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The History of Newgate Prison
A history of the iconic London prison, featuring insights on daily life, the evolution of prison systems, and famous inmates. As the place where prisoners, male and female, awaited trial, execution, or transportation Newgate was Britain’s most feared gaol for over 700 years. It probably best known today from the novels of Charles Dickens including Barnaby Rudge and Great Expectations. But there is much is more to Newgate than nineteenth century notoriety. In the seventeenth century it saw the exploits of legendary escaper and thief Jack Sheppard. Among its most famous inmates were author Daniel Defoe who was imprisoned there for seditious libel, playwright Ben Jonson for murder, and the Ca...
1965
There is Britain before 1965 and Britain after 1965 - and they are not the same thing. 1965 was the year Britain democratised education, it was the year pop culture began to be taken as seriously as high art, the time when comedians and television shows imported the methods of modernism into their work. It was when communications across the Atlantic became instantaneous, the year when, for the first time in a century, British artists took American gallery-goers by storm. In 1965 the Beatles proved that rock and roll could be art, it was when we went car crazy, and craziness was held to be the only sane reaction to an insane society. It was the year feminism went mainstream, the year, did she...
Making Oscar Wilde
Packed with new evidence, Making Oscar Wilde tells the untold story of a local Irish eccentric who became a global cultural icon. This must-read book dramatizes Oscar Wilde's remarkable rise in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Michèle Mendelssohn interweaves biography and social history to reveal a life like no other.
The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson
No major author worked in more genres than Samuel Johnson--essays, poetry, fiction, criticism, biography, scholarly editing, lexicography, translation, sermons, journalism. His works are more extensive than those of any other canonical English writer, and no earlier writer's life was documented as thoroughly by contemporaries. Because it's so difficult to know him thoroughly, people have made do with surrogates and simplifications. But Johnson was much more complicated than the popular image of 'Dr. Johnson' suggests: socially conservative but also one of the most radical abolitionists of his age, a firm believer in social hierarchy but an outspoken supporter of women intellectuals, an uncom...
The Tough Alchemy of Ben Okri
Ben Okri's aphorisms : 'Music on the wings of a soaring bird' -- Epistemic ecology and the 'diminishing boundaries of a shrinking world' in 'Heraclitus' Golden River' from Wild -- Ontopoiesis in Okri's poetic oeuvre and A Time for New Dreams -- Recovering our true state of being in 'The Comic Destiny' -- Apologia pro In Arcadia : A neglected masterpiece? -- 'Domesticating infinity' in Mental Fight and Astonishing the Gods -- Redreaming ways of seeing : Intuitive creativity in The Landscapes Within -- Promoting the poetic cause in 'stokus' from Tales of Freedom -- Sowing 'a quilt of harmony' : Eco-phenomenology in 'Lines in Potentis' -- 'A clear lucid stream of everywhereness' in Wild : A pos...
Recipes from an Edwardian Country House
-Originally published in Great Britain by Short Books in 2007 as The good granny cookbook: traditional favourites for modern families.---T.p. verso.
Occupied
A darkly comic play about immigration and identity in crisis by playwright Carla Grauls, winner of the Nick Darke Award 2013.
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I and The Village
So maybe I just want to opt out you know? Maybe I don't to be part of the master plan. The big assembly line in the sky. Summer in small-town America. Aimee Stright wants to be Banksy in a town that hates vandals. As outsiders investigate what happened on the day she walked into a church with a gun, it seems Aimee is one against the world and the world wants to know why. Shortlisted for the Bruntwood Playwriting Prize, I And The Village is a coming-of-age story that asks pointed questions about conformity, dissent and America's devotion to guns. The play received its world premiere at Theatre503, London, on 9 June 2015.
Animals
'I want shocks! I’ve heard they are fun and a lot of blood rushes to your head.' 77-year-old Norma is having a tricky day. She can’t finish the crossword and Joy keeps stealing her recliner. Not to mention Helen next door has twisted her ankle falling from a weather balloon, they’ve run out of Class A drugs and the Utility Inspector just popped round to see if it’s time for her involuntary euthanasia... Animals is a wicked satire set in a world where everyone over 60 is tossed on the scrapheap, children are hothoused, and being a ‘burden on society’ is the ultimate crime.
