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Diary of a Madman

By: Howard Colyer

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Gogol's short story, Diary of a Madman, adapted for the stage. ""This is a play about an individual's descent into madness, brought to life by a brilliant trio of actor David Bromley, director Scott Le Crass, and author Howard Colyer. But what makes the play interesting is that Gogol's protagonist defies the literary mould: he has a condition usually reserved for tormented kings and ladies imprisoned in the attic. Rather than being ordinary, he is 'extraordinary', a term peppering Howard Colyer's script. Through Poprishchin, Gogol portrays his contempt for government and bureaucracy, and allows this lowly civil servant to become a leader...at least in his own mind."" Emma Slater, London Theatre, reviewing the production at the Jack Studio.

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1471660001

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Haiku Diary 2018

By: Howard Colyer

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Haiku Diary 2018

By: Howard Colyer

A diary in haiku - life at a rate of seventeen syllables a day.

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122

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0244788286

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9780244788285

The Gallery

By: Howard Colyer

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The Gallery

By: Howard Colyer

The 36 stories in this collection were written or re-written in London between 2000 and 2006. Most are shorter than a page. The longest is seven pages. Some have appeared in, Smoke: a London Peculiar.

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1847285694

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9781847285690

The Overcoat

By: Howard Colyer

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The Overcoat

By: Howard Colyer

Gogol's story of a clerk in St. Petersburg adapted for the stage, and first performed at the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre in London on 19 January, 2011. "An unforgettable production conjuring the alienating city of St Petersburg under the rigid hierarchy of Tsarist bureaucracy and its unfortunate victim, the wretched Everyman - Bashmachkin." Bernie Whelan, EXTRA! EXTRA! 27 January, 2011. "The Overcoat is a play with serious literary pedigree." Paul Prowse, South London Press, 28 January, 2011. "An hour of mesmerizing theatre." Atomies.org, 29 January, 2011.

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1409294846

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Loneliness on Shooters Hill

By: Howard Colyer

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Loneliness on Shooters Hill

By: Howard Colyer

The stories in this collection were written in London between 1993 and 2000. Mostly they are about solitary people struggling to be different.

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186

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1847286372

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9781847286376

Agamemnon

By: Howard Colyer,Seneca

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Agamemnon

By: Howard Colyer,Seneca

The war is over and the hero returns. But what good is a hero without a war? What else does he know but warfare? And his city has managed without him. The gap left by his departure has closed. Yet the problems he left behind have remained. They have lain dormant. But his return revives them.

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129168834X

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9781291688344

Gregory Gun

By: Howard Colyer

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Gregory Gun

By: Howard Colyer

Gregory Gun is devoted to his job and he is made redundant. And then he struggles. But he tries to cope and he fights against his own character; but finally he shuts himself away and becomes a hermit in London, and lives a strange and secret life.

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1847289444

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9781847289445

Flight

By: Howard Colyer,Mikhail Bulgakov

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Flight

By: Howard Colyer,Mikhail Bulgakov

The Civil War is drawing to an end in Russia. The White Army is disintegrating and a wave of refugees is about to descend on Turkey, and then spread across Europe. Bulgakov's play follows the fate of a small group of Russians from the Crimea to Constantinople to Paris. It is a tragic comedy that was never staged during the life of its author due to the opposition of Stalin. ""There is no doubt that this is one of the masterpieces of world theatre and in this solid production of a terrific translation it is well worth catching."" Peter Scott-Presland reviewing the production at the Jack Studio.

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150

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1291049460

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9781291049466

Millwall Haiku

By: Howard Colyer

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Millwall Haiku

By: Howard Colyer

Thirteen seasons in three lines, 2003/4 - 2015/16, short and sharp match reports from the Den.

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1326626930

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9781326626938

Mandrake

By: Howard Colyer,Niccolò Machiavelli

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Mandrake

By: Howard Colyer,Niccolò Machiavelli

A play about marriage, lust, adultery, corruption and deceit - all aided by the Mandrake Infusion. It is Machiavelli's greatest sex farce, and a landmark of the Italian Renaissance. This adaptation opened at the Jack Studio Theatre in London on 28 May 2013. "I'm not sure what liberties were applied in bringing a hit from the 1520s to the 21st century stage, but Mandrake had a timeless yet timely vibe about it - like a smart Shakespearean production. It was fresh and contemporary brimming with universal and relevant themes and a humour that's stood the test of time." Chris Osburn Tikichris.com. "Howard Colyer's latest twist on a classic is a wonderfully watchable romp that packs a political punch to go with its comic cuts." Gary Naylor Broadwayworld.com

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1291327770

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9781291327779

The Long Island Motor Parkway

By: Howard Kroplick,Al Velocci

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The Long Island Motor Parkway

By: Howard Kroplick,Al Velocci

A forerunner of the modern highway system, the Long Island Motor Parkway was constructed during the advent of the automobile and at a pivotal time in American history. Following a spectator death during the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race, the concept for a privately owned speedway on Long Island was developed by William K. Vanderbilt Jr. and his business associates. It would be the first highway built exclusively for the automobile. Vanderbilt's dream was to build a safe, smooth, police-free road without speed limits where he could conduct his beloved automobile races without spectators running onto the course. Features such as the use of reinforced concrete, bridges to eliminate grade crossings, banked curves, guardrails, and landscaping were all pioneered for the parkway. Reflecting its poor profitability and the availability of free state-built public parkways, the historic 48-mile Long Island Motor Parkway closed on Easter Sunday, April 17, 1938.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738557935

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9780738557939

Account of the Finances of the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge 1511-1926

By: Henry Fraser Howard

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Account of the Finances of the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge 1511-1926

By: Henry Fraser Howard

The financial history of St John's College, Cambridge, from its foundation in 1511 until 1926.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108012221

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9781108012225

God and the Atlantic

America, Europe, and the Religious Divide

By: Thomas Albert Howard

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God and the Atlantic

America, Europe, and the Religious Divide

By: Thomas Albert Howard

The first major work of cultural and intellectual history devoted to the subject of the transatlantic religious divide. Using nineteenth and early twentieth century commentary on the subject, Howard helps us understand why Americans have maintained much friendlier ties with traditional forms of religion than their European counterparts.

