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In an alternate nineteenth century where a technologically advanced Britain holds sway over most of the known world and the American Revolution never happened, young Gideon Smith is firmly established as the Hero of the Empire.

Back in London, Gideon and his colleagues: journalist Aloysius Bent, airship pilot Rowena Fanshawe, and Maria, the mechanical girl to whom Gideon has lost his heart, are dragged into a case that is confounding the Metropolitan Police. For the city is on the edge of mass rioting due to the continuing reign of terror by the serial killer known only as Jack the...

"I m good Hamlet gi me a cause for grief"

At first glance, readers of The Hamletmachine (1979) could be forgiven for wondering whether it is actually a play at all: it opens with a montage of texts that are not ascribed to a character, there is no vestige of a plot, and the whole piece lasts a total of ten pages.

Yet, Heiner Muller s play regularly features in theatres repertoires and is frequently staged by university theatre departments. In four short chapters, David Barnett unpicks the complexities of The Hamletmachine s writing and...

Ein charmantes, romantisches Buch über die Schönheit der Natur und den Zauber des Alltäglichen

Vor Jahren verband Gayle und Martin eine Collegeliebe. Doch Gayle, angehende Anwältin, hatte genug von Martin, einem Träumer, der sein Leben nicht auf die Reihe bekam. Zehn Jahre später ist sie in einer Beziehung mit einem anderen Mann, und Martin hat es als Leuchtturmwärter auf eine einsame Insel verschlagen. Wie es das Schicksal so will, wird Gayle im Rahmen ihrer Arbeit für einen Tag auf die Insel geschickt. Die beiden trifft der Schlag, als sie plötzlich...

Nineteenth century London is the center of a vast British Empire. Airships ply the skies and Queen Victoria presides over three-quarters of the known world--including the East Coast of America, following the failed revolution of 1775.

London might as well be a world away from Sandsend, a tiny village on the Yorkshire coast. Gideon Smith dreams of the adventure promised him by the lurid tales of Captain Lucian Trigger, the Hero of the Empire, told in Gideon's favorite "penny dreadful." When Gideon's father is lost at sea in highly mysterious circumstances Gideon is convinced that...