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Poetry Books
Samuel French Ltd The Stranger
Book SynopsisA small cast, short version of an intimate psychological thriller taken from Philomel Cottage. Enid rejects her fianc? for newcomer Gerald and moves to a remote country cottage with him - where a dark and terrible climax takes place.
£13.49
Samuel French Ltd The Human Voice
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£12.55
Samuel French Ltd Henna Night
Book SynopsisJudith leaves her ex-boyfriend a desperate message on his answerphone saying that she is not coping with their break-up, that she has brought some razor blades and some henna in order to either slash her wrists or dye her hair and she might be pregnant. However, it is his new partner, Ros, who hears the message and it is she that rushes to Judith''s bedsit. An evening of emotion, combined with subtle humour, ensues that will conclude with the two women, despite their differences and rivalry, finding friendship and gaining something positive from each other.2 women
£12.55
Samuel French Ltd Confusions
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£14.42
Samuel French Ltd Educating Rita
Book SynopsisFrank is a tutor of English in his fifties whose disillusioned outlook on life drives him to drink and bury himself in his books. Enter Rita, a forthright 26 year-old hairdresser who is eager to learn. After weeks of cajoling, Rita slowly wins over the very hesitant Frank with her innate insight and refusal to accept no for an answer. Their relationship as teacher and student blossoms, ultimately giving Frank a new sense of self and Rita the knowledge she so craves. The play became a hit film with Michael Caine and Julie Walters.
£13.49
Samuel French Ltd Billy Liar
Book SynopsisA teenager in a North Country town, Billy Fisher weaves a world of his own out of his day dreams. He is an incurable liar, idle and dishonest, and to escape from his dull job as an undertaker''s clerk and his dreary domestic background he imagines himself in so many different situations that truth and fiction become hopelessly intermingled. His family is unable to understand or control him, though they realize that he is a good for nothing. The cast is completed by the three girls to whom he is simultaneously engaged. When he is given the chance to start a new life, he turns it down, preferring his dreams to reality.
£13.49
Samuel French Ltd Everything in the Garden
Book SynopsisThis is a comedy of prosperous suburbia, with corruption as its theme and core. A charming, apparently happily married couple, the Actons, live comfortably in their newly-furnished home, but feeling always that life owes thein just a little more: a car, an expensive lawnmower, money for parties and so on. Temptation comes in the shape of Leonie Pimosz, a very high class brothel-keeper. It is not long before pretty, sweet Mrs Acton becomes involved with her and the Acton fortunes are startlingly improved. Soon it becomes clear that Mrs Acton''s new career is by no means unusual; indeed, the wives of all their friends are acquainted with Madame Pimosz, and the husbands are quite content to keep up with the Joneses in this as in everything else. But the denoument is startling and horrific.
£13.49
Samuel French Ltd Prescription for Murder
Book SynopsisIn the seemingly quiet town of Bere Knighton there is never a dull moment for Dr. Richard Forth. Not only does h have a hectic work schedule and an awkward friendship with his ex-girlfriend, but his wife, Barbara, is constantly ill and nobody knows what is wrong with her. When Eric Dawson, a stranger, claims to have known Richard''s second fiancee - a woman richard claims does not exist - Barbara''s health worsens and she isn''t the only one. With bad luck spreading almost as quickly as bad news, it seems somebody is out to kill Barbara, and anyone else who gets in their way.
£13.49
Samuel French Ltd Rebecca
Book SynopsisMax de Winter brings his shy young bride to Manderley, his great house in Cornwall. Everywhere, she senses the overpowering presence of Rebecca, Max''s drowned wife. Mrs Danvers, the grim housekeeper, will not allow her to forget her shortcomings. She doubts Max''s love until Rebecca''s body is found. Max confesses that he murdered Rebecca, hating her depravity. The husband and wife now face the exciting fight to save Max from the gallows.3 women, 8 men
£13.49
Samuel French Ltd The GoBetween
Book SynopsisLeo Colston - a man haunted by the events of his past - vividly recalls his unwitting role acting as a go-between for the beautiful upper-class Marian and the tenant-farmer Ted.
