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"Three Days of Rain" and Other Plays
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Richard Greenberg is the winner of the Newsday's George Oppenheimer Award for Best New American Playwright, the Molly Kazan Playwriting Award, the Pen/Laura Pels Award, and his play Three Days...
American Clock / the Bishop's Ceiling: Two Plays.
Four writers in an Eastern European country work under the constant threat of listening devices, and American workers experience the Depression.
Last Operas and Plays
In the more than 75 plays Gertrude Stein wrote between 1913 and 1946, she envisioned a new dramaturgy, beginning with the pictorial conception of a play as a landscape. She...
The Shopping Experience
This shrewd and probing book seeks to theorize shopping as an autonomous realm. It avoids the reductionist characteristics of economics and marketing. At the same time it avoids the moralizing...
Lincoln
Most people know little more about the US President Abraham Lincoln than how he met his end - assassinated in a theatre box by a gunman. But as Thomas Keneally,...
A Peaceful Retirement: The twelfth novel in the Fairacre series
When Miss Read took early retirement, she anticipated days of relaxation and calm. She couldn't have been more wrong! Instead she finds herself as busy and in demand as ever:...
The Hades Factor
A homeless man in Boston, an Army Major in California, and a teenage girl in Atlanta all die suddenly and painfully - each a victim of an unknown doomsday virus....
War Dance
Colonel Tom Blake is a modern day hero, a man that provides unwelcome problems for his superiors along with welcome successes. To his bosses a maverick but to his colleagues...
Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life
Beautiful and talented, versatile and charismatic, Elizabeth Robins was one of the foremost actresses of her day. Yet, this enduring character was also an active and lifelong feminist. This biography...
The Operative
In war-torn Iraq, Stratton s closest friend is killed whilst on operation, leaving behind a grieving wife and child - Stratton s godson. When the widow moves to Los Angeles...
Traitor: 6
After a surveillance mission in Sevastopol goes badly wrong, Stratton finds himself doing penance at MI16, the government's clandestine organisation that creates weapons equipment for special forces and the secret...
Parallels & Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society
______________ 'A beautifully poised series of dialogues about literature, music and politics, and they're a testimony to the enormous gifts and courage of both men' - Tom Paulin, Guardian 'A...
Eating Disorders: The Path to Recovery
What is an eating disorder? What are the symptoms? What causes them? And is full recovery possible? Eating disorders are a growing issue - at least 2% of females are...
Wilberforce
Recounts how William Wilberforce fought to end the lucrative slave trade and won.
Class Act: The Cultural and Political Life of Ewan MacColl
Sometimes described as 'the British Brecht', Ewan MacColl (1915-1989) was a major twentieth-century political artist. This is the first biography of MacColl, and was prepared with the authorisation of his...
Wheels Of Fire
Summoned to war-torn Bosnia to replace a Liaison Officer in the Royal Wessex Regiment, ex-SAS man Jeff Hawkins soon realizes he's been pitched into a task far more dangerous than...
Softly Calls the Serengeti
A thrilling adventure and a poignant exploration of grief, family and identity, set against the upheavals of twenty-first century Kenya. Amid the violence of Kenya's upcoming presidential elections, Joshua Otieng...
Beyond Mombasa
the epic new African novel from the bestselling author of tears of the Maasai.Beyond Mombasa tells the unforgettable story of Ronald and Florence Preston, the pioneering Victorian-era couple who, with...
Freud's Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones
Ernest Jones was a born empire builder, who imported the intellectual ferment of early twentieth-century European analysis to our shores. In 1938 he daringly flew to Vienna to rescue Freud...
The Interrogator
Spring, 1941. The armies of the Reich are masters of Europe. Britain stands alone, dependent on her battered navy for survival, while Hitler s submarines his grey wolves - prey...
Arguments for a Theatre
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The author of over 30 plays, including "The Castle", "Scenes from an Execution" and "The Possibilities", Howard Barker does not accept the theatrical conventions of what he terms "The Establishment...
A Book About Innocent: Our story and some things we've learned
Our recipe for success- pure, fresh and unadulterated We started making smoothies in 1999. On that first day we sold twenty-four bottles, and now we sell over 2 million a...
Alfred Schnittke
This biography of the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke (b.1934) presents a fascinating portrait of a man whose musical output is inextricably linked to the strictures of life in the former...
Wielopole/Wielopole
A OBIE award-winning play by Europe's leading experimental playwright, thematically explores the perisistence of memory and the relationship between the living and the dead, as well as the contradictory nature...
The Way of the World
Brian Gibbons is Professor of English Literature at University of Munster and general editor of the New Mermaid series and of the Cambridge Shakespeare.
Well-tuned Women: Growing Strong Through Voicework
In this collection, top artists and voice trainers offer a range of approaches to personal growth through awareness of the voice. The topics include freeing the natural voice, voices of...
Metro
Dark, hedonistic and sometimes violent, Metro tells the story of six months in the life of university student Liam Kelly. When his girlfriend Sara leaves Australia to backpack around Europe,...
Creating Frames: Contemporary Indigenous Theatre
Creating Frames traces the journey behind a substantial national body of work and its importance in ensuring that Indigenous Voices are heard. Creating Frames provides the first significant social and...
Sushi Central
Go out. Take a pill. Meet a boy. Dance. Recover. Repeat. Calvin is sixteen and out of control. Experienced but naive, he and his friends feel disconnected from their safe,...
Katherine Susannah Pritchard: Stories, Journalism and Essays: Stories,
Prichard (1883-1969) was a political agitator and writer who addressed the taboo subject of race relations both in her early journalism and essays and in her later, social realist fiction....
Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov
An original member of the famed Group Theater, Stella Adler was one of the most influential artists to come out of the American theater. As a Stanislavsky disciple and founder...
The Complete Shane Warne
Old Trafford, 4 June 1993, 3.05pm. It's one of those moments in time that Australian cricket lovers will forever re-live. With his very first delivery in Ashes Tests, Shane Warne...
Paul for Everyone: Chapters 1-8
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Writing in an approachable and anecdotal style, Tom Wright helps us see the great sweep of this letter. Romans has long been viewed as the book above all in which...
Midnight in Istanbul: A WWII Espionage Thriller
From USA TODAY bestselling author Kathryn Gauci comes a suspenseful new thriller filled with intrigue and atmosphere - a spy novel that you won't be able to put down. 'Meet...
English Drama: A Cultural History
This book provides a comprehensive account of the cutlural history of English drama. Drawing upon new empirical research and the latest theoretical models, Shepherd and Womack show how the character...
Swearing: Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in
This is the history of the lexical underworld of the English language. It details the story of impropriety in language and of the lower registers of the foul and obscene....
The Calligrapher
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This beguiling novel is a provocative romantic comedy centered on a young London calligrapher named Jasper, who is an engaging, intelligent serial seducer and a breaker of hearts. But when...
A Line In The Sand
In a village on the Suffolk coast Frank Perry waits for his past to arrive. A decade before, he spied for the government on the Iranian chemical and biological weapons...