Security chief for a private airport sounded like the perfect job for Ross Coe. Washed-out fighter pilot at 24, retired military cop at 30, and Private Investigator at 40, he has a chance to begin again on the home airfield he left twenty years before. His antique airplane is without wings, his family home is torched by persons unknown and he is forced to live in a barn converted to an airplane hangar with two cats without names.At the Wilson Airpark crimes begin on the ground and ...

Who could have imagined that a pile of old nuts and bolts in a garden shed could have a life of their own? Well, prepare to be amazed as we follow the gravel path by the orchard fence, where young Morris Wainwright once searched for fossils among the polished stones, to an old garden shed with a green pitched roof. It's half hidden by moss and ivy and sheltered from the summer heat by overhanging apple boughs. The window looks onto a garden of tall yellow weeds where a line of shirts and s...

In the bustling heart of London's Ram Alley, a web of intrigue and deception unfolds. Lord Barry's "Ram Alley, or Merry Tricks" transports readers to a world of mistaken identities, secret plots, and amorous entanglements. As the sun sets, casting long shadows across the cobblestone streets, a cast of colorful characters emerges. There's the cunning Widow Purecraft, the lovestruck Gallant, and the enigmatic Captain Hearty. Their paths intertwine, leading to a whirlwind of mistaken identiti...

Selected contributions to the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, which took place in July 2011 in Prague, represent the contemporary state of Shakespeare studies in thirty-eight countries worldwide. Apart from readings of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, more than forty chapters map Renaissance contexts of his art in politics, theater, law, or material culture and discuss numerous cases of the impact of his works in global culture from the Americas to the Far East, including stage productions...

Twenty-first-century media and political discourse sometimes makes "strangers" - refugees, immigrants, minorities - the scapegoats for social and economic disorder. In this heated climate, theatre has the potential to promote greater compassion and empathy for outsiders.A study of cultural difference in contemporary Canadian theatre, Staging Strangers considers how theatre facilitates an understanding of distant places and issues. Theatre in Canada, and especially in Toron...

Have you ever looked beneath a stone or a plant pot in your garden, and discovered a family of snails living there? Have you wondered what they do all day, and what they think of us, those strange creatures living in the big house at the end of their garden? Now's your chance to find out! Snail Tales gives a snail's eye view of their world - and ours!

Why theatre now? Reflecting on the mix of challenges and opportunities that face theatre in communities that are necessarily becoming global in scope and technologically driven, In Defence of Theatre offers a range of passionate reflections on this important question.Kathleen Gallagher and Barry Freeman bring together nineteen playwrights, actors, directors, scholars, and educators who discuss the role that theatre can – and must – play in professional, community, and educ...

Dark spells. Haunted souls. Secrets too terrifying to forget… ️ Enter the forbidden realms of witchcraft, restless spirits, and cursed tomes in The Book of Shadows—a spine-tingling collection of short stories from acclaimed and emerging voices in supernatural horror. Each tale conjures a unique nightmare, drawing from occult traditions, urban legends, and timeless fears. Inside This Terrifying Collection: Ghostly visitations that defy explanation ️ Sinister spellbooks and ancient ...

Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance proposes that the concept of curating is a complex field of enquiry. By drawing together artists, curators, architects and cultural theorists, it proposes new approaches to curating and ways of developing critical enquiry about this increasingly expanding field. Focusing on pertinent issues in curating contemporary art and performance, the book's four parts examine forms of thinking in contemporary curating; curating and the inte...

An engaging account of today’s contemporary art world that features original articles by leading international art historians, critics, curators, and artists, introducing varied perspectives on the most important debates and discussions happening around the world.Features a collection of all-new essays, organized around fourteen specific themes, chosen to reflect the latest debates in contemporary art since 1989Each topic is prefaced by an introduction on current di...

Theatre practice and applied theatre are areas of growing international interest. Applied Theatre is the first study to assist practitioners and students to develop critical frameworks for planning and implementing their own theatrical projects. This reader-friendly text considers an international range of case studies in applied theatre through discussion questions, practical activities and detailed analysis of specific theatre projects globally. In addition, the collection gathers togeth...

Memorylands is an original and fascinating investigation of the nature of heritage, memory and understandings of the past in Europe today. It looks at how Europe has become a ’memoryland’ – littered with material reminders of the past, such as museums, heritage sites and memorials; and at how this ‘memory phenomenon’ is related to the changing nature of identities – especially European, national and cosmopolitan. In doing so, it provides new insights into how memory and the past a...