This is the tale of two parties struggling to maintain the first coalition government at Westminster for over 60 years. What have been the challenges they have faced in the first 15 months, and how have they managed it? The book is based on interviews with over 140 ministers, MPs, Lords, civil servants, party officials and interest groups.

These essays examine political and humanitarian intervention, collective security, protection of human rights and the 'fight against impunity'.

Many commentators feared that the Education Reform Act of 1988 sounded the death knell for teacher professionalism. This text explores the issue by setting the debates in their historical context and by drawing on detailed research findings.

Two exhilarating plays by the author of Shopping and F***ing: pool (no water) is a visceral and shocking new play about the fragility of friendship and the jealousy and resentment inspired by success; Citizenship is a work for young people written for the National Theatre's Shell Connection Programme.

In the last three decades, scores of books have been published on the role of the Vatican in the modern world. Popes and Politics shows that many recent authors, whether devoted or antagonistic to the papacy, have been guilty of factual disstortions and biased interpretations that lead to a flawed picture of the church and its relation to contemporary society.

Presents a sustained geographical analysis of postcolonialism with essays ranging across Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa and North America.

Introduces key issues involved in the study of postcolonial literature including diasporas, postcolonial nationalisms, indigenous identities and politics and globalization. This book also contains a chapter on afterlives and adaptations that explores a range of wider cultural texts including film, non-fiction and art.