£13.49
Samuel French Ltd Towards Zero Outdoor Version
Book SynopsisWhen a house party gathers at Gull''s Point, the seaside home of Lady Tressilian, Neville Strange finds himself caught between his old wife, Audrey, and his new flame, Kay. A nail-biting thriller, the play probes the psychology of jealousy in the shadow of a savage and brutal murder. With reflections on suicide, depression and redemption, the play is a layered drama of piercing intelligence.
£14.42
Samuel French Ltd In Other Words
Book SynopsisThey call it ''the incident'' now. What happened, when they first met. He always said it was part of his romantic plan, but they both know that''s rubbish.Join Arthur and Jane, at the beginning, as they tell us their story. Connected by the music of Frank Sinatra, this intimate, humorous and deeply moving love story explores the effects of Alzheimer''s disease and the transformative power of music in our lives.
£13.49
Samuel French Ltd One Day When We Were Young
Book SynopsisI am scared, that once this war is over, and I am sent home, that you won''t be here. That you will have left.Leonard and Violet, young, restless and in love, spend their first night together knowing it may also be their last. It''s 1942 and, in a hotel room in Bath, they dream of their future while preparing for Leonard''s departure to the war. But the bombs begin to fall and their world will never be the same again. In the year 2002, the couple look back at what might have been.Examining the impact of the Second World War on two ordinary lives and a love that spans more than sixty years.
£13.49
Samuel French Ltd This Restless House Part One Agamemnons Return
Book SynopsisAeschylus'' Oresteia opens with Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter to the gods; an act which sets in motion a bloody cycle of revenge and counter-revenge. When he in turn is killed at the hands of his wife Clytemnestra, their son Orestes takes up the mantle of avenging his father, continuing the bloodshed until peace is ultimately found in the rule of law.Zinnie Harris reimagines this ancient drama, using a contemporary sensibility to rework the stories, placing the women in the centre. Orestes'' leading role is replaced by his sister Electra, who as a young child witnesses her father''s murder and is compelled to take justice into her own hands until she too must flee the Furies.The three plays that comprise This Restless House can be performed on their own or as part of a continuous evening. Part one being Agamemnon''s Return plays on its own, then parts two and three The Bough Breaks and Electra And Her Shadow play as dif
£14.42
Samuel French Ltd The Lovely Bones
Book SynopsisSusie Salmon is just like any other young girl. She wants to be beautiful, adores her charm bracelet and has a crush on a boy from school. There''s one big difference though - Susie is dead. Now she can only observe while her family manage their grief in their different ways. Her father, Jack is obsessed with identifying the killer. Her mother, Abigail is desperate to create a different life for herself. And her sister, Lindsay is discovering the opposite sex with experiences that Susie will never know. Susie is desperate to help them and there might be a way of reaching them...Alice Sebold''s novel The Lovely Bones is a unique coming-of-age tale that captured the hearts of readers throughout the world. Award-winning playwright Bryony Lavery has adapted it for this unforgettable play about life after loss.
£14.42
Samuel French Ltd Akhnaton
Book SynopsisAn enlightened pharaoh falls foul of his conservative court when he attempts to unite the polytheist Egyptians under one God - a course of action that forces factions of both the army and priesthood to turn against him. Undeterred, Akhnaton''s vision of a kingdom where people dwell in peace, truth, love and beauty will ultimately destroy him and all those he holds dear.Regarded as one of her most extraordinary plays, this epic historical drama is unlike anything you have read of Christie''s before.
£14.42
Samuel French Ltd A Respectable Funeral
Book SynopsisA Respectable Funeral is one of the first one act plays from the sensitive and humorous pen of Jimmie Chinn. It was presented and performed as a double bill - with one of Mr Chinn''s other plays, From Here To The Library - under the title of Back To Back in Oldham. Both plays can be performed separately or as an entertaining double bill.3 women, 1 man
£12.55
Samuel French Ltd Gaiman N Ocean at the End of the Lane
Book SynopsisReturning to his childhood home, a man finds himself standing beside the pond of the old Sussex farmhouse where he used to play. When he meets an old friend, he is reminded of a name he has not heard for many years: Lettie Hempstock. And is transported to his 12th birthday, when Lettie claimed that this wasn''t a pond at all, but an ocean...Plunged into 1983, our young protagonist struggles with the ripples of a disturbing event that makes him question his deepest assumptions about his fractured family. Striving to come to terms with his newly unknowable world, together with his new friend Lettie he must reckon with ancient forces that threaten to destroy everything and in turn learn to trust others to find his own feet. The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a thrilling feat of storytelling in which fantasy, sci-fi, myth and imagination combine in an adventure that unfolds right here, in our world.
