Roger Deakin set out in 1996 to swim through the British Isles. The result a uniquely personal view of an island race and a people with a deep affinity for water. From the sea, from rock pools, from rivers and streams, tarns, lakes, lochs, ponds, lidos, swimming pools and spas, from fens, dykes,
When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice which leaves him absolutely nowhere to turn. He knows that he is planting a bomb that would kill and maim dozens of people. But he also knows that if he doesn't, his wife
A New Statesman / Observer Book of the Year ‘She pinpoints the collision of oracle and anachronism.’ - Teju Cole, Observer Anne Carson dazzles us, book after book, with her inventiveness, her ranging imagination, and the way her work utterly changes our perspectives. With Float, she goes further
Autobiografia irlandzkiego malarza i poety, który od najmłodszych lat zmagał się z niemal całkowitym paraliżem. Jedyną częścią ciała, którą był w stanie kontrolować była jego stopa - wykorzystując ją pisał i malował, ale przede wszystkim starał się udowodnić rodzinie i innym ludziom, że jest
A captivating journey of discovery and a quickstart guide to rebuilding our world after the apocalypse. Maybe it was a viral pandemic, or an asteroid strike, or perhaps nuclear war. Whatever the cause, the world as we know it has ended and you and the other survivors must start again. What key
SZCZYPTA MAGII – pierwsza część czarującej trylogii Sophie Nicholls Ciepła, magiczna, bardzo kobieca opowieść… Suknia urzeka równie mocno jak niezapomniana Czekolada! Pewnego dnia w Yorku zjawiają się dwie kobiety, matka i córka. Starsza, Fabbia Moreno – piękna i przebojowa – przykuwa uwagę
SOON TO BE A MAJOR BBC TV DRAMA SERIES WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY COLM TOIBIN ‘A truly astonishing novel – it goes straight to the heart’ Hilary Mantel 'A miracle of a novel which combines prose of bleak, unadorned beauty with a plot that keeps you up all night wondering how it will end... a
This is the secret history of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject. Charles Dodgson was a quiet academic but his second self, Lewis Carroll, was a storyteller, innovator and
