Mark Morris

In 2004 a group of six students, who have newly arrived at university and quickly become friends, are beset by supernatural forces, which seem to centre around a 5th floor room in an otherwise innocuous student hall of residence. So insidious and terrifying is their ordeal that one of the six commits suicide, an act which drives an irreparable wedge between the rest. Twenty years later, the remaining five friends are all living very different lives. Hannah Prentice is a divorcee with two children, the youngest of whom is being badly bullied at school, and a mother who is showing the first signs of dementia; Jess Maple is a professional artist, who is just about to break into the big time; Steve Lazenby is a successful architect, whose eight-year-old daughter is suffering from delusions and nightmares; Max Bradshaw is a self-employed plumber, happily married with three children, whose fourteen-year-old son has fallen in with the wrong crowd; and Michael Vance, bohemian and charismatic at university, is now a drug-addicted vagrant, who harbours a terrible secret… Although the five friends have not been in contact for almost two decades, they are gradually drawn back together when their lives begin to fall apart. What happened to them twenty years ago seems to be seeping back into the present, affecting not just them this time, but their children, their partners, their loved ones. As the terrifying visions, the violence and the madness escalate, they must mobilise forces and once again confront the horror in Room 55.

'The absorbing story of an uncompromising genius of the dance.' Salman Rushdie'Candid, compelling. . . I loved every word of insight into the mind of a master.' Sunday TimesMark Morris was nineteen when he moved to New York to become a professional dancer. Flat broke, he found a group of like-minded artists that danced together, travelled together, slept together - a collective which became the Mark Morris Group.Suddenly, Morris was on a fast ascent, and with success also came controversy: from the circus of his tenure at La Monnaie in Belgium to his work on the biggest flop on Broadway history. But through the Reagan-Bush era and the worst of the AIDS epidemic, Morris emerged as one of the great visionaries of modern dance, an artist as joyful as he is provocative.

"... how do you describe that moment when the lights go out in someone's eyes and the darkness takes over? They become something you can't reason with, something whose conscience you can't appeal to-like a shark or a machine. They look human, but they're not. Not in the sense that the majority of us understand, anyway. They have no moral code. They become less than human-inadequate, incomplete. And that incompleteness can make them dangerous, even deadly." When Ruth Gemmill's younger brother Alex fails to return her calls, she sets off to check up on him. Unable to find him in Greenwell, the town where he has been living and teaching, she begins her tentative enquiries. She soon discovers the locals to be frustratingly unhelpful, while the eerie town holds more questions than clues. Why are the police so uncooperative? Why is Greenwell so dark and lonely? And who is the "grey man" the schoolchildren saw Alex with not long before he went missing? As Ruth becomes concerned that something terrible has happened to her brother, events escalate mysteriously, dangerously out of control. Then in one fearful moment she is sure she glimpses the abusive ex-boyfriend she left behind in London, the man who caused her years of tortuous pain. Too late, Ruth realizes that her worst fears haunt her still, and that she is at the center of a far darker nightmare than she could ever have imagined ...

That Which Stands Outside is a horror novel inspired by Nordic folklore. After Todd Kingston rescues Yrsa Helgerson from muggers one rainy London night, their resulting friendship quickly develops into a romance. When Yrsa’s mother dies, Todd accompanies her back to her childhood home, an isolated Nordic island. The reception they receive there is one of suspicion and hostility. The islanders believe Yrsa to be a child of a mythic race called the Jötnar, a claim which Yrsa dismisses as superstitious nonsense. But as the island is rocked by a series of devastating events, Todd finds himself caught up in a terrifying battle, one which possibly threatens the future of the world itself. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.

That Which Stands Outside is a horror novel inspired by Nordic folklore. After Todd Kingston rescues Yrsa Helgerson from muggers one rainy London night, their resulting friendship quickly develops into a romance. When Yrsa’s mother dies, Todd accompanies her back to her childhood home, an isolated Nordic island. The reception they receive there is one of suspicion and hostility. The islanders believe Yrsa to be a child of a mythic race called the Jötnar, a claim which Yrsa dismisses as superstitious nonsense. But as the island is rocked by a series of devastating events, Todd finds himself caught up in a terrifying battle, one which possibly threatens the future of the world itself. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.

