Robert has been lying dormant in the East European town of Nudvoski, posing as a jazz pianist while secretly working for Nutwood Central.Then the call comes. Activated and sent into a world of resistance fighters and suspicious football matches, Robert discovers that espionage is largely a matter of keeping your head when everyone else appears to have lost theirs. His only trustworthy contact is Rosa, who has secrets of her own and an alarming ability to capture Robert's heart....

Mental health care bear Robert finds himself balancing the role of a responsible public servant, while having feelings for his colleague Rosealea.Along the way, the two face many picaresque situations, including a romantic break to the East Coast, a complicated river cruise, and Robert's later life as a British secret agent.A literary adult comedy, Robert Tries To Help is a hilarious read intended for a mature audience.

This is the first full-length account of the history and working practices of Amsterdam’s Mickery Theater. Between 1965 and 1991 under its noted director Ritsaert ten Cate, Mickery became renowned worldwide for promoting and presenting significant international alternative theatre companies including La Mama, Tenjo Sajiki and the Wooster Group, and for staging its own innovative productions. Combining archival research, oral history, field observation, and drawing on personal accounts of k...

Theatre/Archaeology is a provocative challenge to disciplinary practice and intellectual boundaries. It brings together radical proposals in both archaeological and performance theory to generate a startlingly original and intriguing methodological framework.

Krystan the Lizardman lives deep in the northern forests of Gyaes with his family, isolated from civilization. As the weakest among his siblings, he relies on his parents for guidance, comfort, and companionship. When a dark figure from his parents’ past reemerges, Krystan’s peaceful life is thrown into chaos. Determined to end this threat, the young saurian sets out on a mission to eradicate it once and for all. With no way of succeeding alone, the former recluse must enlist the help of a...

Marking Time: Performance, archaeology and the city charts a genealogy of alternative practices of theatre-making since the 1960s in one particular city – Cardiff. In a series of five itineraries, it visits fifty sites where significant events occurred, setting performances within local topographical and social contexts, and in relation to a specific architecture and polity. These sites – from disused factories to scenes of crime, from auditoria to film sets – it regards as landma...

On the planet Findang, the people of Yhaar are becoming desperate. Crops are failing, invaders from the south fast approach and an unseen force is consuming what is left of the surrounding stars and planets.As the universe gasps its dying breaths, one glimmer of hope remains. A cybernetic being named Krohl must race against time to uncover three ancient and powerful artefacts which will grant him the means to save all life from total oblivion.The path ahead of Krohl is bloo...

Anovel of dazzling wit and serious purpose. An extraordinary feat of storytelling and breathtaking invention on a grand scale, it is a tour de force from a writer who has turned science fiction on its head."Unexpectedly savage, emotionally powerful, and impossible to forget." —The TimesIn a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the on...

A LEGENDARY FAMILYFor generations, the descendants of the powerful telepath known as The Rowan have used their talents to benefit humanity. As human civilization reached out to colonize the stars, the family led Earth to ally itself with the peaceful alien Mrdini. Together, the two races have held back the predatory Hivers, who once decimated entire worlds.THE NEW ORDERBut there are factions on Earth who resent the power the family ...

Making creates knowledge, builds environments and transforms lives. Anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture are all ways of making, and all are dedicated to exploring the conditions and potentials of human life. In this exciting book, Tim Ingold ties the four disciplines together in a way that has never been attempted before. In a radical departure from conventional studies that treat art and architecture as compendia of objects for analysis, Ingold proposes an anthropology and arc...

Today culture is everywhere as maybe never before. We read culture reviews, watch culture shows, live in Cities of Culture, and witness the Cultural Olympiad. Government, museums and arts councils worry that we are not getting enough culture and shape policy around notions of art and culture for all. Access and inclusion are in. Difficulty and exclusivity out. In "Being Cultured: in defence of discrimination" Angus Kennedy asks if this explosion of culture, and the breaking down of distinc...

Telepath Den Harper did the dirty work for the authoritarian Expansion, reading the minds of criminals, spies and undesirables, for years. Unable to take the strain, he stole a starship and headed into the void, a sector of lawless space known as Satan’s Reach. For five years he worked as a trader among the stars – then discovered that the Expansion had set a bounty hunter on his trail.But what does the Expansion want with a lowly telepath like Harper? Is there something in the rum...