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Final Acts - Theatrical Mysteries (Paperback): Martin Edwards Final Acts - Theatrical Mysteries (Paperback)
Martin Edwards
R345 R284 Discovery Miles 2 840 Save R61 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Behind the stage lights and word-perfect soliloquies, sinister secrets are lurking in the wings. The mysteries in this collection reveal the dark side to theatre and performing arts: a world of backstage dealings, where unscrupulous actors risk everything to land a starring role, costumed figures lead to mistaken identities, and on-stage deaths begin to look a little too convincing. . . This expertly curated thespian anthology features fourteen stories from giants of the classic crime genre such as Dorothy L. Sayers, Julian Symons and Ngaio Marsh, as well as firm favourites from the British Library Crime Classics series: Anthony Wynne, Christianna Brand, Bernard J. Farmer and many more. Mysteries abound when a player's fate hangs on a single performance, and opening night may very well be their last.

The Nanny (Paperback): Melissa Nathan The Nanny (Paperback)
Melissa Nathan
R398 R331 Discovery Miles 3 310 Save R67 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Twenty-three-year-old Jo Green knows that if she has to spend one more night in ultra-provincial Niblet-Upon-Avon she'll go completely bonkers! So she answers an ad in the paper, bids her devoted boyfriend Shaun adieu, and heads off to the big city. With a new job that offers excitement; a cool car; and her own suite with a TV, DVD player, and a cell phone, how can she go wrong?

Then she meets . . . the Fitzgeralds -- Dick and Vanessa and their unruly brood of rugrats who have suddenly been entrusted into Jo's care. There's eight-year-old "psycho-babe" Cassandra; bloodthirsty Zak, the six-year-old Terminator; and timid little Tallulah.

So what else could go wrong? How about the arrival of Dick's children from his first marriage: teenage Toby and (gulp!) all-grown-up-and-very-nicely-at-that Josh the accountant? And now that she has to temporarily share her room with Josh, Jo's head is really in a spin -- because with her hometown beau still in the picture and a sexy possibility sleeping just a foot away, life has suddenly gotten very complicated indeed!

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, The Major Authors (Paperback, Tenth Edition): Stephen Greenblatt The Norton Anthology of English Literature, The Major Authors (Paperback, Tenth Edition)
Stephen Greenblatt
R1,173 Discovery Miles 11 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The most-trusted and best-selling anthology continues to set the bar with a vibrant revision of the Major Authors Edition. Major Authors offers new complete major works, new contemporary writers, and new dynamic and convenient digital resources. Now the Norton is an even better teaching tool and, as ever, an unmatched value for students.

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury: Greatest Closing Arguments in Modern Law (Paperback, 1st Touchstone Ed): Michael S Lief, H.... Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury: Greatest Closing Arguments in Modern Law (Paperback, 1st Touchstone Ed)
Michael S Lief, H. Mitchell Caldwell, Benjamin Bycel
R557 R471 Discovery Miles 4 710 Save R86 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Until now, only the twelve jurors who sat in judgment were able to appreciate these virtuoso performances, where weeks of testimony were boiled down and presented with flair, wit, and high drama. For five years the authors researched every archive from those of the "L.A. Times" to the dusty stacks of the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and readers can now lose themselves in the summations of America's finest litigators.

Clarence Darrow saves Leopold and Loeb from the gallows in the Roaring Twenties. Gerry Spence takes on the nuclear power industry for the death of Karen Silkwood in a modern-day David and Goliath struggle. Vincent Bugliosi squares off against the madness of Charles Manson and his murderous "family" in the aftermath of their bloody spree. Clara Foltz, the first woman to practice law in California, argues passionately to an all-male jury, defending her place in the courtroom. Bobby DeLaughter brings the killer of civil-rights leader Medgar Evers to justice after thirty years and two mistrials. Aubrey Daniel brings Lt. William Calley, Jr., to justice for the My Lai massacre. William Kunstler challenges the establishment after the '68 Chicago riots in his defense of yippie leaders known as the Chicago Seven.

Each closing argument is put into context by the authors, who provide historical background, a brief biography of each attorney, and commentary, pointing out the trial tactics used to great effect by the lawyers, all in language that is jargon-free for the benefit of the lay reader.

