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Penguin Modern Poets 4 - Nick Laird, Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson
Other Ways to Leave the Room features the work of three of the most beloved and lauded poets currently at large. Between them, Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson and Nick Laird write lyrical, luminous and often darkly witty poems about the rugged wildness of the Scottish landscape; about fatherhood; about whisky-drinking, alcohol abuse and tenement life; about sex, love and the pursuit of the spiritual; about childhood in the Ireland of the Troubles, and about the strange possibilities of the technological future. What all three have in common is an ability to combine observations of gritty real life with a sense of the mythical proportions always lurking just under the surface of the everyday.The Penguin Modern Poets are succinct guides to the richness and diversity of contemporary poetry. Every volume brings together representative selections from the work of three poets now writing, allowing the curious reader and the seasoned lover of poetry to encounter the most exciting voices of our moment.
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Go Giants - Nick Laird
To a Fault, Nick Laird''s debut collection, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize; On Purpose, his follow up, won a Somerset Maugham award for travel writing and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. In Go Giants, his third and most ambitious volume, Nick Laird''s poetry travels yet further afield, connecting the shores of his native Northern Ireland with those of the American east coast where he spends increasing time. The result is an almost trans-Atlantic fusion, an inventive melding of Ulster lyricism with proto-Beat rhythms and phrase. The author''s gaze appears longer and more penetrative than before, casting back across the ocean to find a fresh perspective on older questions while vividly capturing the vibrancy of the new. Nick Laird writes with wit and candour, with polemic and persuasion, with no subject seemingly too large or too small: weapons of mass destruction, sectarian violence, religious faith, Jonah and the Whale, marriage, fatherhood, a daughter. A profoundly versatile collection, equally capable of public crescendo and a more personal hum, Go Giants is a daring and a thrilling endeavour by a writer described by Colm Toibin as ''an assured and brilliant voice in Irish poetry''.
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The Keelie Hawk - Kathleen Jamie
The Keelie Hawk is a landmark collection from Kathleen Jamie, the current Makar (National Poet) of Scotland. For the first time, Kathleen Jamie has brought her astonishing lyric talent to the language of her homeland, with outstanding results. The Keelie Hawk is a deeply resonant collection written in Scots, with each poem accompanied by a translation into English. Its publication is a significant event in Scottish literature, not only a reclaiming by one of our finest poets of the mouth-music of literary Scots, but a furthering of that language: ‘by making poems, a language develops’, Jamie observes in a fascinating afterword.
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Up Late - Nick Laird
Nick Laird''s powerful new collection reflects on the strange and chaotic times we live in. Reeling in the face of collapsing systems and the banalities and distortions of modern life, the poet confronts age-old anxieties, questions of aloneness, friendship, illness and death, the push and pull of daily existence.Laird is a poet capable of heading off in any and every direction, where layers of association transport us from a harbour in County Cork to the library steps in New York’s Washington Square, from a face-off between Freud and Michelangelo’s Moses to one between the poet and a squirrel in a Kilburn garden. And at the heart of the collection lies the title sequence ''Up Late'', a profound meditation on a father’s dying, and winner of the 2022 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem.There is conflation and conflagration, rage and fire, neither of which are seen as necessarily destructive. But there is great tenderness, too, a fondness for what grows between the cracks, especially those glimpses into the unadulterated world of childhood, where everything is still at stake and infinite as ‘the darkness under the cattle grid’.‘Up Late, passionate and angry as Hamlet, is formally brilliant, an exercise in control.’ Martina ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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Landing Light - Don Paterson
WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD PRIZE FOR POETRY 2003Landing Light is Don Paterson''s most accomplished and spiritual collection to date. In these poems, he guides us down the labyrinths of our deepest and most private concerns, pursuing the intimacy that the spoken - as well as the printed - word brings. Ceaselessly inquiring, deftly tuned into the emotional crackle of the world, Paterson explores the swings of light and dark that mark our most troubling feelings: utterance and silence, disclosure and concealment, and ultimately the need to both renew and to face finality.''I couldn''t get Don Paterson''s brilliant Landing Light out of my head.'' Spectator''The most animated and animating volume of new poems I have read for years.'' Times Literary Supplement
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Cairn - Kathleen Jamie
''This marvel of a book is a profound meditation on the precariousness of the planet ... these pieces kept bringing tears to my eyes, catching me offguard ... it is what art or, in this case, wonderful writing can do'' Kate Kellaway, ObserverCairn: A marker on open land, a memorial, a viewpoint shared by strangers.For the last five years poet and author Kathleen Jamie has been turning her attention to a new form of writing: micro-essays, prose poems, notes and fragments. Placed together, like the stones of a wayside cairn, they mark a changing psychic and physical landscape. The virtuosity of these short pieces is both subtle and deceptive. Jamie''s intent ''noticing'' of the natural world is suffused with a clear-eyed awareness of all we endanger. She considers the future her children face, while recalling her own childhood and notes the lost innocence in the way we respond to the dramas of nature. With meticulous care she marks the point she has reached, in life and within the cascading crises of our times.Cairn resonates with a beauty and wisdom that only an artist of Jamie''s calibre could achieve.
