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Angles
An anthology of Speculative Fiction featuring authors/stories based in East Anglia.
The Dark Half of the Year
A collection of 18 ghost tales set in the winter holidays
Challenger Unbound
In these twelve stories you have it all: from Simon Kurt Unsworth's gripping tale to Paul Lewis's eerie Cthulhuic River of Bones, the diabolic The Damnation Gate to a blood-curdling yarn from Ian Millsted. There is sci-fi to steampunk; taking Professor George Edward Challenger from before The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle to stories beyond When the World Screamed... There are stories for the purists, like Challenger and The Isle Out of Time, to those who want to rip up the canon with Tom English's Challenger of Two Worlds. What has been cared for is the central characters - these are the heroes of Arthur Conan Doyle. Flawed and preposterous as only they can be and brave and quick witted in turn. Challenger, with or without his companions, is ready for all the adventure he can get his hands on, but are you?
Black Orchid
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Ian McKellen
'[A] fascinating voyage round McKellen' Simon Callow, Guardian 'Surely the definitive McKellen biography' Alexander Larman, Observer 'A well-researched, eminently readable book' Benedict Nightingale, The Times Few actors achieve in their lifetime what Sir Ian McKellen has. A repertoire of vast commercial success coupled with critically acclaimed and authoritative Shakespearian roles. A man whose achievements inspire both admiration and affection. McKellen has been feted and admired in every country across the globe, and has been knighted by, and received the Companionship of Honour from Queen Elizabeth II. He is an icon of, and ardent campaigner in the cause for LGBT rights. Many of us know ...
This Charming Man
The first life of the man who was Lord Peter Wimsey, Bertie Wooster and starred in I’m Alright, Jack! With the death of Ian Carmichael in 2010 one of the last links was lost with the golden age of British cinema. Carmichael starred alongside Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers in the Boulting brothers’ classic satirical comedies I’m Alright, Jack! Private’s Progress and School for Scoundrels. He summed up, on screen and in life, the kind of Englishman who was beginning to emerge after the war – educated, not necessarily upper class, upwardly mobile and a study in good manners and a sense of fair play – and thus played the straight-man foil to the distracted ravings of his wilder co-stars. Subsequently, he became Bertie Wooster in a highly successful television series based on P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves stories. He also made the part of Lord Peter Wimsey his own in another long-running adaptation of Dorothy L. Sayers’ famous detective novels, and was still acting on television well into his eighties alongside Susan Hampshire in ITV’s drama series The Royal.
Conversations with Ian McEwan
Over thirty years of interviews with the British author of such highly praised novels at Enduring Love, Atonement, Saturday, and On Chesil Beach
Remnants of an Empire
When Zambia became Independent in 1964, the white colonial population did not suddenly evaporate. Some had supported Independence, others had virulently opposed it, but all had to reappraise their nationality, residence and careers. A few became Zambian citizens and many more chose to stay while without committing themselves. But most of the colonial population eventually trickled out of the country to start again elsewhere. Pamela Charmer-Smith has traced survivors of this population to discover how new lives where constructed and new perspectives generated. Her account draws on the power of postcolonial memory to understand the many ways that copper miners, district officers, school-children and housewives became the empires relics. Her work is not that of a dispassionate outsider but of one who grew up in Northern Rhodesia, knew its colonial population and has considerable affection for Zambia.
