Other books that might interest you

• 

  I Daniel Blake (NHB Modern Plays)

  Paul Laverty

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Dan is a carpenter. A Geordie through and through. He had a heart attack recently, but he's on the mend now.
  Katie has just arrived from London. She's finally got a council flat, somewhere for her and her daughter, Daisy. A fresh start.
  In adversity, people come together. But when the system is stacked against you, how does anyone get by? With 14.5 million people (Joseph Rowntree Foundation 2022 Poverty Report) living in poverty in the UK, this is not fiction. It is reality.
  I, Daniel Blake was originally a film – directed by Ken Loach, written by Paul Laverty and produced by Rebecca O'Brien for Sixteen Films – which won the 2016 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. This touching and vital stage adaptation by Dave Johns, who played Dan in the film, toured the UK in 2023, co-produced by tiny dragon Productions, Northern Stage, Birmingham Rep and ETT, in association with Cardboard Citizens.
  'A gut-wrenching tragicomic drama… Paul Laverty's brilliantly insightful script finds much that is moving (and often surprisingly funny) in the unbreakable social bonds of so-called "broken Britain".' - Guardian on Ken Loach's film

  Show book

• 

  The Orchid Folios

  Mok Zining

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  “When you take an orchid out of its pot, you must first loosen the roots’ hold on the soil. Late last evening as I unravelled the braids of the shattered phalaenopsis, I saw how the ends were white and shrivelled from neglect. You have to do it gently—it’s like combing hair. I remember Mum’s fingers running through mine, and mine through hers, until the final months when all of it started to fall.” 
   
   
  A pot shatters. An arrangement falls apart. A florist finds herself amidst the scattered leaves of history. At once a poetry collection and a documentary novella, The Orchid Folios reimagines the orchid as a living, breathing document of history: a history that enmeshes the personal, colonial, linguistic, and biotechnological with the Vanda Miss Joaquim, the symbol of Singapore’s postcolonial hybridity. While the Orchid has shaped the fantastical narratives that govern our multiracial City in a Garden, it continues to shape-shift and bloom on its own terms, challenging us to imagine a decolonised Singapore. This is the organism at the heart of The Orchid Folios—by turns stark and unruly, documenting and challenging the narratives that are the roots of our national consciousness.

  Show book

• 

  Stories To Share With My Partner...

  J. F. Nodar

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  An anthology of short stories and poetry. 
  This book is a collection of short stories and poetry written while engaged in a writers' group in Camden, New South Wales. While the stories are both fictional there are few that are from the actual life of the writer and presented here for the readers' enjoyment. 
  Which is imaginary and which is true will be up to the reader to determine.

  Show book

• 

  Fidget

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Fidget is writer Kenneth Goldsmith's transcription of every movement made by his body during 13 hours on Bloomsday (June 16) 1997. It is a hypnotic work, strangely compelling and disorienting at the same time; you'll never think about your body in the same way again.
   
  Originally commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art as a collaboration with vocalist Theo Bleckmann, Fidget attempts to reduce the body to a catalogue of mechanical movements by a strict act of observation. The stress of this rigorous exercise creates a condition of shifting reference points and multiple levels of observation that inevitably undermines the author's objective approach, and the trajectory of the work begins to change.
   
  The text of Fidget is followed by an afterword written by Marjorie Perloff, which both explains the circumstances of the project's creation (including the important role Jack Daniel's plays in the latter part of the text) and explores its results.

  Show book

• 

  Dumpty - The Age of Trump in Verse

  John Lithgow

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Award-winning actor and bestselling author John Lithgow wields a whip-smart, satirical pen in this poetic diatribe chronicling the last few abysmal years in politics.With lacerating wit, he takes readers verse by verse through the history of Donald Trump's presidency, lampooning the likes of Betsy DeVos, Anthony Scaramucci, Scott Pruitt, Paul Manafort, Trump's doctors, and many others.The poems collected in Dumpty draw inspiration from A. A. Milne, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Mother Goose, and many more. A YUGE feat of laugh-out-loud lyrical storytelling, this hilarious and timely volume is bound to bring joy to poetry lovers, political junkies, and Lithgow fans.

  Show book

• 

  Shakespearean Dialogues...

  William Shakespeare

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  This is a collection of scenes from Shakespeare's plays, mainly comprising dialogues between two characters. The theme for this collection is "Wooing, Wedding, and Repenting" (inspired by a line from Much Ado About Nothing). (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) The Taming of the Shrew, Act 2 Scene 1 read by: Algy Pug, Verity Kendall   Richard III, Act 1 Scene 3 read by: Winston Tharp, Elizabeth Barr  A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 2 Scene 1 read by: Martin Geeson, Grace Garrett   Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 Scene 2 read by: Charlotte Duckett, Verity Kendall   Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4 Scene 1 read by: Arielle Lipshaw, Valerie Tan  Henry V, Act 5 Scene 2 read by: Tiffany Halla Colonna, Winston Tharp, Elizabeth Klett   As You Like It, Act 3 Scene 2 read by: Arielle Lipshaw, Elizabeth Klett   Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 1 read by: Martin Geeson, Grace Garrett   Twelfth Night, Act 1 Scene 5 read by: Elizabeth Barr, Grace Garrett   Measure For Measure, Act 2 Scene 4 read by: Algy Pug, Elizabeth Klett   All's Well That Ends Well, Act 4 Scene 2 read by: Martin Geeson, Elizabeth Barr   Antony and Cleopatra, Act 1 Scene 3 read by: Amanda Friday, Algy Pug   Cymbeline, Act 1 Scene 6 read by: David Richardson, Carol Box   The Winter's Tale, Act 4 Scene 4 read by: Amanda Friday, Martin Geeson   The Tempest, Act 3 Scene 1 read by: Algy Pug, Arielle Lipshaw, Elizabeth Klett

  Show book