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Mal Peet The Penalty

... Magician, is presumed kidnapped and Faustino unwillingly becomes involved in the desperate search to find him. A heady mix of slavery, soccer and the occult, this is another beautifully crafted and involving read from an author who has never yet failed to ...

Published: Friday 16 June 2006
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 80 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

5--A compact 19th-century copper lave-m~~ins

... volunteers dried up, and slavery (which had been abolished in France in 1315 by Louis X) was introduced. Towards end of the 18th century, there were 90,000 slaves in Guadeloupe and 66,000 in Martinique-and when in 1794 slavery was abolished by the National ...

Published: Thursday 30 August 2001
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1797 | Page: 51 | Tags: none

More literary times for the Times

... newspapers.” This year’s festival will run from 11th to 27th August. Major themes will include a focus on China and India, and slavery stories. The full programme is announced next Thursday (14th June). EDINBURGH B R e ...

Published: Friday 08 June 2007
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 107 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Hull Truck Theatre launches new playwriting festival

... PlayWrite 07 features three plays of 90 minutes each , based on stories inspired by the bicentenary of the abolition of slavery , with every writer expected to contribute a third of a script . The participants have one month to create the plays , which ...

Published: Thursday 24 May 2007
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 245 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Don’t miss

... stars in a new adaptation of novel . Drama on 3 : The Lamplighter R 3 , Sunday , March 25 , 9 pm Jackie epic poem explores slavery through lives . ...

Published: Thursday 22 March 2007
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 221 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

CHRISTMAS REVIEW: Jack and the Beanstalk

... the hand of his daughter Kate, Laura Whittard, and peace and happiness reign once more. Apart from the cow, who, sold into slavery halfway through Act I, is then forgot ten. But that's kids for you. Chris Denys directs and music is by Adam Rowe. Paul Downey ...

Published: Thursday 21 December 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 213 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

Ancestors finds a Voice

... serialising Ancestors by Paul Crooks (Black Amber over five weeks, to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery on 25th March and the book’s publication in B format. The serialisation started this week, with each extract consisting of ...

Published: Friday 23 February 2007
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 128 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

our changing relationship with the sea and British coastline, and how we are failing to treat either with ..

... with respect. Girling is a senior features writer for the Sunday Times. Book Scan N/R Rahila Gupta Enslaved: The New British Slavery Portobello, 12th, p/b, £12.99, 9781846270659 Shocking personal stories of present-day slaves here in Britain, trafficked, ...

Published: Friday 06 April 2007
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 118 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

THEATRE REVIEW: The Tempest

... he seems to avoid the more interesting possi bilities of this complex work, never touching on concepts of civilisation, slavery or the magic of the written word to be found in Prospero's library. Instead, the island is a place of random relationships ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 245 | Page: 8 | Tags: theatre review 

Don’t miss

... moves into the main house , opening on October 25 . Sold Hull Truck World premiere of John Godber and Jane play about sex slavery , with Kate Baines , Kaia Halpin and Joshua Richards , running from October 25 . Desire Under the Elms Citizens , Glasgow ...

Published: Thursday 25 October 2007
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 252 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Enthralling account of how Barbary pirates from Algiers raided Baltimore in south-west Ireland in 1631, ..

... men, women and children (English settlers, originally from Devon, Cornwall and Somerset) and took them away to a life of slavery in north Africa. Only two of them saw Ireland again. Book Scan N/R Gerard DeGroot Dark Side of the Moon:The Magnificent Madness ...

Published: Friday 03 November 2006
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 119 | Page: 32 | Tags: none