• Rok vydání 2010

Wolpert provides a clear explanation of the science that underpins our lives, explaining how our bodies function. Examining…

A wonderfully accessible, up-to-the-minute account of human evolution by 'one of the most respected evolutionary…

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

• 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…

At the centre of this collection, which includes groups of elegies and love poems, there is a short sonnet sequence which…

This gave my essays a kind of urgency, the warmth of appeal of the advocate, which my later, more detached and I hope more…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nTonight nineteen-year-old William Lavery is dressed for success, his first black-tie do. It will be his first job, and…

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

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

Heartbreaking, shocking, grotesque and gentle.…

• Rok vydání 2018

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

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…

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