The Trouble with Parallel Universes - New Writing from Roehampton (Paperback): Leone Ross, Louise Tondeur, Susan Greenberg The Trouble with Parallel Universes - New Writing from Roehampton (Paperback)
Leone Ross, Louise Tondeur, Susan Greenberg
R302 Discovery Miles 3 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures - The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, Volume 1... The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures - The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, Volume 1 (Paperback)
William Hope Hodgson
R696 R588 Discovery Miles 5 880 Save R108 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Available for the first time in trade paperback, the first of five volumes collecting the complete fiction of William Hope Hodgson, an influential early twentieth-century author of science fiction, horror, and the fantastic. William Hope Hodgson was, like his contemporaries Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen, one of the most important, prolific, and influential fantasists of the early twentieth century. His dark and unsettling short stories and novels were shaped in large part by personal experience (a professional merchant mariner for much of his life, many of Hodgson's tales are set at sea), and his work evokes a disturbing sense of the amorphous and horrific unknown. While his nautical adventure fiction was very popular during his lifetime, the supernatural and cosmic horror he is most remembered for only became well known after his death, mainly due to the efforts of writers like H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, who often praised his work and cited it as an influence on their own. By the later half of the twentieth century, it was only his weird fiction that remained in print, and his vast catalog of non-supernatural stories was extremely hard to find. Night Shade Books's five-volume series presents all of Hodgson's unique and timeless fiction. Each volume contains one of Hodgson's novels, along with a selection of thematically-linked short fiction, including a number of works reprinted for the first time since their original publication. The first of the five-volume set, The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures, collects all of Hodgson's series nautical fiction, including the Sargasso Sea Story cycle. The Complete Fiction of William Hope Hodgson is published by Night Shade Books in the following volumes: The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures The House on the Borderland and Other Mysterious Places The Ghost Pirates and Other Revenants of the Sea The Night Land and Other Romances The Dream of X and Other Fantastic Visions

The Wandering Earth (Paperback): Cixin Liu The Wandering Earth (Paperback)
Cixin Liu
R568 R447 Discovery Miles 4 470 Save R121 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ghost - 100 Stories to Read with the Lights On (Paperback, Reissue): Louise Welsh Ghost - 100 Stories to Read with the Lights On (Paperback, Reissue)
Louise Welsh
R450 R356 Discovery Miles 3 560 Save R94 (21%) In Stock

A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology collection of 100 scary stories to read with the lights on, selected and introduced by award-winning author Louise Welsh. Haunted houses, mysterious counts, weeping widows and restless souls, here is the definitive anthology of all that goes bump in the night. Hand-picked by award-winning author Louise Welsh, this beautiful collection of 100 ghost stories will delight, unnerve, and entertain any fiction lover brave enough... Here are gothic classics, modern masters, Booker Prize-winners, ancient folk tales and stylish noirs, proving that every writer has a skeleton or two in their closet. The all-star cast of authors inlude: Hilary Mantel, William Faulkner, Kate Atkinson, Henry James, Kazuo Ishiguro, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Franz Kafka, Ruth Rendell, Edgar Allan Poe, William Trevor, Helen Simpson, Haruki Murakami, Dylan Thomas, Bram Stoker, H.P. Lovecraft, Lydia Davis, Sir Walter Scott, Annie Proulx, Bram Stoker, Angela Carter and Stephen King.

Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 2 (Paperback, None ed.): Steve Proposch, Christopher Sequiera, Bryce Stevens Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 2 (Paperback, None ed.)
Steve Proposch, Christopher Sequiera, Bryce Stevens; Introduction by Peter Rawlik
R430 R366 Discovery Miles 3 660 Save R64 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, The Major Authors (Paperback, Tenth Edition): Stephen Greenblatt The Norton Anthology of English Literature, The Major Authors (Paperback, Tenth Edition)
Stephen Greenblatt
R1,169 Discovery Miles 11 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The most-trusted and best-selling anthology continues to set the bar with a vibrant revision of the Major Authors Edition. Major Authors offers new complete major works, new contemporary writers, and new dynamic and convenient digital resources. Now the Norton is an even better teaching tool and, as ever, an unmatched value for students.

