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A sweeping historical novel set during the great Italian wars of the early sixteenth century.

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Narrates the history of the conflict between Jews and Arabs in Palestine since the 1880s, from the arrival of the first Zionist pioneers. This updated edition of Hirst's classic work explains why the history of Palestine is still relevant to what is happening in the region now.

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This epic masterpiece is a radical landmark in modern literature, reissued with a foreword by poet Ishion Hutchinson to mark Wilson Harris' centenary.

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Alan Bennett's first play since the runaway international success of The History Boys.

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This volume presents two plays written for Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg and not yet staged in English.

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A new play from one of Ireland's most respected playwrights

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A powerful interrogation of consciousness and psychology from the highly-acclaimed playwright behind Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Arcadia.

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A collection of poems exploring the theme of loss.

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Mankind clearly peaked about 40 years ago. It's been downhill ever since. For all this talk of our dazzling modern age, the two biggest advances of the past decade are Wi-Fi and Nando's. That's the best we can do.

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Designed to meet the requirements for students at GCSE and A level, this accessible and stimulating new educational edition: - includes detailed analyses of character, theme and structure; - looks at the context of the play and its author; - offers key quotations and activities both for the student working alone and in the classroom.

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From a small Iron Age settlement on the banks of the Tiber, Rome grew to become the centre of an Empire that dominated the Western world.

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The Hogarth Plays catch one of England's most celebrated artists at two crucial points in his career: once at the beginning, and once at the end.

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The patient and elegiac activity of The Holy Land resembles a collection of light-sensitive plates, storing and restoring what one poem calls the understory, celebrating 'the music of what happens'.

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A funny, tender novel about feeling adrift when facing the 'real world' for the first time.

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But in this era of unrest at the dawn of Home Rule, their seemingly serene life is threatened by the arrival of Christopher's English cousin, who unwittingly ignites deep animosity among the villagers of Ballybeg. The Home Place premiered at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in February 2005.

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For fans of A Star is Born and Crazy Heart, Willy Vlautin's most personal novel yet - a poetic and deeply moving story about what it really takes to be a musician.

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The Hours is David Hare's screen adaptation of Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. In extraordinary and ingenious ways, the film shows how a single day - and the novel Mrs Dalloway - inextricably link the lives of three very different women.

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In a new edition of this lost classic, The Hours Before Dawn proves - scarily - as relevant to readers today as it was when Celia Fremlin first wrote it in the 1950s.

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Finished just two months before the author's murder on 18 August 1936 by a gang of Franco's supporters, The House of Bernarda Alba is now accepted as Lorca's great masterpiece of love and loathing. Five daughters live together in a single household with a tyrannical mother.

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Lyrical and powerful - a tender debut about family, loss and life in the countryside.

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Lyrical and powerful - a tender debut about family, loss and life in the countryside.

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Nothing cuts into us like the family knife. The Webster House. 1965. Set against the ever-changing industrial landscape of working-class Britain, Beth Steel's revelatory new play spans five decades in the lives, and deaths, of the Webster family.

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A gorgeous evocation of the country house party by celebrated social historian Adrian Tinniswood.

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14-year-old Ava has already lived through every child's worst nightmare - and now she must try to survive in a strange house of secrets.