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Selected Poems - Kathleen Jamie
Kathleen Jamie’s Selected Poems gathers together some of the finest work by one of the foremost poets currently writing in English. Although Jamie is perhaps best known for her writing on nature, landscape, and place, Selected Poems shows the full and remarkably diverse range of her work – and why many regard her work as crucially relevant to our troubled age. No poet currently writing has a keener eye or ear; no poet has paid more careful attention to the other consciousnesses with whom we share the planet – and no poet has Jamie’s almost miraculous ability to show us just how the world might look when the human eye ceases to gaze on it. This exceptional collection of poetry, spanning several decades, allows readers to chart the development of one of our most important contemporary talents, and serves as perfect introduction to her work.
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Up Late - Nick Laird
Reeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity and the banalities and distortions of modern living, Nick Laird confronts age-old anxieties, questions of aloneness, friendship, the push and pull of daily life. At the book’s heart lies the title sequence, a profound meditation on a father’s dying, the reverberations of which echo throughout in poems that interrogate inheritance and legacy, illness and justice, accounts of what is lost and what, if anything, can be retrieved.Laird is a poet capable of heading off in any and every direction, where layers of association transport us from a clifftop in County Cork to the library steps in New York’s Washington Square, from a face-off between Freud and Michelangelo’s Moses to one between the poet and a squirrel in a Kilburn garden. There is conflation and conflagration, rage and fire, neither of which are seen as necessarily destructive. But there is great tenderness, too, a fondness for what grows between the cracks, especially those glimpses into the unadulterated world of childhood, before the knowledge or accumulation of loss, where everything is still at stake and infinite, ‘the darkness under the cattle grid’.
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The Overhaul - Kathleen Jamie
The Overhaul is Kathleen Jamie’s first collection since the award-winning The Tree House, and it broadens her poetic range considerably. The Overhaul continues Jamie’s lyric enquiry into the aspects of the world our rushing lives elide, and even threaten. Whether she is addressing birds or rivers, or the need to accept loss, or sometimes, the desire to escape our own lives, her work is earthy and rigorous, her language at once elemental and tender. As an essayist, she has frequently queried our human presence in the world with the question ‘How are we to live?’ Here, this is answered more personally than ever. The Overhaul is a mid-life book of repair, restitution, and ultimately hope – of the wisest and most worldly kind.
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Selected Poems - Don Paterson
Since his debut, Nil Nil, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993, Don Paterson has lit up the poetry scene in the U.K. His dazzling, intensely lyric and luminous verse has delighted readers ever since, and won many awards along the way. God''s Gift Women took the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1997, Landing Light won it again in 2003 and the Whitbread Award besides, and Rain (2009), his most recent collection, won the Queen''s Gold Medal for Poetry. This selection, drawn from twenty years of work, is made by the author himself and includes not only those poems from his four single volumes, but his thrilling and original adaptations of the poems of Antonio Machado and Rainer Maria Rilke. For any readers unfamiliar with Don Paterson''s work, this Selected Poems offers the perfect introduction to this most captivating of writers; and for fans, an essential gathering from a master craftsman.
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Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets - Don Paterson
Shakespeare''s Sonnets are as important and vital today as they were when first published four hundred years ago. Perhaps no collection of verse before or since has so captured the imagination of readers and lovers; certainly no poem has come under such intense critical scrutiny, and presented the reader with such a bewildering number of alternative interpretations. In this illuminating and often irreverent guide, Don Paterson offers a fresh and direct approach to the Sonnets, asking what they can still mean to the twenty-first century reader.In a series of fascinating and highly entertaining commentaries placed alongside the poems themselves, Don Paterson discusses the meaning, technique, hidden structure and feverish narrative of the Sonnets, as well as the difficulties they present for the modern reader. Most importantly, however, he looks at what they tell us about William Shakespeare the lover - and what they might still tell us about ourselves.
