Hogarth Shakespeare Series

40 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE He's the best cop they've got. When a drug bust turns into a bloodbath it's up to Inspector Macbeth and his team to clean up the mess. He's also an ex-drug addict with a troubled past. He's rewarded for his success. Power. Money. Respect. They're all within reach. But a man like him won't get to the top. Plagued by hallucinations and paranoia, Macbeth starts to unravel. He's convinced he won't get what is rightfully his. Unless he kills for it. 'The king of all crime writers' Sunday Express

‘I saw the strangest sight tonight.’New Bohemia. America. A storm. A black man finds a white baby abandoned in the night. He gathers her up – light as a star – and decides to take her home.London. England. After the financial crash. Leo Kaiser knows how to make money but he doesn’t know how to manage the jealousy he feels towards his best friend and his wife. Is the newborn baby even his?New Bohemia. 17 years later. A boy and a girl are falling in love but there’s a lot they don’t know about who they are and where they come from.Jeanette Winterson’s cover version of The Winter’s Tale vibrates with echoes of the original but tells a contemporary story where Time itself is a player in a game of high stakes that will either end in tragedy or forgiveness. It shows us that however far we have been separated, whatever is lost shall be found.

Феликс на пике своей карьеры. Он успешный режиссер, куратор театрального фестиваля. Когда из-за козней врагов, своих бывших коллег, Феликс лишается своего места, он вынужден уехать в канадское захолустье, чтобы там зализывать раны, разговаривать с призраком своей умершей дочери Миранды и - вынашивать план мести. Местная тюрьма предлагает Феликсу преподавать заключенным, и Феликс возвращается к когда-то не реализованному плану: поставить радикально новую версию "Бури" Шекспира. А заодно и отомстить врагам. "Ведьмино отродье" - пересказ "Бури" эпохи YouTube, рэп-лирики и новой драмы в исполнении Маргарет Этвуд.

Druga książka wydana w ramach PROJEKTU SZEKSPIR, w kt�rym uznani autorzy piszą na nowo dzieła mistrza dramatu.Zamożny kolekcjoner sztuki i filantrop, Simon Strulovitch, spotyka na cmentarzu Shylocka, kupca ze sztuki Szekspira. Zaprasza go do domu. To początek niezwykłej przyjaźni. W swojej wersji ?Kupca weneckiego? Howard Jacobson stawia ważne pytania o to, co znaczy być ojcem, Żydem oraz miłosiernym człowiekiem we wsp�łczesnym świecie.

Treacherously toppled from his post as director of the Makeshiweg Festival on the eve of his production of The Tempest, Felix retreats to a backwoods hovel to lick his wounds and mourn his lost daughter. And also to plot his revenge. After twelve years his chance appears in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Here, Felix and his inmate actors will stage his Tempest at last, and snare the traitors who destroyed him. But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall ?

Magnát Strulovič, zhrzený otec, manžel i žid, narazí při návštěvě manchesterského hřbitova na nečekaného, zato vítaného dvojníka: na souvěrce Šajloka ze Shakespearova dramatu Kupec benátský (1600). Prokletá literární postava má s podobnými lapáliemi bolestné zkušenosti, a tak se s boháčem odebere domů, jelikož mají co prodiskutovat. Románová hříčka nejvýraznějšího angložidovského prozaika současnosti klame tělem jako každá skvostná komedie. V atmosféře dnešní relativizace hodnot, při níž se hlas krve znovu nezapře a blbost jakbysmet, dialog obou pánů kouzelně otestuje meze pojmů „čest“, „otcovství“, „víra“ – a rovněž význam obřízky, která přichází na scénu coby pověstná „libra masa“ ze Šajlokovy soudní pře.

