Combe Island off the Cornish coast offers a peaceful and secure respite to the over-stressed professionals who holiday there...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba256 KčSkladem 1 ks
Pop music didn't begin with the Beatles in 1963, or with Elvis in 1956, or even with the first seven-inch singles in 1949. There was a pre-history that went back to the first recorded music, right back to the turn of the century...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba462 KčSkladem 1 ks
Cold, delicately as the dark snowA fox's nose touches twig, leaf; Two eyes serve a movement, that nowAnd again now, and now, and nowSets neat prints into the snowBetween trees, and warily a lameShadow lags by stump and in hollow...
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Knihapevná vazba280 KčSkladem 1 ks
Well, thought Belacqua, it's a quick death, God help us all. It is not. 'Dante and the Lobster' is the first of the linked short stories in Samuel Beckett's first book, More Pricks Than Kicks.Published in 1934, its style was recognisably indebted to that
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Knihabrožovaná vazba185 KčDo 4 – 8 dnů
This is the End of Days. This is what we've been waiting for always. I walked over to the Hudson River, heading for Mars.Each poem of mine is a suicide belt. I say that to my girlfriend Life. Peaches Goes It Alone, Frederick Seidel's newest collection of
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Knihabrožovaná vazba306 KčSkladem 1 ks
'My only concern', John McGahern once said, 'is that I get the sentence right and describe my world clearly and deeply.''The Country Funeral' witnesses three brothers, John, Philly and Fonsie Ryan, as they travel west from Dublin to Gloria Bog ...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba185 KčSkladem 1 ks
In The Dark Stuff Nick Kent profiles twenty-two of the most gifted and self-destructive talents in rock history. From Brian Wilson to Syd Barrett, the Rolling Stones to Neil Young, Iggy Pop to Lou Reed, he offers intimate portraits that are ...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba263 KčDo 4 – 8 dnů
First published in 1984, this book of prose-linked animal poems won both the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Signal Poetry Award...
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Knihapevná vazba279 KčSkladem 1 ks
Schizophrenia: whether it's the associations it conjures or the people it brings to mind, it is a word we all have a view on. How we perceive it - and how we treat people living with it - is at the core of how we understand mental health. But what do we r
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Knihapevná vazba468 KčSkladem 1 ks
Spanning Tom Waits' extraordinary 40-year career, from Closing Time to Orphans, Lowside of the Road is Barney Hoskyns' unique take on one of rock's great enigmas. Like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, Waits is a chameleonic survivor who's achieved long-term ...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba192 KčVíce než 30 dní
Walking ahead of him on the heath, his wife turns to look at him over her shoulder, 'topaz eyes glinting. Scorched face. Vixen.'In language harvested from nature, Sarah Hall tells a story of metamorphosis, of wildness and fecundity, and of a man reaching
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Knihabrožovaná vazba185 KčSkladem 1 ks
Growing up, Kate Priddy was always a bit neurotic, experiencing momentary bouts of anxiety that exploded into full-blown panic attacks after an ex-boyfriend kidnapped her and nearly ended her life. When Corbin Dell, a distant cousin in Boston, ...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba302 KčSkladem 1 ks
For twenty-eight-year-old Ella May Wiggins life is tough. Her no-good husband, John, has run off again, and she must keep her four young children alive with the only work she can find, the night shift at American Mill No. 2 in Bessemer City, ...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba419 KčDo 24 – 29 dnů
Driven off the desert road and left for dead, Claire DeWitt knows that it is someone from her past trying to kill her, she just doesn't know who. Making a break for it from the cops who arrive on the scene, she sets off in search of the truth, ...
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Knihapevná vazba411 KčDo 24 – 29 dnů
The Forward Book of Poetry 2019 brings together the best poetry published in the British Isles over the last year, including the winners of the 2018 Forward Prizes. In showcasing the range and ambition of today's fresh voices alongside new work ...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba333 KčSkladem 1 ks
This phenomenal novel is the first in a trilogy packed with shooting contests, train robberies, festivals under the stars, powerful Djinni magic and an electrifying love story. "Tell me that and we'll go. Right now...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba245 KčDo 24 – 29 dnů
This new anthology of poems, favourites from the nation's longest-running and best-loved request programme for verse, moves with the seasons, following the turning year from John Clare's 'pale splendour of the winter sun' to John Keats's ...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba412 KčDo 24 – 29 dnů
'[A] mesmerizing portrait of a now vanished world. Aciman's story of Alexandria is the story of his own family, a Jewish family with Italian and Turkish roots that tied its future to Egypt and made its home there for three generations, only to find itself
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Knihabrožovaná vazba339 KčDo 4 – 8 dnů
As I stepped over one of the Germans an impulse made me lift him up from the miserable ditch. Propped against the bank, his blond face undisfigured, except by the mud which I wiped from his eyes and mouth with my coat sleeve....
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Knihabrožovaná vazba331 KčSkladem 1 ks
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