Sue Wilsher author of When My Ship Comes In makes an emotional return to 1950s Essex Tilbury 1950s The Empire is a boarding house run by Vi Doris's mother
- the Empire Girls of the title When Doris becomes pregnant out of marriage she is kicked out of the house & forced to fend for herself Desperate to look after her daughter she takes any job going She falls in with the Windrush immigrants & finds herself helping one to a new life in Britain
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The experience of colonization & the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English This diverse & powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India Australia the West Indies & Canada & has challenged both the traditional canon & dominant ideas of literature & culture The Empire Writes Back was the first major theoretical account of a wide range of post-colonial texts & their relation to the larger issues of post-colonial culture & remains one of the most significant works published in this field The authors three leading figures in post-colonial studies open up debates about the interrelationships of post-colonial literatures investigate the powerful forces acting on language in the post-colonial text & show how these texts constitute a radical critique of Eurocentric notions of literature & language This book is brilliant not only for its incisive analysis but for its accessibility for readers new to the field Now with an additional chapter & an updated bibliography The Empire Writes Back is essential for contemporary post-colonial studies ...

This journal takes the fear out of career planning & personal development & provides students with a place to capture their learning & reflect on their experiences 212 pages 7 Illustrations black & white; XVI 212 p 7 illus Bassot Barbara ...

Get ready for the breath-taking sequel to The Diabolic
- the novel that got everyone talking! Nemesis is my kind of strong female
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Kazuki Hoshino treasures nothing more than his ordinary life & March 2 should have been an ordinary day The arrival of a transfer student the mysterious Aya Otonashi shouldn&t have shattered the world he knows He&s never seen this girl before in his life but she says she&s met him thousands of times--and declares war on him for a crime he can&t even remember As the truth begins to unravel nothing is as it seems & at the heart of it all is a wish powerful enough to change everything About the Author Eiji Mikage is the author of The Empty Box & the Zeroth Maria ...

Can you do what it takes to survive? This time Kazuki & Maria find themselves trapped in a game of deception & betrayal with four other students from their school Despite being pitted against each other the two once again work together in an effort to break the Box&s hold But as the stakes rise & the game grows increasingly twisted it becomes clear that this is no ordinary wish-and that the owner may be impossible to convince What kind of person could have created such a Box? About the Author Eiji Mikage is the author of The Empty Box & the Zeroth Maria ...

Kazuki & Maria are still trapped in the vicious world of " Kingdom Royale" a game where murder seems to be the only path to victory Kazuki swears he will find a way out of this particularly cruel Box but first he must discover the truth behind it ...

Adapted from a series of four lectures originally delivered as the first of the Granada Northern Lectures Peter Brook's The Empty Space is an exploration of four aspects of theatre ' Deadly Holy Rough & Immediate' published in Penguin Modern Classics'I can take any empty space & call it a bare stage' In The Empty Space groundbreaking director Peter Brook draws on a life in love with the stage to explore the issues facing any theatrical performance Here he describes important developments in theatre from the last century as well as smaller scale events from productions by Stanislavsky to the rise of Method Acting from Brecht's revolutionary alienation technique to the free form Happenings of the 1960s & from the different styles of such great Shakespearean actors as John Gielgud & Paul Scofield to a joyous impromptu performance in the burnt-out shell of the Hamburg Opera just after the war Passionate unconventional & fascinating his book shows how theatre defies rules builds & shatters illusions & creates lasting memories for its audiences Peter Stephen Paul Brook CH CBE (b 1925) is a highly influential British theatrical producer & director During the 1950s he worked on many productions in Britain Europe & the USA & in 1962 returned to Stratford-upon-Avon to join the newly established Royal Shakespeare Company Throughout the next the 1960's he directed many ground breaking productions for the RSC before in 1970 forming The International Centre for Theatre Research in Paris If you enjoyed The Empty Space you might like John Berger's Ways of Seeing also available in Penguin Modern Classics'A brilliant book should be read by the many besides the passionate few to whom it will be required reading' Daily Telegraph ...

The eighth novel in Bernard Cornwell's epic & bestselling series on the making of England & the fate of his great hero Uhtred of Bebbanburg BBC2's major Autumn 2015 TV show THE LAST KINGDOM is based on the first two books in the series In the battle for power there can be only one ruler The ruler of Mercia is dying leaving no apparent heir His wife is a born leader but no woman has ever ruled over an English kingdom & she is without her greatest warrior & champion Uhtred of Bebbanburg An empty throne leaves the kingdom exposed to rival West Saxons & to the Vikings who are on a bloody rampage once more A hero is needed a hero who has been in battle all his life who can destroy the double threat to Mercia A hero who will ultimately decide the fate of a nation SPECIFICATIONS testing NULL ...

The eighth novel in Bernard Cornwell's number one bestselling series on the making of England & the fate of his great hero Uhtred of Bebbanburg In the battle for power there can be only one ruler The ruler of Mercia is dying leaving no apparent heir His wife is a born leader but no woman has ever ruled over an English kingdom & she is without her greatest warrior & champion Uhtred of Bebbanburg An empty throne leaves the kingdom exposed to rival West Saxons & to the Vikings who are on a bloody rampage once more A hero is needed a hero who has been in battle all his life who can destroy the double threat to Mercia A hero who will ultimately decide the fate of a nation SPECIFICATIONS testing NULL ...