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The Set-Up
Originally published in 1973, this book investigates the power and the pressures behind English theatre in the late 20th Century, analysing its structure and systems, and the way that money and motives flow through it. On the one hand there are the organisations: the big national companies, the West End managements, the regional repertory theatres, the ‘fringe’ groups, the trade unions, the Arts Council. On the other are the individuals: actors, directors, playwrights, agents, administrators. Ronald Hayman’s challenging book illuminates the conflicts and contradictions in the set-up. It is a mine of information about how theatres are run, how shows pay their way, and what happens when they don’t.
The Inorganic
From the end of the Second World War to the 21st century, a British research establishment secretly achieves the invention of a being that is not human. M16 agent Sean Heyward uncovers the secret experiment and finds that the original mandate was to create a sinister defensive weapon.
The Expert Witness in Construction Disputes
The role of the expert witness has long been important in construction litigation and arbitration and most other types of dispute resolution. Today there is a heavier burden on experts because of the diversity of the appropriate dispute process and the added responsibility this brings. The Woolf reforms and the introduction of the Civil Procedure Rules are having a major impact on the role of the expert witnesses. No longer is the expert accountable just to the client but directly owes a duty to the court. In the smaller value claim a new opportunity of acting as single joint expert arises where the parties can save time and money. There is greater flexibility in arbitration under the Arbitr...
Unlawful Intent
Qwerty Smith has been a hero and law-abiding citizen, but in attempts to save lives during an earlier period, he has brought confusion and upset people in power. Unknown to him, a hidden and mysterious menace lies in wait to destroy his life. His family life is taken away when his wife, Pamela, begins a campaign to remove him from their marital home. Why is she doing it and what can he do to stop her? When the unaccountable accusations of domestic violence start, Qwerty is barred from his home. With no options available to him, he finds he has no choice but to live rough. He is forbidden to go near Pamela, his home or their young daughter. With no help from his church or Dorothy, his Guardia...
Ubiquitous Man
A vivid and mesmerising high-tech thriller that speculates on the field of commercial teleportation. The year is 2104 and the teleportation of people from one continent to another has become an expensive and controversial reality. Hotshot salesman Guy Rennix of UK firm Tempus Biotronics is offered a business trip from London to New York, travelling via the ultimate mode of transport. Soon after his arrival in the States, Guy is plunged into a mystery that threatens not only his freedom but also his life. GTP, the multibillion-dollar conglomerate that delivers teleportation, appears to be the source of the problem. Guy decides to risk everything by staying in New York alone to search for answers. As he edges nearer to what seems an impossible truth, the revelations start piling up until eventually Guy reaches a discovery of monumental proportions.
Very Curious and Capricious Agent
On a hot August day in 1871, all appears normal in a small busy market town in Suffolk, when disaster strikes, and many lives are lost, other changed forever, and vital questions remain unanswered.
Criminal Sentences
A study of the influence of true crime on fiction and drama. The book begins by defining the genre and then traces its history from the anonymous 16th-centruy play Arden of Faversham to the modern detective novel.
Rocket's Trail
That 'one small step for man' in July 1969 was made possible by a small group of Germans captured by the Americans at the end of WWII. "e;The Rocket's Trail"e; is about one of these men, his direct links to crimes against humanity, and how US Cold War Warriors went to extreme lengths to cover them up. The story is revealed through the eyes of Jim Black, an English scientist drafted in to the secret post-war intellectual reparations programme. Black's personal ambition leads him into a deception that denies the German rocket scientists to Britain and delivers them to America. Black joins them there but when he discovers the truth about one of his new colleagues, he must choose between his new career and complicity in covering up unimaginable crimes. Can he find redemption, and what price must he pay as Washington sets about suppressing the barbaric back-story of one of their prize rocket scientists? "e;The Rocket's Trail"e; blends a fictional hero with real historical figures including Wernher von Braun, J. Edgar Hoover, Eli Rosenbaum, and Arthur Rudolph, the Director of the Saturn rocket programme and the only former Nazi eventually expelled from America.
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