In 1986 the controversial film-maker Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive, and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the bleak coast of Dungeness, where he als...
'WHENEVER I MEET HIS POEMS, I'M ALWAYS STRUCK BY THEIR UNDATED FRESHNESS, EVERYTHING ABOUT THEM AS ALIVE, AS NEW AND AS ESSENTIAL AS EVER. ' Ted Hughes Norman MacCaig - wh...
<p>Один из самых любимых читателями романов Нэнси Митфорд «Любовь в холодном климате» - искрометная романтическая комедия, пробуждающая память об утраченном очаровании жиз...
The life of the man who wrote Ring of Bright Water. This is the first full length biography of Gavin Maxwell - a tour de force, as evocative of the places and creatures in...
Hailed a masterpiece when it was first published, the story of Gavin Maxwell's life with otters on the remote west coast of Scotland remains one of the most lyrical, movin...
Driven mad by an office job, Lise flies south on holiday — in search of passionate adventure and sex. In this metaphysical shocker, infinity and eternity attend Lise’s las...
Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. This Penguin Clas...
À qui exactement s'adressent les conseils de ce livre ? A ses jeunes lecteurs ? A leurs parents ? Au lapin d'Alice qui, en dépit du temps qui file, s'attarderait à parcour...
"Блокнот Бенто" - последняя на сегодняшний день книга известного британского арт-критика, писателя и художника, посвящена изучению того, как рождается импульс к рисованию....
Mahmoud Darwish is a literary rarity: at once critically acclaimed as one of the most important poets in the Arabic language, and beloved as the voice of his people. He is...