Reviews

Tim Kevan
Bloomsbury, August 2009
£11.99 (Paperback) 

“Plague over England” by Nicholas de Jongh plays at the Duchess Theatre until 16 May. Martin Bowley QC explains the background.  

In the autumn of 1953 John Gielgud was at the height of his powers. He was widely treated as the greatest classical actor of his generation, triumphing as Lear and Hamlet as well as John Worthing in “The Importance of Being Ernest”. He had been knighted in the Coronation Honours List. And he was gay. 

Paul Hynes, Richard Furlong and Nathaniel Rudolf
Sweet and Maxwell, December 2008
ISBN 978-1-84703-133-4
Hardback, £169 

This book is a must for all professionals and practitioners—including lawyers, auditors, accountants, insolvency practitioners, notaries, trust and company service providers, public bodies and high value dealers—who are regulated and/or advise and represent, investigate or prosecute those accused of money laundering.   

Edited by Dominic Shellard
278 pages, paperback, ISBN 978-1854595430
Published 2008 by Nick Hern Books, £9.99 

Tickets for the RSC Histories—eight plays, charting a century of the most turbulent years in English history, by the world’s greatest. 

7.30pm Thursday 13 March 2008. The Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. The houselights dim. Jonathan Slinger as an outrageously effeminate king steps forward to deliver the opening line of “Richard II”: “Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster.”