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  Perfection Comes at a Price

  Ulla Beattie

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  Eric has a miserable childhood in a violent, drunken family in a tough London housing estate. He compensates by looking for perfection. For him, this means worldly success in a diplomatic career as far away from his childhood as possible. His single-minded ambition comes at a price. It makes him leave his childhood sweetheart Katie behind, since he knows that she can’t keep up with him. Their ways part. Eric marries an upper-class woman and becomes an Ambassador. However, Katie and he never quite lose touch. After his wife’s death Eric and Katie come together again. There is action and pace, fun and sadness, a huge variety of life experiences and a sense of providence and redemption.

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  Machinal (NHB Classic Plays)

  Sophie Treadwell

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  A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder.
  Sophie Treadwell was a campaigning journalist in America between the wars. Among her assignments was the sensational murder involving Snyder, who with her lover, Judd Gray, had murdered her husband and gone to the electric chair.
  'This is a play written in anger. In the dead wasteland of male society - it seems to ask - isn't it necessary for certain women, at least, to resort to murder?' - Nicholas Wright
  With an introduction by Judith E. Barlow.
  'gripping... doesn't loosen its hold on the senses until its shattering climax' Independent
  'stingingly fresh and provocative' Time Out New York
  '[a work of] rare and disturbing beauty' New York Times

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  Lonesome Poplar Tree - Selected...

  Josip Murn

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  Though Murn’s oeuvre ranges from erotic pieces to poems about the countryside, from atmospheric and reflective to narrative poems, the boundaries between these categories are often blurred. His most acclaimed works are his countryside lyric poems and atmospheric pieces. The former, seemingly echoing the simplicity of folk songs, render the townsman’s dream of a bucolic idyll. Murn plays through a vast repertory of metres and rhymes, sometimes harking back to traditional folk forms, such as ballads or romances, sometimes even switching to free verse. His atmospheric poems, on the other hand, paint miniature impressions – usually melancholy ones – of natural scenes. Noteworthy is Murn’s masterful use of sound devices, from general euphony to expressive sound repetition.

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  Cinders of Castlerea - No Little...

  Pamela Q. Fernandes

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  In this romantic suspense novel, dangerously attractive businessman, Charles Kilbrooke is hunting the arsonist that killed his fiancée in Castlerea. Blaming himself for her death, he returns to the small Irish town with a ruthless plan. He refuses to succumb to the exotic beauty creating mayhem in his life. 
  Anika Bassein has changed everything about her past. She wants nothing to do with fire ever since her parents B&B was set ablaze. When she sees an ad with free lodging in an obscure holiday town, she accepts. Sparks fly with her handsome neighbor. 
  But where there’s smoke, there’s fire....

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  Rhyme A Dozen A - Love - 12...

  William Shakespeare, William...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
   
  1 - A Rhyme a Dozen - 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic.  Love - An Introduction 
  2 - Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare 
  3 - He Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats 
  4 - If Thou Must Love Me Let It Be For Nought by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  5 - Bright Star by John Keats 
  6 - Oh Lovers by Jalaluddin Rumi 
  7 - Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  8 - Go Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller 
  9 - A Red Red Rose by Robert Burns 
  10 - She Walks In Beauty by Lord Byron 
  11 - The Good Morrow by John Donne 
  12 - The Passionate Shepherd To His Love by Christopher Marlowe 
  13 - The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear

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  The Alamo - A Radio Dramatization

  Jerry Robbins

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  General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna arrives in San Antonio with 6,000 troops and begins to besiege the Alamo for thirteen days.  Flying a red flag and playing the El Deguello (cut the throat), Santa Anna signals that no quarter will be given to the defenders.  You will be there with David Crockett, Jim Bowie, William Travis, and 16-year-old David Cummings as they fight to the bitter end in this spectacular epic production of one of the worlds most famous battles.

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