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The second sequence, 'Lepus', extends an interest in the hare as trickster, traceable elsewhere in David Harsent's work, and most recently in 'The Woman and the Hare', a piece commissioned by the Nashe Ensemble, set to music by Harrison Birtwistle, and first performed at the South Bank Centre in 1999.

Set in British Guyana, the final two books (first published in 1962 and 1963) of "The Guyana Quartet" continue the author's literary exploration of the legacy and future of the former colony, which began with "The Palace of the Peacock".

Focuses on such characteristic subjects as: the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the blessings and withholdings of old Europe (Andalucia, the Mezzogiorno, Amsterdam), the unaccomodating sublime of the new world, time's cunning passages, and more.

A gloriously inventive play for children by Alan Ayckbourn, Britain's most popular and most frequently performed playwright.'Something to savour.

This is the authorized biography of the English tenor Peter Pears. Pears made a unique contribution to twentieth-century music, not only as an interpreter of exceptional artistry and intelligence but also as the inspiration and muse of his lifelong companion, Benjamin Britten.

Siggi Jepsen, the protagonist, is embroiled in the conflict between the totalitarian Nazi government and a creative artist. As a young boy he watched his father, constable of the northernmost police station in Germany, doggedly carry out orders from Berlin to stop a well-known Expressionist from painting and to seize all his 'degenerate' work.

Soldier, explorer, scholar and ambitious courtier in the shark-pool of Elizabethan politics, Sir Walter Raleigh is the epitome of the English Renaissance man. Yet to many of his day he was an arrogant liar, who deserved every one of his thirteen years in the Tower of London. In this title, the author reveals the truth.

This title contains a collection of the screenplays written by Joel and Ethan Coen. The plays include, "Raising Arizona" and "Barton Fink".

Six young men are arrested in Cape Town for subversion. Successful sabotage requires a high degree of loyalty, mutual confidence and efficiency; and it is an almost unbelievable shock when their betrayer turns out to be the one who has done most to organise and unite them.

One of the most frequently evoked national experiences is the Blitz of the Second World War. This eyewitness account chronicles the events of the period and also brings out the attitudes of the time, the courage in adversity, the impotence of not being able to fight back, and the live-for-today attitude that existed at times of the worst bombing.

On September 7th, 1940, the German Air Force set out to destroy London - the Blitz had begun.

Suspect Culture's Casanova follows the travels of an internationally renowned artist who is curating the final exhibition of his illustrious career: an account of his life as the world's greatest lover.

Bernal's monumental work, Science in History, was the first full attempt to analyse the reciprocal relations of science and society throughout history, from the perfection of the flint hand-axe to the hydrogen bomb.

Four key men, four key moments in the Great War. The principal actors are four national commanders-in-chief: two German, one Frenchman, one Englishman. Each in turn, as commander-in-chief, bore his nation's sword at a period when the course of the war pivoted on his judgement and will: four actors in a continental tragedy of death and re-birth.'

Part 1: What Science Does: Introductory, Historical, The Existing Organization of Scientific Research in Britain, Science in Education, The Efficiency of Scientific Research, The Application of Science, Science and War and International Science.

The most personal and autobiographical work of Tomine's career, Scenes from an Impending Marriage is a charming, delightful document of the little moments leading up to the big day. Praise for Adrian Tomine:'Tomine is, trust me, superb.' Sam Leith, Daily Telegraph 'Near perfection .

From simple nostalgia to sophisticated political thought she looks at agrarian communes, the folk-song movement, peasant arts, garden cities, the reclamation of common lands, schools, dress and diet, and at the life and thought of such key figures as John Ruskin, William Morris and Edward Carpenter.

Winston Churchill was seventy-six when the Conservative Party won the 1951 General Election. This book gives an analysis of each major Government department, its ministers and especially the civil servants who in many cases not merely implemented policies but determined them too.

Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was a painter, poet, illustrator, dramatist, and most famously the creator of the "Gormenghast" trilogy. This biography is based on letters, photographs and drawings of Peake.

Charles Stewart Parnell has traditionally been studied from the political angle but here Foster places him in the social context of 19th century Irish gentry, and studies him in relation to his remarkable family.

Throughout the world, countries are obliged to make great sacrifices in order to raise the vast sums of money needed to secure their defence. This book works out the qualities needed by studying the tasks that would be likely to confront commanders of the day. It is relevant to the armies of developed countries.

A collection of poems.

He is shrewd about the novel in general and Ford in particular.' Gore Vidal, Times Literary Supplement'Indulgent, energetic, and immensely readable.' Richard Holmes, The Times 'Alan Judd has been drawn into Ford's embattlement and defends him staunchly and imaginatively.' A.

Berlioz was one of the towering figures of Romanticism: not only was he a great and revolutionary composer, but also the finest conductor of his day and an outstanding critic and writer. This title draws the major strands of Berlioz's life: his tempestuous marriage to the actress Harriet Smithson; the genesis of his famous works.

One of the co-founders of the Mass Observation project, Tom Harrison used many of the then-unpublished records of the organisation to put together this record of people's experiences on the British home front during the bombings of the Second World War- first-hand accounts recorded by people as they lived through the Blitz.

My one man, my two men shall mow me down my meadows, My three men, my four men shall carry my grass away, My four, my three, my two, my one, nay not mo, For to mow my hay and carry it away on a beautiful midsummer's day.

When The Orators was originally published in 1932 it was described by Poetry Review as 'something as important as the appearance of Mr Eliot's poems fifteen years ago'. A long poem written in both prose and verse, it was a powerful addition to the canon of modernist poetry.

Harmony was not the leitmotif of the Tolstoy's marriage. In wedlock for forty-eight years, the couple had reached the nadir of mutual exasperation in 1910, the final year of Tolstoy's life. This biography includes extracts taken from the Countess' own diary and day book, as well as from Leo Tolstoy's private diary ("For Myself Alone").

What makes the Faber Finds edition unique is the illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. The original title-page says, 'with numerous illustrations by Edward Ardizzone.' That is true, there is an abundance of them from the full-page to the vignettes.

The Baltic country itself - the capital with its Old Town and Jewish Shops, the coast with its pine-fringes and little islands - is palpably there, and makes the moral drama of Jacob and his associates the more compelling.