Edward Jewesbury

Dungeons & Dragons -- Based on the widely popular fantasy role-playing game of the same name, Dungeons & Dragons follows a small band of adventurers and thieves who set out to free their Empire from its oppressive rulers.

Beautiful People -- Jasmin Dizdar's BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is a lively, darkly comic vision of Bosnian refugees making a new life in London and the Londoners whose lives they change.

The imaginary world of the most popular fantasy role-playing game ever comes to life in this special-effects-filled adventure. In the Empire of Izmer, magic is the key to power in both the supernatural and political realms. The Mages are a sect who know the secrets of magic and use it to hold sway over the masses. The youthful Empress Savina wants to use her powers to bring justice and prosperity to all, but Profion is an evil Mage who wants to use his knowledge of magic to overthrow Savina and establish his own despotic rule. Through deceitful means, Profion wins away the special scepter that allows him to control the nation's Golden Dragons; Savina's only hope to recover the scepter and the rule of Izmer is to obtain the Rod of Savrille, a talisman that will give her powers over the Red Dragons, even more powerful than their golden counterparts. As Savina sets out to gain control of the Red Dragons, she gains a number of unlikely allies.

"Beautiful People" is a comic collision of chaos and coincidence! Auteur Jasmin Dizdar constructs an absurd world with colorful, contradictory and moving inhabitants whose lives haphazardly, and often humorously, intertwine. In the midst of modern London birth, death, isolation, prejudice and heroism--as well as the social and political realities of the outside world--touch them all through the most bizarre yet meaningful encounters.