This is a true story. Whether watching his dinner guests dodge sniper fire in Johannesburg, being chased by poltergeists in Vienna, or held up by Fidel Castro in Cuba; whether being waylaid in Hong Kong, on suspicion of drug smuggling, or threatened with drowning by a drunken Sheikh in Dubai; requiring a police escort in Rotterdam, or simply running into Arnold Schwarzenegger - "like an upturned coffin in a suit" - in Los Angeles, Tony Craven has travelled a remarkable journey. CRASHING THROUGH CONSTELLATIONS tells the story of a career in Drama and Entertainment. As a Director of stage and television - throughout the UK, Europe and much of the world - as well as writer and musician, Tony Craven has indeed "just about covered it all." From his early years at the world-famous Birmingham Repertory Theatre, charting triumphs and disasters in the West End, through world travel and UK tours, to his audacious entrance to the business of Television, this is a true story. But it is also a moving personal journey, recorded faithfully and honestly. The unrelenting race for success - so often, elusive - is laid bare, along with gossip and insight into personalities and relationships. With not a few surprises along the way, CRASHING THROUGH CONSTELLATIONS is honest, intriguing and packed with private anecdote. It is a story filled with triumph and heartache, sadness and excitement, amusement and betrayal. It is MY story.

Available here for the first time in paperback, Women in Scripture is a landmark one-volume reference work exploring all the women mentioned in the Bible, named and unnamed, well known and heretofore not known at all. The book comprises more than 800 articles, written by the finest scholars in the field, that examine the numerous women who have often been obscured by the androcentric nature of the biblical record and by centuries of translation and interpretation that have paid little or no attention to them. The women of scripture are remarkably varied-from prophets to prostitutes, military heroines to musicians, deacons to dancers, widows to wet nurses, rulers to slaves. Here are familiar faces, such as Eve, Judith, and Mary, seen anew with the full benefit of the most up-to-date biblical scholarship. But the most innovative aspect of the book is the section devoted to the many women who in the scriptures do not even have names. In both scope and accessibility, Women in Scripture is an exceptional work. Combining rigorous scholarship with engaging prose, these articles on women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books, and the New Testament will inform, delight, and challenge all readers interested in the Bible.

The flat on the Prinsengracht is barely big enough for two. But for Mick and Justin, two fit young Londoners in Amsterdam for work, nightlife and the rest, it's ideal. There's Pamela upstairs. Corinne, a total bombshell. The Conleys. Joep. Dirk and Hans. Menheer Klassen. Clubs, music, spliffs and sex. Then, one steamy night, when the brown polluted air seeps into the house off the canal, something happens that turns Mick and Justin inside out. They 'slip out' of character, and the stage is set for tragedy. The bull must die. And Justin reveals why, in a harsh unravelling of identities, roles, power struggles and abuse that have eaten away at his soul for years. Here's a sharply drawn, sexually charged psychological drama about modern life and mores - outwardly so free, inwardly so bound - offering action, humour, weird characters, and a twist in the tale that will shock the reader. It could be you...