£13.49
Samuel French Ltd GirlPlay
Book SynopsisLucy is average, awkward and unassuming. And, when it comes to sex, what she lacks in experience, she makes up for in curiosity. That''s all set to change. On a night of rsts, she opens the door to a world of relationships and sex that she had only ever dreamt about. But, is the reality all she had hoped it would be? GirlPlay is an exploration of love and sex spun out in slam.
£13.49
Samuel French Ltd Nevilles Island
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£14.42
Samuel French Ltd The Men From The Boys
Book SynopsisThirty years after the characters in The Boys in the Band gathered in Michael''s Manhattan duplex to celebrate Harold''s birthday, six of the survivors are assembled again in the same apartment for another occasion: a Celebration of Life for one of the original boys, who has died. This funny, acerbic, and tender sequel does not toe any politically correct line. Rather, it is full of debates about and criticisms of the post-liberation world, allowing these men to realize how much they have changed, and how much further they have to go.
£15.36
Samuel French Ltd Peerless
Book SynopsisAsian-American twins M and L have given up everything to get into The College. So when D a one-sixteenth Native American classmate gets their spot instead they figure they've got only one option: kill him. A darkly comedic take on Shakespeare's Macbeth about the very ambitious and the cut-throat world of high school during college admissions.
£13.49
Samuel French Ltd Do You Feel Anger
Book SynopsisSofia was recently hired as an empathy coach at a debt collection agency – and clearly, she has her work cut out for her. These employees can barely identify what an emotion is, much less practice deep, radical compassion for others. And while they painstakingly stumble towards enlightenment, someone keeps mugging Eva in the kitchen. An outrageous comedy about the absurdity – and the danger – of a world where some people’s feelings matter more than others’.
£13.49
Samuel French Ltd Brer Cotton
Book SynopsisLynchburg, Virginia. The former site of a thriving cotton mill is now an impoverished neighborhood. Deeply affected by all the recent killings of young black men like himself, Ruffrino, a 14-year-old militant, incites riots at school and online. As Ruffrino grows more and more at odds with his mother and grandfather, his anger builds beyond containment. Meanwhile, the family home literally sinks into the cotton field, and no one but Ruffrino seems to notice.?
£13.49
Concord Theatricals Ibsens Ghost
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£13.49
Random House USA Inc Amazing Peace
£15.29
iUniverse Dancing Molecules An Intimate Dance With The
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£16.99
Dryad Press missing
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£10.50
Michael Walmer Nakiketas and other poems
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£18.00
I Messaged My Ex
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£12.00
Harvard University Press The Voices of Babyn Yar
Book SynopsisThe poems in The Voices of Babyn Yar convey the experiences of ordinary civilians going through unbearable events leading to the massacre at Kyiv’s Babyn Yar. Conceived as a tribute to the fallen, the book raises difficult questions about memory, responsibility, and commemoration of those who had witnessed an evil that verges on the unspeakable.Trade ReviewThere is no doubt that The Voices of Babyn Yar is destined to become a classic text in the Ukrainian canon. Will this poetry save nations or people? Of course not. But it will forever serve as a reminder of the human capacity for evil—a prompt we seem to require on a regular basis. -- Askold Melnyczuk * Times Literary Supplement *Kiyanovska has collected the imaginary testimony of individuals entwined in these unspeakable atrocities. Now they speak…Paradoxically, because the poems are presented as poetic communications, permeated with interjections from the poet herself, they do not further rend the fabric of reality, but have an utter authenticity that can only be explained by vision. -- Matthew Zapruder * Orion *In a translation that nudges close to the linguistic breaking points of the original, while retaining the fullness of its poetic registers and plethora of references to Ukrainian, Jewish, Soviet, and Western contexts, the seasoned translators-cum-poets Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky draw attention to an extraordinary work within the literary canon of the Holocaust. -- MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary WorkIn 2017, the poet Marianna Kiyanovska published her collection Babyn Yar: Holosamy. It has now been translated by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rozochinsky in a virtuosic English version…[The] poems include a discussion of the Nazi genocide, Soviet revisionist history, and recent conversations about identity and citizenship. -- Amelia Glaser * Jewish Renaissance *
£13.25
Harvard University Press Greek Lyric Volume V
Book SynopsisDithyrambic poets of the new school were active from the mid-fifth to mid-fourth century BC. Anonymous poems include drinking songs, children’s ditties, and cult hymns.Trade ReviewCampbell…is now giving the Classics world a definitive edition of Greek Lyric. -- Gregory Nagy * Classical Views *
£23.70
Harvard University Press The Woman of Andros. The SelfTormentor. The
Book SynopsisThe six plays by Terence (d. 159 BC), all extant, imaginatively reformulate Greek New Comedy in realistic scenes and refined Latin. They include Phormio, a comedy of intrigue and trickery; The Brothers, which explores parental education of sons; and The Eunuch, which presents the most sympathetically drawn courtesan in Roman comedy.
