Mr James: 62 books
by MR James
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many...
A Gathering Darkness
Thirteen Classic English Ghost Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
Thirteen Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories that send chills up the spine and create an atmosphere sure to make the reader turn on an extra light and push up the back of their armchair against the wall.
Set amidst crumbling, ill-maintained churches and imposing cathedrals, on desolate coastland,...
by Ms Elaine Berry, Mr James Wells, Mr John W. Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
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by Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Nesbit
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many...
by Rudyard Kipling, Guy De Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many...
Connections 500
Blackout; Eclipse; What Are They Like?; Bassett; I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here; Gargantua; Children of Killers; Take Away; It Snows; The Musicians; Citizenship; Bedbug
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of plays.
Featuring work by some of the most prolific playwrights of the 20th and 21st centuries, and...
Contemporary English Plays
Eden’s Empire; Alaska; Shades; A Day at the Racists; The Westbridge
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Edited and introduced by leading cultural and theatre critic Aleks Sierz, this bold and urgent collection of contemporary plays by England's newest and most relevant young writers explores the various cultures and identities of a nation that is at once traditional, nationalistic and multicultural.
Eden's...
James Graham Plays: 2
This House; The Angry Brigade; The Vote; Monster Raving Loony
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
The second collection of plays from eminent playwright James Graham, bringing together four of his state-of-the-nation plays.
The volume includes the following plays, alongside an introduction by the author:
This House (2012) explores Westminster and the 1974 hung parliament through...
James Graham Plays: 1
A History of Falling Things, Tory Boyz, The Man, The Whisky Taster, Sons of York
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
This collection brings together four of Graham's most successful and entertaining plays, each representing a relationship with a theatre with which he has worked and introduced by the author. One of the plays, Sons of York, has never before been published, but earned James Graham a nomination for...
by Mr James Graham
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
I have to believe in the institutions we trust to be fair, and functional. Whether that be the judiciary, the police, the media … That they should all be able to resist the temptations of a more entertaining lie, over a less extraordinary truth.
April 2003. Army Major Charles Ingram, his...
by Mr James Graham
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Blackly humorous drama of Einstein's tortured conscience
Why do you think I've been locked in this room? I've been grieving for a wife, a sister, three hundred thousand Japanese civilians, the presence of a universe gone mad, and the absence of a theory to explain it.
Albert Einstein...
by Mr James Dyer, James Dyer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
This book is for anyone starting out to understand the prehistoric life of Britain from the first human occupation 450,000 years ago, until the Roman conquest in AD 43.
James Dyer here succeeds in bringing to life a thriving picture of the people and customs of the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages, based...
Litigating Trust Disputes in Jersey
Law, Procedure & Remedies
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This text is the first comprehensive guide to litigating trust disputes in Jersey, bringing together analysis of substantive Jersey law, civil procedure and the remedies available to parties appearing in trust litigation before the Royal Court of Jersey. The book is an indispensable tool for trust...
by Mr James Graham
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Its government has declared a vicious class war. A one-sided war . . . We have started to fight back . . . with bombs.
Against a backdrop of Tory cuts, high unemployment and the deregulated economy of 1970s Britain, a young urban guerrilla group mobilises: The Angry Brigade. Their targets:...