british

Presents a play based on events that occurred in 1946 in the Yoruban city of Oyo. The play addresses issues of cultural conflict, tragic decision-making, and the psychological mindsets of individuals and groups. The text is accompanied by background information that explains African concepts, beliefs, and culture. Also features nine critical essays.

Curator Safia al-Maaz and her friend and museum benefactor Lady Kara Kensington, team up with archaeologist Omaha Dunn and government operative Painter Crowe on a perilous expedition to the Arabian desert in search of the lost city of Ubar and the source of the antimatter used to destroy the antiquities branch of a London museum.

Nick Stone, strapped for cash, agrees to kidnap a Russian mob boss and deliver him to St. Petersburg, but he soon finds himself knee deep in Russia's attempts to steal the West's military secrets.

A French professor escapes from a humiliating clerkship in a Yorkshire mill to find work as a teacher in Belgium, where he falls in love with an impoverished student-teacher.

British secret agent James Bond embarks on a mission to ruin a Russian operative, le Chiffre, at the Baccarat table, so that his Soviet spymasters will kill him, and Bond will succeed with a little luck at the tables and the help of a beautiful woman.