Bloomsbury

David Gilbert’s dark and daring collection of stories was admitted by critics and readers alike when first published in 1998. Now available in a new paperback edition, Gilbert’s stories stretch from war-torn Bosnia to a college sorority house to kill-or-be-killed Hollywood. Gilbert’s bold prose and perceptive wit paint a devastating...

The 1980sModern British Playwriting: The 1980s equips readers with a fresh assessment of the theatre and principle playwrights and plays from a decade when political and economic forces were changing society dramatically. It offers a broad survey of the context and of the playwrights and companies such as Complicite and DV8 that rose to prominence...

Jake Wells has uncovered the shadowy and mysterious Order of Malichea. He has - briefly - had in his possession an ancient book belonging to the Order. However, other agencies are also desperate to get hold of the book and the knowledge it contains. Jake finds himself forced to give up the book, and then his girlfriend, Lauren, is blackmailed and...

Even from the grave, Hugo Arlington has the power to destroy people. His widow, Alice, is not the only person to be haunted by the celebrated writer’s death and life, and gradually the truth about the dangerous games Hugo played comes to light - and the past comes catching up with the present. Set amidst the gaudy wastes of Los Angeles, West...

This book offers a new approach to the study of Homeric epic by combining ancient Greek perceptions of Homer with up-to-date scholarship on traditional poetry. Part I argues that, in the archaic period, the Greeks saw the lliad and Odyssey neither as literary works in the modern sense nor as the products of oral poetry. Instead, they regarded them...

Susan Nagel, author of the critically acclaimed biography Mistress of the Elgin Marbles, turns her attention to the life of a remarkable woman who both defined and shaped an era, the tumultuous last days of the crumbling ancien regime. Nagel brings the formidable Marie-Therese to life, along with the age of revolution and the waning days of the...