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Hilariously, everything which can go wrong in a production does so. II Fornicazione is a "grim" tale of operatic adultery, poison and mayhem. Streuth is the crime story Agatha Christie would never have dared to write. A Collier's Tuesday Tea...

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'You were supposed to love me. You said it in front of sixty of our friends and family. Even my father cried.' A satirical comedy of modern manners set in contemporary Dublin. Neil is a maverick TV reporter struggling to re-integrate into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573015519Author Neil SimonFormat 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 9781451694727Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

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'What would you do to save your son? Everything? Anything? Lie?' It's Michael Thomas's birthday. A cake sits in his mother Evelyn's living room, its candles burning undisturbed. On the fifteenth anniversary of Michael's fatal stabbing, Jackie wants...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953057037Author Mike KimmelFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Ben Rose Creative ArtsPublisher Ben Rose Creative ArtsWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm)...

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Cloud Nine is an inventive, surrealistic and entertaining look at sexual repression and sexual role conditioning.The first act takes placei n Victorian Africa, suggeting the parallel between colonial and sexual repression. Clive, the whtie man, imposes...

Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent...

A boy. At a bus stop. Easily missed. Liam wanders through the city, repeatedly encountering people, but continually feeling disconnected and alienated. In this vivid and troubled story of an isolated young man, playwright Leo Butler casts a sharp eye...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018923Author Geraldine AronFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

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In the early sixties two national treasures were the creative force behind one of British cinema's most successful franchises. But the Miss Marple movies were almost never made... Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie didn't want Margaret Rutherford to bring...

A modern-day version of Euripides' anti-war play, The Trojan Women has been rewritten and is set in a mother-and-baby unit of a prison. The war is over. Beyond the prison walls, Troy and its people burn. Inside the prison, the city's captive women...

Ashley is sixteen. She's lived in Medway for fifteen years and six months. She has 2,354 leaflets on sexual health. She knows exactly how many she has, because she's counted them 1,582 times... At 7.48 p.m. tonight, she will have been going out with...

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"Listen to the dialogue: no other American dramatist has this feel for the ordinary talk of ordinary people, or the knowledge of what they do. This is more than a writer's craft, it is a psychological and moral openness to humanity, an act not of...

'She wanted spontaneity, adventure... I said I can be spontaneous... I just need a little bit of time to plan.' Peta is new in town and ready for whatever London has to throw at her. She's looking for romance, for friendship, for exciting people to...

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Things are going to be different. Very different... 1838, London. Jacob Marley is dead. And so is Ebenezer Scrooge... In this reinvention of the timeless classic, Ebenezer has died and his sister Fan has inherited his money-lending business. She...

An adaptation of the beloved, award-winning children's novel. It's 1940, and Britain is at war. Young Chas McGill has the second-best collection of war souvenirs in town, but desparately wants it to be the best. Amidst the bombs and air raids, Chas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952119279Author Wajahat AliFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint McSweeney'sPublisher McSweeney'sWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 157mm * 127mm * 13mm

At three o'clock in the morning, this is what I think. I think somebody killed him. They killed him, God, I don't know how I'm uttering these words ...they killed him because he's white and Western and they hated him. And it wasn't personal. Which...

We're just the least lucky girls in all the world. All three of us. You and me and Ruthy have been given a big sad spoon of bad luck. A girl growing up in a battered part of Stockport in a battered time at the end of the Seventies falls in love with the...

Playwright Heidi Schreck's boundary-breaking play breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans. Fifteen-year-old/ Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999315610Author Richard Vaughan DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Mitford Oak PressPublisher Mitford Oak PressWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573133817Author AhlamFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486290973Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

A new adaptation of the classic book A Kestrel for a Knave, Kes tells the story of a day in the life of Billy Casper; a 15-year-old boy about to leave school and determined not to end up working down the pit like his older brother Jud. Billy doesn't know...

A radically urgent intervention, An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre: 1900 - 1950 uncovers the hidden Black history of this most influential of artforms. Drawing on lost archive material and digitised newspapers from the turn of the...

Fifteen-year-old Charlie has serious ambitions - to mess with teachers' heads, to front a gang, to ride the motorbike that blows all competition out of the water. But when the new music teacher, Miss Fry, arrives, things start to change.Almond's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784618797Author Daf JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

"A very tough piece of goods-dynamite, hard-edged and brilliant."-New York Post New York is hell. Daughters are murder. Vietnam was a war that America shouldn't have started. Today history replays in the Middle East. Same talk, same struggle, and...

Howard Brenton is one of Britain's best-known and most controversial dramatists Christie in Love is based on the story of John Christie, the 19th century serial killer, "like Genet, [Brenton] feels for the outcast...But he's less sentimentally involved...

'Everyone lived perfectly happily round here together before you young ones try to integrate and confuse things.' The accusation of a Black teenager sparks disturbance on the South London streets. While tensions rise and local rioting starts, a couple...

This volume brings together Coward's celebrated verse, from snappy epigrams to seven-hundred-line short stories such as 'P&O 1930' and 'Not Yet the Dodo'; from moving war-time encounters to satirical barbs at familiar Coward targets; and from personal...

Two exhilarating and teasingly entertaining one-act plays from one of the UK's leading playwrights. Heart's Desire sees a family awaiting their daughter's return from Australia, though in a series of alternative scenarios, the play collapses as it...

With his louche air and a developed taste for smoking, gambling, port and women, it's hard to believe Cis Farringdon is only fourteen. And that's because he isn't. Agatha his mother lopped five years from her true age and his when she married the amiable...