£23.70
Harvard University Press Phormio. The MotherinLaw. The Brothers
Book SynopsisThe six plays by Terence (d. 159 BC), all extant, imaginatively reformulate Greek New Comedy in realistic scenes and refined Latin. They include Phormio, a comedy of intrigue and trickery; The Brothers, which explores parental education of sons; and The Eunuch, which presents the most sympathetically drawn courtesan in Roman comedy.
£23.70
Loeb Helen. Phoenician Women. Orestes Trans.
Book SynopsisEuripides (ca. 485–406 BC) has been prized in every age for his emotional and intellectual drama. Eighteen of his ninety or so plays survive complete, including Medea, Hippolytus, and Bacchae, one of the great masterpieces of the tragic genre. Fragments of his lost plays also survive.Trade ReviewKovacs’s translation is a tour de force… In general, the notes accompanying the translation, explaining such things as geographical and mythological names, are judiciously chosen, concise, and crystal clear… I have nothing but praise for [Kovacs’s] scholarship, and the lucidity of his writing, both as translator and commentator. [This volume] should be [the] standard translation for many years to come. -- John Davidson * Scholia Reviews *
£23.70
Harvard University Press Miscellaneous Epics and Elegies. Other Fragments.
Book SynopsisThe prolific scholar-poet Callimachus of Cyrene spent his career at the royal court and great Library at Alexandria. Creatively reworking the language and generic properties of his predecessors, Callimachus developed a distinctive style, learned and elegant, that became an important model for subsequent poets both Greek and Roman.
£23.70
Random House USA Inc A Raisin in the Sun
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£16.14
Random House Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth
Book Synopsis''Making is our defence against the dark...''Through images of conflict and craftsmanship, Ruth Padel's powerful new poems address the Middle East, tracing a quest for harmony in the midst of destruction. An oud, the central instrument of Middle Eastern music , is made and broken. An ancient synagogue survives attacks, a Palestinian boy in a West Bank refugee camp learns capoeira, and a guide shows us Bethlehem''s Church of the Nativity during a siege. At the heart of the book are Christ's last words from the Cross.Uniting this moving collection is the common ground shared by Judaism, Christianity and Islam: a vision of human life as pilgrimage and struggle but also as music and making. With care and empathy, Ruth Padel suggests how rifts in the Holy Land speak to conflict in our own hearts. ''We identify. Some chasm / through the centre must be in and of us all.''Trade ReviewThere are points where one feels Padel is a poetic Daniel Barenboim. It is inlaid poetry... as if Padel were embroidering a tapestry. Each poem turns out to be an instrument and Padel knows how to play. Her command of register is masterly… There is no doubting Padel's accomplishment, her poems stand tall partly because she tends to rise about the personal. -- Kate Kellaway * Observer *Padel is one of our most talented writers. She turns her multi-layered poetic attention to the Middle East, seeking peace and harmony through sensitive and moving poems that offer hope even as they reflect upon struggle. -- Bel Mooney * Daily Mail *Lyrical and sensual, albeit with a keen awareness that in war zones, music, love and poetry are sidelined even as they become more vital. Padel skilfully juxtaposes the modern world with the ancient. -- Suzi Feay * Independent on Sunday *Padel's great characteristic is her range. Making an Oud interweaves contemporary Middle Eastern politics, the history and culture of the Abrahamic religions, natural beauty and love poetry. Padel is not writing partisan polemic but attempting something much more difficult, a kind of cultural synthesis. * Independent *Superb collection… Sorrowful and elegiac...though it ends on a note not entirely without hope -- Lesley Mcdowell * Glasgow Sunday Herald *
£12.59
Scholastic Ira Aldridge The Shakespearean Actor
Book SynopsisI Was There. is a perfect introduction for younger readers into stories from the past, allowing children to imagine that they were really there.
