The EntertainerSet against the backdrop of post war Britain, John Osborne's The Entertainer conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive examination of public masks and private torment. First staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London, only eleven months after the opening of Look Back in Anger, the play has become a classic of twentieth century drama.

immersing the reader in a Paris of filth and greed

she knows the missing employees are only the first indication of a sickness threatening the park

But with power comes responsibility

it is because today our lives are saturated with their poisons

go clubbing

Bertie soon finds himself surrounded by aunts - not only his redoubtable Aunt Dahlia but an aunt of Jeeves's too

and if that means throwing the odd crew member overboard

from a hovel in the Ukraine to the Caspian port of Baku

To find her

classy thriller

of the huge changes coming to the world

suicide and drugs