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Weirdo Goes Wild - Nick Laird, Zadie Smithová
A warm and endearing story about the quiet power of being yourself from Zadie Smith, Nick Laird and Magenta Fox. Maud - a judo-suit wearing guinea pig and proud weirdo - is off into the wild, as is Kit, her owner. Both are slightly nervous about what they'll find in the great outdoors, but with a pinch of bravery - and a few Signature Moves - they'll make new friends and explore new worlds. Praise for Weirdo:"A sweet, tightly written tale about the benefits of not fitting in, cheered on by Magenta Fox's gorgeous illustrations" The Times’ Best Children’s Books for Summer 2021"As cockle-warming as a cuddle from a favourite pet, Weirdo ought to be a smash hit" Observer"it's delightful" the i
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Weirdo Goes Wild - Nick Laird, Zadie Smithová
One of the Observer''s Best Children’s Books of 2024A warm and endearing story about the quiet power of being yourself from Zadie Smith, Nick Laird and Magenta Fox. Maud - a judo-suit wearing guinea pig and proud weirdo - is off into the wild, as is Kit, her owner. Both are slightly nervous about what they''ll find in the great outdoors, but with a pinch of bravery - and a few Signature Moves - they''ll make new friends and explore new worlds.Praise for Weirdo:"A sweet, tightly written tale about the benefits of not fitting in, cheered on by Magenta Fox''s gorgeous illustrations" The Times’ Best Children’s Books for Summer 2021"As cockle-warming as a cuddle from a favourite pet, Weirdo ought to be a smash hit" Observer"it''s delightful" the i
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Toy Fights - Don Paterson
‘A classic of its kind.’ William Boyd‘Thought-provoking, hilarious, sardonic and scarily brilliant.’ Scotsman‘A work of dazzling craft.’ Times Literary Supplement‘A memoir in a million.’ Sunday Times** Chosen as a Time Book of the Year ** Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1963. He spent his boyhood on a council housing estate.When he wasn’t busy dreading his birthdays, dodging kids who wanted to kill him in a game of toy fights,working with his country-and-western singer dad, obsessing over God, origami, sex or Scottish football cards, he was developing a sugar addiction, playing guitar and descending into madness.While he didn’t manage to figure out who he was meant to be, the first twenty years of his life – before he took a chance, packed his guitar and boarded a train to London – did, for better or worse, shape who he would become‘A book that swan-dives into the filthy waters of growing up and resurfaces clear-eyed, bearing pearls.’ Financial Times ‘Paterson is arguably Scotland’s finest writer at work today, his sense of the absurd is acutely honed, his wisdom hard-won.’ The National‘Wonderful, aggressively wise and always – especially at its most serious – devastatingly funny.’ Geoff Dyer
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Utterly Monkey - Nick Laird
A very funny, energetic, wonderfully engaging novel about where we’re from and where we’d like to get to…Danny Williams is talented, upwardly mobile and has left his Northern Irish small town roots well behind him. In his mid-twenties he lives in a stylish London flat and has a job in a top London law firm. However, one innocuous Wednesday night his old mucker from home, Geordie Wilson, arrives at the door. On the run from a loyalist militia, whose operational funds he has taken, he manages to bring everything that Danny has been fleeing from right to his smart London doorstep.Taking place over an intense and gripping five-day period–set in both London and the fictional Irish town of Ballyglass–Nick Laird has written an hilarious, touching and ultimately redemptive novel about friendship.
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To a Fault - Nick Laird
In this impressive debut, Nick Laird explores the sharp edge of relationships, from the intimacy of lovers to the brutality of political violence. Journeying between his native Ulster and his adopted London, he balances ideas of home and flight, the need for belonging and the need to remain outside. Formally deft, rhetorically fresh, these poems never shy from difficult choices, exploring cruelty and vengeance wherever they may be found: in love, in work and against political backdrops. But these are brave, resolute writings that resist despair at all times, affirming instead the need to rebuild and to right oneself, to dust down and carry on.
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Surfacing - Kathleen Jamie
Collective Winner of the 2019 Highland Book PrizeUnder the ravishing light of an Alaskan sky, objects are spilling from the thawing tundra linking a Yup''ik village to its hunter-gatherer past. In the shifting sand dunes of a Scottish shoreline, impressively preserved hearths and homes of Neolithic farmers are uncovered. In a grandmother''s disordered mind, memories surface of a long-ago mining accident and a ''mither who was kind''.For this luminous new essay collection, acclaimed author Kathleen Jamie visits archaeological sites and mines her own memories - of her grandparents, of youthful travels - to explore what surfaces and what reconnects us to our past. As always she looks to the natural world for her markers and guides. Most movingly, she considers, as her father dies, and her children leave home, the surfacing of an older, less tetheredsense of herself.Surfacing offers a profound sense of time passing and an antidote to all that is instant, ephemeral, unrooted.
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Findings - Kathleen Jamie
It''s surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Award-winning poet Kathleen Jamie has an eye and an ease with the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities. In Findings she draws together these themes to describe travels like no other contemporary writer.Whether she is following the call of a peregrine in the hills above her home in Fife, sailing into a dark winter solstice on the Orkney islands, or pacing around the carcass of a whale on a rain-swept Hebridean beach, she creates a subtle and modern narrative, peculiarly alive to her connections and surroundings.
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Who Built Scotland - James Robertson, Alexander McCall Smith, Alistair Moffat, Kathleen Jamie, James Crawford
''What we build always reveals things that are deeply and innately human. Because all buildings are stories, one way or another.''Kathleen Jamie, Alexander McCall Smith, Alistair Moffat, James Robertson and James Crawford travel across the country to tell the story of the nation, from abandoned islands and lonely glens to the heart of our modern cities.Whether visiting Shetland’s Mousa Broch at midsummer, following in the footsteps of pilgrims to Iona Abbey, joining the tourist bustle at Edinburgh Castle, scaling the Forth Bridge or staying in an off-the-grid eco-bothy, the authors unravel the stories of the places, people and passions that have had an enduring impact on the landscape and character of Scotland.
