Marc Morris

A comienzos del siglo quinto de nuestra era, un acosado y exhausto imperio romano abandonó Britania a su suerte, y la isla se precipitó en el caos y la ruina, asaltada por invasores venidos del otro lado del mar que se establecieron como nuevos amos. Bandas guerreras y emigrantes de raigambre germanica que acabarian fundiendose, con el devenir del tiempo, en los anglosajones. Este libro narra la turbulenta historia de este pueblo a lo largo de los seis siglos siguientes, desde su arribada a las playas britanas a su ocaso tras la batalla de Hastings, desde las incesantes pugnas de reyes dadores de anillos que competian por la gloria hasta la embestida de los vikingos, que casi los aniquilo. Explora como anglos y sajones abandonaron a sus viejos dioses por Cristo, como pasaron de cantar a los matadores de dragones en el Beowulf a fundar cientos de iglesias, y traza el renacimiento de las ciudades y el comercio, y los origenes del familiar paisaje ingles de condados y burgos. Una historia que Marc Morris, reputado medievalista, recorre de manera original, a partir de las vidas y trayectorias tanto de figuras conocidas monarcas como Offa, Alfredo el Grande o Eduardo el Confesor, como de personajes mas oscuros, pero no menos importantes reinas ambiciosas, santos revolucionarios, monjes intolerantes o nobles codiciosos. De esta manera, Anglosajones proporciona un rico y plural relato de una epoca todavia envuelta en brumas, que consigue separar la historia de la leyenda, para contar como surgio una nueva sociedad, una nueva cultura y un pueblo. Para contar, en definitiva, el nacimiento de la primera Inglaterra, la tierra de los anglos.Una historia apasionante, maravillosamente contada Bernard CornwellUn viaje fascinante al mundo de la Britania anglosajona The TimesUn relato exhaustivo y accesible de este importante periodo Financial TimesEsplendido Dan Jones

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. Moving to New York at nineteen, he arrived to one of the great booms of dance in America. . Morris was flat broke but found a group of likeminded artists that danced together, travelled together, slept together. This collective, led by Morriss fiercely original vision, became the famed Mark Morris Dance Group.Suddenly, Morris was making a fast ascent. Celebrated by The New Yorkers critic as one of the great young talents, an androgynous beauty in the vein of Michelangelos 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, Morriss memoir captures the life of a performer who broke the mold, a brilliant misfit who found his home in the collective and liberating world of music and dance.

Alex Locke is a reformed ex-convict, forced back into Londons criminal underworld for one more job. He agrees to steal a priceless artefact - a human heart carved from blackest obsidian - from the home of a decrepit old man. But when the burglary goes horribly wrong, Alex is plunged into the nightmarish world of the Wolves of London, a band of unearthly assassins who will stop at nothing to reclaim the heart. As he races to unlock the secrets of the mysterious object, Alex must learn to wield its dark power - or be destroyed by it.

When a mercenary warrior (Matt Damon) is imprisoned within The Great Wall, he discovers the mystery behind one of the greatest wonders of our world. As wave after wave of marauding beasts besiege the massive structure, his quest for fortune turns into a journey toward heroism as he joins a huge army of elite warriors to confront this unimaginable and seemingly unstoppable force.

ONE MANS QUEST TO SAVE MANKIND When he has a vision about a flood sent to destroy?all life on earth, Noah knows what he must do. Together with his family, he must save two of every living animal. He must build an ark. Noah has to evade the many dangers that would see him fail and leave the world to ruin, and overcome his own struggles to fulfill his mission. This is the epic story of one mans attempt to preserve life for a new world.

What will you do? How far will you go? What will you become? Welcome to Banoi, a tropical island where you can leave the stresses of the world behind...Welcome to the Royal Palms Resort - which offers its guests from around the world the ultimate in luxury and relaxation...Welcome to the holiday paradise where your dreams should come true...but where a nightmare is about to begin...because a mysterious epidemic has suddenly, and without warning, broken out across the island. The local islanders, hotel guests and workers alike are struck down - only to rise again, craving the flesh and the blood of the still living. For four of the holidaymakers and a handful of others scattered around Banoi who are seemingly unaffected by the plague, they must face the awful, terrifying reality of a zombie apocalypse. Now there is only one thing left to do: survive. Welcome to Dead Island...a paradise to die for.

Mark Morris describes himself as one of the UKs most stubborn horror writers. His first novel Toady was published thirty years ago during the genres last great boom period. Back then publishers were falling over themselves to find and publish as many exciting new horror writers as they could. It was an exciting timebut eventually over-saturation of the market became horrors downfall. Faced with too much choice, the horror-reading public became more selective, and the majority of horror books lost money. As a result of this advances were slashed, contracts cancelled, and many fledgling careers were nipped in the bud.Some writers, though, kept going. They stuck doggedly to their guns, or they adapted or changed, as the market demanded. Mark Morris was one of those writers. As the horror market shrank he looked for new outlets, new markets. He wrote tie-in novels, movie novelisations, audio dramas.But through it all, he never stopped writing horror.

BLOOD UPON THE SANDS Spartacus is the hit TV series which has captivated viewers with its blood-soaked action, exotic sexuality, villainy and heroism. This original novel from the world of Spartacus: Blood and Sand relates a thrilling new tale of blood, sex and politics set in the brutal world of the arena. Spartacus and his fellow gladiators endure bout after bout of fierce and bloody fighting, while their opponents numbers never seem to shrink. Can Batiatuss ludus survive against such odds? An epic battle ensues against a vicious enemy determined to soak the arena in the blood of his rivals.

