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Dreams and Realities
The official biography of one of the most influential theatre directors in the twentieth century.
Joan Littlewood: Dreams and Realities
The Official Biography by Peter Rankin ‘My only gift is to grow a show,’ said Joan Littlewood, annoyed by what she had not achieved. Even so, her ability to do just that put her and her company, Theatre Workshop, head and shoulders above mid twentieth-century theatre. In the year when she would have been a hundred, which includes three revivals and a commemorative stamp, Peter Rankin, who worked with Joan for 38 years and in whose flat she died, takes the papers she left him and goes back to the beginning. As she told him: ‘You know me better than I know myself.’ Drawing on Littlewood's personal archive, Joan Littlewood: Dreams and Realities observes at close hand one of the most inf...
DIS Book 1 The Journeys of Peter Simon and Beatrice Rankin
Peter Simon a Christian welfare worker is wracked by anger, guilt and fear induced by the reemergence of a childhood nightmare. He is beset by doubts and the futility of his vocation, even the loss of faith, when he meets Beatrice Rankin on a stretch of highway. Driving to her camp, they survive a plunge through the surface of a road hundreds of metres below ground. Trapped, they discover a huge bored hole down in the earth which is their only means of escape. Descending, they are nearly killed by blasting snow and ice. Finding a side passage they enter a bewildering and extensive series of tunnels. It is there that they meet an evil being: Elymas, Lord of Dis. They are told by Elymas that t...
Stealing the Trees
After his abusive father attacked his mother, Patrick Liam "Plod" O'Driscoll hit him just a little too hard, accidentally killing him. He ended up in prison for six years, and now that he's out, he's ready to begin a new life in a remote area of New Zealand's North Island. But it seems Plod can't escape his violent past, and his dream of a rural paradise is soon disrupted. His only friend, a recluse called Dunny, suffers a brutal attack and dies of his wounds. His last words are puzzling: they're stealing the trees. Plod doesn't know if the message was the result of delusion, or if Dunny was really trying to tell him something. When the police call Plod in, he thinks it's about his parole, b...
Victor Spinetti Up Front...
Described by Sir Paul McCartney as "the man who makes clouds disappear", Victor Spinetti is one of Britain’s best-loved and most outrageous performers. He became known to the Sixties generation through his comedic roles in the landmark Beatles films and the now classic Return of the Pink Panther, starring Peter Sellers, and his remarkable wit and versatility has earned him fresh popularity with every generation since. A veteran stage actor, writer and director, Spinetti gives us an irresistible account of his own life, from his Welsh-Italian upbringing to his role as one of the few trusted friends of the Beatles – they insisted he was in every film they made – through to his recent por...
In the Nick of Time
In this original short story from the New York Times bestselling thriller anthology FaceOff, internationally bestselling authors Ian Rankin and Peter James - along with their most famous characters, John Rebus and Roy Grace - team up for the first time ever. Detectives John Rebus and Roy Grace could not be more different. Different generations, different backgrounds, and not to mention the fact that they work 500 miles apart. The case that eventually brings them together centres on a crime that happened when Rebus was just a teenager in the 1960s - but it took place in Roy Grace's stomping grounds in Brighton, England, at a time when violence erupted between rival gangs known as Mods and Rockers. Now, a deathbed confession in in Edinburgh brings Rebus and Grace together to investigate a cold case with a shocking twist. For more exciting short story pairings, don't miss all eleven short stories in Face Off!
Visually Hungry
This unique book draws together two decades' worth of work by the ubiquitous British photographer Rankin. Acting as a retrospective, Visually Hungry documents the iconic creative genius throughout an extraordinary career in which he has shot many of the world's leading personalities, models and celebrities. This collection spans Rankin's extensive back catalogue, including seminal work from his early career, right through to his era-defining portraiture, genre-challenging fashion and his impossibly erotic nudes. It is - in short - a selection of Rankin's favourites.
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