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Ian Hamilton's last book, published posthumously in 2002, is a typically brilliant revisiting of the concept of Samuel Johnson's classic Lives of the English Poets, wherein Hamilton considers 45 deceased poets of the twentieth century, offering his personal estimatio... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:04 | A tragedy of maritime decline, Bound follows the fortunes of six trawlermen from Devon as they embark on one final voyage. Compelled by the threat of bankruptcy, the ageing fishing trawler The Violet is forced out into treacherous weather. Risking storms, friendships... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | Published to tie in with Mick Jackson's appointment as the first writer-in-residence at the Science Museum, Junior Science comprises three stories - 'Zero Gravity', 'The Answering Machine', and 'Back to School'. Commissioned by BBC Radio 4, they were originally broad... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | 'I believe I shall be writing home about this trip for the rest of my life... years from now, still recollecting, like an old white hunter, shadowy images to an empty fireplace, far into the night...' All the Time in the World, a first ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | Evie's shattered ribs have been a secret for the last four years. Now she has found the strength to tell her adoptive parents, and the physical traces of her past are fixed - the only remaining signs a scar on her side and a fragment of bone taken home from the ho... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | Attributed to Valmiki, thought to be India's first poet, the Ramayana's origins date back thousands of years when it was first committed to Sanskrit. Since then, generations of children the world over have grown up with its story of Rama's quest to recover his wife S... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | In 1960, against most predictions, the England cricket team won their first ever series in the West Indies. Even against a home side boasting Hall and Watson, Worrell, Sobers and Ramadhin, the visitors - fuelled by the bowling of Trueman and Statham and a batting ord... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | Krapp's Last Tape was first performed by Patrick Magee at the Royal Court Theatre in October 1958, and described as 'a solo, if that is the word, for one voice and two organs: one human, one mechanical. It fills few pages. It is perhaps the most original and importan... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | An eye-opening survey of cricket, from the crowd violence and blatant match-rigging of the eighteenth century, down to the twentieth century's glaring abuses of the spirit of the game.Written in the same lively style that won such praise for his W.G. Grace: A Life, S... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | At fifteen, Sally Tuttle and Rowena Cresswell were firm friends, until a shocking event changed their lives. Now in their late thirties, they are estranged, both single mothers, both haunted with memories of their intense friendship. Sally is an embroiderer, a needle... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | The leading British writer-director of his generation, David Hare is also one of the most productive. The last two years have seen the outstanding success of two stage plays, The Secret Rapture and Racing Demon, and the release of two films, Paris by Night and Strapl... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | Nothing is more important to a modern political party than fund-raising. But the values of the donors can't always coincide with the professed beliefs of the party. And family scandal within the cabinet has the potential to throw both the money-raisers and the money-... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | The First World War holds a unique place in the nation's history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation's hearts. To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has engaged the most eminent poets of the presen... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | This revised third volume of Harold Pinter's work includes The Homecoming, Old Times, No Man's Land, four shorter plays, six revue sketches and a short story. It also contains the speech given by Pinter in 1970 on being awarded the German Shakespeare Prize. The Homec... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | 'What [Wilson] Harris is doing is to extend the boundaries of our very conception of fiction.' Robert Nye. First published in 1982, The Angel at the Gate is offered to readers as Wilson Harris's analysis and interpretation of the 'automatic wr... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | First published in 1959 The Centre of the Green is John Bowen's third novel. The story centres around the Baker family: the father Justin is a retired Colonel; the mother, Teresa, is over-possessive and refuses to admit that her sons have grown-up; the sons... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:06 | Ten years after Dinah deserted Harry to marry a friend of his, Harry still loves her obsessively, though his image of her has ceased to relate to her independent reality. Unable to shake this fixation Harry resolves, for the sake of his sanity, to get Dinah back.'Som... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:06 | 'A majestic Victorian tale... Wealthy lawyer Esmond, discarded illegitimate son of a peer, has pinched his way to the top of his profession, while his handsome, debt-ridden cavalry officer brother Clinton has inherited the title and the ancestral home. Beautiful actr... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:06 | Julian Mitchell's fifth novel, first published in 1966, is the story of Martin Bannister, whose lonely bachelor life in Manhattan is transformed by a meeting with desirable redhead Henrietta Grigson and her husband Freddy, with whom he embarks on a heady social wh... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:06 | Plan ahead to get the best from your stars Don't wait to read about them on the day. Old Moore identifies your key days - weeks in advance. And he tells you what best to plan into them, so you get the most out of their active influences. Over a million readers trust ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:06 | In 1972, a break-in was foiled at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel in Washington DC. Within days a connection had been made with the White House and President Nixon's closest aides. It unleashed one of the greatest scandals... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:06 | Archie Green receives a mysterious present on his birthday. Deep within an ancient wooden box he finds an old book, written in a language he doesn't recognise. With the book comes a Special Instruction - Archie must travel to Oxford to return the book to the Museu... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:06 | Recognized as one of the major literary works of the twentieth-century, Marcel Proust's monumental seven-volume novel brings together memories of childhood and Parisian society before and during the First World War.This new adaptation is based on Harold Pinter's scre... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:06 | 'Here is a vivacious account of how in the 1950s, under Eden and Lloyd at the Foreign Office, some 5,000 young men doing national service were quietly siphoned off from their units, secluded in Cornwall and Fifeshire, or, more boldly, next door to the Guards depot at... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:06 | It's the early 1800s and Michael Fitton, now a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, has command of the 10-gun schooner Gipsy, which he uses to capture the enemy privateers who disrupt the trade between the British held Caribbean islands. Despite his successes the largest an... Полное описание |
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