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This book, by Britain’s most distinguished historian of ancient Greek art, recounts the influence of Greek communities and their culture through Ce...

Leading art critic and writer Richard Cork tells the stories of his personal encounters with some of the world’s most influential modern and contem...

'Benoy K. Behl’s remarkable photographs, painstakingly gathered and digitally restored over thirty years of hard labour, are probably the best and ...

Chanel’s J12 watch revolutionized the standards of watches for women, combining technical sophistication with the allure of modern design. The J12 ...

In many ways the history of civilization is a history of our relationship with nature and landscape. Christophe Girot sets out to chronicle this in...

Product Description The idea of heaven on earth haunts the human imagination. The day will come, saybelievers, when the pain and confusion of mor...

A brand-new translation of a philosophical classic of the ancient world, The Teaching of Ptahhatp, written in Egypt 4,000 years ago. The Teaching ...

A captivating photographic odyssey spanning fashion, Hollywood and travel, this is the first publication in almost 40 years on the work of George H...

About the Author Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 by Faber & Faber an...

A generous selection of poems from 'one of the most talented and interesting poets writing in English today' (Robert Nye). In a distinguished poet...

The ever-popular week-to-view diary series has a spacious square format, as well as full colour images and informative captions throughout. The per...

The Natural History Museum, London is home to one of the world’s most important collections of natural history specimens, literature and artworks. ...

This striking book represents the personal odyssey of antique dealer, collector and jewelry lover Mimi Lipton. Over the years, she has amassed a su...

Orlando is Sally Potter's bold, unsentimental re-working of Virginia Woolf's classic novel in which an innocent aristocrat journeys through 400 yea...

In a wonderfully evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, Jan Morris - a constant traveller - has produced ...

An adaptation by the Poet Laureate of Racine's play of the same name. Phedre burns with passion for Hippolytus, her stepson. His father, Theseus, i...

Alan Ayckbourn's play is about a very ordinary teenager called Lucy. With her father glued to the cowboys on the telly, her mother preoccupied with...

This is the authorized biography of the English tenor Peter Pears. Pears made a unique contribution to twentieth-century music, not only as an inte...

Dirty Havana Trilogy tells the story of Pedro Juan, an ex-radio journalist who wanders from one odd job to the next, half-disgusted and half-fascin...

With their zestful language and full-tilt approach to life, these poems, which are concerned above all with the tribulations and occasional triumph...

Thom Gunn's The Man with Night Sweats shows him writing at the height of his powers, equally in command of classical forms and of looser, more coll...

The first collection of plays by Marina Carr introduces the work of a major new voice in playwriting. Low in the Dark 'One of the most exciting, n...

Finders Keepers is a gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays ...

Eliot's poetry has been charged with coldness, antisemitism, misogyny, elitism, prissiness. It is a poetry which invites or incites prejudice; how ...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions ...

The first comprehensive and authoritative account of the life and work of the man who changed the course of modern theatre. Antonin Artaud is one o...

A beautifully illustrated ode to reading, and in particular to reading aloud. Morris is a cat with a clever plan. Instead of chasing mice, he’s go...

Dalton Chance, fifteen years old and an open book. Pace Creagan, seventeen, brimful of adventure, fearless and feared. To Dalton, she's irresistibl...

The central character of Alan Ayckbourn's new play is Susan, a parson's wife, 'one of the most moving and devastating that he has created...' Robin...

A beautifully illustrated guide to caring for your dog. Meet Lena and her rescue dog Jo! This is the true story of how Lena and Jo became best fr...

Ezra Pound Selected Poems, 1908-1959

Product Description Splat! traces art history through its key turning points and helps to map important art movements from the Renaissance and Imp...

Product Description Marriage consists of two sequences of poems. The first is loosely based on the relationship between Pierre Bonnard and his mus...

This autobiography follows Paul Watkins's early life and schooling at the Dragon School, Eton and Yale. Born in 1963, Watkins is the author of "The...

The humour of self-deprecation is peculiarly English. Few people do it better than Jeremy Lewis. His first two autobiographical volumes - Playing f...

About the Author Russell Stannard is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the Open University. He has travelled widely in Europe and the USA, research...

Hear what I have to say about the cherry orchard, because it is mine. I say bring it down, tear it down. Smash it down and tear it down. Watch, wat...

With the same dazzling mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his novels he illuminates the art and artists who remain important to him and who...

This first collection of plays by Charlotte Jones includes her multi-award winning Humble Boy (Susan Smith Blackburn Award 2001, the Critics' Circl...

How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it? Standing...

'An unknown place.' This was what Michael Frayn's children called the shadowy landscape of the past from which their family had emerged. Shortliste...

For twenty years, Ireland's economic miracle was supposed to be the envy of the world. Low taxes, light regulation and an 'anything goes' attitude ...

Leon Trotsky was the charismatic intellectual of the Russian Revolution, an authoritarian organizer, who might have succeeded Lenin and become the ...