Brian Cox

This Three-Books-in-One package is probably the ultimate authority in the field of child protection and safety, not only because the primary author is an experienced police officer and law enforcement college instructor, but because it is presented as training manuals for both parents and children. The author states that "talking to" your children is ineffective. Children who have been told never to talk to or go with a stranger always fail when put to the test. Children must be trained using sound principles of child education. This book provides excellent information about child safety and protection, plus the methodology to teach it effectively. The third book in the package provides excellent stories and poems from the "Days of Yore", with full color illustrations to teach children in an entertaining manner.

Brian Cox's latest collection speaks with the quietly assured authority of a lifetime's consideration of the arts of writing and living. Humane, humorous and acute, Cox's poetry honours the pleasures of home and holidays and friends, much-loved books and places, as the foundations of the civilised life, making endurable the pain and grief that are an inevitable part of it. In language that is precise, plain and lucid, these are poems whose hope and humanity continue to resonate.

One of the most frank and authentic accounts yet written of the pressures placed on today's stars King Lear is perhaps the most challenging role in the Shakespearian canon. In 1991, directed by Deborah Warner, Brian Cox gave a highly-acclaimed performance. In this compulsive account of a theatrical journey, Cox describes the rehearsal room investigation in the possibilities of the text in performance as the production toured to Bucharest and Tokyo, Cairo and Paris in the wake of Perestroika and with the Gulf War gathering momentum in the early '90s. But this is also a personal story; for Lear, like Hamlet is a part notorious for consuming it's players and Cox is not only separated from his family for months, but also trying to negotiate a window in the storm to get married as he plays the character of an old man, rejected by his daughters and friends and sunk in madness...