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'The first decade of 21st century cinema has surely belonged to Latin America, to the films and film-makers of Mexico, Brasil and Argentina.' - Observer

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'A quite stunning collection. There are descriptions in this book so fresh that they sear themselves into the imagination.' - Jeremy Paxman

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So too are today's experts - Steve Jones on the Human Genome Project, Richard Dawkins on DNA and many other representatives of the contemporary genre of popular science-writing which, John Carey argues, challenges modern poetry and fiction in its imaginative power.

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Rilke, Sachs, Brecht, Celan: German has produced some of the giants of 20th century European poetry

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An experienced and imaginative anthologist, editor of The Faber Book of Reportage and The Faber Book of Science, Carey has gathered together a vast range of texts from Ancient Egypt to modern California, the authors of which, in different ways, attempt to describe a better world than our own.

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Mixing poems by known authors with anonymous material - work songs and street cries, nursery jingles, graffiti, lyrics of suffering and celebration, charms and chants - Tom Paulin's anthology speaks for an alternative tradition, one that nimbly and defiantly opposes the 'Parnassian official order' which still dominates our culture.

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A superb new addition to the highly successful Faber Pocket Guides - all the essentials about one the greatest composers in history.

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A new updated edition of the essential pocket guide to this enduringly popular art form; a perfect introduction to over eighty of the most performed ballets today.

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The essential pocket guide: Analysis - Text - Rare Titles - Cast Lists - Synopsis - Critiques

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An essential, refreshingly accessible guide to Greek and Roman drama.

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A lively and accessible guide, published in the anniversary year of the composer's death.

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An engaging and easy-to-use pocket guide on one of the most enduringly popular arts.

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An expertly-written guide that is also extremely readable and accessible.

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A concise, essential guide to Shakespeare and his 36 plays.

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An authoritative and accessible guide to the most controversial composer in history.

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The heart-stopping sequel to The Glimpse, set in the near future where society is divided into Pures and Crazies, according to the results of a DNA test. The Fall brings the story to its explosive conclusion.

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The best of Paterson's 'clever, addictive and funny' aphorisms - including 40 pages of new material.

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The best of Paterson's 'clever, addictive and funny' aphorisms - now in paperback.

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The first biographical account of T. S. Eliot's first wife Vivien to be presented alongside her original writings.

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I may be your servant in the theatre, but in real life, sweetheart, you are my sex-slave. But just how far should the woman go to prove him wrong A world of darker meaning lies beneath the wit and verbal exuberance of Martin Crimp's new version of Marivaux's great comedy.

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Endless days on the beach, sundrenched evenings by the BBQ, the perfect holiday Or the perfect cover.
This unmissable novel will have you utterly gripped until the sun goes down on this family's unforgettable holiday.

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The Fever by Wallace Shawn follows a traveller who falls ill in a poor country, and plummets into a fever of self-examination.

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Now available in paperback, The Finest Music: Early Irish Lyrics, edited by Maurice Riordan, is a timeless treasury of early Irish verse, including specially commissioned poems from Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon.

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A controversial, thought-provoking and wonderfully accessible slice of popular evolutionary science.