Adrian Penketh's adaptation of Maupassant's first novel. Jeanne de Lamare - a sheltered and naive country aristocrat - leaves her convent education filled with thoughts of love and romance. Lamare marries a smallminded local landowner, and begins to discover how rotten and treacherous adult life is all around her. Jeanne believes that conceiving a second child will heal the ache in her heart caused by a loveless marriage in a rotten world.Stars Aimee Ffion Edwards as Jeanne, Adam N...

It is a picturesque day in Washington, DC, when a nuclear blast disintegrates buildings and innocent victims in a blinding flash of fury. As a mushroom cloud forms above the city, Ahkmed Mohammad Allakheem, sadistic leader of the worlds most wanted terrorist organization, nods his approval, slips a dream disc from a port, and places it into a plain case marked Abu.FBI agent John Tower is fascinated by a new trend that invites guests to experience virtual dreams. But just as he is pl...

Full-cast dramatisation of the hot-blooded historical romance set in 18th century Wales‘Jones has a talent for writing natural witty dialogue…’ Best SellersSworn allegiances, cruel punishments, broken hearts, shattered dreams and ancient magic make for an utterly spellbinding listen in this full-cast adaptation of Gareth Jones’s masterful novel.1745. 18th century Wales is a land that time forgot. The burden of squalid povert...

Robert W. Chambers's The King in Yellow is a haunting cycle of loosely connected tales unified by the imagined forbidden drama from which the volume takes its name. Blending decadent fin-de-siècle aesthetics with supernatural dread, the book moves from bohemian Paris and alternative-history America to intimate studies of obsession, art, and madness. Its style is elegant, ironic, and suggestive rather than explicit, situating it between Gothic romance, Symbolist literature, and the emerging...

This extensive compilation with comprehensive index represents two decades of personal research on Indigenous culture and spirituality. It analyses group identity and seeks to highlight the fundamental building blocks or ‘essence’ of Aboriginal well-being. The author extracts the critical issues faced by Indigenous communities and relates these to mainstream behavioural norms by drawing on the writings of Pearson, Sutton, Langton, Johns and many others, as well as comparing the values of g...

Roberts’ Rule: Tribal identity is proportional to discrimination by outsiders.ESSAYS ON ABORIGINALISM is the first collection from Dr Brian Roberts on Indigenous Futures and aims to present a more nuanced alternative to the simplistic Left/Right binary view offered by the contemporary Australian commentariat. The essays revisit the worldview of the de-colonisation idealists and employ the records of global colonisation as a means of rationalising historic migrations.Dr Robe...

On a wind lashed coast in the far north a group of men assemble on a construction site. The Ness and Struie Drainage Project will dominate their lives for the next few months when they will toil through the daylight hours and into the night, endure hardship and conflict, survive or, perhaps, not survive. Within the compound and wayleaves a new, temporary world will form, bounded by sea, mountains and sky. Site Works is the story of the men and their work, transients creating something perm...

Jean Mungken is commited to helping her remote community as an indigenous health worker. The limits of what she is able to achieve in this role soon show and Jean chooses to further her studies at a post graduate level. She is soon caught between her lecturers and a grumpy South African former academic, as she tries to navigate the processes, policies and politics of academia to undertake a research project centred largely on her home, the vast savannah-clad Cape York Peninsular in Far Nor...

The Life of Bismarck traces Otto von Bismarck's rise from Prussian Junker origins to the commanding statesman of German unification, emphasizing character, political will, diplomacy, and the shaping of national destiny. Written in the nineteenth-century biographical mode, it combines narrative history, moral portraiture, and patriotic interpretation, placing Bismarck within the turbulent context of Prussian reform, constitutional conflict, and European power politics. George Hesekiel was a...

Robert Cromie's The Crack of Doom is a striking late-Victorian scientific romance in which speculative physics, melodramatic intrigue, and apocalyptic suspense converge. Centred on the possibility that matter itself might be unlocked to catastrophic effect, the novel imagines a weapon of almost unimaginable destructive power decades before the atomic age. Its style blends the brisk plotting of adventure fiction with the intellectual daring of fin-de-siècle science writing, placing it besid...

Robert W. Chambers's The Hidden Children is a historical frontier romance set amid the violence and uncertainty of the American Revolution, particularly the border warfare of New York and the campaigns against the Iroquois Confederacy. Combining adventure, sentimental romance, military episode, and ethnographic curiosity, the novel reflects the early twentieth-century taste for patriotic historical fiction while retaining Chambers's gift for atmosphere, suspense, and melodramatic revelatio...

HMS Dreadnought (1906) is closely associated with the age of empire, the Anglo-German antagonism and the naval arms race before the First World War. Yet it was also linked with a range of other contexts - political and cultural, national and international - that were central to the Edwardian period. The chapters in this volume investigate these contexts and their intersection in this symbolically charged icon of the Edwardian age. In reassessing the most famous warship of the period, this ...