The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full of people, they said, gather them up and put them in the places the Queen will not see.' Four waves of people have settled on Easterly Farm since then, livi Zobraziť viac
Spring will marry you. A promise! Cuckoo brings the message: May. O new clothes! O get your house ready!Expectation keeps you starry. But at which church and on what day?In these poems Ted Hughes invites the reader to try and .... Zobraziť viac
In this, the first book to take a big-picture view of the entire post punk period, acclaimed author and music journalist Simon Reynolds recreates a time of tremendous urgency and idealism in pop music. Full of anecdote and insight, and featuring the likes Zobraziť viac
In his masterful story 'A River in Egypt', David Means paints a portrait of a moment. Cavanaugh and his young son are suspended; trapped in what a nurse calls 'the sweat chamber', where the boy will be tested for cystic fibrosis. Cavanaugh has brought dis Zobraziť viac
Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guilt, and guilt': these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom. 'But what is the ninth kingdom?' sh Zobraziť viac
Set before the start of the First World War, this moving fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. But when he arrives, he meets Alexis Zorba, a middle-aged Greek man with... Zobraziť viac
The incredible story of Emile Zola's escape to London in the aftermath of the scandalous Dreyfus Affair. It is the evening... Zobraziť viac
David Byrne, the co-founder of the group Talking Heads, has been riding a bicycle as his principal means of transportation since the 1980s. When he tours, Byrne travels with a folding bicycle, bringing it to cities like... Zobraziť viac
Lawrence Durrell was one of the best-selling, most celebrated English novelists of the late twentieth century. The Alexandria Quartet is unquestionably his most admired work, at heart a sensuous and brilliant evocation of wartime Alexandria... Zobraziť viac
The real story of Nico is one of determination, self-destruction and belief in one's artistic vision, at any cost. Nico was an ever-evolving myth, an enigma that escaped definition... Zobraziť viac
In nineteenth-century Istanbul, a Polish prince has been kidnapped. His assassination has been bungled and his captors have taken him to an unused farmhouse. Little do they realize that their revolutionary cell ... Zobraziť viac
An NME and BBC Culture Book of the Year 2020. For a while, Sweet Dreams were made of this. From the testimony of the people who lived it, comes Dylan Jones' masterful history of the Blitz kids, synth-pop, and the style press, from 1975 to 1985... Zobraziť viac
It came from the woods. Most strange things do.' Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow journeys into (and out of?) the eerie abyss. These chilling tales spring from the macabre imagination of acclaimed and award-winning comic creator ... Zobraziť viac
On Thursday 1 July, 1999, Dr Nina Simone gave a rare performance as part of Nick Cave's Meltdown Festival. After the show, in a state of awe, Warren Ellis crept onto the stage, took Dr Simone's piece of chewed gum from the piano, ... Zobraziť viac
Denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Working in an office amidst the East End's bombsites. Serving as a lady's maid to an Empire-loving aristocrat. Raising two children in suburbia. Becoming one of the first black headteachers in Britain... Zobraziť viac
When Dublin pathologist Quirke glimpses a familiar face while on holiday with his wife, it's hard, at first, to tell whether his imagination is just running away with him... Zobraziť viac
They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died... Zobraziť viac
P. D. James was frequently commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write a short story for Christmas, and four of the best have been drawn from the archives and published here together for the first time... Zobraziť viac
With the same dazzling mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his novels he illuminates the art and artists who remain... Zobraziť viac