A riveting and authoritative history of the single most important event in English history: The Norman Conquest.An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified kingdom in Christendom. An invasion force on a scale not seen since the days of the Romans. One of the bloodiest and most decisive battles ever fought. This new history explains why the Norman Conquest was the most significant cultural and military episode in English history. Assessing the original evidence at every turn, Marc Morris goes beyond the familiar outline to explain why England was at once so powerful and yet so vulnerable to William the Conquerors attack. Morris writes with passion, verve, and scrupulous concern for historical accuracy. This is the definitive account for our times of an extraordinary story, indeed the pivotal moment in the shaping of the English nation.

" how do you describe that moment when the lights go out in someones eyes and the darkness takes over? They become something you cant reason with, something whose conscience you cant appeal tolike a shark or a machine. They look human, but theyre not. Not in the sense that the majority of us understand, anyway. They have no moral code. They become less than humaninadequate, incomplete. And that incompleteness can make them dangerous, even deadly."When Ruth Gemmills 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

David Fox, fast approaching his fortieth birthday, is in the throes of a mid-life crisisgoing nowhere, no purpose in life... Until one day, whilst walking on the beach, he comes across a message in a bottle, washed up at his feet.The message, written in 1953, is from a boy called John Marshall who claims his father is trying to kill him. David feels compelled to find out what happened to the boy all those years agoand so he sets off to discover the truth. But the truth is more bizarre than anything he could ever have imagined.His investigations lead him to a secret society, called the Flux, each of whose members has a unique and awesome secret which the Flux holds at its core. David soon realises that the Flux are merely pawns: unwitting participants in a process started centuries ago that has brought mankind to the very brink of destruction...From one of Britains most talented and highly acclaimed horror writers, The Secret of Anatomy is Mark Morriss most powerful and original book to date.

"The uglimen are coming. Watch your back. They killed your dad. Theyll 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 sweetuntil 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 mothers grief that he has to cope with.A mysterious, hissing voice on the phone informs him that his father was murdered, and that his murderersthe uglimenare targeting Rob as their next victim. But if Robs 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 Robs 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 fathers 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.

Kate Nolan is a successful magazine editor with a loving husband, James, and a five-year-old son, Max. Her life couldnt be more perfectbut one day she receives a phone call from James, which changes everything.Clearly distressed, James tells Kate to meet him at midnight outside the beach cafe once owned by her long-dead grandmother in the seaside town of Seahaven, where they both grew up. A strange request, made even more sinister by the fact that in recent weeks Seahaven has become prey to a serial killer who is targeting the local children.Kate keeps the midnight appointment, but instead of finding her husband and son, she finds herself drawn into an ever-tightening web of past misdeeds and long-buried secrets. As hopes for her missing family fade, Kate becomes involved in a desperate race against time. Where are her husband and son? Have they become the latest victims of the serial killer, who calls himself Dominic and seems to know her intimately? And what has all this to do with Kates childhood terror of the impenetrable darkness known as "the black"?

From the most brilliant and audacious choreographer of our time, the exuberant tale of a young dancers rise to the pinnacle of the performing arts world, and the triumphs and perils of creating work on his own termsand 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 Cunninghams finest experiments with time and space, of Twyla Tharps virtuosity, and Lucinda Childss 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 Morriss fiercely original vision, became the famed Mark Morris Dance Group. Suddenly, Morris was making a fast ascent. Celebrated by The New Yorkers critic as one of the great young talents, an androgynous beauty in the vein of Michelangelos 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, Morriss 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.

Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, Marc Morris explores many of the countrys most famous castles, as well as some spectacular lesser-known examples. At times this is an epic tale, driven by characters like William the Conqueror, King John and Edward I, full of sieges and conquest on an awesome scale. But it is also by turns an intimate story of less eminent individuals, whose adventures, struggles and ambitions were reflected in the fortified residences they constructed. Be it ever so grand or ever so humble, a castle was first and foremost a home.To understand castles who built them, who lived in them, and why is to understand the forces that shaped medieval Britain.

On Christmas Day 1066, William, duke of Normandy was crowned in Westminster, the first Norman king of England. It was a disaster: soldiers outside, thinking shouts of acclamation were treachery, torched the surrounding buildings. To later chroniclers, it was an omen of the catastrophes to come.During the reign of William the Conqueror, England experienced greater and more seismic change than at any point before or since. Marc Morriss concise and gripping biography sifts through the sources of the time to give a fresh view of the man who changed England more than any other, as old ruling elites were swept away, enemies at home and abroad (including those in his closest family) were crushed, swathes of the country were devastated and the map of the nation itself was redrawn, giving greater power than ever to the king. When, towards the end of his reign, William undertook a great survey of his new lands, his subjects compared it to the last judgement of God, the Domesday Book. England had been transformed forever.

In the final volume of the thrilling dark fantasy trilogy, the Obsidian Heart, Alex Locke is still searching for his missing daughter. He is transported far into the future and then back into the past and the horrors of the First World War trenches, as gradually he pieces together the strange truth about the obsidian heart and his lost daughter.

Transported through time to the dank streets of Victorian London, Alex Locke seeks to unravel the mysteries of the Obsidian Heart, the enigmatic object to which his fate is inextricably bound. When a string of grisly murders takes place across the capital, Alex follows a trail that will lead him through the opium dens of Limehouse into the dark and twisted world of the Society of Blood, and ever closer to unlocking the secret of the Heart.

The official novelization of the summer blockbuster The Predator, Shane Blacks new movie with a screenplay by Shane Black and Fred Dekker.For centuries Earth has been visited by warlike creatures that stalk mankinds finest warriors. Their goals unknown, these deadly hunters kill their prey and depart as invisibly as they arrived, leaving no trace other than a trail of bodies.When a young boy accidentally triggers the universes most lethal Hunters return to earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled science teacher can prevent the end of the human race.