"The uglimen are coming. Watch your back. They killed your dad. They'll kill you too if they can." Rob Loomis has everything he could wish for: a beautiful girlfriend, a job he loves, a nice flat in London. Life is sweet-until the day that his mother rings him at work to tell him that his quiet, thoughtful and apparently contented father has hung himself from the banister of their family home. Before long, Rob finds that it is not only his own and his mother's grief that he has to cope with. A mysterious, hissing voice on the phone informs him that his father was murdered, and that his murderers-the uglimen-are targeting Rob as their next victim. But if Rob's father really is dead, why does Rob glimpse him, standing between distant trees, watching his own funeral? Is his father a phantom? A figment of Rob's imagination? Or has he somehow faked his own death in order to avoid some terrible retribution? To discover the truth, Rob must confront and accept shocking revelations about his father, must delve deep into his father's past, and in particular into certain events that occurred in California in 1969, during the fabled summer of love. For it was here where his father made the biggest mistake of his life, where his reckless actions were to have such devastating consequences that they would destroy not only his life, but the lives of all those around him.

"Normandskoe zavoevanie. Bitva pri Gastingse i padenie anglosaksonskoj Anglii" - istoricheskij non-fikshn, stavshij bestsellerom Wall Street Journal i USA Today. Ot avtora knigi "Anglosaksy. Tak nachinalas Anglija"Kniga ischet otvety, pochemu normandskoe zavoevanie stalo samym znachitelnym kulturnym i voennym epizodom v anglijskoj istorii. Otsenivaja i analiziruja pervoistochniki i vse dostupnye svidetelstva, Mark Morris vykhodit za ramki privychnykh skhem, chtoby objasnit, pochemu Anglija okazalas odnovremenno i stol moguschestvennoj i stol ujazvimoj i ne ustojala pered Vilgelmom Zavoevatelem.Frantsuzskij gertsog, vyskochka, namerevaetsja zavoevat samoe moguschestvennoe korolevstvo v khristianskom mire. Masshtab vtorzhenija - nevidannyj so vremen Rima. Proiskhodit odno iz samykh krovoprolitnykh i reshajuschikh srazhenij v istorii.Kniga Marka Morrisa o kljuchevom sobytii anglijskoj istorii - ne prosto ocherednoj ekskurs v proshloe. Eto podvedenie itogov bolee chem vekovogo izuchenija boleznennoj dlja anglichan temy zakhvata ostrova chuzhezemtsami. Morris predlagaet vzgljanut na sobytija s obektivnoj tochki zrenija, podvergnuv suschestvennoj kritike kak istochniki, tak i teorii o normandskom nashestvii.Avtor uglubljaetsja v kontekst, a potomu pomimo istorii Vilgelma Zavoevatelja chitatel poluchaet podrobnyj istoricheskij razbor epokhi, predshestvovavshej prizvaniju na tron Eduarda Ispovednika, samu istoriju Eduarda, istoriju semi Godvinsonov, ocherk anglijskoj zhizni pered vtorzheniem, istoriju Normandii do, vo vremja i posle Vilgelma. Otdelno rasskazyvaetsja istorija sozdanija Knigi Sudnogo dnja. Zavershaetsja vse tem, chto posledovalo posle konchiny Vilgelma. Takim obrazom, chitatel znakomitsja s istoriej Anglii bolee chem za sto let i poluchaet zhivoj rasskaz o tseloj plejade anglijskikh korolej, erlov i episkopov.Mark Morris - istorik, televeduschij, spetsialist po anglijskomu Srednevekovju. Avtor tselogo rjada knig, stavshikh natsionalnymi bestsellerami.Mark Moris pishet strastno, zhivo, tschatelno zabotjas ob istoricheskoj tochnosti.Morris kriticheski smotrit na mifologizatsiju istorii Anglii. On ukhodit ot idealizatsii geroizma i zlodejstva, besstrashno stavja pod vopros absoljutno vse.Metod raboty professora Morrisa s istoricheskimi istochnikami prevoskhoden. Skvoz prizmu biografii konkretnogo istoricheskogo litsa on filtruet fakty istochnikov, analiziruja ikh politicheskuju angazhirovannost.Issledovanija Morrisa pozvoljajut vzgljanut pod drugim uglom na istoricheskie sobytija, proiskhodivshie v drugikh stranakh i kulturakh, i na istochniki, iz kotorykh cherpaetsja informatsija. Otechestvennye istoriki i ljubiteli istorii otsenjat printsipy, na osnove kotorykh Morris prinimaet fakty k svedeniju.Pervoj knigoj Marka Morrisa, vyshedshej na russkom jazyke, stal istoricheskij non-fikshn "Anglosaksy. Tak nachinalas Anglija".Dlja kogo eta kniga: Dlja vsekh, komu interesna istorija i anglijskaja kultura.Dlja vsekh, kto uvlekaetsja Srednevekovem.Dlja istorikov i vsekh, kto interesuetsja problemami razvitija chelovecheskoj kultury.Tsvetnaja vklejka dobavit nagljadnosti sobytijam, o kotorykh idet rech v knige.Takzhe drugie knigi po istorii: Anglosaksy. Tak nachinalas Anglija. 400-1066, Artikul 139058343Sravnitelnaja istorija tsivilizatsij, artikul 34072323Natsija-khischnik, artikul 12502564

