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The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suff

Offers a collection of lyrics and descriptive poems.

Boek Talking About Detective Fiction, geschreven door P. D. James, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., LITERARY CRITICISM / General

When the New York Public Library announced in October 1968 that its Berg Collection had acquired the original manuscript of The Waste Land, one of the most puzzling mysteries of twentieth-century literature was solved.

Focuses on such characteristic subjects as: the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the blessings and withholdings of old Europe (Andalucia, the Mezzogiorno, Amsterdam), the unaccomodating sublime of the new world, ti

Edited by Joseph O'Connor (author of Star of the Sea and Ghost Light) New Irish Short Stories is a stunning collection from a fascinating variety of writers, both new and established.

Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden.

Boek Foster, geschreven door Claire Keegan, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / General

Her flatmate Cassie is engaged in a fervent struggle against patriarchal oppression. In a city where Gumtree can feel like your closest friend, looking for the right person can lead you all the wrong places. Penelope Skinner's Eigengrau premiered a

While dipping into The Children's Encyclopaedia of 1910, Axel Scheffler came across a

Set against the backdrop of the devastating global recession, and pulsing with the energy of the author's previous novel Invisible, this title is as mythic as it is contemporary, as in love with baseball as it is with literature. It is above all, a s

Following an anonymous tip-off, magistrate Porfiry Petrovich is drawn into an investigation of the radical intellectuals who seek to fan the flames of revolution.

Paperback edition of Sem-Sandberg's epic novel set in the Jewish ghetto of the Polish city of Lodz, in 1940. Chronicles the tale of the Jewish leader Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, whose monarchial rule over the ghetto was highly controversial. Captures

Includes many of the author's best-known poems such as: 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', that were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.

Boek Stories For Children, geschreven door Ted Hughes, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., JUVENILE FICTION / General

Both his books -- like his paintings -- have a thrice-distilled quality of finality and impersonality, like Gothic stone-carvings or the paintings on the walls of the Lascaux caves.' Kathleen Raine

Boek Alana Dancing Star: Samba Spectacular, geschreven door Arlene Phillips, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., JUVENILE FICTION / General

Welcome back to Alana's world - dancing is her number one passion. But everyone at school prefers pop stars to ballroom stars. Can she and her best friend, Meena, pull off a great routine for the school review?

Boek Dark Woods, geschreven door Steve Voake, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General

Wallace Stevens is for many readers the supreme poet of twentieth century America, his voice combining meditative speculation with what he called 'the essential gaudiness of poetry'. This book represents the range of his acheievement, from the lyrica

The eye can hardly pick them out. From the cold shade they shelter in, Till wind distresses tail and mane; Then one crops grass, and moves about - The other seeming to look on - And stands anonymous again.

The North Ship, Philip Larkin's earliest volume of verse, was first published in August 1945 and reissued in 1966 by Faber.

Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms.

Late at night in a foreign land, an English army sweeps through the landscape under cover of darkness and takes the seat of power. Struggling to contain his men and the ambitions of his superiors, the commanding officer attempts to negotiate the unsp

If Lavinia Greenlaw's Minsk was about home, her new collection tests the proximities of elsewhere, 'the circle round our house', the road between two lives.

Jaroslav Hasek was the author of The Good Soldier Svejk, a twentieth-century masterpiece, and one of the funniest novels ever written. This is his biography.

Four friends, one weekend, gallons of whisky. What could go wrong? Driven by amateur whisky-nut Adam, four late-thirties ex-university mates are heading to Islay - the remote Scottish island world famous for its single malts - with a wallet full of c

Boek Home, geschreven door Manju Kapur, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / General

A novel that follows the lives of two 11-year-olds intent on escaping childhood. As the strength of their friendship is tested repeatedly, they begin to take their first, exhilarating steps towards adulthood.

In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live the only immediate signs of the Second World War are the blackout at night and a single random bombsite.

Seventeen-year-old Abike Johnson is the favourite child of her wealthy father. She li

Winner of a Betty Trask AwardShortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Commonwealth Book PrizeLonglisted for the Desmond Elliot PrizeSeventeen-year-old Abike Johnson is the favourite child of her wealthy father.

Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to

In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical church in Victorian England. The church is a dramatic rendering of the power of myth and the great natural cycles of life and death and rebirth. Sarah's story is also tha

Sarah Losh, strong-willed and passionate, an architect and an intellectual who dumbfounded critics with her genius and originality. Born into an old Cumbrian family, heiress to an industrial fortune, Sarah combined a zest for progress with a love of

Boek The Storm At The Door, geschreven door Stefan Merrill Block, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / General