In this sensitive and revealing biography of Agatha Christie, Gillian Gill probes the mysterious private life and motivations of one of the bestselling authors of all time and discovers a brilliant and eccentric woman whose passionate search for success was balanced by an obsession with privacy.
A hilarious assortment of the weirdest and wackiest tales ever to come out of the classroom – and they’re all
Painter Jack Vettriano emerged from the unlikely background of the Scottish coalfields – unknown and untutored – and has seen his canvases hung in the Royal Scottish Academy.
To a great mind, nothing is little’ Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes has become such an iconic figure that he’s almost
What were the achievements of the ’angry’ writers who emerged in the fifties?
Historically, they gave birth to the satire movement of the 1960s-Beyond the
Fringe, That Was the Week that Was and Private Eye. Their satire and
irreverence aroused enthusiasm in man, and a new ‘anti-Establishment’ mood
Exploring the brilliant web of verbal hocus-pocus that J.R.R. Tolkien delightedly spun in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, master hobbit investigator David Day reveals the myriad crafty puns and riddles, hidden meanings, and mythical associations beneath the saga’s thrilling surface.
‘Confessions’ is a collection of sexually provocative stories. Intelligent, sexually frank and stimulatingly revealing, the stories cover ferocious affairs, secret
In Tolkien’s Ring, David Day shows how the Lord of the Rings is the result of an ancient story-telling tradition; and how, by drawing upon the world’s primary myths and legends, J.R.R Tolkien created his own mythology for the twentieth century.
