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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156335409Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books Classics

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Feet of Clay Someone is killing Lord Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork. No one knows who, no one knows why and, worst of all, no one knows how - he just gets weaker and weaker. But it's not just Vetinari - across the city, people are being...

'We should've seen this coming. We did. We did see this coming. The world will not be kind to us because we haven't given it a reason to be.' On his fifteenth birthday, Noble transforms into a bird. Thousands of miles away, his sister Cleo is stationed...

'A nation that devours another will one day devour itself.' Set when the Great Devouring comes home, England & Son is a kaleidoscopic odyssey, where disaster capitalism, empire, Thatcherite politics, stolen youth and stolen wealth merge into the tale...

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Three timely one-act plays set in war-torn Syria and Iraq, by 'one of our best new playwrights' (The Times), featuring the epic and bloody adventures of an Iraqi translator, a London schoolgirl and a crackshot sniper.. The Collector is a tale of...

On the surface, Steven has everything. A beautiful wife, a successful business, a brand new home. But beneath the glittering veneer lies a monstrous secret ...'You believe him cos he wraps all the painful stuff in feathers and flowers. Makes it all safe...

'I should've seen him. Felt him. Walking across the sand. His antlers, twisting, reaching up to the moon. But the Mariner didn't come. The Mariner didn't come.' Mark and Tiny go for walks along the beach at Seaton Carew, County Durham. Their dad is...

But the best disguise, I find, is always the absolute bollock naked truth. It's really strange. Nobody believes it. This is an amoral morality play. It's also got songs in it. Fires keep starting. All across the city, arsonists worm their way into...

It's a dwindling band; old-fashioned and of a certain age, you can pick us out at funerals and memorial services because we can sing the hymns without the book. Alan Bennett writes: In 2001 the Medici Quartet commissioned the composer George Fenton...

A triumphant transformation of mediaeval mystery plays into radical political theatre Mistero Buffo, or The Comic Mysteries, recreates the irreverent vitality of the popular mediaeval theatre. It is based on careful research into the work of the...

Four dogs lie in cages in an animal shelter. A Dog's Life depicts the moment when a woman comes to the shelter and has to choose between the dogs - a choice that literally means life or death to the oldest, Ben. This compassionate drama, easy to stage -...

It is life's great aim. To find a way to be honest with oneself, even as the world pretends around you.Dashing soldier Anastasius Linck has no intention of falling in love, but a chance encounter with the rebellious Catharina Mulhahn changes everything...

We need to start at the start. Yes, yes, we do or the Neurotypicals will be confused. There was something off about the new guy. But now he's dead, and the sirens are fast approaching. Who to trust - what was it he told you that time on the pedalo? ...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573025068Author Tom StoppardFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

For Services Rendered sheds a harrowing light on provincial middle-class England after the First World War. The play was first performed at the Globe Theatre in London in 1932.Book InformationISBN 9780573114670Author W Somerset MaughamFormat...

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...

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The second play by a "writer of terrific promise" (Time Out) is a comedy of family intrigue and secrets Interwoven events from the past and present blend together in this touching comedy spanning two generations of a family. Secrets that refuse to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787804913Author John MarstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957574762Author Tom LeonardFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack BooksWeight(grams) 142g

This play takes the subject of a doting mum who finds it hard to accept that her son is leaving the fold to get married. Betty, a passionate 50-something housewife from Leeds, is this women. On the morning of her son Mark's wedding, she retreats to the...

The plays in this volume range from the once shockingly realistic Ghosts (1881), 'the play that launched a thousand ships of critical fury'; through The Wild Duck (1884) with its innovatory symbolism and its touching portrait of a fourteen-year-old girl...

Winer of a 1994 Time Out Theatre Award and TMA/Martini Award for Best UK Touring Production Lucie Cabrol is a wild, tiny woman born into a peasant family in France in 1900. Abandoned by her lover, Jean, and banished by her family, she becomes an outcast...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486431840Author Christopher MarloweFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

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Everything human beings do finishes up bad in the end. Everything good human beings ever make is built on something monstrous. Nothing lasts. We certainly won't . . . William Carlisle has the world at his feet, but its weight on his shoulders. He is...

Two powerful plays about the shattering impact of war, and the astonishing resilience of those living through it, written by two of Ukraine's leading playwrights. 'They've mobilised all the living now, the fifth call took the last of the living. But...

One bathroom. Two people. One day. A relationship witnessed in minute, devastating detail. A story of intimacy, fragility and the darker side of love, Jack Thorne's play Mydidae exposes the private and disturbing moments a couple share, and explores...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787377950Author John FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

"I do not organise the ticket queue, it is up to the people in the ticket queue to organise themselves. Have I made myself clear?" Finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2022 One final night. One last chance. Five people queue for a ticket to...

'Shisha lounges are an essential part of the Muslim experience, bruv, like the Fillet-O-Fish.' Chunkyz Shisha Lounge is a home away from home for Jihad, Rashid and Asif, a space where community whispers are heard, jokes are told, and new hustles are...

Quarantined in his aunt and uncle's stuffy flat because his brother has measles, Tom is restless and bored. Intrigued by a grandfather clock, Tom is startled one night to hear it strike 13. Going to investigate, Tom discovers a Victorian garden of the...

'I think it's queer. And it's about to get queerer...' Edward II wanders on to the empty stage, bloodied and confused. He has no idea where he is, or how he got here, but he does have an ominous feeling that something is wrong. As that feeling grows,...

'Place like this - you know this - place like this gets in your blood. Once it's in your blood, you can't get it out.' One night under Cardiff skies, four lost souls go looking for answers. After dark, when the world is quiet, their paths weave and...

A dramatic adaptation of the celebrated Anglo-Saxon epic poem in which a wandering hero comes to the aid of a nation held in terror by a savage monster.Book InformationISBN 9781408520024Author David CalcuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Nelson...

Looking at Edward Gray's three daughters and their unsuitable husbands, it is difficult to disagree with his pronouncement that we all marry the wrong person. It is also impossible not to laugh at the results hilariously portrayed in this early play by...

The Actress dramatises the events backstage as a colourful, complicated actress makes her emotional farewell performance. Various people from her life invade her dressing room to say their goodbyes, declare their love, roar with laughter, spit insults,...