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In this exuberant anthology, Wendy Cope attempts to prove that misery does not have all the best lines. Here is a collection of poems which is unashamedly happy: poems about love, places, the beauty of the natural world, about company and solitude, music, food and drink and books.

Although this novel (published four years before Grass won the Nobel Prize) ranges from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the following year's unification of Germany, the author's basic obsession is - through cryptic references and allusions - with the past two centuries of German history.

'Grotesque and depraved and above all very funny.' Ardal O'HanlonRobert Caligari is a thoroughly evil thirteen-year-old who gets his kicks from kicking pigs.

A stranger washed up on the shores of a great city claims to be Odysseus, sacker of Troy. To do so he must tell his remarkable tale of ten years' wandering amongst giants, nymphs, sirens and lotus eaters. The story of a man who won a war abroad and lost everything in search for home.

A collection of the work of one of the greatest modern poets, the master of lyrical meditation, first published in 1955, when Stevens was seventy-five. He selected the poems himself from volumes covering more than four decades.

All of the drama, excitement and flavour of 60s cinema, a revolution that led to the Cannes Film Festival riots of 1968. The period 1958-69 saw a brilliant explosion of film-making talent not just in Europe but throughout the world.

Charles Wenmoth is a blacksmith and Methodist lay-preacher in the wildest reaches of South-West England. In his relationship with Harriet French, a blind girl who maintains her belief despite her debilitating condition, Wenmoth finds his fragile faith tested in the most trying of circumstances.

An invaluable analysis of the director's art and craft, from one of the most revered of all film school directors.

A biography of Sydney Smith.

What was Mozart really like? Wild? Sublime? Responsible? Fun-loving? Bright? Foul-mouthed? Reading these sparkling new translations of Mozart's letters, we learn in his own words that he was all of these and much more. Here is the composer at his most intimate and unguarded, expressing his feelings about life, love, music and the world around him.

Peter Brook is one of the giants of twentieth-century theatre, a unique creative genius who, through his groundbreaking productions of King Lear, Marat/Sade, A Midsummer Night's Dream and especially The Mahabharata, has virtually reinvented the way actors and directors think about theatre.

Whether you are a professional actor looking for fresh audition pieces, an amateur in search of competition-worthy monologues, or a student in need of the right speech for workshop, this book offers an array of speeches from a diverse range of first-class playwrights. Each selection includes a synopsis of the play.

Combining anecdote, observation and analysis, with examples taken from classical and contemporary art, Leader discusses such seminal figures as Leonardo, Picasso and Duchamp, as well as Bacon, Lowry and the Young British Artists.

The Secret projects an unsettling story about a young woman and her two children who vanish from their apartment one evening, leaving a distraught husband to follow a trail of sinister signs and traces left by their abductors.

North London at Halloween. Celebrity ghost-writer Max Villiers and his wife Harriet, a talented shopper, host a party. As Max connects his first plasma TV, the evening is hijacked by interference from the past. The Lightning Play premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in November 2006.

May 1945: victory in Europe and a Labour landslide in the UK. English traitor John Amery is arrested in Italy and brought back to London for trial. If convicted, he faces the death penalty. But his father is a senior politician. Surely the Establishment will look after its own.

Born in Dresden in 1962, Durs Grunbein is the most significant and successful poet to emerge from the former East Germany, a place where, he wrote, "The Best Refuge was a Closed Mouth." This work introduces Germany's most acclaimed poet to English readers.

A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONMinsk, Lavinia Greenlaw's third collection, was shortlisted for the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Prize, the T. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection.

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

The Golden Gate is a brilliantly achieved novel written in verse. Set in the 1980s in the affluence and sunshine of California's Silicon Valley, it is an exuberant and witty story of twenty-somethings looking for love, pleasure and the meaning of life. It was awarded the 1986 British Airways Commonwealth Poetry Prize.

As the Second World War rages on in Europe, in Donegal there is another war closer to home. War changes everything - its tragedies, its survivals and the history of the West family will be changed forever as this compelling play by award-winning playwright Frank McGuinness shows.

Pig Tales is a brilliant satirical novel about a stunning young woman working in a beauty 'massage' parlour. she gets the pizza, he gets the delivery boy) until someone alerts the authorities and tragedy strikes .

Ben Jonson (1572-1637) was born in London, and became a leading poet, playwright and essayist of the Elizabethan age. In 1598 he killed an actor in a duel but escaped hanging by pleading benefit of the clergy, and by 1616 had re-established enough Court favour to be awarded a pension by James I - in effect making him the first Poet Laureate.

Louis MacNeice was born in Belfast in 1907 and educated at Marlborough and Merton College, Oxford. For most of his working life he was a writer and producer for BBC radio. His death in 1963 was sudden and unexpected.

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their introductions, the selectors offer a passionate and accessible introduction to some of the greatest poets in history.

The Time and Space of Uncle Albert is book one in the bestselling Uncle Albert science and adventure series. Famous scientist Uncle Albert and his niece Gedanken enter the dangerous and unknown world of a thought bubble.

It's 1773 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Caught between financial pressures and artistic ambition, Garrick must decide if he can risk staging a play that could make or break his career.A Laughing Matter was produced by Out of Joint and the National Theatre, London.

Patrick Marber's blackly comic play about a hard-nosed and successful Jewish showbiz agent dealing with a mid-life crisis follows his Dealer's Choice and Closer to complete a loose trilogy set in contemporary London.

In the final days of the Second World War, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley scrawls his desperate account on the walls and ceilings of his ice-cold prison high in the Austrian Alps.

Robert Ross, a sensitive nineteen-year-old Canadian officer, went to war - the War to End All Wars. In this world gone mad, Robert Ross performed a last desperate act to declare his commitment to life in the midst of death.The Wars is quite simply one of the best novels ever written about the First World War.