• Rok vydání 2019

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

\nThis forgotten novel by the Pulitzer-winning poet is a miniature wonder, chronicling one woman\'s coming-of-age in 1940s…

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

\nA memorial collection of writings by the murdered young journalist Lyra McKee - from viral articles to unpublished…

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

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…

\nLocked in a lethal relationship, the two men stumble across Europe, shedding wives, self-respect and identities in a game…

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…

• Rok vydání 2007

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

• Rok vydání 2004

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

• Rok vydání 2002

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 delightful farce, the prim and proper Captain Pantoja is sent to Peru's Amazon frontier on a secret Army mission -…

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

• Rok vydání 2021

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

This is the story of John McGahern's childhood, his mother's death, his father's anger and violence, and how, through his…

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

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

Going to see a 'Shakespeare' and want a quick run-down on the plot before you start? Teaching the 'Henry's' and need a handy…

• 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…

Yeats and other canonized writers, he relates this to the cult of the Nietzschean Superman, which found its ultimate…

• Čeština

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

• Rok vydání 2022

\nA blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic.\n…

In this new selection from the poetry of Lawrence Durrell (the first for thirty years), Peter Porter has drawn on the full…

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…

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

• Rok vydání 2022

\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…

• Rok vydání 2022

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

This is a collection of essays that sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. It gives…

\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…

• Rok vydání 2025

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…

• Čeština

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

• Rok vydání 2021

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