Eavesdropper W. W. Norton and Company Tom Stoppard's provocative new play

Tom Stoppard's provocative new play spans the recent history of Czechoslovakia between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution - but from the double perspective of Prague

invigorating

a week's peaceful convalescence in one of Dorset's most beautiful manor houses and the beginning of a new life

where his mother is a racehorse trainer and the 'First Lady' of racing

leaving him to decide which to pursue: revenge or altruism

Eavesdropper W. W. Norton and Company Tom Stoppard's provocative new playA trainer loses his licence; a jockey is warned off: all in a day's work for the senior steward of the Jockey Club. But when the blackmailing starts, when a most influential corpse is found in a horse box at Newbury races, a cloud of corruption, suspicion and violence threatens to overwhelm the National Hunt season. James Thackeray, racing journalist, erratic tipster, amateur jockey, had every reason to turn detective. He'd found the body. But it was