Bloomsbury

Across Belfast the Loyalist community is steadying itself for the orgiastic drug-fest that is the sacred and glorious Twelfth of July. As "The Boney" looms larger day by day, UDA wannabes are drawn like moths to a flame. Up in the flats, hardman Tommy thinks Leanne is more like his ma than his sister, but in her head Leanne is anything but...

In 1300, the French region of Languedoc had been cowed under the authority of both Rome and France since Pope Innocent III ’s Albigensian Crusade nearly a century earlier. That crusade almost wiped out the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians whose beliefs threatened the authority of the Catholic Church. But decades of harrowing...

An introduction to the Stations of the Cross and Resurrection is followed by a complete set of reflections on the Stations, written by well-known contributors from public life: those who have made the headlines, those who write the headlines and those who reflect on the headlines in their sermons and in the broadcast media. Contributors include Ann...

Now in its third edition, this useful guide outlines the techniques needed to achieve success in the challenging process of getting work. It covers all aspects of casting, including gaining a place on a drama course, landing a part in film, TV, commercials or theatre, and becoming a radio or TV presenter. Updated and revised throughout, the book...

El Marini just isn146;t fitting into the new life she146;s been forced to create without her dad. Her mom and sister have accepted his absence and moved on, but El is convinced things will get back to normal if she just keeps her feelings of loss to herself and waits it out. Life at her new public school would have been unbearable if weren146;t for...

Meet the Mudcrusts! Lowbrow Mudcrust is the lumbering, lazy head of thefamily, who is happiest when he is squelching his toes in the slime.That doesn’t stop his wife Flora from nagging him and reminding himthat he’s not the chief of the tribe. Their two children, Bogweed andFungus, are always fighting. Although Fungus doesn’t have...