Married in Texas (Paperback, Original ed.): Debbie Macomber Married in Texas (Paperback, Original ed.)
Debbie Macomber
R272 R229 Discovery Miles 2 290 Save R43 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The End of the Story - The Collected Fantasies, Vol. 1 (Paperback): Clark Ashton Smith The End of the Story - The Collected Fantasies, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
Clark Ashton Smith
R491 R413 Discovery Miles 4 130 Save R78 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Scene Book for Actors - Great Monologues and Dialogues from Contemporary and Classical Theatre (Paperback, 1st ed): Norman Bert Scene Book for Actors - Great Monologues and Dialogues from Contemporary and Classical Theatre (Paperback, 1st ed)
Norman Bert
R535 R447 Discovery Miles 4 470 Save R88 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Somewhere in this book is one or several perfect monologs or dialogs for your audition, Short cuttings from some of the very best plays in theatre yesterday and today. All selections are by leading international playwrights: Pinter, Goldsmith, lonesco, Marnet and many more. Powerful moments. Some soft and quiet. Others strident and commanding. The choices are many. The book explains how to find the right audition monolog for your voice, your face, your style, your stage persona. Valuable tips on how to develop your audition monolog for performance and how to build a systematic file of scenes for your personal working repertoire. Featuring scenes from: John Pielmeier's Agnes of God, Harold Pinter's Family Voices, G.B. Trudeau's Doonesbury, Eugene lonesco's Man with Bags, Larry Shue's The Nerd, David Mamet's The Hat and many, many more.

Kink (Paperback): R. O. Kwon, Garth Greenwell Kink (Paperback)
R. O. Kwon, Garth Greenwell
R270 R220 Discovery Miles 2 200 Save R50 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'This anthology of literary fiction features an all-star ensemble' Cosmopolitan 'A reflective and must-read collection' Stylist Kink is a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring love and desire, BDSM, and interests across the sexual spectrum, edited by lauded writers R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, and featuring a roster of all-star contributors including Alexander Chee, Roxane Gay, Carmen Maria Machado, and more. Kink is a dynamic anthology of literary fiction that opens an imaginative door into the world of desire. The stories within this collection portray love, desire, BDSM, and sexual kinks in all their glory with a bold new vision. The collection includes works by renowned fiction writers such as Callum Angus, Alexander Chee, Vanessa Clark, Melissa Febos, Kim Fu, Roxane Gay, Cara Hoffman, Zeyn Joukhadar, Chris Kraus, Carmen Maria Machado, Peter Mountford, Larissa Pham, and Brandon Taylor, with Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon as editors. The stories within explore bondage, power-play, and submissive-dominant relationships; we are taken to private estates, therapists' offices, underground sex clubs, private estates, and even a Victorian-era sex theater. While there are whips and chains, sure, the true power of these stories lies in their beautiful, moving dispatches from across the sexual spectrum of interest and desires, as portrayed by some of today's most exciting writers.

Stories and Prose Poems (Paperback): Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Stories and Prose Poems (Paperback)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Translated by Michael Glenny
R415 R343 Discovery Miles 3 430 Save R72 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A new edition of the Russian Nobelist's collection of novellas, short stories, and prose poems
"Stories and Prose Poems" contains twenty-two works of widely varied style and character from the Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. These shorter pieces demonstrate the extraordinary mastery of language that places Solzhenitsyn among the greatest Russian prose writers of the twentieth century.
When the two superb stories "Matryona's House" and "An Incident at Krechetovka Station" were first published in Russia in 1963, the Moscow "Literary Gazette," the mouthpiece of the Soviet literary establishment, wrote: "His talent is so individual and so striking that from now on nothing that comes from his pen can fail to excite the liveliest interest."
For some readers the most exciting discovery will be the astonishing group of sixteen prose poems. In these works of varying lengths, Solzhenitsyn has distilled the joy and bitterness of Russia's fate into language of unrivaled lyrical purity.

A Lake District Christmas - Tales and traditions of Cumbrian Yuletides past (Hardcover): Alan Cleaver A Lake District Christmas - Tales and traditions of Cumbrian Yuletides past (Hardcover)
Alan Cleaver
R296 Discovery Miles 2 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Best American Travel Writing 2021 (Paperback): Padma Lakshmi, Jason Wilson Best American Travel Writing 2021 (Paperback)
Padma Lakshmi, Jason Wilson
R443 R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Save R76 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The beauty of good writing is that it transports the reader inside another person's experience in some other physical place and culture," writes Padma Lakshmi in her introduction, "and, at its best, evokes a palpable feeling of being in a specific moment in time and space." The essays in this year's Best American Travel Writing are an antidote to the isolation of the year 2020, giving us views into experiences unlike our own and taking us on journeys we could not take ourselves. From the lively music of West Africa, to the rich culinary traditions of Muslims in Northwest China, to the thrill of a hunt in Alaska, this collection is a treasure trove of diverse places and cultures, providing the comfort, excitement, and joy of feeling elsewhere. THE BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING 2021 INCLUDES KIESE MAKEBA LAYMON - LESLIE JAMISON - BILL BUFORD - JON LEE ANDERSON - MEGHAN DAUM LIGAYA MISHAN - PAUL THEROUX and others