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The Bonniest Companie - Kathleen Jamie
In her extraordinary collection, Kathleen Jamie examines her native Scotland - a country at once wild and contained, rural and urban - and her place within it. In the author''s own words: ''2014 was a year of tremendous energy in my native Scotland, and knowing I wanted to embrace that energy and participate in my own way, I resolved to write a poem a week, and follow the cycle of the year.'' The poems also venture into childhood and family memory - and look to ahead to the future. The Bonniest Companie is a visionary response to a year shaped and charged by both local and global forces, and will stand as a remarkable document of our times.
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Sightlines - Kathleen Jamie
The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered - what is it that we''re just not seeing?In this greatly anticipated sequel to Findings, prize-winning poet and renowned nature writer Kathleen Jamie takes a fresh look at her native Scottish landscapes, before sailing north into iceberg-strewn seas. Her gaze swoops vertiginously too; from a countryside of cells beneath a hospital microscope, to killer whales rounding a headland, to the constellations of satellites that belie our sense of the remote. Written with her hallmark precision and delicacy, and marked by moments in her own life, Sightlines offers a rare invitation to pause and to pay heed to our surroundings.
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Orpheus - Don Paterson
Rainer Maria Rilke''s 55 Sonnets to Orpheus remain a testimony to a writer whose significance other poets continue to testify to. Don Paterson''s translation offers a radiant and at times distressing version of the great work.
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The Fall at Home - Don Paterson
Aphorisms have been described as ''the obscure hinterland between poetry and prose'' (New Yorker) – short pithy statements that capture the essence of the human condition in all its shades. In this New and Selected, master of the form Don Paterson brings the best examples from his two previous volumes together with ingenious new material relevant to today''s world. Moving and mischievous, canny and profound – these wide-ranging observations of no more than one or two lines demonstrate that the aphorism is the perfect form for our times. Consciousness is the turn the universe makes to hasten its own end. * Agnosticism is indulged only by those who have never suffered belief. * Poet: someone in the aphorism business for the money.
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Weirdo - Nick Laird, Zadie Smithová
Meet Maud: a guinea pig who inexplicably wears a judo suit - and not everyone understands or approves. When Maud is thrown into a new and confusing situation, it takes brave decisions and serendipitous encounters for her to find her place and embrace her individuality.The charming characters of Magenta Fox, whose work is evocative of Raymond Briggs and Janet Ahlberg, perfectly offset Zadie and Nick''s warm, wry prose.Weirdo is an endearing story about the quiet power of being different by two veteran writers, and introduces an exciting debut illustrator. Together they have created a picture book that adults and children alike will treasure.
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The Poem - Don Paterson
The Poem attempts to answer several questions: what is a poem? In what way is its use of language distinct? What conditions allow it to arise, and what is its cultural purpose? And how, exactly, do poems work? Part polemic, part technical treatise and part meditation, The Poem is an ambitious contemporary ars poetica. Paterson looks at the writing, transmission and reading of poetry with wit and scholarly flair, drawing together literary analysis, linguistics, metaphysics, psychology and cognitive science in a thorough exploration of how and why poems are composed.The Poem takes the form of three long essays. ‘Lyric’ attends to the music and sound patterns of poetry, and the way in which they work to deepen poetic sense; ‘Sign’ develops a new theory of metaphor, metonym and symbol, and looks at how ideas of ‘meaning’ change under poetic conditions; ‘Metre’ addresses poetry’s relationship to time and to the rhythms of speech, then builds a theory of prosody from the ground up, proposing some radical correctives to existing metrical theory along the way.Through his various professional guises – as major prize-winning poet, as Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews and as Poetry Editor at Picador Macmillan – ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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Equal to Mystery: In Search of Harold Sonny Ladoo - Christopher Laird
When the Trinidadian novelist, Harold Sonny Ladoo was found dead soon after the publication of his classic novel, No Pain Like This Body, for Christopher Laird, it became an obsession to try to discover the writer behind the work and what had brought about his untimely end. Equal to Mystery – words written by Ladoo – is the record of that pursuit.When, as the editor of a Trinidadian literary journal in the radical years of the early 1970s, Christopher Laird was sent Harold Sonny Ladoo’s novel, No Pain Like This Body (1973) to review, he knew he was looking at something revolutionary in Caribbean fiction. It is a novel that has recently been republished as a Penguin Modern Classic. But the next news Laird heard of Ladoo was that he had returned to Trinidad from Canada and had been found dead – very probably murdered – in the canefields outside his family’s village of McBean. Laird follows in the path of Ladoo to Canada, where he went to make a name for himself as a writer, and tracks him as a student and young married man through conversations with his widow and other family members. He looks in detail at ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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The Arctic - Don Paterson
‘The Arctic’ in Don Paterson’s powerful new collection is the name of a bar frequented by the survivors of several kinds of apocalypse. The poems gathered here are as various as the clientele: elegies for the poet’s musician father; tales of the love lives of gods and the childhoods of psychopaths; troubled encounters between men and women; odes to movies and the male anatomy; studies of art and ambition, politics and parenthood. Other voices enter the fray in renderings of Cavafy, Montale and the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral. And in the fourth part of Paterson’s ongoing poem ‘The Alexandrian Library’, the poet-as-amateur scientist – from a weather station at the top of Ben Nevis to the cellar of The Arctic – bears witness to the imminence of man-made extinction. By turns urgent, railing and tender, these are poems of and for our times, by one of our most celebrated and formally adventurous writers.
