The Heinemann Plays series offers contemporary drama & classic plays in durable classroom editions Many have large casts & an equal mix of boy & girl parts In this dramatization of Barry Hines's novel 15-year-old Billy trains a kestrel for whom he learns to feel great affection ...

A dramatization of Dickens's classic novel requiring a cast of between 11 & 30 The complex story moves forward quickly with the use of open staging ...

An adaption of Robert Swindell's novel intended for Key Stage 3 The nightmare Fliss had before the school trip is becoming a chilling reality The hotel where they are staying holds a sinister secret but none of the teachers will believe what Fliss has seen Can Fliss save Ellie-May? ...

The Heinemann Plays series offers contemporary drama & classic plays in classroom editions Many have large casts & an equal mix of boy & girl parts This play discusses racial tension in the heart of the American South ...

inspires children's imaginations while growing their understanding of & love for God's Word Through simple hand motions facial expressions verbal exclamations & funny noises kids can participate & respond to God's amazing story Whether it's acting out the dawn of creation by making a funny fish face or belting out a giant roar while pretending to be a ferocious beast in Daniel's lions' den kids will encounter hundreds of fun ways to actively engage with the Bible Using this fresh & easy multisensory approach you'll be surprised how well your child will recall & absorb the Scriptures Adding to the experience are delightful full-color illustrations from British artist Susie Poole ...

The Culture
- a humanmachine symbiotic society
- has thrown up many great Game Players & one of the greatest is Gurgeh Jernau

...

Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have of their own free choice remained thirty-five for years' Including some of Oscar Wilde's most well-known & infamous plays Lady Windermere's Fan A Woman of No Importance An Ideal Husband & The Importance of Being Earnest this collection of the infamous writer's works displays his brilliant quick wit to its full glory Wilde's pithy social comedies dissect the morals & idiosyncrasies of society in the 1890s & offer a view of the sexual politics of the time ...

With an Introduction & Notes by Anne Varty Royal Holloway University of London Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy Lady Windermere's Fan The combination of dazzling wit subtle social criticism sumptuous settings & the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner both here & in his next three plays A Woman of No Importance An Ideal Husband & his undisputed masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest This volume

Includes:: all Wilde's plays from his early tragedy Vera to the controversial Salome & the little known fragments La Sainte Courtisane & A Florentine Tragedy The edition affords a rare chance to see Wilde's best known work in the context of his entire dramatic output & to appreciate plays which have hitherto received scant critical attention Wilde's plays have never failed to delight audiences & are a lasting testimony to their author's supreme wit & theatrical genius

...

From mobile phones to consoles tablets & PCs we are now a generation of gamers The Play Station Dreamworld is to borrow a phrase from Slavoj Zizek the pervert's guide to videogames It argues that we can only understand the world of videogames via Lacanian dream analysis It also argues that the Left needs to work inside this dreamspace a powerful arena for constructing our desires or else the dreamworld will fall entirely into the hands of dominant & reactionary forces While cyberspace is increasingly dominated by corporate organization gaming at its most subversive can nevertheless produce radical forms of enjoyment which threaten the capitalist norms that are created & endlessly repeated in our daily relationships with mobile phones videogames computers & other forms of technological entertainment Far from being a book solely for dedicated gamers this book dissects the structure of our relationships to all technological entertainment at a time when entertainment has become ubiquitous We can no longer escape our fantasies but rather live inside their digital reality ...

Your client is innocent Your wife is guilty Who would you fight for?' Quite simply THE PLEA is one of the most purely entertaining books you'll read this year' John Connolly'A gripping thriller' Ian Rankin When David Child a major client of a corrupt New York law firm is arrested for murder the FBI ask con artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn to persuade him to testify against the firm Eddie is not someone who is easily coerced but when the FBI reveal that they have incriminating files on his wife he knows he has no choice But Eddie is convinced the man is innocent despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary With the FBI putting pressure on him to secure the deal Eddie must find a way to prove his client's innocence But the stakes are high
- his wife is in danger & not just from the FBI Praise for race-against-time legal thriller writer Steve Cavanagh'A fantastic thriller writer' Mark Billingham' Cavanagh stands head & shoulders above the competition with his skilfully plotted action-packed & big-hearted Eddie Flynn novels highly intelligent twist-laden & absolutely unputdownable' Eva Dolan author of the critically acclaimed Tell No Tales' What a thriller! Breathlessly brilliant & fiendishly clever' Miranda Dickinson'A cleverly constructed legal thriller combined with a classic locked-room mystery Eddie Flynn is fast becoming one of my favourite fictional heroes & Cavanagh one of my favourite thriller writers' SJI Holliday author of Black Wood' Raymond Chandler could have created Eddie Flynn THE PLEA is Phillip Marlowe & Michael Connolly's Mickey Haller combined with a bit of Jim Thompson's THE GRIFTERS thrown in A superb read with a main character destined to be one of the most talked about in crime fiction' Howard Linskey author of The Search If you like John Grisham Lee Child & Michael Connelly you will LOVE the gripping & twisty Eddie Flynn series 1 The Defence 2 The Plea 3 The Liar 4 Thirteen Each Eddie Flynn thriller can be read as a standalone or in series order
...