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271

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Oxford University Press

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0199565511

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9780199565511

Hopeless Cases

The Hunt for the Red Scare Terrorist Bombers

By: Charles Howard McCormick

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Hopeless Cases

The Hunt for the Red Scare Terrorist Bombers

By: Charles Howard McCormick

Hopeless Cases describes the futile search for those responsible for a series of apparently related terrorist attacks and plots in the World War I-Red Scare era during the final surge of early twentieth-century anarchist violence in the United States. The most brazen attacks occurred in 1919 when bombs mailed to thirty-six public figures nationwide in May were followed in June by coordinated nearly simultaneous bombings aimed at public figures and institutions in eight cities. The end of the campaign was the Wall Street explosion (September 16, 1920) that killed forty and injured hundreds. Scores were arrested (thirty for the Wall Street explosion alone), but lawmen never caught the culprits. Fears aroused by bomb blasts gave the Justice Department carte blanche to roundup and deport alien radicals, particularly Bolsheviks, in 1919-1920. The bombings raised issues, including the fear of an unknown enemy and the government's need for accurate intelligence, that mirror today's post 9/11 era. The book profiles the suspects but focuses on the investigators, especially the Bureau of Investigation and its spies and informants. Based largely upon FBI files, it explores the Bureau's relationship with British Intelligence in New York City, and to the Sacco-Vanzetti case, as well as a privately funded search for the bombers. Throughout, the manhunt was handicapped by disputes with other law enforcement agencies and by intra-Bureau jealousies and rivalries, agent job insecurity and high turnover, inadequate training and resources, and morale problems, particularly in the New York and Boston field offices.

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University Press of America

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0761831320

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9780761831327

Spying on the Reich

The Cold War Against Hitler

By: R. T. Howard

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Spying on the Reich

The Cold War Against Hitler

By: R. T. Howard

Exactly a century ago, intelligence agencies across Europe first became aware of a fanatical German nationalist whose political party was rapidly gathering momentum. His name was Adolf Hitler. From 1933, these spy services watched with growing alarm as they tried to determine what sort of threat Hitler's regime would now pose to the rest of Europe. Would Germany rearm, either covertly or in open defiance of the outside world? Would Hitler turn his attention eastwards - or did he also pose a threat to the west? What were the feelings and attitudes of ordinary Germans, towards their own regime as well as the outside world? Despite intense rivalry and mistrust between them, these spy chiefs began to liaise and close ranks against Nazi Germany. At the heart of this loose, informal network were the British and French intelligence services, alongside the Poles and Czechs. Some other countries - Holland, Belgium, and the United States - stood at the periphery. Drawing on a wide range of previously unpublished British, French, German, Danish, and Czech archival sources, Spying on the Reich tells the story of Germany and its rearmament in the 1920s and 1930s; its relations with foreign governments and their intelligence services; and the relations and rivalries between Western governments, seen through the prism of the cooperation, or lack of it, between their spy agencies. Along the way, it addresses some of the most intriguing questions that still perplex historians of the period, such as how and why Britain defended Poland in September 1939, and what alternative policies could have been pursued?

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Oxford University Press

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0192862995

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9780192862990

You'll be Sorry

How World War II Changed Women's Lives

By: Ann Howard

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You'll be Sorry

How World War II Changed Women's Lives

By: Ann Howard

Honouring grandmothers and mothers in a superb account of women’s participation in the Services during World War II, and their ensuing battle for equal opportunity that set the foundation for the Women’s Liberation Movement of the 70s.

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350

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Simon and Schuster

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1925275876

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9781925275872

The Oxford Handbook of Singing

By: Graham Welch,David Howard,John Nix

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The Oxford Handbook of Singing

By: Graham Welch,David Howard,John Nix

Singing has been a characteristic behaviour of humanity across several millennia. Chorus America (2009) estimated that 42.6 million adults and children regularly sing in one of 270,000 choruses in the US, representing more than 1:5 households. Similarly, recent European-based data suggest that more than 37 million adults take part in group singing. The Oxford Handbook of Singing is a landmark text on this topic. It is a comprehensive resource for anyone who wishes to know more about the pluralistic nature of singing. In part, the narrative adopts a lifespan approach, pre-cradle to senescence, to illustrate that singing is a commonplace behaviour which is an essential characteristic of our humanity. In the overall design of the Handbook, the chapter contents have been clustered into eight main sections, embracing fifty-three chapters by seventy-two authors, drawn from across the world, with each chapter illustrating and illuminating a particular aspect of singing. Offering a multi-disciplinary perspective embracing the arts and humanities, physical, social and clinical sciences, the book will be valuable for a broad audience within those fields.

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0192576089

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