Books by Simon Williams

The Black Lion is a thoroughly modern counterattacking system that is a nightmare to face. This wild and aggressive line attempts to take away White's initiative from a very early stage and is guaranteed to throw your opponents off balance.

This book analyses a dynamic opening system for Black.

Actress Zoe Lang attends a most unusual improvisational workshop and finds herself auditioning to be the bait for a real-life serial killer known as "The Surgeon". As Zoe and the police home in on their target, they soon discover that the target has never been that far away from them...

Letitia, presenter of the hit TV show "Mind Your Own Business", wants to interview Myrtle Banbury in her own home and Lenny has a problem - how can he conduct the interview without having to appear to the British public in drag? An additional complication arrives in the form of Fran, Lenny's ex-wife. This title is a sequel to "Nobody's Perfect".

In an isolated house on the cliffs of north Cornwall the sibling rivalry between identical twins Max and Ashley Hennessy is coming to a murderous climax. They both know one of them must die, but, trapped in his wheelchair, Ashley knows the odds are now against him and he is in mortal danger - but does DI Fergus believe him?

On her 70th birthday ex-actress Margot Buchanan is visited by Sadie Croft, an actress having an affair with her ex-husband Leo, who wants advice on playing Juliet. Leo arrives on the scene and promptly dies of a heart attack. His ghost then appears, anxious to sort matters out between his women.

"It's my birthday. All I wanted was a bottle of Claret and a couple of winners at Sandown". Instead, retired actress Margot Buchanan receives three separate visitors. Just as the inevitable fireworks kick off, Leo suffers a fatal heart attack. Then the kissogram shows up...

A practical guide to using gouache in botanical painting, by a leading botanical painter. Includes step-by-step demonstration paintings.

Nevertheless, the Festival was a crucial event in the development of the European theatre: while Bayreuth established the paradigm for all modern theatre and music festivals, the Festival Theatre itself has provided the most widely imitated architectural configuration in twentieth-century theatre building.

Grandmaster Simon Williams examines the typical mistakes players make in the opening and middlegame, and how you should look to exploit them with maximum efficiency.

Simon Williams presents an opening repertoire for Black with the French Defence. He combines his unique attacking ideas with the traditionally solid French structure to produce a powerful armoury of weapons for Black.

Professor Williams focuses on the classical period of German literature and theatre, when Shakespeare's plays were first staged in Germany in a relatively complete form, and when they had a potent influence on the writings of German drama and dramatic criticism.