Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig...
Cavorting naked through the Warwickshire countryside painted green...
Acting opposite a child with a pumpkin on his head...
These are just a few of the things Dame Judi Dench has done in the name of Shakespeare.
For the very first time, Judi opens up about every Shakespearean role she has played throughout her seven-decade career, from Lady Macbeth and Titania to Ophelia and Cleopatra. In a series of intimate conversations with actor & director Brendan O'Hea, she guides us through Shakespeare's plays with incisive…
** FROM THE NY TIMES and Costa shortlisted author, comes a NEW standalone thriller**
The truth can set you free. Or destroy your life
When blood spatter expert Claudia O'Shiel finds herself on stage to talk about the most famous criminal case in recent history, she has a choice to make: explain how her evidence put away the man responsible for the brutal double murder? Or tell them the truth - that the real killer is still out there, and if she tries to expose this conspiracy, it won't just be her life on the line.
The Echo of Old Books meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets.
'The thing about books,' she said 'is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of.'
On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found...
For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives.
But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones…
Annie Thornton, an English midwife and apprentice witch, her telepathic cat, Rosamund, and her witchy Aunt Meg, travel to 17th-century London to see William Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
Overcrowded London is bursting at the seams with the privileged, the poor and the rogues. A bag of silver brought by the travellers to purchase food and lodgings becomes a sought-after prize by criminal gangs who will stop at nothing to achieve their goal.
In constant danger, Annie and Meg send out a call for friends from the past. They also engage William Shakespeare to devise scenarios to befuddle the gangs and bring them to justice. What a few wigs, costumes and up-and-coming actors can do!