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Doctor Strange 8 - Zatracení - Szymon Kudranski, Nick Spencer, Rod Reis, Donny Cates
MĚSTO HŘÍCHU SE DOČKÁ SVÉHO DOPOSUD NEJVĚTŠÍHO HRÍŠNÍKA. Když Doctor Strange vzkřísil Las Vegas poté, co bylo zničeno v průběhu událostí Tajné říše, neúmyslně otevřel bránu ztělesněnému zlu: Mefistovi! Ďábelský padouch si město přivlastnil a brousí si zuby na zbytek světa. Poražení Mefista si vyžádá účast hrdinů ze všech koutů marvelovského vesmíru, ale boj s vládcem pekla není nic snadného. Wongova improvizovaná skupina Synů půlnoci (Iron Fist, Blade, Moon Knight a Scarlet Spider) brzy zjistí, že stojí proti celé jednotce Ghost Riderů! Ale na které straně stojí Johnny Blaze? Kdo vyvázne živý, kdo vyvázne nemrtvý a kdo nevyvázne vůbec? Obsahuje komiksy Doctor Strange: Zatracení č. 1–4 – autoři Nick Spencer, Donny Cates, Rod Reis, Szymon Kudranski a Dan Brown.
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The Penguin Modern Classics Book - Eliot Henry
The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the worldFor six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and timeless storytellers. This reader's companion showcases every title published in the series so far, with more than 1,800 books and 600 authors, from Achebe and Adonis to Zamyatin and Zweig. It is the essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book.Bursting with lively descriptions, surprising reading lists, key literary movements and over two thousand cover images, The Penguin Modern Classics Book is an invitation to dive in and explore the greatest literature of the last hundred years.
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Train Songs - Don Paterson, Sean O'Brien
''This is the night mail crossing the border,Bringing the cheque and the postal order...'' -- W.H. AudenWordsworth was the first laureate of locomotives: in fact he railed against them, and against the consequent opening up of the Lakes to holiday hordes (''On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway''). His dismay was echoed down the decades by disturbed ruralists, and yet the train has become part of our psychic landscape: some of the best-loved English poems - Edward Thomas''s ''Adlestrop'', or Philip Larkin''s ''Whitsun Weddings'' - have celebrated carriages, platforms and waiting rooms, while locomotion has inspired some of the most characteristic poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Stevenson, Hardy and MacNeice, Betjeman and Auden (whose ''Night Mail'' was written to accompany a 1930s GPO documentary about the postal express from Euston to Glasgow).Co-edited by two of our most distinguished poets, Train Songs offers a round tour - from Wordsworth to Hugo Williams and beyond - starting from the poetry of departures and brief encounters, but taking in the American Blues, the troop trains of two world wars, and the addiction to speed which characterised the European revolutions. Trains have carried the freight of history from the Industrial Revolution onwards - ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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Batsford's Modern Chess Openings - Nick De Firmian
The classic chess reference book – as seen in Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit.This text is a comprehensive guide to opening moves in the game of chess. Covering every standard line of play, it provides the essence of contemporary opening theory, and is indispensable to both club and tournament players.The standard reference work on chess openings for more than half a century, earning the epithet ''the chess player''s bible'', Batsford''s Modern Chess Openings is the most comprehensive single-volume work on the openings. Covering every standard line of play, it provides the distilled essence of contemporary opening theory.This edition is an indispensable reference work for club and tournament players. International Grandmaster Nick de Firmian is a three-times US Champion and an expert on opening theory. He helped develop computer Deeper Blue''s opening repertoire in its match victory over arch-theoretician Gary Kasparov.
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Jamie's Comfort Food (0718159535)
Kniha - autor Jamie Oliver, 408 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá A collection of ultimate comfort food for every occasion, with guilty pleasures and lots of good mood food. Will benefit from Penguin's biggest marketing campaign of 2014. Jamie held the no.1 Christmas title slot 3yrs running.
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Hanbury & Martin Modern Equity - Professor James Lee, Professor Jamie Glister
Hanbury & Martin: Modern Equity provides an up-to-date and modern account of this challenging area of the law. This twenty-second edition of the long-standing work is the third edition under the present editors. The new edition contains rigorous analysis of the latest in case law and academic debate, with strengthened reference to other common law jurisdictions.
