• Rok vydání 2025
• Brožovaná

'A poetically-written testimony of our own deep relationship with the natural world, and of nature's own resilience.' Ben…

\'A wise, deep, nuanced and profoundly moving book.\' Siri Hustvedt\'Thoughtful, important and a reminder that hope belongs…

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

Leila Slimani gives voice to Moroccan women who are grappling with a conservative Arab culture that at once condemns and…

• Rok vydání 1996

Provocative exploration of relationships. Here Philips explores the way in which people are capable of loving more than one…

In an engaging, at times startling, enquiry into the fundamental loneliness of each sex, Leader asks why relationships…

Regarded as one of the greats of the 19th century, the full extent of his genius has rarely been explored. As well as a…

Everyone's favourite (socially distanced) characters return to help us through this challenging period. Kniha 9780571370405…

• Rok vydání 2012

This title is the winner of the Red House Children's Book Award, 2014. When Atticus receives a mysterious message asking him…

Freedom and Death is Kazantzakis's modern Iliad. The context is Crete in the late nineteenth century, the epic struggle…

Winner of the LA Times Book Prize, Best Mystery/ThrillerShortlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) DaggerShortlisted for…

• Rok vydání 2023

The clarity of Colm Toibin's prose is blended with the emotional truth of Anne Enright in this stand-out new novel of…

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

• Rok vydání 2013

A "Grief Observed" comprises the reflections of the great scholar and Christian on the death of his wife after only a few…

With an introduction by Sebastian BarryIn Parenthesis is loved by many as one of the great verse works of the Great War: but…

• Rok vydání 2003

Guskin is an "acting doctor" whose clients include Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, James Gandolfini, Bridget Fonda, and dozens…

• Brožovaná
• Angličtina

Jazyk: Angličtina, Vazba: Brožovaná, Počet stran: 240, Nakladatelství: Faber & Faber, Autor: Deborah Curtis, ISBN-13:…

• Rok vydání 2010

Have you ever wondered how one day the media can assert that alcohol is bad for us and the next unashamedly run a story…

• Rok vydání 2011

The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry…

This updated edition contains information on general livestock and herbal remedies. The author presents information about…

• Rok vydání 2012

"I wanted to reveal the soil, milieu, or social sphere and situation, from which the contributions of Vienna to European…

• Rok vydání 2025

'Sumption is that rare and precious thing: a serious, decent, honest thinker . . . and one of our finest historians.' Dan…

• Čeština

After its publication in 1667, John Milton's Paradise Lost was celebrated throughout Europe as a supreme achievement of the…

• Rok vydání 2022

Why do people commit hate crimes? A world-leading criminologist explores the tipping point between prejudice and hate crime,…

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

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

\nA memorial collection of writings by the murdered young journalist Lyra McKee - from viral articles to unpublished…

• Rok vydání 2007

A woman, who won't reveal her identity, is trying to contact Kasama Tsuneo at a crisis point in his life. His arranged…

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

Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The…

• Rok vydání 1994

In this collection of psychoanalytic essays on a wide range of relatively unexplored subjects, the author evolves his own…

"An important and long-overdue contribution to our knowledge of Tolstoy." (D. M. Thomas, Sunday Times). Volume 1 of…

Designed to meet the requirements for students at GCSE and A level, this educational edition offers the complete text of the…

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

• Rok vydání 2019
• Čeština

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

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

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

• Rok vydání 2007

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

A radical thinker and social campaigner, Shelley wrote some of the finest lyric verse in the English language which confirms…

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

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

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…

• Rok vydání 2003

Pig Tales is a brilliant satirical novel about a stunning young woman working in a beauty 'massage' parlour. she gets the…

Wilfred Owen is perhaps the most remembered of the First World War poets, writing some of the most powerful denouncements of…