A collection of stories set in the tenements and cheap casinos of Glasgow, Manchester and London.

In the spring of 1802, Richard Bolitho is summoned to the Admiralty in London and given his orders for a difficult and, to him, distasteful task. Even an advanced promotion does not compensate for his sudden and thankless mission. Chronologically following the events covered by A Tradition of Victory , this is the fifteenth Richard Bolitho story.

Presented here is a debut collection of short stories set in Ireland and the Deep South of America. They reveal lives where dreams, memory and chance can lead to horrifying consequences; worlds where obsession and dark tensions seethe just beneath the surface.

This volume contains the complete collection of Sarah Kane's plays, including Blasted ; Phaedra's Love ; Cleansed ; Crave ; 4.48 Psychosis ; and Skin .

In this collection of stories, Kureishi chronicles the loveless, the lost and the dispossessed. They represent the frustrated and intoxicating, the melancholic and sensitive, capable of great cruelty and willing to break constraints of an old life to make way for the new.

A collection of seven prose works and a series of articles.