Bloomsbury

Read an extract from The Big Why here.Michael Winter’s powerful new novel, The Big Why, brilliantly fictionalizes a pivotal year in the life of celebrated American artist Rockwell Kent. In 1914, at the age of thirty, Kent decides to escape the superficial world of New York City and move to Brigus, Newfoundland, with his wife and three children...

Every film development executive says they’re looking for original stories. Maverick Screenwriting will teach you how to play with advanced narrative techniques - time, logic and reality - that change the way we look at the world. Discover the techniques that give films like The Matrix, The Truman Show and Avatar an original twist. You will...

Written in 1864 and set during the Irish rebellion of1798,Arrah na Pogueisis an entertainingtale of romance and misadventure with rascally rebels,despicable villains andlove struck youths. As night falls on the Wicklow mountains, the popularbut incorrigible rebel Beamish MacCaul is lying in wait. He’s out to ambush the cowardly rent-collector...

Shakespeare's King LearThis close study of film adaptations of King Lear looks atseveral different versions (mainstream, art-house and cinematic`offshoots’) and discusses: the literary text in its historicalcontext, key themes and dominant readings of the text, how the text isadapted for screen and how adaptations have changed our reading of...

A Book Sense Fall 2005 History Channel Top Ten Pick Paul Collins combines present-day travelogue with an odyssey down the forgotten paths of history as he searches for the physical remains of founding father Thomas Paine. Paine's missing body, like a saint's relics, has been scattered in pieces around the world over the last two centuries-a...

Schizoanalytic Cartographies represents Felix Guattari's most important later work and the most systematic and detailed account of his theoretical position and his therapeutic ideas. Guattari sets out to provide a complete account of the conditions of 'enunciation' - autonomous speech and self-expression - for subjects in the contemporary world....