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This is not a story about the Yorkshire Ripper. It's 1975 and Sharon just wants to marry Donny Osmond. Her mum, June, is working to keep girls like Helen off the street, and Fiona is desperate to get inside the Milgarth Police Station incident room. ...

This first collection by Frank McGuinness contains plays from the 1980s, including his major work of that decade, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, a powerful and profoundly moving study of a group of Ulster Protestant volunteers in...

The Night Season'The Night Season is unusual; no politics, no issues, no history - just a bold attempt to grapple with the messy nature of living. It's also delightfully, rudely funny.' Financial Times'Look out for the name Rebecca Lenkiewicz. It's once...

"Includes the plays Master Class, Elgar's Rondo, Music to Murder By and Elgar's Third The creative artist in conflict with destructive external pressures and corrosive internal tensions is a recurring theme in David Pownall's meticulously crafted plays...

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First single volume edition of this bold version of a classic by Sarah Kane Sarah Kane's radical reworking of Seneca's classical tragedy of incest and unrequited lust. Phaedra's Love is a bold and provocative revisioning of the story of Phaedra's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679781790Author Noel CowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Miggy is a "Sloane Ranger", who has been dumped by her boyfriend Roddy because she is "shallow" and does not care for the environment in the way his new love, Harmony, does. Here, Miggy tells us her story as she wrestles with environmental issues...

Private Peaceful relives the life of Private Tommo Peaceful, a young First World War soldier awaiting the firing squad at dawn. During the night, he looks back at his short but joyful past growing up in rural Devon: his exciting first days at school; the...

Since her play Steel opened in her native Sheffield in 2018, Chris Bush has rapidly become one of the UK's most successful and widely staged playwrights, with her plays on stage at the National Theatre, in the West End, and across Europe. Celebrated for...

The world fame of Samuel Beckett is due to a combination of high academic esteem and immense popularity. An innovator in prose fiction to rival Joyce, his plays have been the most influential in modern theatre history. As an author in both English and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018411Author Eric ChappellFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

One of a series designed to motivate and encourage students who may be working on certain writers for the first time. Each text includes notes to explain literary and historical allusions, tasks to help students explore themes and issues, and suggestions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573017995Author Ray CooneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

"So we're clearYou know, right?You know I'm not that kind of person"Sometimes we can't find the right words. Sometimes the wrong word just slips out. Sometimes the right words become the wrong words. Sometimes that ruins everything.When a misfiring joke...

'I needed to be better... and summat needed to change - to keep them safe. To fix my family.' When her mother disappears, teenager Cassie wants to care for her sisters on her own. But can kids be parents? Or should Cassie let foster parents adopt her...

This Jacobean city comedy is a curiosity in that it presents a real-life character, the notorious cross-dresser Moll Frith, who probably was among the first audiences of 'her' play before she was taken up for public misconduct. Middleton and Dekker's...

Tim Crouch's new play is about the abuse carried out in the name of the spectator; it is a story of hope, violence, and exploitation. Laugh with the actors, tap your feet to the music, and turn to your neighbor.By the author of England and An Oak Tree...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573014031Author Philip KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

'What if I look down at my baby and I don't know who they are? Just some... entity. Alien to me. Staring back. A nothing. Or worse, look down and all I see is Ed Sheeran.' Two couples each invite a stranger into their homes in the hope of sparking new...

Living with Motor Neurone Disease: A complete guide is designed to guide the reader through this complex progressive neurodegenerative condition that attacks the motor neurones, or nerves, in the brain and spinal cord. This means that messages gradually...

Mr and Mrs Twit are not very nice. In fact they're extremely nasty. They're nasty to each other, and they're VILE to everyone else. They hold a family of monkeys hostage in a cage and force them to stand on their heads. ALL THE TIME. We told you they...

Condemned as a "libel on the British people" when it was first produced in 1951, Absolute Hell is set in a decaying West End drinking club at the end of the Second World War. The 1995 production at the Royal National Theatre starred Judi Dench and was...

'Every one of us will be here for a different particular reason. I am here because I am passionate about history.' It is 2019, the Year of Return, marking four hundred years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in America. We are at a slave...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573080975Author David McGillivrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789432787Author John Millington SyngeFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams)...

Having fled from Garmany in 1933 to escape the Nazis, Anne Frank and her family were forced into hiding in 1940. Anne, devoted to writing about her experiences, tells us of the tensions and terrors during the period in which the family hid in an attic...

'I am up for it. All the time. That's not a boast. Or an opinion. It is bone-hard medical fact.' John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. Charismatic poet, playwright and rake with a legendary appetite for excess. Yet when a chance encounter with an actress...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439191163Format PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

When an Irish busker and a young Czech mother meet through a shared love of music, their songwriting sparks a deep connection and a tender, longing romance that neither of them could have expected. Based on the much-loved Oscar-winning film, Once is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841515Author John HodgartFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573016653Author David McGillivrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573080647Author Willy RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Rose Heiney's debut play Elephants is a sharp black comedy with a tender heart that explores the paths we take in life and their repercussions on the people we love most. 5.53 p.m. Christmas Eve. Richard and Sally are waiting for their friends and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781997260Author Meda RyanFormat PaperbackImprint Poolbeg Press LtdPublisher Poolbeg Press Ltd

A story of lust, madness and destruction set in the backstreets of Paris. Based on Emile Zola's classic novel. The beautiful but doomed heroine is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. Every Thursday evening she watches her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573114694Author Frank VickeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

'I can change colours of objects by looking at them, hear the symphonies of household simplicities, taste the emotions in a room like sweet or bitter wine, and feel life's every heartbeat breaking through my ribcage in glorious technicolour. Just don't...

An award-winning play which took the nation by storm when first heard on BBC Radio 4, now in a new stage version Lee Hall's extraordinary, award-winning play about faith, love and the meaning of life was first broadcast on Radio Four in 1997 to...

This third volume of Alan Ayckbourn plays includes Haunting Julia, Sugar Daddies, Drowning on Dry Land and Private Fears in Public Places, with an introduction by the author.Haunting Julia'A play for today. It touches on the failures of education and...