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  • Pig of Cold Poisonby Pat Mcintosh

    Soho Press 2010; US$ 25.00

    Gil Cunningham is the Archbishop?s questioner?his investigator. Nanty and Danny were rivals for the affection of Agnes, the apothecary?s daughter. Danny dies, apparently of poisoning, after drinking from his friend?s flask. But what was the poison? Is Nanty guilty? Then more murders ensue, and Gil?s wife, Alys, joins the investigation. From the... more...

  • The Theatre of Tom Stoppardby Anthony Jenkins

    Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 40.00

    Addressed to the enthusiastic theatregoer as well as to students of contemporary theatre, this new edition includes a fresh chapter on Hapgood. Anthony Jenkins is an actor and director as well as a teacher of drama, and this refreshing perspective informs his writing. He is interested in how Stoppard's plays work in the theatre (and on radio and... more...

  • A Gentleman of Fortuneby Anna Dean

    St. Martin's Press 2011; US$ 15.99

    With all the charm of a Georgette Heyer novel, the sequel to Bellfield Hall finds Miss Dido Kent vacationing at the home of her cousin. When a neighbor passes away quite suddenly, Dido feels she is ideally placed to observe the reaction of the community, but her suitor, Mr. William Lomax, feels otherwise. As Dido presses on, she learns more about... more...

  • Nightshadeby P. C. Doherty

    St. Martin's Press 2011; US$ 8.99

    An unscrupulous manor lord has reneged on his promise to hand over a priceless ornate cross stolen from the Templars during the Crusades. Furthermore, he has massacred as heretics fourteen members of a religious order. The King sends Hugh Corbett, devoted emissary of King Edward I to Mistleham in his stead... more...

  • Murphy Plays:6by Tom Murphy

    A&C Black 2010; US$ 22.09

    Murphy Plays: 6 brings together four plays by the author inspired by other great works of literature. The Cherry Orchard: In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces, forces rooted deep in history and in the society around them. Tom Murphy's fine vernacular version allows us to re-imagine... more...

  • The Duncan Campbell Scott Symposiumby K. P. Stich

    University of Ottawa Press 1980; US$ 9.99

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  • The Empireby D.C. Moore

    A&C Black 2010; US$ 12.99

    Patch you up, all nice like, splint, bandage your leg. All very civilized actually. But then. Then. We hand you over." Helmand in the height of summer. Gary, a British soldier, and Hafizullah, his Afghan colleague, guard an injured young prisoner, Zia, found in the heat of battle. Gary wants answers, Hafizullah just wants to make it through the... more...

  • Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Lonelinessby Anthony Neilson

    A&C Black 2009; US$ 11.69

    Ladies and gentlemen, as some of you may know, my name is Edward Gant: prodigy, soldier, traveller, poet - but always and ever a showman.' In 1881, the famed and enigmatic impresario Mr Edward Gant presented his renowned travelling show for the final time. The opiate-addicted actor manager showcased his troupe creating a spectacle of grotesquery,... more...

  • Drama and the Succession to the Crown, 1561-1633by Lisa Hopkins

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 99.95

    Hopkins argues the succession to the throne was a burning topic not only in the final years of Elizabeth but well into the 1630s, and drama, with its disguised identities and oblique relationship to reality, was a safe way to air it. Hopkins analyzes some of the ways in which plays-from Marlowe's and Shakespeare's to Webster's and Ford's-reflect,... more...

  • Aldous Huxleyby Harold Bloom

    Infobase Publishing 2002; US$ 54.00

    -- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights. -- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers. Prophetic and unsparing, Huxley's Brave New World continues to warn us against the dangers... more...