£6.23
British Library Publishing Poems in Progress
Book SynopsisDiverse themes including love, inequality, and the natural world bring together some of the most culturally significant and emotionally affecting poems in the British Library’s collections and beyond. Practicing poets also reveal their own drafts, with new reflections on writing.
£24.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The School for Scandal
Book SynopsisAnn Blake is Honorary Fellow at the School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
£11.67
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Ghosts Student Editions
Book SynopsisGhosts is Ibsen''s formidably realistic play about the effects of previous generations on the young, a stinging satire on contemporary Norwegian society and morality, and a haunting tragedy that, more than a century since it premiered, still retains its power to shock. In Ibsen''s study of the lingering poison in a marriage based on a lie, Osvald Alving returns from Paris to his mother''s home, carrying with him a dreadful secret. His mother''s delight at having him home soon turns to horror and grief. The corruption that she had hoped to spare him from when sending him away from the influence of his depraved father has in fact infected his whole body in the form of syphillis. In Mrs Alving and her son''s distrust of conventional religion and mores and Oswald''s anguish with life, Ibsen created a thoroughly modern and provocative work that created widespread outrage and shock when first produced in 1881. ''Meyer''s translations of Ibsen are a major Trade Review'Ghosts is a forboding litany of sins past which unravel to lay bare a series of creeping consequences that damn everyone involved, unwittingly or not.' Neil Cooper, Herald, 18.5.09 'Ibsen has the extraordinary capacity for building up tension like the force of water gathering behind a fracturing dyke. When the walls finally break, the ensuing flood is irresistible.' Mark Brown, Sunday Herald, 24.5.09 'Ibsen's most notable foray into the nature/nurture debate' Steve Cramer, Financial Times, 26.5.09 'When Ibsen's 1881 drama was first staged, the play didn't just tread on one taboo, it bravely waded through a messy bog of them.' Maxie Szalwinska, Sunday Times, 2.8.09
£11.45
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The May Queen A Revenge Tragedy Modern Plays
Book SynopsisIt''s not just what he''s done that makes me want to kill him. It''s everything about him that makes me want to kill him. Listen to me. And me a May Queen an'' all FrankDonohue is dead. Murdered. And as the culprits bury his death in thechaos of the Blitz, Theresa Donohue prays for revenge. Revenge for herfather, her brother and herself. But if vengeance is the Lord''s thenwho will pull the trigger? The May Queen is a dark and brutal thriller set against the backdrop of wartime Merseyside.In his professional homecoming, award-winning Liverpool writer StephenSharkey, whose work has been produced in London and Edinburgh, bringsus a story of love, family and the price of retribution. The play is aprogramme text produced with the Liverpool Everyman Theatre where itopens in May 2007.
£14.64
British Museum Press Haiku Love
Book SynopsisPoems by both men and women from the 1600s to the present day are beautifully illustrated with images from the unrivalled collection of Japanese paintings and prints in the British Museum.
£9.49
British Museum Press Chinese Love Poetry
Book SynopsisSelection of classical and modern Chinese love poems, illustrated with brushwork calligraphy and scenes from rarely exhibited paintings and prints in the collection of the British Museum.
£9.49
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd Mirrors
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£8.18
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd Three Plays Princess Ivona The Marriage and
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£17.05
Alma Books Ltd Lulu Plays and Other Sex Tragedies Calder
Book SynopsisTwo of Wedekind's most seminal plays, Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box both focus on the actions of the young heroine Lulu.Trade ReviewA timelessly ripe and ambiguous morality tale... that remains scarily relevant. * The Times *
£11.69
