Only One Copy

This book explores provision for pupils personal development within the post-Dearing Curriculum. The editors take the reader through some of the important initiatives, with a particular focus on the work...

In rich, ironic and revaeling prose Ginu Kamani depicts the lives of Indian women ranging accross class, age and attitude. JUNGLEE GIRL is a compelling and stimulating collection by a...

Inca-Kola is the funny, absorbing account of Matthew Parris s fourth trip to Peru, on a bizarre holiday which takes him among bandits, prostitutes, peasants and riots. He and his...

The work of an original, haunting and experimental woman modernist poet is made available again, for the first in 50 years. Lynette Roberts is principally a war poet, in that...

While the warlike and heartless Aenir ravage the territory outside the mountain fastness of the clans, Sigarni, the Hawk Queen, arrives in this alternate version of her own universe through...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

'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...

Annabel Kantaria's 2025 thriller YOU LIED FIRST is available now! An ordinary family. A devastating betrayal. 'An utterly compelling story of loss and betrayal - I loved it' - Judy...

A thrilling play about the race to be the first woman in space. Renee Coburg is a gritty, glamorous aviator, the fastest, highest, bravest woman in the world. Jo Green...

When white secondary school teacher Amanda is pushed to the ground by black student Jason, she's reluctant to report him as she knows exclusion could condemn him to a future...

Jez Butterworth's hugely acclaimed, prize-winning play - a comic, contemporary vision of life in England's green and pleasant land. On St George's Day, the morning of the local country fair,...

1910. Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world's most famous author. But fame comes at a price. In the tumultuous final year of his life,...

Miyuki Woodward, lover of pints and instant food, has been taking a holiday to the same seaside town for eight years. She is made to feel at home, at least...

A damaged detective and a brutal serial killer collide in this nail-biting thriller debut. Detective Inspector Damen Brook thinks he's left his past behind him in London. But it seems...

Beware the Black Widow. To love her is to die... The spine-tingling thriller about a depraved female serial killer from the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author. Jordan...