The era of the Great Depression signaled the collapse of the modern industrial world. Sepia photographs of 1933 depicted American bread lines, soup kitchens, and dusty shantytowns. Headlines proclaimed President Roosevelt's New Deal, Hitler's rise to power, and Japan's annexation of Manchuria. Duke Ellington played to packed houses at the Cotton Club while Americans went hungrySecure in upper-class privilege, Charles Stone and his father, Ruben, had little concern for the sociopolit...

A girl trapped by the colour of her skin. A politician desperate to regain power. A family ripped apart.16-year-old Pullamma, with her dark skin, has resigned herself to a limited future in her remote South Indian village. For this reason, she’s obliged her old-fashioned grandmother by not doing well in school. She’s also resigned to remaining unwed. For with three girls in the family, there’s simply not enough dowry to go around.Soon a wedding alliance arr...

Over one hundred thousand years ago they ruled in Edin, Now Iran and Iraq, setting up magnificent cities that have long since crumbled to dust. The mining colony had expanded hugely to become the Anunnaki civilisation, which had spread to Africa and India - to quench Nibiru's seemingly never ending lust for gold. Rivalry between the brothers reached fever pitch, once EnKi made his human worker. The Anunnaki/ human hybrid race proliferated and the story took on biblical proportions, with ri...

Jamaica: a sensual paradise where the sun, sea and sand are free but anything more comes at a price.Welcome to the 21st century where women travel across the world in search of sex, love, and liberation but the reality is that hard cash equals hard men. Toned torsos and slick sweet talk meets orange peel beneath the coconut trees in an exchange that leaves everyone short-changed.Sugar Mummies is a funny, provocative and revealing study of the pleasures and pitfulls o...

Sophie Remenis lives for fun with friends and lovers; a working class La Dolce Vita of transient jobs, ephemeral relationships and parties, parties, parties. What decisions will be forced on her when she realises that street-life is only for the young.

Vivian and Remedios have begun a new chapter of their lives in a strange foreign land. What struggles will they face as they try to secure a better future?Beyond the darkness lies the rebuilding power of love.A novel about the struggles and sacrifices of working women abroad in their quest for a better life.

Three stories of Borneo and India.In BANSING, an Iban girl nurses a British agent and becomes a catalyst to bring about Iban involvement in WW-II.In RITE OF PASSAGE A young Iban must choose between life in his longhouse or the larger world of a Communist takeover.NIRVANA: In this erotic tale with a surprise twist, an Indian chela finds Nirvana is not quite what he expected

The first performance in The Space, Tanika Gupta's Fragile Land is about what nationhood means for second generation immigrants: revealing the complexities of life for a new generation of young Londoners. Suitable for ages 14+Fragile Land was performed at the Hampstead Theatre, London, from 25th March - 12th April 2003.

The Seagull is a drama by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Tréplev. This edition has been formatted for your reader, with an a...

SEARCH FOR THE WOMAN is the first of a quartet following the life and adventures of David through the astonishing social and political changes, in Britain and the wider world, from the end of the Second World War to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century.This book tells the story of an international romance through the social history of the Seventies, a time with particular resonance to the first decade of the twenty-first century. It is also a powerful polemic, to...

Aesop, the man with a fable to elucidate any situation, finds himself guarding the back of his friend Solon of Athens during the politically seminal year of 594BC, when the latter was foolish enough to get himself appointed Chief Archon of Athens in exceptionally complex and very dangerous circumstances.A free market economy has run through to its ultimate point with the entire population enslaved by the 400 members of the High Council of the Areopagus, resulting in a fullscale peas...

On the eve of his release from Feltham Young Offenders Institution, Zahid Mubarek, a young British Asian man, was attacked by his racist cellmate. One week later he died of his injuries.How was this allowed to happen?This new play traces the Mubarek family's pursuit of the truth. Based on evidence given to the Zahid Mubarek Inquiry and interviews taken, one of Britain's leading writers examines the incompetence of the official response to Zahid Mubarek's death.