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Nicholas Shakespeare
A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming Archive.
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A fascinating new biography of the man behind James Bond, by an award-winning biographer and novelist who has unprecedented access to the Fleming Archive.
A fresh portrait of the man…
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A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers.
Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James…
When Nicholas Shakespeare found a house on a beach while on holiday in Tasmania, he instantly decided that he wanted to live there. He didn’t know that his ancestor was…
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William Shakespeare
In the Duke Vincentio’s absence from Vienna, his strict deputy Angelo revives an ancient law forbidding sex outside marriage. The young Claudio, whose fiancee Juliet is pregnant, is condemned to…
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For Priscilla, pre-war Paris was an exciting carousel of suitors, soirees and heartbreak, and eventually a lavish wedding to a French aristocrat. But the arrival of the Nazi tanks signalled…
Bruce Chatwin
IN PATAGONIA is a Quest or a Wonder Voyage. It is about wandering and exile. Bruce Chatwin travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and, as…
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Nicholas Rowe
Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709), a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we…
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The first biography of Shakespeare. Written by Nicholas Rowe with assistance from Thomas Betterton. They researched and interviewed widely to collect as much information about Shakespeare as possible.
Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare’s tragedies. Indeed, for 250 years - until early this century - it was performed with grand operatic additions…
Patrick White
Set in 19th-century Australia, this is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a young orphan. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura…
Pressured to sign the register, little does he realise what effect that signature will have upon his life. The extraordinary story that follows tells of one man’s failed love, the…
Nicholas Shakespeare’s collected stories take us around the globe and into the intimate lives of his characters and the dilemmas and temptations they face.
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In this fascinating history of two turbulent centuries in an apparently idyllic place, Shakespeare effortlessly weaves the history of this unique island with a kaleidoscope of stories featuring a cast…
Following the death of his parents in a car crash, eleven-year-old Alex Dove is torn from his life on a remote farm in Tasmania and sent to school in England…
On 1 January 1915, ramifications from the First World War, raging half a world away, were felt in Broken Hill, Australia, when in a guerrilla-style military operation, four citizens were…
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Soon to be a major motion picture starring Javier Bardem and directed by John Malkovich, The Dancer Upstairs is a gripping suspense novel based on the search for the leader…
Tells the story of more than one sundered love, of both broken dreams and damaged families. The central figure of this novel, who grows up as an Englishman, chooses to…
Thomas Wavery is the new Consul General at Abyla on the tip of North Africa. A career diplomat, Wavery was once a high flyer, but an affair with a younger…
This novel explores one of the most astonishing stories in the whole history of twentieth century terrorism. The Dancer Upstairs is a story reminiscent of Graham Greene and John le…
In the Amazon city of Belen, in the heart of the Peruvian jungle, three old men sit on a bench. One day a woman hurries past their bench whom all…
When Nicholas Shakespeare stumbled across a box of documents belonging to his late aunt he was completely unaware of where this discovery would take him. The Priscilla he remembered was…
Originally published: Great Britain: Harvill Secker, 2013.
A biography of Bruce Chatwin, based on private notebooks, diaries, letters and hundreds of interviews. It illuminates the many sides of Chatwin, from Sotheby’s director, archaeologist, Sunday Times journalist and…
Leandro’s schoolmates are the children of powerful people, and a chance conversation with another father, Iranian scientist Rustum Marvar, sets Dyer onto a truly dangerous path. Then Marvar disappears.
***Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Observer and The Economist*** London, early May 1940: Britain is under threat of invasion and Neville Chamberlain’s…
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE comes an Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics edition of the masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it…
W. Somerset Maugham
From one of the twentieth century’s most enduringly popular fiction writers: the only hardcover edition of his short stories.
Though W. Somerset Maugham was also famous for his novels and…
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE Cakes and Ale is both a wickedly satirical novel about contemporary literary poseurs and a skilfully crafted study of freedom.
Nicholas Marsh
A study of Shakespeare’s four great tragedies; Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth. This book takes extracts and examines them, explaining how the critic can use particular techniques to bring…
Thought of as Shakespeare’s most powerful works, the four great tragedies, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth, are texts of unparalleled richness and depth, stimulating and exciting to study.
Dr Abigail Rokison-Woodall (The Shakespeare Institute, UK)
Part of the series Shakespeare in the Theatre, this book examines the work of renowned theatre director Nicholas Hytner (Artistic Director of the National Theatre from 2003-2015). Featuring case studies…
This critical volume offers an invaluable selection of early criticism and modern commentaries by Richard D. Altick, E.M.W. Tillyard, M.C. Bradbrook, Brents Sterling, E.H. Kantorowicz, J.A. Bryant Jr, M.M. Rossiter…
Nicholas Grene
In this study, Nicholas Grene shows how all nine plays written in Shakespeare’s main tragic period display a combination of different milieu balanced by thematic interrelationships. He argues that Shakespeare…
Jane Nicholas
Inspired by that Shakespearian-era design, Jane Nicholas has created her own embroidery, stitched on ivory silk satin in stumpwork. It showcases 14 assorted flowers and fruits popular at the time…
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Nicholas Brooke
Shakespeare’s Early Tragedies contains studies of six plays: Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Julius Caesar and Hamlet.
Nicholas Fogg
A fascinating new biography of the greatest writer who ever lived
Nicholas Royle
A richly detailed, intelligent and engaging study of the most celebrated English writer ever to have lived.
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Includes letters that give a synopsis of the author’s changing interests and concerns throughout his life.
Nicholas Patrick Wiseman
William Shakespeare is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1865. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and…
