In need of money the fat & foolish Falstaff devises a scheme to seduce two married women & steal their husbands wealth. By talking to each other however the wives soon discover his plan & begin to plot their own revenge. Relentlessly inventive this comic humiliation of a foolish would-be seducer is a lively compelling & ultimately joyous celebration of the all-conquering power of laughter. This book

Includes:: a general introduction to Shakespeares life & the Elizabethan theatre a separate introduction to Merry Wives of Windsor a chronology suggestions for further reading an essay discussing performance options on both stage & screen & a commentary.

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A Mersey ferry was recorded in the Domesday Book & for around a thousand years they have plied between Birkenhead & Wallasey on the Wirral & Liverpool. The sail & man-powered craft gave way to steam ferries in 1815. In this book Ian Collard tells the story of the Mersey ferries concentrating on the steam & diesel powered eras from 1815 to the present day & including such famous ferries as Iris & Daffodil which were involved in the Zeebrugge Raid of 1918. The Mersey ferries have been immortalized in song & even today with the various tunnels under the Mersey the three survivors of today Snowdrop Royal Iris of the Mersey & Royal Daffodil are still being used by locals & tourists alike. Using around 160 old & new images he tells the story of the Ferries across the Mersey showing a river that was once teeming with ships but is now much quieter. ...

The Mersey Sound" is an attempt to introduce contemporary poetry to the general reader by publishing representative work by each of three modern poets in a single volume in each case the selection has been made to illustrate the poets characteristics in style & form. With this modest brief " The Mersey Sound" was conceived & first published in 1967. An anthology which features Roger Mc Goughs work alongside that of Brian Patten & Adrian Henri (The Liverpool Poets) it went on to sell over half a million copies & to become the bestselling poetry anthology of all time." ...

At the age of 45 Lucy Henshaw has finally left home. Her decision to go has been reached neither lightly nor suddenly since her marriage has been broken for some eighteen years. However as the mother of twin sons & a daughter Lucy has felt it her duty to stay as a couple in the family house she was born in near Bolton giving her children the security she knows they need. Now that her family is grown content in the knowledge that she loves them Lucy decides she is free to leave. She secretly purchases a beautiful house overlooking the Mersey near Liverpool & there she plans to start afresh. Within hours she has met some characters: her new neighbour Moira who is disabled & dying & sees Lucy as the ideal new companion for her husband Richard; Shirley Bishop built like a battleship & a cleaner extraordinaire towing her several-inches-shorter husband as a handy gardener behind her; & Dr David Vincent who is grieving for the loss of his young son. It is soon apparent that Lucy need have no anxieties about being lonely. It is these new friends too who come to Lucy's rescue when her husband Alan falls ill. Always a wastrel & fraudster who has tried to control her his illness only seems to offer him another opportunity to complicate Lucy's life all over again. Mersey View" is a compelling & gritty novel set in Liverpool & is a wonderful story rich with warmth & humour by a much-loved storyteller at the height of her powers." ...

With its strategic shipping ports & factories the towns & cities dotted along the River Mersey soon became some of Hitlers most heavily targeted sites during the Second World War. In August 1940 the German Luftwaffe attacked Birkenhead in what was to be the first of over 300 such bombing raids Merseyside sustained that year. Almost 4 000 people perished & many more were seriously injured as the streets & buildings of Liverpool & Wirral were destroyed & their residents left in turmoil. Featuring 45 vistas of bomb-damaged suburbia & city centre carnage alongside 45 photographs of the area as it is today Merseyside War Years: Then & Now sensitively documents the changes & developments that have taken place in Merseyside since those dark days of war demonstrating both architectural progress & Britains resilience & in the face of adversity. ...

In this wonderful book Colin reveals wisdom from the Other Side that could change your life. Sharing his incredible true stories of encounters with the spirit world he also sets out seven steps for leaving hurt & hardship behind. These steps will lead you to an inner place in which hope & healing can become yours at last. Colin Fry's TV shows '6ixth Sense' & ' Psychic Private Eyes' have intrigued his huge number of fans & his previous books Life Before Death & Secrets From the Afterlife have been bestsellers. Colin is a medium with a difference: not only does he communicate on a personal level with loved ones who have passed over but his work has given him life-enhancing insights that can benefit us all. Prepare to receive the Message... ...

That delay in the delivery of the message from Ma´laga could have been absolutely disastrous. As it was there had been irreparable loss: an agent dead."
Under the Mediterranean sun a drama begins in a cafe in Malaga. For Ian Ferrier an employee of the United States Space Agency on holiday to visit his old friend Jeff Reid it means the startling discovery that Reid is not just a wine exporter but rather engaged in smuggling communist defectors to the West. Events take a turn for the worse when Ferrier a stranger to the deadly world of espionage must take sole charge of a high-ranking KGB agent.
Alone in an frighteningly alien landscape he can afford no mistakes when choosing whom to trust..."

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How do you tell someone what its like to kill a man hand to hand run a bayonet through his guts or shoot a sniper in the face who turns out to be a woman? How do you explain the nine-year-old boy who throws a grenade & kills your best friend? How do you tell them what its like? Or about the sunsets on the mountains or the green of Viet Nam or the sounds & the smells & the people & the girl who cant even say your name but you know you love her. There was nothing any of them could say. So most of them rode home in silence. For seven years Paxton Andrews would write an acclaimed newspaper column for Americans from the front before finally returning to the States & then attending the Paris peace talks. But for her & for the men who fought in Viet Nam life would never be the same again. ...

In a moment of desolation on a windswept beach Garrett bottles his words of undying love for a lost woman & throws them to the sea. My dearest Catherine I miss you my darling as I always do but today is particularly hard because the ocean has been singing to me & the song is that of our life together.. . But the bottle is picked up by Theresa a mother with a shattered past who feels unaccountably drawn to this lonely man. Who are this couple? What is their story? Beginning a search that will take her to a sunlit coastal town & an unexpected confrontation it is a tale that resonates with everlasting love & the enduring promise of redemption. ...

From the internationally bestselling author of Angels in my Hair comes the Sunday Times Number One bestseller with messages of hope for you. In A Message of Hope from the Angels Irish mystic Lorna Byrne brings a vital urgent communication from above for these challenging times. ' The Angel told me ' Hope makes the impossible possible Lorna sees angels with as much clarity as the rest of us see people & she speaks to them every day. In the past Lorna has talked about her life & how the angels prepared her to deliver a message to the world. This book contains her message of hope & this message is for you. She writes about how she sees angels helping people when they are feeling tired helpless depressed unloved inadequate as a parent struggling financially or simply too busy. In A Message of Hope from the Angels Lorna tells in a simple & direct way how you can call on this help to make your life better & happier. THIS CHRISTMAS EDITION CONTAINS NEW MESSAGES. ...