Search results for 'Robert Service'

Briar Rose & Spanking the Maid

Robert Coover

€13.00

These two novellas by the groundbreaking, fearless, and immeasurably influential Robert Coover are dirty, funny and brilliant. Learn More
Berlin Stories

Robert Walser

€14.00

In 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important stage-set designer, and immediately threw himself into the vibrant social and cultural life of the city. Berlin Stories collects his alternately celebratory, droll, and satirical observations on every aspect of the bustling German capital, from its theaters, cabarets, painters’ galleries, and literary salons, to the metropolitan street, markets, the Tiergarten, rapid-service restaurants, and the electric tram. Learn More
Comrades

Robert Service

€12.99

Unsettling, compellingly written and brilliantly argued, this is a superb work of history and one that demands to be read. Learn More
Imposture

Benjamin Markovits

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A brilliant, romantic gothic novel travelling in the shady footsteps of Byron's physician and impostor. Learn More
Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

€17.00

Part of "Penguin's" beautiful hardback "Clothbound Classics" series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Stevenson's first full-length work of fiction brought him immediate fame and continues to captivate readers of all ages. Learn More
Parting Shots

Matthew Paris & Andrew Bryson

€13.00

Combining gems from the archives with more recent despatches obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, "Parting Shots" is a treasure trove of wit, venom and serious analysis. Astute and often gloriously non-politically, they shed light on Britain's place in the world, and reveal the curious cocktail of privilege and privation which make up the life of an ambassador. Learn More
The Bodysurfers

Robert Drewe

€13.00

Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach - and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family - "The Bodysurfers" is an Australian classic. Learn More
The Man Without Qualities

Robert Musil

€18.00

Part satire, part visionary epic, part intellectual tour de force, The Man Without Qualities is a work of immeasurable importance. Learn More
Writings on Art

Mark Rothko

€25.99

This provocative compilation of both published and unpublished writings from 1934-69 reveals a number of things about Rothko: the importance of writing for an artist who many believed had renounced the written word; the meaning of transmission and transition that he experienced as an art teacher at the Brooklyn Jewish Center Academy; his deep concern for meditation and spirituality; and his private relationships with contemporary artists (including Newman, Motherwell and Clyfford Still) as well as journalists and curators. Learn More
The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of the M15

Christopher Andrew

€17.99

To mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has opened its archives to an independent historian. "The Defence of the Realm", the book which results, is an unprecedented publication. Learn More