A ship at the edge of space. A robot with a secret. A sinister presence.The Doctor and Donna are trapped on board a mysterious spacecraft. Fate of the crew: unknown. Fate of the universe if what’s on board gets out: terminal.Based on a script by Russell T Davies, the spectacular second adventure for Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary features David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble.

Shestnadtsat stoletij nazad rimskie legiony pokinuli Britaniju i Britanija bystro prishla v upadok. Velichestvennye goroda i roskoshnye villy byli zabrosheny i razrusheny, a grazhdanskoe obschestvo pogruzilos v khaos. V etot zhestokij i nestabilnyj mir prishli inozemnye zakhvatchiki i utverdilis v kachestve ego novykh khozjaev. Tak nachalas epokha anglosaksov. V svoej knige doktor istoricheskikh nauk Mark Moris proslezhivaet burnuju istoriju anglosaksov na protjazhenii sledujuschikh shesti stoletij, s ee vzletami i padenijami. Pered nami raskryvaetsja perepletenie sobytij i sudeb: ot pervykh pravitelej, bezzhalostno srazhavshikhsja drug s drugom za slavu i vlast, do pochti polnogo unichtozhenija vsego naroda pod natiskom vikingov. Iz etoj knigi vy uznaete: Kak anglosaksy otkazalis ot svoikh starykh bogov radi khristianstva, osnovali sotni tserkvej, vozrodili goroda i torgovlju i sozdali oslepitelno samobytnye proizvedenija iskusstva. O proiskhozhdenii i stanovlenii anglijskoj kastovoj sistemy, messianskoj ideologii ("bremja belogo cheloveka"), traditsionnogo delenija zemel i toponimov. Istoriju takikh legendarnykh lichnostej, kak korol Alfred Velikij i Eduard Ispovednik, a takzhe mnozhestva menee izvestnykh personazhej - ambitsioznykh korolej, svjatykh-revoljutsionerov, neumolimykh monakhov i zhadnykh dvorjan - imenno blagodarja ikh vydajuschejsja dejatelnosti vozniklo novoe obschestvo, novaja kultura i edinaja natsija.Perevodchik: Juschenko Irina

