A clever retelling of Shakespeare's Tempest, conveying the brutality of colonialisation and its continuing repercussions today.
A moving story of grief that gives a voice to the exiled wife of King Lear.
In She Speaks! What Shakespeare's Women Might Have Said', Harriet Walter gives a voice to Shakespeare's female characters in creative and thought provoking monologues.
Ruth Goodman takes the reader on a fun exploration of life in Tudor England.
An action packed, fast paced and deeply gripping story set with the backdrop of a divided England living with the memory of a deposed King, a bloody Civil War and a new monarch hell bent on not forgetting or forgiving the past.
Jill Burke’s How To Be A Renaissance Woman explores the length Renaissance women went to achieve the ideal look. Highlighting that beauty was not just vanity but a form of social survival.
Enter Ghost tells the story of a woman who participates in a production of Hamlet on the West Bank, making for a heart-warming, gut-wrenching, humorous and devastating read. The characters are complex, interesting, and create an incredibly entertaining read - especially the cast and crew of the Hamlet production.
James Shapiro’s essential books reveal how art and Shakespeare have historically mirrored - and been weaponised by - America’s deepest political and cultural divides.
In The Green Ages, historian Annette Kehnel challenges the myth that the Middle Ages were "dark." Instead, she reveals a period of sophisticated sustainability, offering a historical survival guide for our modern ecological crisis.
