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• Rok vydání 2025

THE UNFORGETTABLE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Popular science at its best: entertaining and…

Kniha 9780571388547 The Rest of Our Lives Benjamin Markovits…

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

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

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

• Rok vydání 2022

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

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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…

• Rok vydání 2002

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…

One of a series concerning the major plays of leading 20th-century playwrights. This guide introduces, explores and analyzes…

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

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…

As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, and their picaresque travels together and apart - in…

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

• Rok vydání 2023

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

A memoir about how, what and why we read as children.' Nick Hornby, Guardian Books of the Year'Parents, non-parents,…

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

Inspired by Moliere's farcical, tragic, anarchic Don Juan (1665), Patrick Marber's Don Juan in Soho transports the action to…

Kniha 9780571337729 Being You Anil Seth…

The conversation flows between two individuals, Santiago and Ambrosia, who talk of their tormented lives and of the…

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

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…

The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher, a ferryman, a sewage worker and milk worker, a…

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

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

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• Rok vydání 2024

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

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…

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

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

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

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

• Rok vydání 2015

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

• Rok vydání 2021

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

• Angličtina

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

• Rok vydání 2018

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

\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…

The Philokalia is a collection of texts written between the fourth and the fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the…

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

• Rok vydání 2022

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

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

• Rok vydání 2021

\nIlluminating and authoritative treatise on \'how a poem works\', from the multi-award-winning poet, editor and professor…