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Haunted Child
Bloomsbury Publishing 2011; US$ 12.99We have the tools to enlighten and yet our world is darkening. We live in an era of pessimism and worry; we are hollowed out, lurching from crisis to crisis, with no faith that anything will improve, and no great hopes to sustain us. So whats the answer? A small boy is driving his mother to distraction - waking at night, hearing phantom noises... more...
The Hansa Protocol
Robert Hale 2012; US$ 11.65In the bitter january of 1893, the German peace crusader Dr Otto Seligmann is blown to pieces in the Belvedere, his garden library at Chelsea. Detective Inspector Box and Sergeant Knollys interview Seligmann's associate, Count Cernzy, who reveals that Britain is infested by agents of the German war party. In the fog-shrouded garden of Seligmann's... more...
Roath, Splott and Adamsdown
The History Press 2012; US$ 18.94This is an account of three discrete districts of south-east Cardiff and their evolution through 1,000 years of history. From their pre-Norman origins to their emergence as thriving suburbs in the early twentieth century, the voume focuses on manorial society and economy, the growth of population, trade and industrial development, social structure... more...
The Sister Fidelma Mysteries
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 40.00This is a collection of new essays on Peter Tremayne's Sister Fidelma novels, which feature Sister Fidelma's attempts to solve a wide range of crimes, often murders that occur under especially mysterious conditions. The novels, set mainly in 7th century Ireland, also include a great deal of history, which is not surprising given that the author... more...
James Bond - Anatomie eines Mythos
Universitätsverlag Winter 2012; US$ 37.74Hauptbeschreibung James Bond hat nicht nur die Lizenz zum Töten, sondern auch die zum Überleben. Keiner der Heroen der Pop-Kultur des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts hat sich so unbeschadet ins 21. Jahrhundert herüberretten können wie der Doppelnull-Agent Bond. Die Gründe für diese Unsterblichkeit gehen weit über die schon von Bonds Schöpfer Ian Fleming... more...
Letter from a Far Country
Carcanet Press Ltd. 2012; US$ 16.99Gillian Clarke's poems are letters from the far countries of personal and ancestral memories, of places and moments of insight. Her acclaimed title poem explores the buried histories of women's lives, the enduring responsibilities that link generations and ensure the continuance of language and traditions. Rooted in rural Wales, this collection celebrates... more...
Blackta
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 15.99Get, Im getting outta here, man, Im getting outta here, the lines getting blurred - its blurred - that line between normality and madness is muffled... and rah, Im getting urges, brov. Welcome to the worlds most unusual talent contest. Behind the scenes, competitors are laughing and brawling, parading their... more...
The Artist Man and the Mother Woman
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 15.99How my wee boy, as naive and pastey as he is, could get a grown woman tae go weak at the knees, screaming, as it appears you wis last night. When hes nae so much as accidently brushed up against a wifie afore, and theres nae internet or dirty magazines in the hoose tae speak o. And I ken, Ive checked under his mattress. Nut, nae contact... more...
The Chair Plays
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 45.00I am nothing. Nobody. One day I could forget what I have done. Then I am nothing with no past. My knife is to tell me who I am. It is my passport to myself.' The Chair Plays are three one-act plays that Edward Bond has combined into one continuous drama on the state of society towards the end of the present century. Faced with ecological disaster and... more...
Wilcox Plays: 1
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 80.00Four plays by a writer at the forefront of 80s theatre. Rents: "A superb and touching comedy about the lives of two "rent" boys in Edinburgh." (Time Out) "What you would never guess about Rents in advance is that it is so funny. Here we are faced with a story about youthful prostitution (male), poverty and urban paranoia...And... more...









