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Malcolm Tennyson commits the perfect white-collar crime, but little does he realize that his own, estranged son will become both his unwitting accomplice and the catalyst for his ultimate demise. From the wintry suburbs of London to the vibrant cities of the Pacific Northwest, this is the story of man and boy running from an unfulfilled past to a calamitous future.
Major Barker's dog, Sapper, is a problem. His endless barking is driving the whole neighborhood crazy. Next door, the Christmas's cat is determined to do something about it. But who will take a cat called Mouse seriously? The only one who can help Mouse become the local hero is Cymbelina, the bewitching, bad-tempered cat at the antique store. But Mouse soon learns that everything comes at a price.
Despising the corporeal communality, the prying of the psychiatrist and the cloying affections of the ugliest inmate in the Institution, the prisoner effects his escape. Irreverent, snide and amoral, the prisoner, throughout his fast-paced and Kafkaesque adventures, treats all, including the reader, with equal contempt.
A Liverpudlian West Side Story, Blood Brothers is the story of twin brothers separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. One of them is given away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath. Blood Brothers was first performed at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1983 and subsequently transferred to the Lyric Theatre, London. It was revived in the West End in 1988 for a long-running production and opened on Broadway in 1993.
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Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume discusses the development of the Atlantic slave trade in the seventeenth century, looking at issues such as how African societies reacted to the trade; the economic origins of black slavery in the British West Indies; and the growth of plantations responding to changes in European diet – particularly the rise of the sugar economy. The volume also has an introduction by the editor commenting on the contribution each essay makes.
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