When Tony, Morrey and Serge were summoned by Sir Billy Gillanders to the U.N.E.X.A. headquarters they hoped they were to be sent on yet another mission to some distant planet. Instead they learned that they were to go to the moon, not as astronauts, but as detectives. Sir Billy wanted them to investigate a series of mysterious disappearances fro, Lunar City...

Now available in paperback, William C. Banfield’s acclaimed collection of interviews delves into the lives and work of forty-one Black composers. Each of the profiled artists offers a candid self-portrait that explores areas from training and compositional techniques to working in a exclusive canon that has existed for a very long time. At the same time, Banfield draws on sociology, Western concepts of art and taste, and vernacular musical forms like blues and jazz to provide a frame for t...

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING MONICA DOLAN (AS 'CANOE WIDOW' ANNE DARWIN) AND EDDIE MARSANHow did the most ordinary of couples pull off one of the most outrageous frauds of modern times? And why did they carry on with the lie for so long?Drowning in debt and facing almost certain bankruptcy, John Darwin did the unthinkable - he paddled out to sea in his red canoe and disappeared. After a massive search and...

From a spectrum of talented authors, a collection of essays on food, and its entwinement with our emotions and our lives.Of all the essentials for survival: oxygen, water, sleep, and food, only food is a vast treasure trove of memory and of sensory experience. Food is a portal to culture, to times past, to disgust, to comfort, to love: no matter one's feelings about a particular dish, they are hardly ever neutral.In MY FIRST POPSICLE, Zosia Mamet has curate...