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Americana - Don DeLillo
His first novel, Don DeLillo's Americana passionately articulates the neurotic landscape of contemporary American life through a disintegrating embodiment of the American dream.Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his only company, he makes an abrupt decision to leave New York for America's mid-west. His plan: to film the small-town lives of ordinary people and make contact with the true heart of his homeland. But as Bell puts his films together in his hotel room, he grows increasingly convinced that there is no heart to find. Modern America has become a land that has reached the end of its reel...Don DeLillo (b.1936) was born and raised in New York City. Americana (1971), his first novel, announced the arrival of a major literary talent, and the novels that followed confirmed his reputation as one of the most distinctive and compelling voices in late-twentieth-century American fiction. DeLillo's comic gifts come to the fore in White Noise (1985), which won the National Book Award, Underworld (1997), hailed by Martin Amis as 'the ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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Comansi Želvy Ninja Don
Figurka Don ze série Želvy Ninja od značky Comansi je vyrobena z plastu a měří 8 cm na výšku i šířku. Je vhodná pro děti od tří let a slouží jako sběratelský předmět nebo dárek. Postavička věrně zobrazuje oblíbeného hrdinu z animovaných filmů.
- Vysoká kvalita a detailní zpracování z plastu
- Ideální velikost 8 cm pro dětskou hru i sběratelství
- Bezpečný a odolný materiál vhodný pro děti od 3 let
- Perfektní jako dárek nebo doplněk k existující sbírce
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Don't Look Now and Other Stories - Daphne du Maurier
Collecting five stories of suspense, mystery and slow, creeping horror, Daphne Du Maurier''s Don''t Look Now and Other Stories includes an introduction by Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black, in Penguin Modern Classics.John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their young daughter''s death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that instead of laying their ghosts to rest they become caught up in a train of increasingly strange and violent events. The four other haunting, evocative stories in this volume also explore deep fears and longings, secrets and desires: ''Not After Midnight'', in which a lonely teacher investigates a mysterious American couple; ''A Border Line Case'', in which a young woman confronts her father''s past and his associations with the IRA; ''The Way of the Cross'', in which a party of pilgrims to Jerusalem encounter strange phenomena in the Garden of Gethsemane; and ''The Breakthrough'', in which a scientist claims to be able to trap the soul at the point of death ...Daphne du Maurier (1907-89) - English novelist, biographer, and playwright, who published romantic suspense novels, mostly set on the coast of ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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OMNIRES MODERN PROJECT držák ručníků, 60 cm zlatá /GL/ MP60216GL
Držák ručníků OMNIRES MODERN PROJECT má šířku 60 cm a je vyroben z mosazi. Design vychází z kruhového tvaru a kombinuje minimalistickou formu s moderním charakterem. Povrch má zlatý lesklý odstín.
- Minimalistický a nadčasový design s kruhovým tvarem
- Vyrobeno z kvalitní mosazi pro dlouhou životnost
- Elegantní zlatý lesklý povrch
- Kompaktní rozměry (60 cm šířka, 4 cm výška)
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Matex Saténové povlečení Modern, 140 x 200 cm, 70 x 90 cm
Povlečení je vyrobeno z bavlněného saténu, který kombinuje eleganci, jemnost a trvanlivost. Nabízí pohodlí díky prodyšnosti a schopnosti přizpůsobit se teplotě, s jednoduchou údržbou bez nutnosti žehlení. Souprava obsahuje povlak na polštář 70 x 90 cm a povlak na přikrývku 140 x 200 cm.
- Vyrobeno z prvotřídního bavlněného saténu s hedvábným leskem pro luxusní vzhled.
- Prodyšný materiál přizpůsobivý teplotě: v létě chladí, v zimě hřeje.
- Dlouhá životnost díky kvalitnímu zpracování, zachovává tvar a barvy i po častém praní.
- Snadná údržba – odolné proti mačkání, nevyžaduje speciální péči nebo žehlení.
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Rabalux 72275 moderní závěsný lustr Elowen, kouřová, G9, 1x max. 5W
Závěsné svítidlo Rabalux Elowen 72275 má moderní design s kouřovým vnějším a bílým vnitřním skleněným stínidlem. Je vyrobeno z kovu v černé barvě a instaluje se pomocí kulaté dekorativní základny. Svítidlo je vhodné pro žárovku G9 s výkonem do 5 W a dodává se bez světelného zdroje.
- Moderní design s kombinací sférických a zaoblených tvarů
- Elegantní vzhled díky kouřovému vnějšímu a bílému vnitřnímu skleněnému stínidlu
- Univerzální použití do obývacího pokoje, kuchyně, jídelny nebo ložnice
- Kompaktní konstrukce s černým kovovým povrchem a dekorativní základnou
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Rabalux 72273 moderní závěsný lustr Elowen, jantarová, G9, 1x max. 5W
Závěsné svítidlo Rabalux Elowen 72273 má jantarové vnější skleněné stínidlo a bílé vnitřní stínidlo s černou kovovou konstrukcí. Je určeno pro jednu žárovku G9 s maximálním výkonem 5 W a vhodné do různých obytných místností. Svítidlo se dodává bez světelného zdroje.
