Maison d'édition: Bu Classics Books
A phonetics professor accepts a wager to transform a Cockney flower girl into a duchess, unleashing a storm of class conflict and personal identity. As the experiment succeeds, the human cost becomes apparent, raising timeless questions about independence and the artificial barriers of social standing.
'Exclude the impossible and what is left, however improbable, must be the truth.' Harry Houdini is the greatest illusionist the world has ever known. Arthur Conan Doyle is the creator of literature's most brilliant detective, Sherlock Holmes. When their mutual admiration blossoms into a profound friendship, they discover a shared obsession with spiritualism. But while Conan Doyle believes fervently in the psychic world and the promise of reunion with his dead son, Houdini is determined to demonstrate it's a cruel fraud. Which of them will be proved right: the genius writer of fiction or the master magician? Based on extraordinary historical events, David Haig's play Magic asks what we're prepared to believe, and why. It was first performed at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2026, directed by Lucy Bailey and starring Hadley Fraser as Houdini and Haig himself as Conan Doyle.Voir livre
Each poem provides a roller-coaster of emotions. Every poem has a story, and every story has a different emotion behind it. You can experience it with the poet, bring it to life, and find healing alongside her.Voir livre
Step into the labyrinth of the mind, where reality bends and the unseen whispers louder than the world outside. The Sound of Silence is a haunting collection of poetry that explores the fragile boundary between sanity and madness. Through vivid imagery, raw emotion, and fractured rhythms, these poems navigate the chaos of inner turmoil, the beauty hidden in despair, and the relentless search for meaning amidst confusion. Each verse is a descent into the mind's darkest corners—a journey that is unsettling, profound, and deeply human. Perfect for readers drawn to the complexities of mental struggle and the poetic expression of the soul's most tumultuous storms.Voir livre
Life has the capacity of great moments and attainment, of lives well-lived, both fulfilling for ourselves and those around us. But for others life is arduous, there is no spark to ignite the curiosity, to explore a stability and a growth for their lives. Indeed, their lives, in their own eyes, become almost meaningless, their sense of themselves subsumed under a myriad of problems, whether real or imagined. Seismic events in their lives might crush them. The loss of a loved one for instance. Coping is difficult, support is hard to find, and isolation abounds. We never really know the reason, or the motivation, but one final, dreadful way out is the solution. In this volume our authors explore stories that help us understand and recognise a tragic circumstance.Voir livre
Living by Troubled Waters is the third poetry collection by Roy McFarlane – an extraordinary, uncompromising book exploring slavery, colonialism, and the continued tragedies visited upon Black bodies whilst these legacies remain unresolved. In his close examination of the horror of racialised violence, McFarlane examines how the strong currents of the past and present flow side by side. His poems ask us to think about the Black Mediterranean of today as much as we do about the Windrush scandal and the aftershocks of trans-Atlantic slavery, where Black people are still imprisoned, enslaved and drowned as they flee persecution and poverty. Living by Troubled Waters is innovative, formally experimental and far ranging in scope; erasure & inclusion (to make known) poems interweave and speak to the wider body of the collection. In his use of archival documents as a space for activism and linguistic intervention, McFarlane writes back into history, reclaiming voices and reshaping narratives. His poems also draw strength from themes of place and displacement, social justice, Black motherhood, family, art - and from the power of poetry itself as a witness to troubled times.Voir livre
A door slams, and the echoes never fade. Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House (1879) is a play that doesn't shout—it lingers, unsettling and undeniable. Beneath the surface of a seemingly ordinary household lies a quiet storm, gathering strength with every polite exchange, every carefully placed smile. Nora Helmer is a wife, a mother, a woman adored. Her home is warm, her life is comfortable, her husband sings her praises. But when a long-kept secret begins to unravel, so does the delicate balance of her world. What happens when the roles we play no longer fit? When the words we speak don't match the voices inside us? Ibsen doesn't lecture, doesn't plead—he simply opens a door and lets us look inside. What we see is up to us. Is it a tale of liberation or betrayal? A tragedy or a beginning? More than a century later, the questions still stand, just as urgent, just as sharp. With A Doll's House, Ibsen didn't just write a play. He set a stage for countless conversations, forcing audiences to lean in, to question, to wonder. And when the final moment comes, when the door closes behind Nora, it isn't just her world that shifts. It's ours, too.Voir livre