From the most brilliant and audacious choreographer of our time, the exuberant tale of a young dancer's rise to the pinnacle of the performing arts world, and the triumphs and perils of creating work on his own terms--and staying true to himself Before Mark Morris became "the most successful and influential choreographer alive" (The New York Times), he was a six year-old in Seattle cramming his feet into Tupperware glasses so that he could practice walking on pointe. Often the only boy in the dance studio, he was called a sissy, a term he wore like a badge of honor. He was unlike anyone else, deeply gifted and spirited. Moving to New York at nineteen, he arrived to one of the great booms of dance in America. Audiences in 1976 had the luxury of Merce Cunningham's finest experiments with time and space, of Twyla Tharp's virtuosity, and Lucinda Childs's genius. Morris was flat broke but found a group of likeminded artists that danced together, travelled together, slept together. No one wanted to break the spell or miss a thing, because "if you missed anything, you missed everything." This collective, led by Morris's fiercely original vision, became the famed Mark Morris Dance Group. Suddenly, Morris was making a fast ascent. Celebrated by The New Yorker's critic as one of the great young talents, an androgynous beauty in the vein of Michelangelo's David, he and his company had arrived. Collaborations with the likes of Mikhail Baryshnikov, Yo-Yo Ma, Lou Harrison, and Howard Hodgkin followed. And so did controversy: from the circus of his tenure at La Monnaie in Belgium to his work on the biggest flop in Broadway history. But through the Reagan-Bush era, the worst of the AIDS epidemic, through rehearsal squabbles and backstage intrigues, Morris emerged as one of the great visionaries of modern dance, a force of nature with a dedication to beauty and a love of the body, an artist as joyful as he is provocative. Out Loud is the bighearted and outspoken story of a man as formidable on the page as he is on the boards. With unusual candor and disarming wit, Morris's memoir captures the life of a performer who broke the mold, a brilliant maverick who found his home in the collective and liberating world of music and dance.

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It is the dawn of the twentieth century.Following the Martians' failed invasion of Earth, the British Empire has seized their technology and unlocked its secrets for themselves. It is a Golden Age of discovery, adventure, culture, invention—and of domination, and rebellion.Scarlet Traces reveals a world of ant-headed nightmares; vacuum salesmen; war machines; deadly secrets; clockwork marvels; and Sherlock Holmes, T. S. Eliot and Thomas Edison as you've never seen them before...Including stories by Stephen Baxter, I. N. J. Culbard, Adam Roberts, Emma Beeby, James Lovegrove, Nathan Duck, Mark Morris, Dan Whitehead, Chris Roberson, Maura McHugh, Jonathan Green and Andrew Lane.

The Doctor, Ace and Mel are caught in a forever night. After crossing the threshold, a strange world awaits them. An army of tortured souls. A lift that leads to an alien landscape. An alien warlord, left for dead, and willing to do anything to prolong his life... it's all in a day's work for the Doctor. But when his companions become victims of the desperate and powerful Arkallax, the Doctor will have to do battle in a psychic environment where he must make a choice. Save his companions... or himself.Big Finish have been producing Doctor Who audios since 1999, starring Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, David Tennant and John Hurt. The Doctor in this story is played by Sylvester McCoy, familiar to many viewers and audiences not only as the Doctor, but most recently as Radagast the Brown in Peter Jackson's blockbustingThe Hobbit movie trilogy! Although known to a generation of TV viewers as a significant talent in dance and light entertainment, Bonnie Langford's more recently been award-nominated for her work in BBC1's EastEnders. CAST: Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Bonnie Langford (Melanie Bush), Morgan Watkins (Ruck), Anna Mitcham (Jan), Stirling Gallacher (Isobel), Nick Ellsworth (Arkallax).

FINALLY IN PRINT AFTER MORE THAN THREE DECADES, THE NOVEL MARK MORRIS WROTE BEFORE TOADY EVIL NEEDS ONLY A SEED Limefield has had more than its fair share of tragedy. Barely six years ago, a disturbed young boy named Russell Swaney died beneath the wheels of a passenger train mere moments after committing a heinous act of unthinkable sadism. Now, a forest fire caused by the thoughtless actions of two teens has laid waste to hundreds of acres of the surrounding woodlands and unleashed a demonic entity EVIL TAKES ROOT Now, a series of murders plague the area and numerous local residents have been reported missing, including the entire population of the nearby prison. But none of this compares to the appearance of the Winter Tree, a twisted wooden spire which seems to leech the warmth from the surrounding land. EVIL FLOURISHES Horrified by what they have caused, the two young men team up with a former teacher and the local police constabulary to find the killer, but it may already be too late. Once planted, evil is voracious. Like a weed, it strangles all life, and the roots of the Winter Tree are already around their necks.