The Dangerous Kingdom of Love
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The kingdom of love is a frightening place. A dangerous place. What kind of fool wants to live...
Historical fiction King James I England
Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups
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There are few more precious routines than that of the bedtime story. So why do we discard this...
Poetical Dust: Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain
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In the South Transept of Westminster Abbey in London, the bodies of more than seventy men and women,...
Balderdash & Piffle: One Sandwich Short of a Dog's Dinner
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Balderdash & Piffle: One Sandwich Short of a Dog's Dinner is a thrilling ride through the...
Richard III: A Ruler and His Reputation
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Famously depicted as 'Crookback Dick', and as Shakespeare's 'bunch-back'd toad', the alleged...
Unperfect Histories: The Mirror for Magistrates, 1559-1610
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The Mirror for Magistrates, the collection of de casibus complaint poems in the voices of medieval...
Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems
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Not for nothing is William Shakespeare considered possibly the most famous writer in history; his...
The Travels of Reverend Olafur Egilsson (Reisubok Sera Olafs Egilssonar): The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on Iceland in 1627
Karl Smari Hreinsson and Adam Nichols
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In the summer of 1627, Barbary corsairs raided Iceland, killing dozens of people and abducting close...
Humiliation: And Other Essays on Honor, Social Discomfort and Violence
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How do we feel when our friend turns up with a holiday present and we have nothing ready to give in...
Second Look: Hitchcock: The Birds; Edwards: The Party; Scott: Blade Runner; Ruzowitzky: Anatomy; Scott: Gladiator
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Text in English & German. Like literary texts, films often tell stories on multiple levels. Ridley...