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The Lion of Macedon - strategos, Parmenion. A lone hero in search of salvation and finding, instead, destiny. The Dark Prince - the child who will become Alexander, creator of...

Shrouded in secrecy, it is home to the wildest dreams and darkest nightmares. Vast amounts of money have been lavished on it. The best mind of two generations have laboured...

Memory, Sorrow and Thorn: The three swords which seem inextricably linked to the fate of both Simon, the ex-kitchen boy and now Knight, and the land of Osten Ard itself....

In the long history of English literature William Wordsworth (1770-1850) is the writer who achieved the most dramatic transformations of the poetic scene almost singlehanded. A leading figure among the...

The text has been completely revised and updated to include new acquisitions and to take account of the latest scholarship from the Gallery. The new editions added to the back...

In the context of The Forum for a New Ireland (1984), the Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985), and the Downing Street Declaration (1993), Lennon addresses a number of unresolved questions which impede...

Provides a glossary of alchemical terms, concepts and symbols as well as information on the main practioners, covering the three main traditions - Western, Indo-Tibetan and Chinese Taoist. Both the...

For 1500 years the hieroglphs of Ancient Egypt defied interpretation but were thought to conceal ancient wisdom and religious secrets. When at last they were deciphered, the hieroglyphs provided something...

Written for the general reader, this book looks at the ancient inventions that have helped shape our everyday lives. The development of mankind's technology is traced from its origins to...

A worm's eye view of post-Communist Russia, from the Siberian-born author of Plasticine . A remote railway station in the 'Boundless Motherland'. Stranded there are a young spiv, selling overpriced...

An intense psychological drama set in a women's prison, in which a mother and daughter try to break through the barriers of time, memory and punishment which separate them. Josie...

Hilarious, brutal and tragic, Delirium is a radical re-interpretation of The Brothers Karamazov , Dostoevsky's classic and compelling tale of family rivalries. The play is the result of a collaboration...

A play about the myth surrounding an old blues singer, from the author of The Libertine . 'Tonight I'm up on stage, Robert Johnson number. I'm singing it and it...

A road movie for the stage, following two young lads from Motherwell on their trip from dislocation to location. Alex and Brian are a pair of Scottish smalltown boys going...

Spanning almost ten years and embracing a remarkable range of style and subject matter, this third volume of Churchill's Collected Plays, introduced by the author, contains: Icecream - an unsettling...

An intimate and at times savagely funny psychological study of two sisters, one of who has made her home in East Berlin and one who has stayed on in their...

Ten short plays by Caryl Churchill, written for stage, radio and TV, selected and introduced by the author. This collection of short plays by one of our leading playwrights opens...

When Scraggly Sam sees the little dormouse fast asleep, he decides that it would be the perfect thing for breakfast. So he takes the dormouse home, and feeds it seeds...

When Rhonwen discovers her husband is spending his early retirement playing bowls and conducting an affair, her response is coldly murderous. But the relief of retribution is replaced by a...

A collection of five plays. Here is the suffragette Cicely Hamilton's "Diana of Dobson" (1908), and Clemence Dane's daringly theatrical "Will Shakespeare - An Invention" (1921). Margaret Kennedy's adaptation of...

Firm but always fair, Karen Homer lays down the law and makes sure you hever have to commit another fashion faux-pas. Discover why you can never have too many white...

This text covers Caesar's rise to power, and deals in detail with his campaign in Gaul. It follows his career from then until his death, through the conflict with Pompey...

With an Introduction and Notes by Laurence Lerner, formerly Professor of English at the University of Sussex. John Milton (1608-74) has a strong claim to be considered the greatest English...

Whenever struck by campaigns, fads, cults and fashions, the reader may take some comfort that Charles Mackay can demonstrate historical parallels for almost every neurosis of our times. The South...

This text looks at what we really know about shamans in Siberia and elsewhere. It traces the history of shamans, describes local variations and different types of shamanism, and explores...

Ocean of Sound begins in 1889 at the Paris Exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed. It goes on to comprehensively map a whole century of ambient music and...

This pocket guide introduces the sky for beginners to stargazing, describing what is visible with the naked eye and small optical instruments, and features charts produced by the world's leading...

Six tells the complete story of the service's birth and early years, including the tragic, untold tale of what happened to Britain's extensive networks in Soviet Russia between the wars....

'Oh, to be seventy again' - Georges Clemenceau Throw caution to the wind and laugh in the face of maturity as you soak up these capricious quips and quotes from...

'To be or not to be?' may be The Question, but it is not the only one. Hamlet, Part II, for example, answers a question about Hamlet that has plagued...

The last thing you need when you're on holiday is to become involved in a murder. For most people, that would easily qualify as the holiday from hell. For George...

Ian Buruma's grandparents, Bernard Schlesinger and Winifred Regensburg (Winnie & Bun), wrote to each other regularly over their sixty years together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bernard...

Few others have determined our understanding of the Third Reich as Joachim Fest. Fierce and intransigent, German born Fest was a relentless interrogator of his nation's modern history. His analysis,...

In Barack Obama, David Maraniss has written a sweeping narrative which reveals the real story of Obama's beginnings: child of a black man from Luoland and a white woman born...