Dickens in America is an imaginary lecture given by Charles Dickens on his travels to America in the nineteenth century. Drawn from his many letters, speeches and his book American Notes, this play – first produced at Bristol Old Vic in 1998 – is a gripping journey into Dickens’ life and work.

Ismail, Bella, Krim and Yonathon are teenagers. They quarrel, have sex, smoke joints, love, hate, kill and die in Bierut, Hiroshima, Ireland, Iraq, Bosnia...Crossfire is a heartstopping play about tumbling through the checkpoint of life and death warzones everywhere and at all times. Crossfire is a devastating indictment of the madness of war splashed on an epic canvas.This extraordinary play was first performed in English at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.

Thirteen Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories that send chills up the spine and create an atmosphere sure to make the reader turn on an extra light and push up the back of their armchair against the wall.Set amidst crumbling, ill-maintained churches and imposing cathedrals, on desolate coastland, moors and marshes, even along unlit roads extending into the new suburbs of London, the stories have been chosen for their quality of writing, imaginative range and diversity of character...

"All girls [should read] The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis." — Malala Yousafzai, New York TimesThe first book in Deborah Ellis’s riveting Breadwinner series is an award-winning novel about loyalty, survival, families and friendship under extraordinary circumstances during the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan in the late 1990s.Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan’s ca...

A CASE in point is the Benton, Indiana, ghost, which is attracting much attention. It has been seen and investigated by many people with reputations for intelligence and good sense, but so far no explanation of the strange appearance has been found.

A short story featuring SAS trooper Dan "Spider" Shepherd in action in Afghanistan, helping a 12-year-old boy get revenge for the death of his father.Shepherd went on to become an undercover cop in London in the series written by bestselling author Stephen Leather.Dead Drop is just under 14,000 words long, about thirty pages, perfect if you have half an hour to spare.Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers. He was a journalist for more th...

**NPR Books We Love 2021 | Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2021 | Booklist Best of 2021 | Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Titles | NYT Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2021 | Washington Independent Review of Books 51 Favorite Books of 2021“On Fragile Waves is a tremendous and almost unbearable work of witness. It is devastating and perfect.” — New York Times Book ReviewThe haunting story of a family of dreamers and tale-tellers looking for home in...

A short story from the national bestselling author of The Russian Concubine . . .It is 1942, and the war has come to Darwin, Australia. Japanese planes bring fear to the streets as air raids spit death from the skies. The best way to survive is to keep your head down, but Hatti Hoot—red-haired and six foot tall—doesn’t exactly blend in with the crowd.When Hatti spots two men looting a jewelry shop during one of the raids, she intervenes and scares them off....

This short piece is a look inside working and some of the inmates of the Work-House on Blackwell's Island in New York City during the Mid 19th century. The work-house was filled with the poor and the petty criminals. The Penitentiary was filled with the big time criminals.

The Sea Lady is a fantasy novel by British writer H. G. Wells, including some of the aspects of a fable. It was serialized from July to December 1901 in Pearson's Magazine before being published as a volume by Methuen. The inspiration for the novel was Wells's glimpse of May Nisbet, the daughter of the Times drama critic, in a bathing suit, when she came to visit at Sandgate, Wells having agreed to pay her school fees after her father's death.

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First published in 1872 and his third major work on evolutionary science, “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals” is Charles Darwin’s classic and influential examination of human behavior as it can be observed through the outwardly visible expression of emotions. The timeless question of whether nature or nurture is more important as the basis of human activity is one that has perplexed behavioral scientists since the inception of the discipline. Darwin’s examination of the sub...