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  Scuttlers (NHB Modern Plays)

  Rona Munro

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  A thrillingly fast-paced play about youthful disaffection, protest and violence, drawing on the history of the Scuttlers, the youth gangs of nineteenth-century Manchester.
  It's 1885 and the streets of Manchester are crackling with energy, youth and violence.
  As workers pour into Ancoats to power the Industrial Revolution, 50,000 people are crammed into one square mile. The mills rumble thunderously day and night. The air is thick with smoke. Life is lived large and lived on the street. This is the world's very first industrial suburb and the young mill workers form the very first urban gangs, fighting over their territory with belts, fists and knives.
  Invisible in history, their lives, deaths, loves, lusts and defiant energy tell stories that will repeat and repeat over the decades that follow.
  Scuttlers by Rona Munro was first performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in 2015.
  With nine leading roles and a large cast of mill workers and gang members, Scuttlers is well suited to performance by schools and youth groups, who will enjoy its physical energy and dramatic storyline.

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  If Only (NHB Modern Plays)

  David Adger

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  An explosive, topical drama from one of the UK's top political playwrights.
  It's 16th April 2010, the day after the UK's first ever televised prime ministerial debate. Stranded in Malaga Airport by a volcanic ash-cloud, a Labour special adviser, a Lib Dem staffer and a Tory candidate consider their options. Can their parties survive without them? How will they get back home? And who'll end up in government?
  Fast forward to 4th August 2014. As the nation settles down to commemorate the outbreak of the First World War, the three politicians meet again. One of them knows something that could change the outcome of the 2015 election. Should they reveal it? And at what cost?
  'funny, gripping and bang on the money' Telegraph
  'fascinating... clearly meticulously researched' Guardian
  'witty and very clever... hilarious' British Theatre Guide

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  Librivox Multilingual Short...

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages. All chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers.Brief description of the contributions:01 - Japanese - Sennin [1922]: prose, fiction, Oosaka, wizard02 - Japanese - Mangan [1938]: prose, fiction, Mishima, doctor03 - Latin - Pange lingua (gloriosi proelium certaminis) [6th Century]: poetry, medieval Latin04 - Japanese - Matsurino ban: prose, fiction, children, festival05 - Bulgarian - ????????? (Balaniadi) [1917]: poetry, satire06 - Bisaya - ¡“Fuera” kapyot! [1921]: prose, itoy-itoy07 - Tagalog - Ang Aral ni Ina [1915]: poetry, mother's wisdom, pantas na salita08 - Latin - Pange Lingua (Gloriosi Proelium Certaminis): poetry, chant, Lent, Christianity09 - Tagalog - ¡Bulalakaw...! [1915]: poetry, shooting star10 - French - La Main: Short fiction, supernatural11 - Japanese - Kako: prose,fiction,memory,matchstick12 - Bisaya - Si Inday, Lider na sa Piniliay [1921]: prose, women equal with men in politics13 - Tagalog - Tag-ulan [1915]: poetry, rainy season14 - Japanese - Nyusyano ji [1907]: prose,non-fiction,university,newspaper15 - Welsh - Sion a Sian (poem IX) [1911]: poetry, children, nursery rhyme, plant, gerdd16 - Japanese - Piano: prose, fiction, Yokohama, piano17 - Japanese - Aosuisen Akasuisen [1922]: prose,fiction,children,narcissus18 - Chinese - ???? (Shuidiaogetou): prose, Chinese, Song Dynasty19 - Polish - O doktorze Hiszpanie [1883]: poetry, poezja, fraszka, alkohol20 - Polish - Czlowiek Boze igrzysko [1883]: poetry, poezja, pycha, czlowiek, Bóg21 - French - Misère [1832]: poetry, hunger, misery22 - Tagalog - Sa Aking Mga Kabatà [1906]: poetry, all languages are alike, "ang hindi magmahal sa sariling wika ay higit sa hayop at malansang isda"23 - Danish - Flugten til Amerika [1900]: Poetry, children24 - French - Le chapeau de Sans-Âme [1887]: prose, fiction, short story, Provence, hat25 - Japanese - Hatsukoi [1897]: poetry, first love, apple26 - Polish - Zona modna [1882-3]: poetry, poezja, satyra, moda27 - Japanese - Umi: prose, non-fiction, sea28 - Japanese - Nobara [1922]: prose, fiction, war, wild rose

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  Bestiary - An Anthology of...

  Stephen Mitchell

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  In this treasury of passionate and humorous encounters with animals, Stephen Mitchell has collected animal poems from many ages and cultures. Included here are excerpts from ancient masterpieces like The Hymn to the Sun by Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, The Book of Job, as well as haikus by Basho and Issa. Additional works included here are poems by Christopher Smart, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Gerald Manley Hopkins. With some of the best animal poems ever written, this compilation will delight and satisfy animal lovers everywhere.

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  Tales of a Wayside Inn

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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  Mostly a collection of story-telling poems told by a group of friends in a tavern late one night. "Tales" includes the famous Paul Revere's ride, together with poems of many tales, countries and styles. (Summary by Peter Yearsley)

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  The Story of a Man Who Collapsed...

  Ivana Sajko

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  . . . I’ve forgotten how to travel, how to surrender to the favor and misfortune of the rails, how one says goodbye, how long one actually stands facing backward watching Point A swiftlydisappearing, and after that how long does he continue standing standing standing . . . I open my notebook, but I have no answer, I write: “traveling from Point A to Point B, from a littleseaside town to Berlin, I gaze out the window at the unfinished houses on the outskirts, warehouses in the industrial zone, stunted trees along the river with plastic bags hanging fromtheir branches like bats . . .”
   
  Sajko teases out the mental state and personal history of the protagonist, posing departure as a major theme that serves as a touchstone not only for our region [of Southeastern Europe] but also for the times we are living in. —Antonela Marušić, Novosti
   
  This is a stylistically superb novel, very readable. . . . And although this is a deeply personal text, it functions much more broadly, giving expression to the experiences, doubts, fears and all things encountered not only by this one, but a whole series of generations. —Matija Prica, booksa.hr
   
  The Story of a Man Who Collapsed Into His Notebook is about departures, childhood, the end of a relationship and the vanishing possibility in today’s world of fleeing to a better place. Written in the first person, each chapter a single sentence, the novel is an internal soliloquy of self-examination, an excavation of a life punctuated by upheaval and loss, hope and disillusionment, ambition and failure. The reader joins the narrator on his journey, both on the train and in his mind—from disjointed memories triggered by his departure from home, through attempts to put his relationships and experiences in some kind of order to find meaning in them and perhaps assign blame, to confronting his most painful memories—finally arriving with him at his destination with a sense of clarity and the possibility of a new beginning.

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