A popular soldier & newly married man Othello seems to be in an enviable position. & yet when his supposed friend sows doubts in his mind about his wife's fidelity he is gradually consumed by suspicion. In this powerful tragedy innocence is corrupted & trust is eroded as every relationship is drawn into a tangled web of jealousies. ...

This is an intense drama of love deception jealousy & destruction. Desdemona's love for Othello the Moor transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives. In its vivid rendering of racism sexism contested identities & the savagery lurking within civilisation Othello is arguably the most topical & accessible tragedy from Shakespeare's major phase as a dramatist. ...

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students with accessible on-page notes & explanatory illustrations clear background information & rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. Othello is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition

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This is our best-selling York Notes Advanced title. This book will be packed with features to help the students improve their grade. Talking extensively to teachers examiners & students there seems to be a need for more information outside what the students already know. Features like check the book check the film & check the net will now offer students more opportunity to develop their researching skills & provide that extra information. More importantly there will be features that address the specific needs of students studying for the new AS & A2 exams. There will now be text boxes in the margin labelled ' Context' which will describe the literary historical cultural religious or philisophical context of specific references in the text (contextualisation is the new buzz word in the exam syllabuses). There will be at least 20 of these boxes in every book. The glossaries are now integrated in the text so that students don't need to turn the page to find out the meaning of a word. There will also be regular exam questions integrated in the text which will help students revise. Summaries will be cut down & bulleted where appropriate to make way for extra features (meaning extent remains the same) so that the books are now not only appropriate for students who buy the book to cram they are also important for higher-level students who need more information to get themselves the top grade. ...

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Seattle 1972: Neil Countryman & John William Barry two teenage boys from very different backgrounds are at the start of an 800m race. Their lives collide for the first time & so begins an extraordinary friendship. As they grow older Neil follows the conventional route of the American dream but the eccentric fiercely intelligent John William makes radically different choices dropping out of college & moving deep into the woods. Convinced it is the only way to live without hypocrisy John William enlists Neil to help him disappear completely drawing his oldest friend into a web of secrets & agonising responsibility deceit & tragedy
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A fabulously fun new twist on Noahs Ark by master storyteller Lynley Dodd! The rain is fast approaching & Noah wants to set sail. There are still lots of animals queueing to get on to the Ark but its absolutely jam packed. Noah has to ask his friend Sam Jam Balu to take the other Ark & all the rest of the animals. So he valiantly starts gathering hip-hopping hippos mad kangaroosters & flying flapdoodles
- not to mention the dithering dingbats & sabre-tooth mice! But no sooner has San Jam Balu finished his task than the Other Ark is well & truly grounded!
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Fabulous historical by No.1 bestseller Philippa Gregory the queen of Tudor novels. Set in the court of King Henry VIII Mary Boleyn attracts the attention of the young king & becomes his mistress; when he tires of her she sets out to school her sister Anne as a replacement. Politics & passion are inextricably bound together in this compelling drama. The Boleyn family is keen to rise through the ranks of society & what better way to attract the attention of the most powerful in the land than to place their most beautiful young woman at court? But Mary becomes the kings mistress at a time of change. He needs his personal pleasures but he also needs an heir. The unthinkable happens & the course of English history is irrevocably changed. For the women at the heart of the storm they have only one weapon; & when its no longer enough to be the mistress Mary must groom her younger sister in the ways of the king. What happens next is common knowledge
- but here it is told in a way weve never heard it before with all of Philippa Gregorys characteristic perceptiveness backed by meticulous research & superb storytelling skills.
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An old farm a deserted landscape a dark secret from times past with fatal consequences for the present. In the tranquil northern seaside town of Scarborough a student is found cruelly murdered. For months the investigators are in the dark until they are faced with a copy-cat crime. The investigation continues apace yet they are still struggling to establish a connection between the two victims. Ambitious detective Valerie Almond clings to the all too obvious: a rift within the family of the second victim. But there is far more to the case than first appears & Valerie is led towards a dark secret inextricably linked to the evacuation of children to Scarborough during World War II. Horrified at her last-minute discovery Valerie realises that she may be too late for action... ...

The Other Country was Carol Ann Duffys third collection & as with her later books takes its readers on journeys that seem initially similar -- but soon prove anything but. This book leads our imagination to places our minds could not have suspected were there or would not have dared to go alone. Some of its voices are disarmingly direct while others blur the lines between fantasy & reality confession & self-delusion forcing us to re-examine everything we thought we knew about some of our most basic human drives & emotions. Deeply intelligent unflinchingly honest with a deftness of touch & tone & openness all the more moving for its lack of sentimentality The Other Country is as remarkable a collection today as it was on its first publication. You cant classify Carol Ann Duffy as a love poet or a comic poet or a political poet because she is all these things but so much more.. . She gets straight to the emotions Daisy Goodwin Sunday Times Urgent & packed with future classics The Other Country is a book that proclaims that poetry is alive. Be in there early Peter Forbes Guardian ...