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My Heart's A Suitcast - Drama On 3

p0c014vv.jpg?profile=RESIZE_400xMy Heart's a Suitcase

 

David Edgar introduces a new production of "My Heart's a Suitcase" by Clare McIntyre.

McIntyre was one of the new generation of women playwrights who emerged with huge impact in the 1980s and this was one of her best

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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

Sheworeayellowribbonpost.jpgShe Wore a Yellow Ribbon is a 1949 American Technicolor Western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne. It is the second film in Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy", along with Fort Apache (1948) and Rio Grande (1950). With a budget of $1.6 million,

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Walter Mosley- Easy.Rawlins.06.-.Gone.Fishin'

51I+-O4rFiL.jpg?profile=RESIZE_400xOn the road in a “borrowed” '36 Ford, nineteen-year-old Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and his companion, Raymond "Mouse" Alexander, are on a perilous odyssey that takes them from Houston to a mysterious bayou world of voodoo, sex, revenge, and death. Their

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Walter Mosley - Easy Rawlins 04 - Black Betty

R.b8e293855191705f2082e1342a348399?rik=7mYUDJFUkTzVtQ&pid=ImgRaw&r=0&profile=RESIZE_400xEasy Rawlins is on the verge of losing everything—until he gets an offer from the FBI that he has no choice but to accept.

For most Black Americans, the 1960s were times of hope. For former P.I. Easy Rawlins, Los Angeles's mean streets were never mea

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Walter Mosley-Easy.Rawlins.02.-.A Red Death

cover.jpg?profile=RESIZE_400xIt's 1953, a time when Red-baiting was official policy, and racial tensions boiled. Easy Rawlins is in deep trouble. A corrupt, racist IRS agent is breathing down his neck about some unpaid taxes. His only out: cut a deal with the FBI to infiltrate t

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The Key

Key.jpg?cnt=0&profile=RESIZE_710x"Every door has a key, there is a key to every
situation, behind every unopened door there
is a mystery, and the opening of this door
introduces us to another in the series:
they Key."

 The Key was a mystery series from Australia that aired in the mid

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The Song Thief by Michael Chaplin

p01ghxgm.jpg?profile=RESIZE_710xA young composer arrives in Northumberland, looking for an old man reputed to have written a hauntingly beautiful love song. The old man only sang it once - after his wife left him - and says he'll it sing it no more.

The composer embarks on a cold-

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Erich Kaestner - Emil and the Detectives

p01gk86h.jpg?profile=RESIZE_710xDramatisation by Katie Hims of the comic children's detective novel by Erich Kaestner.

Country boy Emil Tischbein, up from Neustadt for the first time, enlists the aid of hundreds of Berlin street boys to help him catch a thief.

Emil ...... Joshua Sw

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Ride the Dark Trail: The Sacketts, Book 16

51rXMlIImsL._SL500_.jpg?profile=RESIZE_710xFilled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle of the Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one of our greatest storytellers. In Ride the Dark Trail L'Amour tells the story of Logan Sackett, a cynical drifter who changes hi

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Treasure Mountain: The Sacketts, Book 15

51p4093dysL._SL500_.jpg?profile=RESIZE_710xFilled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle of the Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one of our greatest storytellers. In Treasure Mountain, Louis L'Amour delivers a robust story of two brothers searching to learn th

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Galloway: The Sacketts, Book 14

41bCVaaRpeL._SL500_.jpg?profile=RESIZE_710xFilled with action, adventure, mystery, and historical detail, the Sackett saga is an unforgettable achievement by one of America's greatest storytellers. In Galloway, two brothers must struggle to survive in a wild and beautiful land to build themse

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Mustang Man: The Sacketts, Book 13

51RLD6ocF0L._SL500_.jpg?profile=RESIZE_710xIn Mustang Man, Louis L’Amour takes Nolan Sackett on a dangerous journey into family betrayal, greed, and murder.

When Nolan Sackett met Penelope Hume in a cantina at Borregos Plaza, the girl immediately captured his attention. That she was heir to a

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