''A couple is a conspiracy in search of a crime. Sex is often the closest they can get.'' All the present controversies about the family are really discussions about monogamy.…
Why can''t the Catholic Church fully accept gender diverse LGBTQI+ members as ''normal'' Catholic, despite Pope Francis''s compassion for the gay community?In this cutting-edge…
The most controversial and newsworthy plays of British theatre are a rash of rude, vicious and provocative pieces by a brat pack of twentysomethings whose debuts startled critics…
Gustav Mahler: Letters to his Wife is undoubtedly the best way to understand Mahler as a man and as a composer: in his own words, intimately detailing his inner world to his wife,…
‘Extraordinary.’ New York Times‘Savagely beautiful.’ The TimesTokyo, January 26th, 1948. As the third year of the US Occupation of Japan begins, a man enters a downtown…
One of the most acclaimed novels of recent times, The Underground Man is the fictionalised diary of a deeply eccentric English aristocrat. The duke has just completed a network of…
The Story of English is the extraordinary tale of the origins and development of the English language. Two thousand years ago English was confined to a handful of savage tribes…
An old woman returns alone to the spot where as a young girl she used to meet her lover on his daily lunch break. An unsuspecting couple find themselves drawn to a window to watch…
Falling in love is one of the strangest things we can do - and one of the things that makes us uniquely human. But what happens to our brains when our eyes meet across a crowded…
From a motorway service area to her ambivalent relationship with religion, Wendy Cope covers a wide range of experience in her new collection. Her mordant humour and formal…
A sale? Why not? Release all your wonderful treasures onto the open market and they are there for everyone to enjoy. It''s a kind of emancipation, a setting them free to range the…
A young man returns to Nigeria after fifteen years in New York. The country of his childhood has changed: it has found fast-food restaurants, email cafes, contempt for authority…
Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Toad has always been a silly sort of fellow. But when his latest obsession with motor cars - the faster the better - threatens…
In this indispensable guide to digital film-making, leading film-maker Mike Figgis offers the reader a step-by-step tutorial in how to use digital technology so as to get the best…
A Real True Friend: An actual kid everyone can see but who wants to play with you anyway.Dory''s so excited for her first day at school. Her big brother and sister warn her that…