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Black British Drama: A Transnational Story looks afresh at the ways black theatre in Britain is connected to and informed by the spaces of Africa, the Caribbean and the USA.

Michael Pearce offers an exciting new approach to reading modern and contemporary black British drama, examining plays by a range of writers including Michael Abbensetts, Mustapha Matura, Caryl Phillips, Winsome Pinnock, Kwame Kwei-Armah, debbie tucker green, Roy Williams and Bola Agbaje. Chapters combine historical documentation and discussion with close analysis to provide an in-depth, absorbing...

Trieste in 1906 is of vital strategic importance and one of the world's greatest seaports. But assorted nationalist movements are threatening to pull the place apart and the militarist regime has trouble keeping a lid on things.

Amid all the chaos the British consul goes missing, and Special Branch Seymour is sent to find him. Born to an immigrant family in London's East End, Seymour has an acute linguistic ear - crucial in turn-of-the-century Trieste. As he attempts to solve the riddle of the consul's disappearance, Seymour discovers dark and disturbing corners of the city and finds that...

Black British Drama: A Transnational Story looks afresh at the ways black theatre in Britain is connected to and informed by the spaces of Africa, the Caribbean and the USA.

Michael Pearce offers an exciting new approach to reading modern and contemporary black British drama, examining plays by a range of writers including Michael Abbensetts, Mustapha Matura, Caryl Phillips, Winsome Pinnock, Kwame Kwei-Armah, debbie tucker green, Roy Williams and Bola Agbaje. Chapters combine historical documentation and discussion with close play analysis to provide an in-depth, absorbing...

From the award-winning author of the Mamur Zapt series.

From the award-winning Michael Pearce, comes a delightful murder mystery set in Egypt in 1908. A body is found on the tracks of a new electric railway and the Mamur Zapt is called in to investigate.

A classic historical mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, set in the Egypt of the 1900s. When gang violence strikes the city, the inimitable Mamur Zapt is called in to investigate.

Shortlisted for the Ellis Peters Award for best historical crime novel, this is an engrossing murder mystery set in the Egypt of the 1900s, featuring the inimitable Mamur Zapt.

A classic historical mystery from award-winning Michael Pearce, in which the body of a young woman washes up in the Nile and the Mamur Zapt is drawn into the seedy world of Egyptian politics.

Filled with real examples of the way people use English in different contexts, The Routledge Dictionary of English Language Studies is an indispensable guide to the richness and variety of the English language for both students and the general reader.

From abbreviation to zero-article, via fricative and slang, the Dictionary contains over 600 wide ranging and informative entries covering:

• the core areas of language description and analysis: phonetics and phonology, grammar, lexis, semantics, pragmatics and discourse
• sociolinguistics,...

Filled with real examples of the way people use English in different contexts, The Routledge Dictionary of English Language Studies is an indispensable guide to the richness and variety of the English language for both students and the general reader.

From abbreviation to zero-article, via fricative and slang, the Dictionary contains over 600 wide ranging and informative entries covering:

• the core areas of language description and analysis: phonetics and phonology, grammar, lexis, semantics, pragmatics and discourse
• sociolinguistics,...

A classic murder mystery from Michael Pearce's award-winning series, set in Egypt in the 1900s, in which the Mamur Zapt confronts the secrets of his past.

A classic murder mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, which sees the Mamur Zapt investigate a series of suspicious kidnappings in the Cairo of the 1900s.

In this engrossing murder mystery set in the Egypt of the 1900s, the Mamur Zapt finds himself under threat from a campaign to discredit Cairo's senior policemen.

In this fourth saga of Edwardian Egypt, history and mystery are superbly blended when the Mamur Zapt, British head of Cairo's secret police, becomes the target of gunmen bent on killing public servants. Wry, impartial humour.--London Observer.

This book provides a detailed description of why humans make art - what they want to gain from it, why they bothered to do it at all in the earliest days of prehistory, and why representational art matters in the present.

Mandy has one task to accomplish before she becomes a full-fledged tooth fairy--to deliver a gift to a little girl named Estelle who has lost her first tooth. On the way, Mandy gets knocked off course and runs into a goose named Geraldine. On their journey to help Mandy become a tooth fairy, the two learn lessons of problem solving and working together, all while becoming the best of friends.

THE MEDIEVAL SWORD IN THE MODERN WORLD: An examination of the renaissance of the Medieval Sword "The Medieval Sword in the Modern World" is an in-depth look at reproduction swords and other medieval edged weapons in the 21st century. With over 100 pages of information and photographs of the work of some of today's leading sword-makers and manufacturers. Whether you are just beginning your aquaintance with the medieval sword or are an experienced collector or martial artist this book provides valuable information about the different types of swords, their manufacture, details of what to look...