The greatest plays of Terence Rattigan (1911-77) - including The Browning Version, The Deep Blue Sea, Separate Tables and The Winslow Boy - are now established classics.
FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMENWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY NOGA ARIKHA'Provocative but often funny, encyclopedic but down to earth .
A fascinating retelling of Oskar Schindler's extraordinary story and how it came to the world's attention through Thomas Keneally's Booker Prize-winning novel and the subsequent multiple Oscar-winning film, Schindler's List*27th January 2019: 25th anniversary of the movie, which will be re-released in the UK and Australia*In 1980 Thomas Keneally walked into a shop in Beverley Hills to buy a briefcase, an impulse that was to change his life.
Shortlised for the Saltire Society Non Fiction Book of the Year Award Almost every adult and child is familiar with his Treasure Island, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last years on an equally remote island, which was squabbled over by colonial powers much as Captain Flint's treasure was contested by the mongrel crew of the Hispaniola.
Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her.
Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before or since.
This carefully crafted ebook: "Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
William Shakespeare's lifetime (1564 1616) spanned the reigns of the last of the Tudors, Elizabeth I and the first of the Stuart kings, James I and the changing times and political mores of the time were reflected through his plays.
William Shakespeare's lifetime (1564 1616) spanned the reigns of the last of the Tudors, Elizabeth I and the first of the Stuart kings, James I and the changing times and political mores of the time were reflected through his plays.
The story of Ted Lewis carries historical and cultural resonances for our own troubled timesTed Lewis is one of the most important writers you've never heard of.
This play, which contains biographical information relating to Herman Melville, is fundamentally an exploration of the ways in which these two things take place.
In 1993, writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong was sentenced to five years in the Seoul Detention Center upon his return to South Korea from North Korea, the country he had fled with his family as a child at the start of the Korean War.
Gender can be rendered invisible when the gendered nature of institutions is ignored or when the genders of participants in events or movements are not identified.
Gender can be rendered invisible when the gendered nature of institutions is ignored or when the genders of participants in events or movements are not identified.
