A series featuring a contemporary poet selecting and introducing a poet of the past. It, by choice of poems and by the…

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

• Rok vydání 2019

Here are luminous sketches of characters she has met, of transgressive and often tragic women - prostitutes and mothers,…

In Where China Meets India he explores the new strategic centrality of Burma, the country of his ancestry, where Asia's two…

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

Interweaving discussion of the music he wrote for and about children with interviews with the boys whom Britten befriended,…

• Rok vydání 1972

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

Includes three essays on regional writing, including "The Fiction Writer and His Country" and "Some Aspects of the Grotesque…

Having taught playwriting for ten years, Stuart Spencer could find no effective handbook for his courses - so he finally…

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

• Rok vydání 1930

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

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland. In 1798 he published the Lyrical Ballads with Coleridge,…

\nThe visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew\'s dreamlike jungle voyage ... \'An exhilarating experience ... As…

• Rok vydání 2022

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

• Rok vydání 2007

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

• Rok vydání 2021

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

• Rok vydání 2019

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

Sex is often the closest they can get.' All the present controversies about the family are really discussions about…

Edited by Alan Jenkins, this authoritative Collected Poems contains all of the poetry that Ian Hamilton chose to publish,…

First published in 1984, Paul Muldoon's The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry sought to establish a canon of Irish…

• Rok vydání 2000

When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had written…

• Rok vydání 2011

To understand Lebanon\'s history is to understand the history of the entire region - and, with the rise of Hizbullah, it has…

The Story of English is the extraordinary tale of the origins and development of the English language. Two thousand years…

Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies;…

Investigates how the idea of folk has been handed down and transformed by successive generations - song collectors,…

Pulling together his years of experience as a novelist and a teacher, Richard Skinner covers the basics of writing great…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRYIt is the current Poet Laureate who has done the most to bring medieval…

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

• Rok vydání 2019

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

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

Musician and activist Bragg diagnoses the crisis of accountability in Western democracies in this new series of political…

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

• Rok vydání 2024

\nWith an illuminating new preface by Colm Tóibín, here is Thom Gunn\'s extraordinary memorial to love, life and death in…

\nProvides a set of dialogues with one of the writer-directors in American film.\n…

It was an energetic 'No' to provincialism, and a vigorous 'Yes' to nationalism as an enabler of poetry. This work is a…

This third collection of Brian Friel's work contains:Three Sisters (Chekhov) (1981)The Communication Cord (1982) Fathers and…

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…

• Rok vydání 2018

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

• 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…

The title, The Government of the Tongue, carries suggestions of both monastic discipline and untrammelled romanticism, and…

\nIn language that is sensuous and biblical, School of Instructions centres on the experience of West Indian volunteer…

This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, is intended as an introduction to the main body of his poetry prior to Four…

• Rok vydání 2024

\nAndrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years. Sleeping on Islands is his…

Over the course of several years, Simon Armitage has written hundreds of poems for various projects, commissions,…

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

\nAnd each of them may soon disappear from the earth. A lavishly illustrated compendium of the staggering lives of some of…