The new edition, which like the original has had the advantage of Seamus Heaney's own cooperation and unstinted access to…

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

Edited by award winning novelist and short story writer, this volume seeks to offer fresh renditions to the Irish story -…

Taking in its sights Matthew Arnold's 'land of dreams', the collection explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural…

In this controversial and seminal work of reportage, Gordon Burn reveals the strange inner dynamic of Fred and Rosemary…

This proved to be fertile ground for a generation of musicians who, from the 1960s onwards, would develop the experimental…

• Rok vydání 2021

David Byrne, co-founder of the group Talking Heads, has been riding a bicycle as his principal means of transportation since…

In this, the first book to take a big-picture view of the entire post punk period, acclaimed author and music journalist…

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The first book to put the experience of the ordinary Russian soldier at the heart of a narrative of the war on the Eastern…

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Subtitled, }Portraits & Conversations{. A selection of first-hand interviews and portraits of some of the big Hollywood…

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Pitched somewhere between Almost Famous and Withnail & I, "Apathy for the Devil" is a unique document of this most…

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First UK publication of Forsman's mind-blowing follow up to The End of the F***ing WorldNew and expanded edition'Scary,…

During the more than ten years that Stuart Spencer has taught playwriting, he has struggled to find an effective handbook…

• Rok vydání 1995

"The Philokalia" is a collection of texts on prayer and the spiritual life, written between the fourth and fifteenth…

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\nFollowing his acclaimed translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl, Simon Armitage shines light on another…

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\n\'The most approachable and exhilarating Latin American writer of our times.\' Robert McCrum, ObserverIn the past, culture…

• Rok vydání 2018

A Rough Trade, Mojo and FT Book of the YearLONGLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZEEmerging from the jazz clubs of the…

This comprehensive and welcoming edition draws on the whole of Stevie Smith\'s output in poetry, prose and drawings from…

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

In this account of hunter/gatherer culture gleaned from years of living and hunting with the Inuits of the Arctic and the…

• 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…

Philip Larkin\'s Required Writing, a selection from his miscellaneous prose from 1953-82, was highly praised and enjoyed…

\nThis epic masterpiece is a radical landmark in modern literature, reissued with a foreword by poet Ishion Hutchinson to…

Written with the assistance, of those involved, including Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno, Andy Mackay and Phil Manzanera, this book…

Caricatured while she lived as a figure of middle-brow reaction, Mary Whitehouse was held in contempt by the country's…

The Assassins' Gate recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in…

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

Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces.…

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

\nA powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it…

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

Nobody captured the landscape and faces of the American people the way John Ford did, in films such as "The Searchers",…

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

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

• Rok vydání 2023

The diary and essays of Brian Eno republished twenty-five years on with a new introduction by the artist in a beautiful…

\nThe current UK Poet Laureate\'s popular series of lectures examining what poetry is and who it might be for.\n…

He was rich, secretive and - through his friendship with a famous Russian singer - implicated in the abduction of a white…

• Rok vydání 2015

\nWINNER OF THE PENDERYN MUSIC PRIZEA GUARDIAN MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2015FEATURING A NEW FOREWORD BY DAVID…

An attempt to isolate the 'Britishness' of British music - a wild combination of pagan echoes, spiritual quest, imaginative…

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

New York, 2001. 9/11 plunges the US into a state of war and political volatility - and heralds the rebirth of the city's…

Beckett’s first 'literary landmark’ (St Petersburg Times) is a wonderfully savoury introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning…

\nCollectively these bring us closer to an understanding of the genius for interpretation and transformation that…

• Rok vydání 2021

The Poem attempts to answer several questions: what is a poem? In what way is its use of language distinct? What conditions…

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

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

A gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these…

This collection of early plays confirms Martin Crimp's reputation as one of the most original and exciting talents writing…