In his version of Racine's masterpiece of tragic infatuation, Ted Hughes replaces the French dramatist's alexandrines with a lean, high-tension English verse that serves eloquently to convey the passi
Without text, expressing himself directly through a brilliant sequence of two hundred drawings, the artist Klimowski has conjured up a dream narrative which is as gripping as any thriller, a black mov
Ideal supplementary material for the landmark Basics method series. Clarinet Basics Repertoire has a fabulous range of repertoire, from pop classics ((Is this the way to) Amarillo?) and film themes (J
A pedlar announces that the war is over; and as the soldiers return in the fragile peace that follows, the starving people are left to build new lives, to forge new identities. Midwinter is a play abo
Friend to film stars, spies, models, government ministers and aristocrats, Profumo Scandal rise and ultimate disgrace coincided with the increasingly permissive lifestyle of London's elite in the earl
Everyone but the shattered war veterans dance and forget. Peppered with acrid wit and dark vaudeville humour, The Silver Tassie, Sean O'Casey's powerful anti-war play of 1928, receives a major reviv
When her brother Orestes at last returns, she urges him to a savage and terrifying conclusion. Frank McGuinness's charged adaptation of Sophocles' powerful tragedy was first performed at the Chichest
A high-ranking government minister with a colorful past is sent on a diplomatic mission to Istanbul. When his trip ends up in a bar-room brawl, he becomes Europe's most wanted man overnight. Chased by
Now he enters the gender debate, starting with his argument that men are fundamentally modified females - if the genes present at fertilisation did not do their job properly, we would all be women - a
It was so simple, just a few little bits in his diary, files that he kept in longhand with all his thoughts and wishes and dreams. Bobby thinks he's simply lending his sister a hand with clearing ou
1961. A squadron of Vulcan aircraft, Britain's most lethal nuclear bomber, flies towards the east coast of the United States. Highly manoeuvrable, the great delta-winged machines are also equipped wit
When DI Jack Carrigan and DS Geneva Miller arrive at the scene they discover eleven bodies, yet there were only supposed to be ten nuns in residence. It's eleven days before Christmas, and despite the
FOOTBALL'S BIGGEST CHARACTERS TELL IT LIKE IT ISWho is the Secret Footballer? Not if the Secret Footballer has anything to do with it.' Loaded **From the bestselling author of I am the Secret Football
But this is the nineties, and the world values other things. Angry, yet full of unexpected humour, Three Dollars chronicles a modern breach in the social contract, and the legacy of Thatcherism and Re
It's 1965, on a small island in the South Pacific, a group of astronomers gather to witness the passing of a comet, but when a young boy dies during a meteor shower, the lives of the scientists and th
