"Today it is widely believed that feminism has achieved its aims, and that women and men have achieved equality. This, quite simply, is an illusion. Women working full time in the UK are paid on avera
With their tidal imagination, the poems in this debut collection sweep between old worlds and new, seeking the lost and recovering the found among shipwrecks, underwater zoos and discovered lands.
Cardiff East 'As scene melts into scene, onea?Ts appetite for knowing more and more about these people is constantly whetted, even for the ones one would avoid in real life.
A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the Mediterranean - an epic five hundred year voyage that
Inspector Pekkala - known as the Emerald Eye - was the most famous detective in all Russia. His mission - to uncover the men who really killed the Tsar and his family, and to locate the Tsar's treasur
Nothing is more important to a modern political party than fund-raising. But the values of the donors can't always coincide with the professed beliefs of the party. This ensemble play about British pu
Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since Public Property in 2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer other lives and a
The Unnamable - so named because he knows not who he may be - is from a nameless place. He speaks of previous selves ('all these Murphys, Molloys, and Malones...') as diversions from the need to stop
Across the following fifteen years he tries to cope with the ramifications of the tragic accident that tore his family apart and shattered their small American dream. Adam Rapp's Nocturne received i
Offers a variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer other lives and a shared humanity - exploring how people cope with threats to and in the world around them
This is the last of three volumes of collected shorter prose to be published in the Faber edition of the works of Samuel Beckett - which already includes a volume of early stories (The Expelled/The Ca
'Malone', writes Malone, 'is what I am called now.' On his deathbed, and wiling away the time with stories, the octogenarian Malone's account of his condition is intermittent and contradictory, shifti
In his new book of adventures, Tim the tiny horse has to deal with some BIG things. He falls in love for the first time with a lady fly who doesn't appreciate him, so he acquires a pet greenfly (calle
Journalist Lara and her ex-MP and crime-writer husband Richard are happy and successful. Having moved to a fashionable gated community they invite their old neighbours Caitlin and Joe to dinner. When
Fresh out of college and uncertain how to proceed with life, the narrator of Ben Markovits' Playing Days finds himself drifting towards a career that once obsessed his father - professional basketball
General Pandemonium's back and he's badder than ever. Disguised as pop singer Andy Dandy he's out to brainwash the world with his hypnotic songs and turn everyone into a bunch of bamboozled break-da