Black & Blue - Revolution (Paperback): Dane Weatherman, Miriam Tobin, Harriet Hill-Payne, Peter Masheter, Beckie Stewart Black & Blue - Revolution (Paperback)
Dane Weatherman, Miriam Tobin, Harriet Hill-Payne, Peter Masheter, Beckie Stewart
R317 Discovery Miles 3 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
'n Engel in My Huis (Afrikaans, Paperback): Riana Scheepers 'n Engel in My Huis (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Riana Scheepers
R61 Discovery Miles 610 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Wat is dit dan met my dat ek alewig op soek is na 'n huis? So vra Riana Scheepers ook in een van die sketse van hierdie bundel. Oral waar sy reis - en dis beslis vele reise wat hierdie skrywer met passie onderneem, is sy ook alewig op soek na 'n huis wat sy kan koop, al is dit net met die oe. En dan stel sy voor hoe so 'n huis bewoon kan word, of dit nou 'n herehuis in Ierland is of 'n Karoohuisie in Loxton, 'n trappiesgewelhuis of 'n skuur naby Malmesbury. Of les bes, die liefste huis van almal - haar eenvoudige vissershuisie aan die Weskus, soos die mooi voorblad aandui. Vir Scheepers is huise die hulsels waarin en waaruit gelewe word, waar mense mekaar ontmoet, waar kosbaarhede versamel word, waar gul maaltye berei word, maar ook vanwaar paaie na ver plekke aangedurf kan word, vanwaar jy beweeg om ander te ontmoet.

Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance (Paperback): Lee Child Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance (Paperback)
Lee Child; Mystery Writers of America Inc
R443 R374 Discovery Miles 3 740 Save R69 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When a different kind of justice is needed---swift, effective, and personal---a new type of avenger must take action. VENGEANCE features new stories by bestselling crime writers including Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, and Karin Slaughter, as well as some of today's brightest rising talents.
The heroes in these stories include a cop who's seen too much, a woman who has been pushed too far, or just an ordinary person doing what the law will not. Some call them vigilantes, others claim they are just another brand of criminal.
Edited and with an introduction by Lee Child, these stories reveal the shocking consequences when men and women take the law into their own hands.
Full list of contributors:
Alafair Burke
Lee Child
Michael Connelly
Mike Cooper
Brendan DuBois
Jim Fusilli
Michelle Gagnon
Darrell James
C.E. Lawrence
Dennis Lehane
Steve Liskow
Rick McMahan
Adam Meyer
Dreda Say Mitchell
Michael Niemann
Twist Phelan
Zoe Sharp
Karin Slaughter
Orest Stelmach
Anne Swardson
Janice Law Trecker"

Truant (Paperback): Nate Lippens Truant (Paperback)
Nate Lippens
R181 Discovery Miles 1 810 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
A Very Mexican Christmas (Hardcover): Carlos Fuentes, Laura Esquivel, Amparo Davila, Sandra Cisneros, Carmen Boullosa, Sor... A Very Mexican Christmas (Hardcover)
Carlos Fuentes, Laura Esquivel, Amparo Davila, Sandra Cisneros, Carmen Boullosa, …
R649 R530 Discovery Miles 5 300 Save R119 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Guilty Creatures - A Menagerie of Mysteries (Paperback): Martin Edwards Guilty Creatures - A Menagerie of Mysteries (Paperback)
Martin Edwards
R416 R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Save R65 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Foreign Bodies (Paperback): Martin Edwards Foreign Bodies (Paperback)
Martin Edwards 1
R280 R229 Discovery Miles 2 290 Save R51 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Today, translated crime fiction is in vogue - but this was not always the case. A century before Scandi noir, writers across Europe and beyond were publishing detective stories of high quality. Often these did not appear in English and they have been known only by a small number of experts. This is the first ever collection of classic crime in translation from the golden age of the genre in the 20th century. Many of these stories are exceptionally rare, and several have been translated for the first time to appear in this volume. Martin Edwards has selected gems of classic crime from Denmark to Japan and many points in between. Fascinating stories give an insight into the cosmopolitan cultures (and crime-writing traditions) of diverse places including Mexico, France, Russia, Germany and the Netherlands.

And Yet... - Essays (Paperback): Christopher Hitchens And Yet... - Essays (Paperback)
Christopher Hitchens
R498 R413 Discovery Miles 4 130 Save R85 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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