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Simon Stephens
Stephens Plays: 3: Harper Regan, Punk Rock, Marine Parade and On the Shore of the Wide World (Contemporary Dramatists)
Harper Regan follows a woman's road trip through the heart of England in a violent and comic exploration of the moralities of sex and death. Quietly harrowing, this play is a barometer for our times exploring dark secrets and familial estrangement. Marine Parade is a musical about sex, betrayal ...
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Tracy Borman
Henry VIII: And the Men Who Made Him
Henry VIII is best known in history for his tempestuous marriages and the fates of his six wives. However, as acclaimed historian Tracy Borman makes clear in her illuminating new chronicle of Henry’s life, his reign and reputation were hugely influenced by the men who surrounded and interacted wit...
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Joan Plowright
And That's Not All : The Memoirs of Joan Plowright
Joan Plowright, fresh from making a new film with Peter O'Toole, has, after years of saying no, finally written her memoirs. She's had quite a life, not least having been married for twenty years to Laurence Olivier. She feels enough time has elapsed for a no holds barred approach. They met in the m...
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Andrew Biss
The Treachery of Images: A Play
After a young student is brutally raped and murdered, her parents, Tom and Christine, are confronted with the daunting task of processing their grief and attempting to come to terms with the horror that befell their child. The paths they take in doing so, however, couldn't be starker in contrast. Ch...
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Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano
Descendants of a Lesser God: Regional Power in Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt
A new perspective on the dynamics of dynastic rule in the southernmost province of Egypt, from the Old Kingdom to the New Kingdom The First Upper Egyptian nome, with its capital, Elephantine, was important in ancient times, as it stood on the southern border between Egypt and the Nubian provinces ...
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Jez Butterworth
Mojo and Other Plays
Jez Butterworth burst onto the theatre scene aged twenty-five with Mojo, “one of the most dazzling Royal Court main stage debuts in years” ( Time Out ). In addition to Mojo , this collection contains three of his early plays, two short one-person pieces published here for the first time, and an ...
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Carolly Erickson
The Last Wife of Henry VIII: A Novel
From the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette comes a powerful new novel about Catherine Parr, The Last Wife of Henry VIII . The least known of Henry VIII's six wives was the cleverest of them all. Alluring, witty, and resourceful, she attracted th...
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Abhishek Majumdar
Theatre Across Borders (Theatre Makers)
Is there a fundamental connection between New York's Elevator Repair Service's 9-hour production of The Great Gatsby and a Kathakali performance? How can we come to appreciate the slowness of Kabuki theatre as much as the pace of the Whatsapp theatre of post-Arab Spring Turkey? Can we go beyon...
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Ella Pyne
Counterpart (The Gemdark Dynasty)
Leda doesn’t want to be sacrificed, but there’s no escaping a fate written in stone… In the kingdom of Viridiana, a king makes a deal with the gods; royal blood in exchange for power and prosperity. Every year, one of his children must sacrifice another to prove their loyalty to the throne and...
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Abel González Melo
Selected Plays by Cuban Playwright Abel González Melo: Chamaco (Kiddo); Nevada; Weathered; Outside the Game; Tell Me the Whole Thing Again; Abyss (
‘One of Cuba’s most important living playwrights, Abel González Melo is known for a hybrid poetics in which he employs contemporary formal features, such as non-linear storytelling and flashbacks, interwoven with elements from the classical tradition in order to stage the ignoble realities of p...
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Jayci Lee
That Prince is Mine
Library Journal's Romance Pick of the Month A love-averse Korean royal court cuisine instructor is waylaid by a gorgeous professor―and prince in disguise―who will do anything to prove to her that love and happily ever after can be theirs. Emma Yoon dreams of opening a culinary school in Los ...
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Martin Crimp
Not One Of These People
If you think you know what it's like to be me you are seriously deluded.Is it appropriation to invent a voice - or is it an act of empathy?If a playwright's job is to make dialogue, is there a limit to how many characters she / he / they are entitled to invent? Who can these people be? And what if a...
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Charlii Darling
The First of Never: A Dark Neverland Fairytale Romance
Hook meets Mr. & Mrs. Smith : The First of Never is a fairy-tale inspired dark fantasy romance with suspense, action, court intrigue, and a spicy spy vs. spy fated-mates pairing. "Once upon a time" is now. In this dark Neverland tale, the fairies have all fled long ago. Tigerlily's grown up w...
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Terry Johnson
Hitchcock Blonde
First published to tie-in with the Royal Court Theatre's production in April 2003, with a cast including Alexander Delamere, Victoria Gay, Fiona Glascott and Rosamund Pike, this is the newly revised version of award-winning Terry Johnson's classic play. A media lecturer and his female protégé fin...
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Sam Heughan
Tierra de clanes: Whisky, guerras y una aventura escocesa sin igual (Spanish Edition)
DOS HOMBRES. UN PAÍS. Y UN MONTÓN DE WHISKY. Como buenas estrellas de la serie Outlander, Sam y Graham destilan Escocia por los cuatro costados en este épico viaje por carretera por su tierra natal, donde descubren que la realidad supera con creces la ficción. Tierra de clanes es la historia de ...
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Arthur Phillips
The Egyptologist: A Novel
From the bestselling author of Prague comes a witty, inventive, brilliantly constructed novel about an Egyptologist obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king. This darkly comic labyrinth of a story opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, then winds its way from the slums of Austral...
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Jack Thorne
Hope
"A critical, hard-edged play that is not cynical . . . Beautiful."— Times (UK) An urgent political play from Jack Thorne ( Let the Right One In ; TV's Skins ), a rising star on the British playwriting scene. Hope is a funny and scathing fable attacking the squeeze on local government. How do y...
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Jane Smith
In Praise of Chickens: A Compendium Of Wisdom Fair And Fowl
What follows is a compact miscellany of chicken wisdom—a lively and amusing collection of quotations from past authorities on all things chicken, interspersed with brief editorial comments and complemented by wonderful illustrations. Whether a single sentence or several paragraphs, selections are ...
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Ulrica Soderlind
NOBEL BANQUETS, THE: A CENTURY OF CULINARY HISTORY (1901-2001)
The Nobel Banquets is not about Alfred Nobel's personal dining habits; it is about his "gift to mankind" -- the five original Nobel Prizes and the festivities that are arranged every year to celebrate them.There is hardly any other banquet in the world that is as famous as the Nobel Banquet which ma...
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Evelyne Lever
Madame de Pompadour: A Life
A sumptuous new biography of one of the most famous dangerous liaisons When Jeanne Antoinette Poisson was a child, a fortune-teller predicted that she would one day be the mistress of a king. Born into the financial bourgeoisie that was a world apart from the royal court, the beautiful Jeanne Anto...
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