Potentat medialny Henry Dunbar, chciwy i bezwzględny osiemdziesięciolatek, pada ofiarą swoich dw�ch r�wnie wyrachowanych c�rek, kt�re podstępem umieszczają ojca w sanatorium, chcąc przejąć rodzinny interes. Dunbar planuje jednak ucieczkę. Aby uratować swoje imperium, musi szukać pomocy u najmłodszej c�rki, kt�rą wcześniej wydziedziczył. Nowa powieść autora znakomitego cyklu ?Patrick Melrose?, bezwzględnego portretu wsp�łczesnych klas wyższych, nawiązuje do Kr�la Leara Williama Shakespeare?a. St Aubyn wykorzystał fabułę słynnego dramatu elżbietańskiego, żeby opowiedzieć o szaleństwie wsp�łczesnego świata. Stworzył szereg pełnokrwistych, fascynujących postaci, na czele z głęboko tragicznym bohaterem tytułowym, i w typowy dla siebie, prześmiewczy spos�b obnaża z chirurgiczną precyzją ich egoizm i zdeprawowanie.�

'I saw the strangest sight tonight.' New Bohemia. America. A storm. A black man finds a white baby abandoned in the night. He gathers her up - light as a star - and decides to take her home. London. England. After the financial crash. Leo Kaiser knows how to make money but he doesn't know how to manage the jealousy he feels towards his best friend and his wife. Is the newborn baby even his? New Bohemia. 17 years later. A boy and a girl are falling in love but there's a lot they don't know about who they are and where they come from. Jeanette Winterson's cover version of The Winter's Tale vibrates with echoes of the original but tells a contemporary story where Time itself is a player in a game of high stakes that will either end in tragedy or forgiveness. It shows us that however far we have been separated, whatever is lost shall be found.

A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life. 'Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?' With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire's Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It's the beginning of a remarkable friendship ... 'Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision. He writes like a dream' Evening Standard 'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday

She noticed him before anyone else. Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat's son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day - so he's lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can't stand to witness this budding relationship: Ian decides to destroy the friendship between the black boy and the golden girl. By the end of the day, the school and its key players - teachers and pupils alike - will never be the same again.

Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson brings his singular brilliance to this modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeare’s most unforgettable characters: Shylock Winter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of The Merchant of Venice, Shylock is juxtaposed against his present-day counterpart in the character of art dealer and conflicted father Simon Strulovitch. With characteristic irony, Jacobson presents Shylock as a man of incisive wit and passion, concerned still with questions of identity, parenthood, anti-Semitism and revenge. While Strulovich struggles to reconcile himself to his daughter Beatrice's “betrayal” of her family and heritage—as she is carried away by the excitement of Manchester high society, and into the arms of a footballer notorious for giving a Nazi salute on the field—Shylock alternates grief for his beloved wife with rage against his own daughter's rejection of her Jewish upbringing. Culminating in a shocking twist on Shylock’s demand for the infamous pound of flesh, Jacobson’s insightful retelling examines contemporary, acutely relevant questions of Jewish identity while maintaining a poignant sympathy for its characters and a genuine spiritual kinship with its antecedent—a drama which Jacobson himself considers to be “the most troubling of Shakespeare’s plays for anyone, but, for an English novelist who happens to be Jewish, also the most challenging.”

'I really did have an empire, you know,' said Dunbar. 'Have I ever told you the story of how it was stolen from me?' Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he hands over care of the corporation to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan, but as relations sour he starts to doubt the wisdom of past decisions... Now imprisoned in a care home in the Lake District with only a demented alcoholic comedian as company, Dunbar starts planning his escape. As he flees into the hills, his family is hot on his heels. But who will find him first, his beloved youngest daughter, Florence, or the tigresses Abby and Megan, so keen to divest him of his estate? Edward St Aubyn is renowned for his masterwork, the five Melrose novels, which dissect with savage and beautiful precision the agonies of family life. His take on King Lear, Shakespeare's most devastating family story, is an excoriating novel for and of our times - an examination of power, money and the value of forgiveness.

Could the taming of Shakespeare's shrew, Katherina, happen today? Find out in this funny, off-beat version from one of our most beloved novelists. "You can't get around Kate Battista as easily as all that." Kate Battista is feeling stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she's always in trouble at work--her preschool charges adore her, but the adults don't always appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner. Dr. Battista has other problems. After years out in the academic wilderness, he is on the verge of a breakthrough. His research could help millions. There's only one problem: his brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. And without Pyotr.... When Dr. Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that will enable Pyotr to stay in the country, he's relying--as usual--on Kate to help him. Kate is furious: this time he's really asking too much. But will she be able to resist the two men's touchingly ludicrous campaign to win her round? Anne Tyler's retelling of The Taming of the Shrew asks whether a thoroughly modern, independent woman like Kate would ever sacrifice herself for a man. Its answer is as individual, off-beat, and funny as Kate herself.