Oswald: 338 books

Bethany is heartbroken when her girlfriend, Savannah, dumps her with no explanation. Slowly, she rebuilds her life, meets Amber and begins to heal. A year later they meet again and their feelings are as strong as ever. So why did Savannah leave her? Bethany is devastated by the answer...

A terrified 12-year-old boy finds himself separated from his family in the unfamiliar streets of a war-torn city. He takes refuge in a bombed-out house and in the total blackness his bravado crumbles into tears. Into his life steps Anna—older, street smart and scornful of his crying. As a...

Descending from the heavenly sphere of the gods to the mortal world below, Arcturus raises a mighty storm. For Labrax, a ‘procurer’ of women, the storm brings shipwreck and ruin. For his two female captives it offers a chance of escape. Washed up on a rocky coastline the two women seek refuge...

Lucian Willow has a dark past; so dark he can’t remember it. Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, a former Army Chaplain lives in a state of amnesia on his old comrade Lord Brook’s country estate, deep in the slumbering fields of England. The arrival of a circus from across the...

The ancient Hindu epic poem The Ramayana tells of the journey of Rama, an incarnation of God, to set free his wife Sita from the demon Ravana. This divine story, here set forth in dramatic form, encapsulates the rise of humanity from animal to God. It was produced at the Birmingham Rep in 2000, and at the RNT in 2001

Augustine’s Oak, the first play to be commissioned for Shakespeare’s new Globe Theatre, is the story of St Augustine’s mission in 597 AD to reconcile the Christians of the Celtic Church with the authority of Rome.

Pearl Prynne is a woman ahead of her time. Embittered by her mother's cruel treatment at the behest of the Puritan clergy and residents of Colonial Salem, she resolves to fight the established traditions of male-dominated 17th Century New England and Great Britain and does so with wealth inherited...

After a memorial service to celebrate the life of Professor Robert Osbourn, whose death is shrouded in mystery, Rea Parker is introduced to the three women he married and his two daughters; five women wearing the black of mourning, but not all carrying the same weight of grief. In her quest to write...

After the murder of her husband, Celia has shut herself and her 16-year-old daughter Zoë away, toiling on a peach farm in the middle of nowhere. The arrival of two young people to help during picking season heralds the beginning of the end for Celia’s safe existence. Her daughter falls in...

In his book, Le Débâcle, Zola shows in a vivid and intelligible manner the downfall of Napoleon III. and his army, and paints in his usual matter-of-fact tints the actual condition of the great host led forth to destruction. He makes us read in the soul of the common French soldier and in that of his...

"L’uomo e la tecnica" è un saggio breve, un pamphlet profetico, una visionaria e al contempo lucida analisi sul destino della civiltà occidentale e sul suo rapporto con la tecnologia moderna, colta come sintomo decadente di una civiltà ormai giunta al termine del proprio ciclo vitale....

Leo Bailey is one of Australia’s greatest living artists, whose genius battles to survive the effects of alcohol, cynicism and self-loathing. His daughter Margo, the only one of Leo’s many children prepared to help, finds a willing but surly live-in-minder, the ex-con Therese. Added to the dysfunctional...

A catastrophic flood destroys a farm that has been in a family for three generations.  Follow the story of this family and the impact the flood has on the land and the wildlife that live on it.

Zero to Rock Hero, Part Two. The video game battle of the bands from the previous issue rages on, but now the event is broadcast on TV! The Archies and Josie and the Pussycats challenged one another to the hottest new videogame, Legendary Rock Heroes, and now their competition is a reality show sensation,...