- Moderní design kombinující sférické a zaoblené tvary
- Elegantní jantarové vnější sklo s bílým vnitřním stínidlem
- Univerzální použití do obývacího pokoje, kuchyně, jídelny nebo ložnice
- Kompaktní černá kovová konstrukce s dekorativní základnou
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Rabalux 72274 moderní závěsný lustr Elowen, čirá, G9, 1x max. 5W
Závěsný lustr Rabalux Elowen 72274 má moderní design s vnějším průhledným skleněným stínidlem a vnitřním bílým sférickým stínidlem. Konstrukce je z černého kovu s kulatou dekorativní základnou pro uchycení ke stropu. Svítidlo je určeno pro jednu G9 žárovku s maximálním výkonem 5W a hodí se do obývacího pokoje, kuchyně, jídelny nebo ložnice.
- Elegantní design s kombinací průhledného a bílého skleněného stínidla
- Univerzální použití do obývacího pokoje, kuchyně, jídelny nebo ložnice
- Kvalitní konstrukce z černého kovu s dekorativní základnou
- Úsporný provoz s jedinou G9 žárovkou do 5W
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4Home 2 sady povlečení Modern micro, 140 x 200 cm, 70 x 90 cm
Sada obsahuje dva povlaky na přikrývku 140 x 200 cm a dva povlaky na polštář 70 x 90 cm z mikrovlákna. Materiál je lehký, hebký a zachovává si syté barvy. Povlečení je oboustranné s geometrickým vzorem na jedné straně.
- Oboustranné provedení s geometrickým vzorem a jednobarevnou stranou
- Měkký mikrovláknový materiál příjemný na dotek
- Praktické zapínání na zip pro snadné použití
- Snadná údržba – rychle schne a minimálně se mačká
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Microsoft Modern Mobile Mouse Bluetooth, Pastel Blue (KTF-00035)
Bezdrátová myš Microsoft Modern Mobile Mouse využívá Bluetooth připojení a symetrický design vhodný pro všechny uživatele. Je vybavena BlueTrack technologií pro spolehlivé sledování na různých površích a nabízí až 12 měsíců výdrže na jednu AAA baterii. Model v pastelové modré barvě je díky kompaktnímu provedení vhodný pro přenášení s notebookem.
- Bezdrátové připojení Bluetooth s dosahem až 10 m
- Symetrický tvar vhodný pro praváky i leváky
- BlueTrack technologie pro přesné a plynulé sledování
- Dlouhá výdrž baterie až 12 měsíců
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Well Done, Mummy Penguin - Haughton Chris
NOMINATED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDALSHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS"Chris Haughton s so good at making extremely shareable picture books. These are perfect for really younger ones who are sitting in your lap or at bedtime." Nadia Shireen, The Today Programme, BBC Radio 4 "This book will bring joy to young children and the grown-ups reading to them." Sunday Times, The 60 children’s books you should buy this Christmas as chosen by the booksellers of IrelandFrom Chris Haughton comes a funny, suspenseful celebration of mothers set against an atmospheric Antarctic backdrop. Mummy Penguin is off to find a fishy dinner for her family. She has to swim very fast, climb a slippery cliff – cu-crunch, cu-crunch, cu-crunch – and even tiptoe past some sleeping seals… Shh! All the while, Little Penguin looks on in awe and says: “Well done, Mummy Penguin!â€The icy – and treacherous! – Antarctic landscapes are breathtaking in this funny and exciting celebration of all that mothers do, and all that mothers are. "A visual and storytelling triumph, ideal for reading aloud." Top Choice, Children's Book Highlights, Irish Independent"Another classic from Chris Haughton. With vibrant illustrations and simple text, this book will appeal to babies as well ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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Well Done, Mummy Penguin - Haughton Chris
NOMINATED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDALSHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS"Chris Haughton s so good at making extremely shareable picture books. These are perfect for really younger ones who are sitting in your lap or at bedtime." Nadia Shireen, The Today Programme, BBC Radio 4 "This book will bring joy to young children and the grown-ups reading to them." Sunday Times, The 60 children’s books you should buy this Christmas as chosen by the booksellers of IrelandFrom Chris Haughton comes a funny, suspenseful celebration of mothers set against an atmospheric Antarctic backdrop. Mummy Penguin is off to find a fishy dinner for her family. She has to swim very fast, climb a slippery cliff – cu-crunch, cu-crunch, cu-crunch – and even tiptoe past some sleeping seals… Shh! All the while, Little Penguin looks on in awe and says: “Well done, Mummy Penguin!â€The icy – and treacherous! – Antarctic landscapes are breathtaking in this funny and exciting celebration of all that mothers do, and all that mothers are. "A visual and storytelling triumph, ideal for reading aloud." Top Choice, Children's Book Highlights, Irish Independent"Another classic from Chris Haughton. With vibrant illustrations and simple text, this book will appeal to babies as well ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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Černá tma zapomnění - Laird Barron - audiokniha
