Richard III is one of the finest of Shakespeare’s historical dramas. Although it has a huge cast. Richard himself, gleefully wicked, charimastically Machiavellian, always dominates the play: a role to gratify such leading actors as David Garrick, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Sher, Ian McKellen and Al Pacino. Since, in real life, political Machiavellianism is never out of date, Richard III rem…
The eight story. Nineteen years later. It’s been nineteen years since Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger saved the wizarding world, and now they’re back on a most extraordinary adventure, joined by a brave new generation that’s only just arrived at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his younge…
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. From author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Tales from the Café another story of four new customers, each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Café Funiculi Funi…
If you could go back, who would you want to meet? In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else beside coffee—the chance to travel back in time. Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of making that journey. But time…
What can your dreams tell you about your hidden desires? Certainly Sigmund Freud will have some answers for you. In this unconventional tete-a-tete, Freud expert D M Thomas sits down with the father of psychoanalysis to answer all your burning question. Freud is no stranger to controversy and in this frank dialogue you will discover the intricacies of Freud’s theory of human development. H…
A Fictional Dialogue Based On Biographical Facts Author of some of the most memorable characters in all of literature, Dickens is widely considered the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His work is timeless, transcending generations, while he continues to be one of the most adapted writers in all of history. During his lifetime, Dickens attracted international adulation on an unprecede…
Did falling apples really inspire Newton’s Law of Gravity? Why not ask him yourself? In this dialogue imagined by Newton aficionado Michael White, you’ll discover Newton’s immense influence on our understanding of the world today. Ask him about how he formulated the law of gravity, devised a radically new theory of light and created calculus. You’ll even have a chance to delve into N…