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Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also conta... More

Australian Workplace Relations explains the defining themes in workplace relations in the twenty-first century. It explores issues relating to employee voice, declining trade union membership, occupational health, disadvantaged workers and surveillance in the workplace. The treatment of each topic... More

It is the early years of the reign of Basil II, who has become one of the most successful, and most feared, Byzantine emperors. But for now, Basil rules as a co-emperor with his brother Constantine, and makes war on a would-be usurper, Bardas Phokas, son of a general who Basil supplanted.... More

Eat your way around the world without leaving your home in this mouthwatering cultural history of 100 classic dishes.Best Culinary Travel Book (U.K.), Gourmand World Cookbook AwardsFinalist for the Fortnum & Mason Food Book Award"When we eat, we travel." So begins this irresistible tour of the cuisi... More

Swim for the Little One First is a dazzling new collection of twelve short fictions by the acclaimed fiction writer and prose stylist Noy Holland. The stories gathered in Swim for the Little One First vary in setting (Ecuador, Montana, Florida, the Berkshires, North Dakota, New Mexico, and Californ... More

Throughout history there have been women, endowed with curiosity and abundant spirit, who stepped out of the cave, cast off the shackles of expectation, and struck out for new territory. In this ode to bold, brash, and sometimes just plain dangerous women, Barbara Holland reanimates those rebels who... More

The acclaimed author of Rubicon and other superb works of popular history now produces a thrillingly panoramic (and incredibly timely) account of the rise of Islam. No less significant than the collapse of the Roman Republic or the Persian invasion of Greece, the evolution of the Arab empire is on... More

Sold: Christy Clarkson finds herself at an exclusive charity auction where she's agreed to be one of the participants who will be auctioned off and will share a weekend for two at a resort hotel with the high bidder. There is added intrigue when she learns that members of an elite kink club are par... More

[from the back cover] Mystery/Suspense A Fatal Advent takes place just before Christmas at St. Anselm's, the famous and fashionable Episcopal parish on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The Norwich Boys' Choir from England is expected shortly to join together with St. Anselm's own choir in a festival o... More

[from the back cover] "A Lover Scorned returns to St. Anselm's Episcopal church on Manhattan's expensive Upper East Side, where the Rev. Claire Aldington (A Death at St. Anselm's) is on the defensive when another female priest is brutally murdered in nearby Central Park. Adding to the atmosphere of... More

1. Shakespeare's anecdotal character Margreta de Grazia 2. What is a source? Or, how Shakespeare read His Marlowe Laurie Maguire and Emma Smith 3. Imitation or collaboration? Marlowe and the early Shakespeare canon Gary Taylor and John V. Nance 4. 'O Jephthah, judge of Israel': from original to a... More

Evangeline Holland, author of the Bledington Park series, enchants readers with this poignant short story about a woman seemingly alone in terrible aftermath of the Great War and the man who proves she has more than she ever realized. War stole everything from Morven Williams--her husband, her frien... More

Former pinup model, Sydney Wagner, is about to fulfill her life-long dream of publishing her first novel. Attending a writer's conference in Kansas City is more play than work. Fate factors in, when her car blows a tire on the way to the conference.Pilot and entrepreneur, Peter Kane, notices a car o... More

Every man dreams of two women in his bed, right? So why does Lance Lott's life seem less than perfect, since he and his long-time girlfriend Sydney slept with Gwen McIver?Lance can't stop obsessing about Gwen and he's trying to get a new casino project off the ground. Things wouldn't be so bad if he... More

Did you know all fairies are ruled by the elements? And they answer to a group known as the Veil--sort of a fairy secret council. There are rules that must be obeyed the first being never reveal what you are.Jamie Waters broke the rules when she retrieved an anchor off the shores of California setti... More

Does the love of one man and one woman hold the key to saving humankind? From spirit guides to wolf shifters and deadly skinwalkers, Book 2 of Tina Holland's hot, paranormal series, Dealing With the Dead, takes you into a futuristic world where humanity is on the brink of extinction. Welcome to the ... More

Witches, werewolves, and a phoenix rising, it's a race against time! Z intends to keep Princess Tierra for himself, but the Phoenix Lunar Coven and an evil skin-walker have other plans. Join in the adventure as Tina Holland spins another tale in her amazing series, Dealing With The Dead.When the Pho... More

Re-ReleaseHunky vampire Drake Vermillion is simply looking for a quick snack. What he gets instead will keep you on the edge of your seat as you're transported to Sin Vegas in Book 1 of Dealing With the Dead. The monsters in the closet are real, but if you look closely you may discover that all is n... More

[from the back cover] "Flight of the Archangel begins when investigative reporter Kit Maitland is assigned an apparently routine story--a piece about Rivercrest, the old Van Reider mansion, owned by St. Anselm's Episcopal Church. But from her first thwarted attempts to gain access to the mansion, l... More

For the past six years, Boston crime reporter Sarina Mason has shared an amiable, if somewhat flirtatious relationship with sexy-as-sin city detective Kit Holden. But three months ago, after an attack on the precinct which involved Kit shielding her body with his own, Sarina knew that their professi... More

A compendium of the highlights and lowlights from the careers of our 43 chief executives--from George Washington to George Bush Jr.--told with wit and accuracy, clearly reminding us that presidents are also people. Under the mutton-chop whiskers, behind the bulging waistcoats, presidents were actual... More

Previously published (2013) Amazon.com. When Lady Mary Elizabeth Anne Paramour runs away from an unhappy engagement, her options are limited. Soon, she finds herself at the doorstep of a favored cousin's temporary home, the estate of the most debauched lord known to the aristocracy, Nathaniel Arlin... More

Since the passing of her estranged husband, Lady Amalie Bronwyn has been living at the Dacre Estate, a place with a reputation as the most debauched house in all of England. Albeit reformed, since Lady Amalie's cousin Mary became engaged to the estate's notorious owner, Lord Arlington, Dacre is wher... More

Previously published (2015) Amazon. When Andrea DuPonte Morgan left England at only sixteen years of age, he had no plan of ever returning. The legal son of a country lord and his clandestinely married African servant, Andrea could see no future for himself there. Twelve years later, he is a leadi... More

Barbara Holland takes up arms against America's current ethic of industrious virtue. We work longer than we did twenty years ago and eat more vegetables, but why get rich and live forever if our lives are gray and arduous? Holland persuades us to notice and guard the small delights that cheer our da... More