Audiokniha: Don Miller žije ve šťastném manželství se ženou, která je pro něj vším. Zároveň však celý život trpí záhadnými výpadky paměti a jen zřídkakdy se rozpomíná na některé podivné příhody z jejich společné minulosti. Teprve na sklonku života Don odhaluje, proč se vlastně bojí tmy, proč ho tak děsí dveře do sklepa ve venkovském domě, který jeho manželka zdědila, a co všechno se skrývá v okolních lesích… Laird Barron předkládá v tomto románu zatím nejkomplexnější obraz svého lovecraftovského hororového mýtu o bytostech z jiného světa, nazývaných „Děti Staré pijavice“, který nastínil již v několika kultovních povídkách. Citace/výkřiky z obalu: „Kdybych měl vsadit prachy na to, kdo je nejlepší autor hororů naší generace, tak řeknu Laird Barron.“ — Michael Shea Laird Barron (*1970) je americký autor hororu původem z aljašského Palmeru. Pra¬coval jako rybář v Berringově moři, třikrát se zúčastnil legendárního aljaš¬ského závodu psích spřežení s psovo¬dem (musherem) zvaným Iditarod. Psát začal v roce 2000 a od té doby publiko¬val více než sedmdesát kratších prací, zprvu zpravidla na stránkách magazí¬nu F&SF. Za první sbírku The Imago Sequence (2007) obdržel Cenu Shirley Jacksonové. Stejného ocenění se mu do¬stalo rovněž za v pořadí druhou sbírku Occultatíon and Other Stories (Okulta¬ce, 2010). Za ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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Could Should Might Don't - Nick Foster
''A rare and wondrous thing'' STEPHEN FRYAs the tempo of change accelerates beyond anything our ancestors could have imagined, the ability to think clearly about what lies ahead has never been more crucial - yet we remain remarkably bad at it. So how might we approach the future with greater rigour?Nick Foster is one of very few people to have built a career considering this question, and in this book he''s made an invaluable guide for the rest of us. From the Could of utopian science fiction and the Should of data-driven, dogmatic certainty to the Might of scenario planning and the Don''t of fear-driven risk avoidance, Foster explores how humanity has grappled with the concept of the future throughout history, tracing the emergence of distinct schools of thought and exploring the virtues, blind spots and inevitable shortcomings of each.Could, Should, Might, Don''t resists making cocksure prophecies and bombastic predictions, instead encouraging us to create more balanced, detailed and truthful versions of the future, so that we might improve what we leave behind for those who might follow.
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Captain America By Nick Spencer Omnibus Vol. 2 - Nick Spencer, Donny Cates
Nick Spencer''s unprecedented run on Captain America reaches its thrilling climax in Secret Empire! Nick Spencer concludes the Cap saga that shocked the world! As Sam Wilson grapples with what it means to be Captain America, Steve Rogers positions himself to claim the U.S.A. as his Secret Empire! The Cosmic Cube has secretly remade the world''s greatest hero into a Hydra loyalist. Now, using the trust and respect he''s earned over the decades, the former Sentinel of Liberty is poised to make Hydra''s fascist ideals a terrifying reality - changing the landscape of the world dramatically! Can Sam and a group of rebels turn the tide? And which heroes will actually fight by Steve''s side?! Find out as the impossible becomes real! Hail Hydra! Collecting: Captain America: Sam Wilson (2015) #18-#24, Captain America: Steve Rogers (2016) #12-#19, Captain America (2017) #25, Secret Empire (2017) #0-#10, Secret Empire Omega (2017) #1, Generations: Sam Wilson Captain America & Steve Rogers Captain America (2017) #1; material from Free Comic Book Day 2017 (Secret Empire) #1, Not Brand Ecch (2018) #14.
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Under Their Roof - Ann Cusack, Kathleen Richards
Kathleen Richards was just 17 when she and her sister Deirdre found themselves on the doorstep of 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, seeking lodgings from a seemingly friendly local couple: Fred and Rose West.While growing up in poverty-stricken Dublin in the 1960s, Kathleen was abused from a young age. A move to England allowed her to escape, but even so life remained difficult, forcing her to seek refuge.At first, Cromwell Street provided freedom for the sisters who were entertained by Fred''s quirky behaviour. Kathleen was also happy to make a new friend in her fellow lodger, Shirley Robinson.But then, things took a sinister turn: Fred began to abuse Kathleen with his wife''s encouragement. And, when Shirley suddenly disappeared too, Kathleen''s world began to grow very dark... This is a chilling account of what it''s like to come face-to-face with Britain''s most notorious serial killers, but it is also an inspiring account of the resilience of women and how to find happiness after trauma.
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Under Their Roof - Ann Cusack, Kathleen Richards
Kathleen Richards was just 17 when she and her sister Deirdre found themselves on the doorstep of 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, seeking lodgings from a seemingly friendly local couple: Fred and Rose West.While growing up in poverty-stricken Dublin in the 1960s, Kathleen was abused from a young age. A move to England allowed her to escape, but even so life remained difficult, forcing her to seek refuge.At first, Cromwell Street provided freedom for the sisters who were entertained by Fred''s quirky behaviour and endless DIY. Kathleen was also happy to make a new friend in her fellow lodger, Shirley Robinson.But then, things took a sinister turn: Fred began to abuse Kathleen with his wife''s encouragement. And, when Shirley suddenly disappeared too, Kathleen''s world began to grow very dark...This is a chilling account of what it''s like to come face-to-face with Britain''s most notorious serial killers, but it is also an inspiring account of the resilience of women and how to find happiness after trauma.
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