Set in the appropriately Gothic surroundings of contemporary Edinburgh, Shallow Grave presents a trio of affluent characters whose feckless lives are disrupted when they discover the corpse of their r
But can Mike ever overcome his low self-esteem, accept Trent's assurance that he's 'a big winner', and so woo and win his true love?This volume also includes The Swingers Rules - a concise lesson in t
A loner, Travis Bickle takes up driving a taxi in search of an escape from his sleeplessness and his disgust with the corruption he finds around him. His pent-up rage, fuelled by his doomed relationsh
A literary jeu d'esprit, a modern-day Tristram Shandy, a hilarious satire on false scholarship, Wilson is David Mamet at his best and most mischievous. When the internet - and the collective memory of
The most popular series of movies in the history of cinema, the Star Wars trilogy altered forever our notion of what the movies could do. Return of the Jedi is the trilogy's concluding section.
Maturity, responsibility and real red-blooded women are the challenges they truly fear. Like the other two entries in Barry Levinson's 'Baltimore trilogy' (Tin Men and Avalon), Diner is a satisfying
Adapted by the author from his autobiographic memoir, The Lady in the Van tells the story of Miss Mary Shepherd, whom Alan Bennett first came across when she was living in the street near his home in
The short stories in this collection are spread over landscapes ranging from northern California and the urban Southwest to the hills of eastern Kentucky and the Caribbean island of St Lucia.
In these five stories, prototypes from the ancient world cast a shadow over our age. Cupid and Psyche, Penelope, Oedipus, Icarus and Odysseus inhabit the consciousness of characters who wrestle with b
Elia Kazan is the director responsible for films such as On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata! and East of Eden, to name but a few. With Marlon Brando and James Dean he inaugurated
It is the summer of 1973, and 12-year-old James Gillespie lives with this family in a Glasgow project, which is becoming increasingly squalid as a garbagemen's strike wears on.While at play one day, J
A journey covering hundreds of miles and ending in a divine miracle. Using all the storytelling magic associated with Young Vic productions such as Grimm Tales and More Grimm Tales, David Farr breat
Over the next thirty years, his life there will be dominated by three women. In this funny and touching new play, we see behind the facade of 'the Bard of Humberside' and into his complex private li
After writing a monologue on the subject of Israel and Palestine, David Hare forced himself to make his debut on the professional stage at the age of fifty-one. When his success at London's austere Ro
Steven Soderbergh and Richard Lester are a generation apart, but they share the infectious passage of cinephilia. Soderbergh's freshman effort as a writer-director, sex, lies, and videotape, inaugurat
Returning to the States, Jimmy joins a professional wrestling troupe, embarking on a career that takes him to the pinnacle of International World Wrestling, bringing him fame and fortune and introduci
Echoing one of the great Spanish poets of the twentieth century, the author crafts a series of beautiful poems that document his spiritual journey while at the same time paying homage to the style of
The powerful and deeply moving work of the Serbian poet Aleksandar Ristovíc, published for the first time in the United states.Make me a long coat of heavy cloth, tailor,the kind that won't fray,and o
An extraordinary 'prayer experiment' is under way in the United States. The participants are 1200 heart surgery patients, who know that they may, or may not, be prayed for by volunteers. In fact exact
The Mrs Power referred to in the title of Fergus Allen's new collection is just one of the vividly realized figures, many of them female, who inhabit the Ireland of its author's childhood and continui
Narcotics, stimulants and hallucinogens ... these drugs have always affected far more than the perceptions, minds and moods of their users. Writing on Drugs explores the profound and pervasive nature
Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age. This biography traces Elizabeth's youth in rural Knutsford, her married years in the tension-ridden city of Manchester an
Her originality lay in her very particular way of looking at the world: she seems never to have lost the fanciful and undaunted habit of questioning and noticing things that she had when young. This
