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Inspired by King Lear, it follows two rivals who come together to discuss what has fuelled them to try and outdo each other.

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The first volume of a new trilogy telling the saga of one French family between 1946 and 2016.

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With over 60 plays written and staged, many playing in the West End or the Royal National Theatre, Alan Ayckbourn's expertise on writing and directing plays is unsurpassed. Here, he shares his tricks of the trade, from helpful hints on writing, to tips on directing.

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A collection of Vargas Llosa's short fiction whose domain is the Peru of male youth and machismo, where life's dramas play themselves out on the soccer field, on the dance floor and on street corners.

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The Cure at Troy, by Seamus Heaney, is a verse adaptation of Sophocles' play Philoctetes.

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A bright and charming new poetry collection, from 2009 Costa Book of the Year winner, Christopher Reid.

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A tale of mystery and adventure, set in a street hidden from the world. A street which lures people in and traps them forever, where fates are decided and enemies have their revenge.

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The true consequences of dark magic take their toll in this powerful and seductive sequel to The Graces.

(Paperback, Main - Re-issue)

A brilliant exploration of the novel - its history and its art - from one of the genre's most distinguished practitioners.

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A stunning new sequence of war poems from former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion.

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The hugely acclaimed novel of '70s football and the turmoil of the game's most charismatic and controversial manager.

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This thrilling new version by Rebecca Lenkiewicz opened at the Bath Theatre Royal's Ustinov Theatre in May 2022 before going on UK tour in an Arcola Theatre, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Royal & Derngate, Northampton, Oxford Playhouse and Theatre Royal Bath Productions co-production.

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McGahern's second novel is about adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality.

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Walter Hartwright is married, prosperous and a little bored. When he is approached to write a life of the painter Turner he accepts, unaware that his subject lived a life more dark than light. Researching the painter's life, he is soon affected with its possibilities of violence and even murder that he no longer trusts his own sanity and character.

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The Dark Earth and the Light Sky, which premieres at the Almeida Theatre, London, in November 2012, delves into the life of this enigmatic and complex character in an era of change and destruction.

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The classic account of Italian corruption and culture, covering Berlusconi's demise and resurrection, and Italy's financial meltdown.

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In this town, no one is innocent.

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Seminal collection of rock journalism, updated including new material.

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Intelligence officer Jack Valentine sets out on another dangerous mission - to rescue a friend's daughter and the woman he loves from an evil drug baron. He teams up in New York with his old ally Liam Mellows and they end up in Mexico, where the Day of the Dead is being celebrated.

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The author of Gone Again returns with another heart pounding thriller.

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Many people discover the secret lives of their parents, few find they reveal a monster.

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Simon Armitage is the most widely and unreservedly praised poet of his generation. Elsewhere, questions of belief and trust, of identity and knowledge, dealt with as they occur in everyday domestic life, contribute to a picture of our contemporary world that is at once realistic and touched with a unique imaginative intensity.

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A haunting and disturbing portrait of modern Jamaica: a country of lost opportunity and promise, and one of the most violent places in the world.

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James Joyce's short story The Dead, is dramatised by Frank McGuinness.