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Based on a bride who ran away with the son of an enemy family, this work investigates desire, depression and the constraints of the rural Spanish community in which the play is rooted.

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A stunning examination - through words and images - of the epidemic of mass shootings in America today.

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A spectacular international thriller of conspiracy from the writer of Limitless and Winterland.

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An extraordinary debut! A warm hug of a book that encourages children to open up about their feelings, from FAB Prize Winner author/illustrator.

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His foremost interpreter revisits more than forty years of listening to Dylan - weaving individual moods and moments into a brilliant history of their changing times.

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But in 1972 along came the American, Bobby Fischer: insolent, arrogant, abusive, vain, greedy, vulgar, bigoted, paranoid and obsessive - and apparently unstoppable. Against him was Boris Spassky: complex, sensitive, the most un-Soviet of champions.

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Three people. Stephen wants his ex to realise he's got what it takes. Helen wants her dead husband back. Jamie wants a girl to see him off to war. Three lives stripped bare in a modern world. Bone premired at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2004.

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Losing none of the exuberance which has become a hallmark of Simon Armitage's poetry, these poems are more personal. The book is divided into three sections - the "Book of Matches" which are sonnets, "Becoming of Age" and "Reading the Bans", a series of poems about Armitage's marriage.

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Gordon Burn takes on real news stories in an ambitious and innovative novel.

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Playboy Sandro Botticelli, brilliant, famous, good looking, has the ear - and the wife - of Lorenzo de Medici, as well as the Renaissance's hottest young apprentice, Leonardo. But whilst he is at work on his breakthrough commission, 'The Birth of Venus', Botticelli's devotion to pleasure and beauty is put to the ultimate test.

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So she flees her Louisiana home to live with half-brother Bill (Martin Donovan), a gay schoolteacher left independently wealthy after his lover's death, now trying to resurrect his life with new boyfriend Matt. But Bill's friend Lucia (Lisa Kudrow) distrusts the newcomer, and her suspicions are confirmed when Dedee lures Matt into bed .

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Set inside a men's public toilet, Boys on the Verge of Tears is a bold, kaleidoscopic tale of violence and vulnerability.

Sam Grabiner's play premiered at Soho Theatre, London, in April 2024.

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Have the triumphs of Richard Branson, Britain's most popular and most publicity-seeking businessman, turned to dust over the last decade

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In this intimate relationship drama, set in multi-cultural London, Anthony Minghella unites an award-winning cast, many of whom have shone in his previous films.

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'This is an extraordinary novel by a stunningly talented writer.' - Guardian

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A collection of Brian Friel plays which includes "Dancing at Lughnasa", "Fathers and Sons", "Making History", "Wonderful Tennessee" and "Molly Sweeney".

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This marks the first of five volumes collecting together the complete work of Brian Friel. The Enemy Within (1962) Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1964) The Loves of Cass McGuire (1966) Lovers (Winners and Losers) (1967) Crystal and Fox (1968) The Gentle Island (1971)

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This second collection of Brian Friel's work contains: The Freedom of the City (1973) Volunteers (1975) Living Quarters (1977) Aristocrats (1979) (March) Faith Healer (1979) (April) Translations (1980)

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Includes Three Sisters (after Chekhov); The Communication Cord; Fathers and Sons (after Turgenev); Making History; Dancing at Lughnasa.

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This fourth collection of Brian Friel's work contains: The London Vertigo (after Macklin) (1992) (January) A Month in the Country (after Turgenev) (1992) (August) Wonderful Tennessee (1993) Molly Sweeney (1994) Give Me Your Answer, Do! (1997)

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This fifth collection of Brian Friel's work contains: Uncle Vanya (after Chekhov) (1998) The Yalta Game (after Chekhov) (2001) The Bear (after Chekhov) (2002) Afterplay (after 2002) Performances (2003) The Home Place (2005) Hedda Gabler (after Ibsen) (2005)

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Is your enjoyment of Brian Friel's work hampered by a lack of Irish historical knowledge A Faber Critical Guide to Brian Friel's major work gives all this and more. It gives an introduction to the distinctive features of the playwright's work;

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This third collection by Brian Friel contains two original works: Performances, which considers the relationship between the private life and public work of the composer Leos Jancek;

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Billeted to Brideshead during the Second World War, Captain Charles Ryder is overwhelmed by memories of his Oxford days and holidays spent in a fine stately home. As past and present blur, Charles recalls his enchantment with the beguiling Sebastian, his sister Julia and the doomed Catholic family, and considers how they would change his life...