Eva Cassidys story if one of the most compelling & poignant in recent music history. In this thoughtful & probing biography Johan Bakker re-evaluates her brief performing career & the game that only came after her death at the age of 33. Before BBC Radio 2 & TV made her famous first in the UK & then Europe Eva Cassidy had been mainly a local performer in & around Washington D.C. Performing in Iceland was the closest she ever got to Europe yet a handful of recordings spanning pop jazz blues folk & country would maker her a posthumous star there & eventually in her home country too. Her posthumously released recordings including three UK number ones have sold more than ten million copies. Johann Bakker has interviewed Evas friends colleagues & family in Washington D.C. & Maryland tracing her short life her idealism & her disillusionment with the business side of her trade. Through it all her shimmering spirit shines making this biography both a searching analysis & a warm commemoration of a uniquely talented young woman. ...

SO WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THE WAGER MISS PRENTESS? A DIAMOND WORTH THOUSANDS AGAINST A NIGHT WITH ME? No London beauty has managed to tame the incorrigible Jasper Coale though many have lost their reputations trying. In sedate Bath on a family errand the Viscount expects to find little in terms of entertainment
- certainly no female company to tempt him... Miss Susannah Prentesss discreet card parties in Royal Crescent offer a welcome distraction. & the glint in Susannahs hazel eyes tells Jasper hes met his match at last. But is she game enough to accept the most outrageous wager of all? The Notorious Coale Brothers They are the talk of the Ton!
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Established by the film industry in 1912 as the nation's only official & independent classifier of the moving image the British Board of Film Classification (originally the British Board of Film Censors) has long been a source of fascination
- & sometimes a bone of contention
- for filmgoers film-makers & industry figures. This new book published in the BBFC's centenary year traces the fascinating history of film classification censorship & controversy in Britain & marks an unparalleled collaboration between the BBFC & leading film critics historians & cultural commentators. These writers given unprecedented access to the BBFC's archives chart the organisation's history alongside the cultural social & political forces that have helped shape it. Together they explore shifting public attitudes towards cinema's portrayal of sex & drugs horror & violence; the different perspectives of the BBFC's successive leaders; the impact of controversial decisions & the ever-changing nature of moving image distribution & exhibition. The book also features unique case studies written by BBFC staff focusing on significant films that have provoked debate & controversy both within the BBFC & more widely
- Battleship Potemkin The Snake Pit A Clockwork Orange Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom & many more. Behind the Scenes at the BBFC: Film Classification from the Silver Screen to the Digital Age gives an entertaining & invaluable insight into changing attitudes to what counts as offensive shocking or harmful over the last century & shows how the work of the BBFC shapes what we see on screen.


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Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty & born while her father George was in the Dog & Hare in Doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress & a D-cup that he wasnt married. Bunty had never wanted to marry George but here she was stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster with sensible & sardonic Patrica aged five greedy cross-patch Gillian who refused to be ignored & Ruby... Ruby tells the story of The Family from the day at the end of the nineteenth century when a travelling French photographer catches frail beautiful Alice & her children like flowers in amber to the startling witty & memorable events of Rubys own life. ...

Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty & born while her father George was in the Dog & Hare in Doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress & a D-cup that he wasn't married. Bunty had never wanted to marry George but here she was stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster with sensible & sardonic Patrica aged five greedy cross-patch Gillian who refused to be ignored & Ruby... Ruby tells the story of The Family from the day at the end of the nineteenth century when a travelling French photographer catches frail beautiful Alice & her children like flowers in amber to the startling witty & memorable events of Ruby's own life. ...

Aged 16 White was the youngest snooker player to win the English Amateur Championship. By 1984 he was a professional success & married but not settled. He has survived a life of gambling women & marathon binges with showbiz friends to tell in candid detail the story of his own life. ...

When Gregory Matthews patriarch of the Poplars is found dead one morning imperious Aunt Harriet blames it on the roast duck he ate for supper after all she had warned him about his blood pressure. But a post-mortem determines that the cause of death is much more sinister. Murder by poison. Suspicion falls immediately amongst his bitter quarrelsome family. Each has a motive; each opportunity. It falls to Superintendent Hannasyde to sift through all the secrets & lies & discover just who killed Gregory Matthews before the killer strikes again... ...

The brilliant new novel by the internationally bestselling author of the Sister Fidelma mystery series. AD 664: Sister Fidelma finds herself in the seaport of Genua en route from Rome back to her native Cashel. Her old teacher Brother Ruadan lies dying in the abbey of Bobium
- an isolated abbey in a disturbed country where even the Christians are in bloody conflict with one another & the worship of the pagan gods often prevails. Fidelma is determined to see Brother Ruadan before he dies. But from the moment she enters the beautiful valley of the Trebbia there is danger on every side. Her dying teachers last words send her off on her most dangerous adventure where murder follows murder & a vicious civil war threatens before an extraordinary conspiracy is revealed. & from the start Fidelma is on her own...
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With as little plot as its creator Alan Plater could get away with & as much jazz as he could manage the 1985 television drama The Beiderbecke Affair had a far-reaching impact inspiring sequels novels albums & even jazz tours. Much like its Bix Beiderbecke-style soundtrack Platers quietly joyous drama was unconventional free: its narrative following the lives & relationships of its leading characters
- teachers-turned-amateur detectives Trevor Chaplin (James Bolam) & Jill Swinburne (Barbara Flynn)
- with a gentle whimsical humour. William Gallaghers illuminating study is the first critical account of this much-loved series. Drawing on interviews with cast members & musicians the production team & Yorkshire TV executives as well as on insights from Plater himself Gallagher explores Beiderbeckes origins in Platers 1981 tv drama Get Lost! before moving on to an in-depth analysis of the series itself to reveal why such an unassuming series remains one of the best-loved examples of British television drama. The book also

Includes:: a previously unpublished BBC Radio 4 short story featuring the character of Jill Swinburne A Brief Encounter with Richard Wagner.



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This completely updated guide reflects post-Olympic Beijing. There is also a special colour chapter on Beijings disappearing & historic hutong (passageways). You can explore old & new Beijing: from the Great Wall to the Birds Nest LP have got it covered. Crammed with more maps than any other guidebook; all maps & attractions are listed in both English & Chinese. ...